Freeware
No licence to buy. How we tell the licences apart
Category
- Design, graphics & illustration15
- Developer & terminal tools15
- Documents, PDF & office13
- Email, calendar & tasks15
- Files, disk & backup14
- Launchers, clipboard & automation12
- Menu bar & system utilities12
- Privacy, security & networking13
- Screenshots, recording & annotation15
- Video, audio & media14
- Window management & desktop control14
- Writing, notes & markdown14
Licence: Freeware
- PerpetualUpdates included, forever35
- This versionThe next major is a new purchase47
- Paid upgradesMajor versions cost again25
- Lifetime tierA one-time plan of a subscription app14
- FreewareNothing to buy9
- Open sourceNothing to buy; source published36
Each mark reads left to right: this major version, the next, the one after. Filled is included, half is a paid upgrade, hollow is bought again.
Price
11 apps priced in £ or € sit outside these bands, because we don’t convert currencies.
 AffinityCanva (Serif) | Free | Free, but the download runs through a Canva account and the AI tools need a paid Canva plan |
 AmphetamineWilliam C. Gustafson | Free | Mac App Store only — no direct download or licence file, and the source is closed |
| AAppCleanerFreeMacSoft | Free | No build listed for macOS 27 yet — the newest release on the page stops at macOS 26 |
 KekaAone (aonez) | Free | It creates 7z and zip but only extracts rar, and cannot edit an archive you already have |
 ObsidianObsidian | Free | Multi-device sync is $48 a year unless you wire up iCloud or git yourself |
 OnyXTitanium Software (Joël Barrière) | Free | Each major macOS release needs its own build, and the current one is Apple silicon only |
 PDFgearPDFgear Software | Free | Closed source with no stated business model, so nothing guarantees it stays free |
 RaycastRaycast Technologies Inc. | Free | No one-time option exists, and the free tier keeps clipboard history for only three months |
 TinkerToolMarcel Bresink Software-Systeme | Free | Only surfaces preferences Apple already ships; the system-level tools are in paid TinkerTool System |