Jc's List of Free MacOS X Programs

Last Updated: October, 2012

Games

Alien Abduction: An Arcade game in the vein of Defender
Armagetron: 3D Tron Lightcycle Game
Battle for Wesnoth: Turn Based Strategy Game in the Land of Wesnoth
BlobWars: Metal Blob Solid: a semiviolent 2D shooter involving blobs
BZFlag: 3D Capture-The-Flag Game Inspired by Atari's Battlezone
Cube: a fast, lightweight FPS
Fish: Aquarium Simulator
Freeciv: Civilization Clone
Neverball: Think Monkey Ball without the Chimps
Nexuiz: A Dark Deathmatch FPS
OpenArena: A Free Content port of Quake 3 Arena
Pac The Man X: Pacman Clone
Quinn: Tetromino Game
Sauerbraten: The sequel to Cube with better graphics and newer stuff
Steam: The one of the best digital game stores and communities
Stellarium: A Free Open Source Planetarium
Step Mania: A DDR Clone
Super Tux: a 2D platformer in the spirit of Super Mario staring Tux
Super Tux Kart: Basically Mario Kart 64 With Tux
Tux Racer: Race Tux down a hill collecting fish
Vultures: Graphical Versions of NetHack and Slash'EM
Warsow: FPS with cell-shaded graphics that focuses on movement rather than Firepower
Wormux: a Worms-like 2D Combat game

Handbrake: Converts DVD Movies to MPEG-4 Video
Hulu Desktop: Watch streaming TV shows and movies
iStrip: A Webcomic Viewer / Archiver
Last.fm: A service that tracks what you listen and provides an internet radio stream of recommended songs
Miro: Video Aggregator and Media Portal, Like iTunes for Video
Miro Video Converter: Converts videos to different formats and for different devices
PDF2PSP: Turns PDFs into JPG Images (Useful for PDF to Comicbook formats)
Senuti: Tool to copy songs from iPod to computer
Simple Comic: A Comic (CBZ, CBR) Viewer
SmallImage 2: A JPEG Image Batch Processor
StreamRipper X: Rips Shoutcast Streams to MP3
VLC: Swiss Army Knife of Media, Plays everthing from MP3s to DVDs
XBMC: Nice Media Center application

AirPwn: Packet Injection program with potential for fun, nasty and or evil applications
CyberDuck: FTP, SFTP, WebDAV & Amazon S3 Browser
Fugu: A Mac OS X SFTP, SCP and SSH Frontend
iStumbler: Wireless discovery tool for finding Wifi networks, Bluetooth and Bonjour services
Kismac: Passive Wireless Scanner
TOR: The Onion Router
Vidalia: Cross-Platform TOR Frontend
VineServer: VNC Server

Burn: burning application for Mac OS X
Disk Inventory X: Disk usage utility
Fink: Linux Program Repository and Installer based on the Debian Utilities (ie. Apt-Get for Mac!)
FreeDMG: a Quick and Easy Utility for making Disk Images with Drag and Drop Support
ImageBurner: Simplified Way to Burn Disc Images without mucking around in the Disk Utility
iRed Lite: Utility for Apple Remotes
iTerm2: The sequel to the wonderful Terminal Replacement
KDE: The K Desktop Suite
Logitech Touch Mouse: Use iPhone as a Keyboard and Mouse
MacPorts: a BSD Program repository and Installer based on the FreeBSD Ports
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection: An RDP remote desktop client
NameChanger: Batch Renaming Program
Pallet: Frontend to MacPorts Package Manager
UnArchiver: A Powerful Unarchival tool supporting many file types
XMenu: A customizable "Apple Menu / Start Menu" for OS X
XQuartz: The X11 Server for Mac (X11.app)
XScreensavers: The Original OpenGL Screen Hacks For linux now for Mac

Growl: A Popup Communication Framework (PAID)
iTerm: A wonderful Terminal Replacement (DEAD)
Smultron: An Advanced text editor that supports dynamic searching, and language highlighting (DEAD)