Great apps for your Mac. Right there on your Mac.
The Mac App Store makes it easy to find and download Mac apps as well as widgets and extensions — like editing extensions for the new Photos app. You can browse Mac apps by category, such as games, productivity, music and more. Or do a quick search for something specific. Read descriptions and customer reviews. Flip through screenshots. When you find an app you like, click to buy it. The Mac App Store has apps for just about everything and everyone. Here are a few of our favourites.
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Create beautiful documents, letters, flyers, invitations and more.
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Numbers
Make eye-catching spreadsheets and charts in just a few clicks.
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Keynote
Put together a presentation with captivating graphics and transitions.
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iBooks Author
Create stunning Multi-Touch books for iPad and Mac.
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Final Cut Pro X
Bring your film to life using revolutionary video editing software.
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Logic Pro X
Turn your Mac into a complete professional recording studio.
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Wunderlist
Manage and share your to‑do lists across all your devices. View in Mac App Store
Evernote
Take notes, save web pages, create lists, attach images and PDFs, and more. View in Mac App Store
Cobook Contacts
Find, organise and keep your contacts up to date in even easier ways. View in Mac App Store
Things
Keep track of to-dos, deadlines and projects with this task manager app. View in Mac App Store
Notability
Annotate documents, record lectures and take notes with this all-in-one app. View in Mac App Store
Autodesk SketchBook
Take your ideas further with a complete set of digital drawing tools.View in Mac App Store
Day One
Keep a journal that sends reminders and looks great in day or month view. View in Mac App Store
See something you like? Save interesting articles, videos and web pages for later. View in Mac App Store
The Photo Cookbook
Follow over 240 easy‑to‑prepare recipes picture by picture. View in Mac App Store
Kuvva Wallpapers
Choose specially curated wallpapers from a new artist each week. View in Mac App Store
Tonality
Create inspiring black-and-white images on your Mac.View in Mac App Store
swackett
Get visual weather reports that turn complex data into fun infographics. View in Mac App Store
Sky Gamblers Cold War
Rule the action-packed skies in over a dozen different aeroplanes. View in Mac App Store
Sparkle 2
This easy-to-play but enthralling game makes the most of the Retina display. View in Mac App Store
Bike Baron
Beat hundreds of challenges as you master over 100 different bike tracks. View in Mac App Store
Civilization V: Campaign Edition
Build and defend the most powerful empire the world has ever known. View in Mac App Store
Galaxy On Fire 2™ Full HD
Battle your way through a 3D war-torn galaxy against an alien armada. View in Mac App Store
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
Build a city from the ground up and manage your metropolis in every way. View in Mac App Store
Money
Set a budget, schedule payments and track investments — all in one app. View in Mac App Store
MoneyWiz – Personal Finance
View all your accounts, transactions, budgets and bills in one secure place. View in Mac App Store
iBank
Manage your money with this fully featured, intuitive personal finance app. View in Mac App Store
Next - Track your expenses and finances
See your expenses by year, month or day, and take control of your finances. View in Mac App Store
Investoscope
Monitor your portfolio of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and more. View in Mac App Store
StockTouch
Keep track of the market in a whole new way. View in Mac App Store
djay
Mix songs from your iTunes library and spin live on a digital turntable. View in Mac App Store
Sound Studio
Record, edit and produce digital audio. Create your own mixes and add effects. View in Mac App Store
Shazam
Like what you hear? Identify a song at a moment’s notice. Then share it or buy it. View in Mac App Store
Tabular
Read and write tablature notation for guitar, bass, drums and more. View in Mac App Store
AmpKit
Turn your Mac into a powerful guitar amp and effects studio. View in Mac App Store
Sound Forge 2
Record, edit, process and render high-resolution audio files. View in Mac App Store
Install any app with ease.
The Mac App Store revolutionises the way apps are installed on a computer — it happens in one step. Enter the same iTunes password you use to buy apps and music on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or iPod touch. Within seconds, your new app flies to Launchpad, ready to go. So you can spend more time enjoying new apps and less time installing them.
Keep your apps up to date.
