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The best Mac apps for developers

Editors, terminals and the small utilities that make building software on a Mac faster: picked for people who write code every day.

Rollcage

A menu-bar seatbelt for AI coding agents: snapshots, undo and guardrails

FeaturedPaid

Wavo

Local dictation: hold a hotkey, speak, and the text lands where you type

Free

Birdwatch

See which Swift builds and test runs your agents left stuck, and why

Paid

OtterTally

A native macOS revenue dashboard that brings Stripe and RevenueCat sales & subscriptions

Subscription

LocalEditor

Local file editor for notes, sketches, and coding files

Paid

Snipora

Type ;addr and get your address in any Mac app.

Paid

Headroom

Cut Claude Code & ChatGPT Codex token costs ~50%

Subscription

Portlivo

See every local dev server and port on your Mac.

Paid

Scrawl

Handwrite on your Mac's trackpad. No tablet, no stylus.

Free

Open in Office

Double-click Office files on your Mac to open them in Microsoft 365 Online

Free

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