Free Software for macOS
Pinta
Pinta is a free and open source drawing and image editing software similar paint.net. Pinta provides a simple yet powerful user interface that enables it users to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD.
Light Table
Light Table is an IDE (integrated development environment) for software development. The application is built by Chris Granger and Robert Attorri and features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation.
MAMP
MAMP is a free, local server environment for macOS and Windows. With MAMP, anyone can start a local web server that can be used to develop WordPress sites or other web applications. MAMP supports Apache and Nginx and provides a pre-configured installation of MySQL, all of which can be used to create applications in PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby.
Ungit
Let's face it, Git is not allways easy to use through the command line, especially if you are working across projects and branches. Ungit was created to solve this problem. Ungit is a free and open-source plaform for managing Git visually. Ungit is self-hosted and runs on any platform that supports Node.js and Git. The software also works well with Git platforms such as GitHub and GitLab.
Mipony
Mipony is an integrated torrent browser and download manager specially designed to optimize and automate the downloads. Mipony includes a browser that allows you to navigate over the internet with the advantage to detect the links to download files so, in just a click you will be able to add the links to your download list. With the integrated download manager you can download files by avoiding host sites inconveniences and get detail information about downloads such as required time to download, when start your download and management of multiple files simultaneously.
Traverso DAW
Traverso DAW is a digital audio workstation that is designed to be an extension of your creativity and workflow. With Traverso DAW, you can compose, record and edit your audio with an unprecedented speed and ease. Traverso DAW is released as free and open-source software under the licensed under GNU General Public License.
Signal
Signal is a cross-platform encrypted messaging application that has a strong focus on privacy. The application is developed by Signal Messenger LLC and provides users with features like one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. The software is famous for being used by the whistleblower and privacy advocate Edward Snowden who once said "I use Signal every day, it is the most scalable encryption tool we have".
Flutter
Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. Flutter allows developers to write Android and iOS application in Dart. Flutter can be installed on any desktop computer and server that runs Linux, macOS or Windows. The SDK provide developers with a great developer experience with hot reload, that allows for quick iterations and a quick development workflow when building UI's, adding features and fixing bugs.
UNetbootin
UNetbootin, short for Universal Netboot Installe is a tool that allows you to easily create bootable USB flash drives to install or try operating systems. This software is designed to be cross-platform and works with Windows, as well as Mac and Linux operating systems.
XAMPP
XAMPP is a free and open-source Apache web server stack used in web development. The XAMPP stack contains pre-configured versions of Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. XAMPP makes it really easy to install and use the stack on macOS, Linux or Windows.