Since developers are constantly improving their apps, the Mac App Store keeps track of your apps and tells you when an update is available — including OS X software updates. Update one app at a time or all of them at once, for free. You can even have your apps and OS X update automatically, so you’ll always have the latest version of every app you own.
The app you need. When you need it.
Can’t open a file you’ve downloaded or received in an email? OS X can search the Mac App Store to find the app that can open the file. Buy what you need instantly and get back to business.
Buy, download and even re-download.
You can install apps on every Mac authorised for your personal use, and even download them again. This is especially convenient when you buy a new Mac and want to load it with apps you already own.
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The company announced its plans at WWDC to get the developer community on board. However, Apple still has some Intel-based Macs in the pipeline.
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Apple is officially ditching Intel processors in Macs for the company’s own silicon. The company announced the transition at its online-only WWDC; it will kick off by the end of 2020 with the arrival of the first Mac powered by Apple-built ARM processors.
“Now it’s time for a huge leap forward for the Mac,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the keynote.
For years, the company has developed its custom ARM chips for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Now Cupertino wants to apply the same technologies to the MacBook and Mac desktop systems, pointing to the gains in performance and power consumption.
“We will maximize performance and battery life better than ever before,” said Johny Srouji, Apple's SVP for hardware technologies.
However, the company isn’t going to completely ditch Intel silicon, at least not yet. According to Cook, Apple still has some Intel-based Macs in the pipeline. That said, Apple’s CEO says the transition to the ARM silicon is expected to take two years.
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Owners of current Macs also don’t necessarily need to worry. Apple plans to release new versions of macOS for Intel-based systems for “years to come,' Cook said, without elaborating.
(Credit: Apple)No details, such as specs, for the upcoming Macs were announced during WWDC. But the new silicon will feature a host of different components, including processors devoted to machine-learning applications, video editing, and integrated graphics. Expect a family of custom chips specifically for the Mac line.
The other big advantage in switching to ARM is how all Apple products will run over the same computing architecture. As a result, Macs will be able to run iOS and iPadOS apps directly for the first time.
The big challenge facing the transition is getting existing macOS apps to run error-free over Apple’s custom silicon. However, the company is promising the overhaul will be smooth. For one, Apple has already created native versions of its existing apps to run on the custom silicon.
In addition, major third-party developers such as Microsoft and Adobe are already porting their popular applications to the new platform. During the keynote, Apple demoed native versions of Microsoft Office and Photoshop running smoothly on the new Macs.
(Credit: Apple)To get other developers on board, Apple is releasing a development kit this week in the form of a Mac mini device. The kit itself runs an A12Z processor, which is found in the new iPad Pro, and offers some hints of the processing capabilities for the upcoming Mac chips.
Apple is also releasing a new version of Xcode to help developers port their apps to the new platform. “The vast majority of app developers can get their apps up and running in a matter of days,” said Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP for software engineering.
But to address macOS apps, such as games, that can’t make the quick transition, Apple is releasing a program called Rosetta 2, which can enable consumers to translate the existing programs on new Mac systems. During the demo, Apple showed Rosetta 2 running Maya, the 3D animation software, along with the game Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
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“With everything we’re doing, the range of apps that users will be able to run on these new Macs is truly unprecedented,” Federighi added.
Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP for software engineering (Image: Apple)According to one analyst, Apple may end up choosing the 13-inch MacBook to be the first system to get the custom chip treatment.
The transition may be easier said than done. Microsoft has also tried to use ARM-based chips in its Surface products, but results have been mixed. Although the products have excelled at offering long battery life, they often struggle to run third-party applications due to the lack of software optimization.
'Microsoft's experience with Windows is the blueprint for the potential and the pitfalls of introducing Arm chips to PCs,' says Geoff Blaber, an analyst at CCS Insight. 'The advantages of cost, flexibility and power consumption are clear. But the practical reality of recompiling apps as a stepping stone will take time. Apple can make Final Cut Pro and iWork run seamlessly, but guaranteeing that a myriad of plug-ins behave is another matter.'
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Apple today, meanwhile, also showed off the next version of macOS, nicknamed Big Sur. New features includes a customizable start page, more powerful tabs, new translation options, and a new Privacy Report.