Productivity applications
OFFICE SUITES
iWork - features two powerful applications for creating everything from school newsletters to business presentations, Pages and KeyNote
Apple Works - is slowly being replaced with iWork but is still available from Apple.
Microsoft Office - MS Office 2004 is the Mac version of Microsoft’s flagship product, including Word, Excel, powerpoint and Entourage
Open Office - is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
Neo Office - is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
Think Free Office - is a suite of Microsoft® Office compatible-applications. It includes word processing, spreadsheet and graphical presentation applications that let users create or edit their documents and files.
Mariner Write and Calc - Mariner suite is a powerful, yet streamlined solution for everyone from professional writers, to educators, students, and the average user. Boasting an elegant interface, as well as hundreds of intuitive features such as the ability to read Microsoft Office documents, Mariner suite has everything you need to turn out great-looking documents.
AbiWord - is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
TEXT EDITORS
BBEdit - is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit transforms text with high performance.
Text Wrangler - TextWrangler 2 is the powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.
SubEthaEdit - is a powerful and lean text editor. And it’s the only collaborative one you can actually use. By combining the ease of Bonjour with the world’s best text collaboration engine, it makes working together not only possible but even fun…
Smultron - is an open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X with many of the features that you might need.
Jedit - is one of the most popular text editors in Japan. The first version of Jedit was released in 1995 for Japanese Mac users. Jedit has won numerous awards in Japan.
jEdit - jEdit is a mature and well-designed programmer’s text editor with 7 years of development behind it. Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
Ulysses - was developed mainly for writers who work creatively with text and want or need to realize large amounts of text. All currently available word processing systems on the market do not or just merely grasp the specific needs of this group.
WEB DEVELOPMENT
iWeb - is tool to create websites and blogs — complete with podcasts, photos, and movies — and to get them online, fast. Just drag, drop, and design using your choice of web templates, then publish live to your .Mac account.
Rapid Weaver - is an easy to use web design application allowing anyone to create and publish professional looking web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex html is required, RapidWeaver takes care of all that for you.
Freeway - is a tool for Web content development. Very easy to use and with plenty of features makes you create professional looking websites in no time.
nVU - is a WYSIWYG web editor by Linspire, based on Mozilla Composer. Free and easy to use.
Mozilla / Seamonkey composer - is part of Mozilla / Seamonkey suites and it is all you need for all your simple documents and website projects.
Dreamweaver - is the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications.
GoLive - lets you unlock the power of CSS with intuitive visual tools, easily taking your existing Adobe assets to the web, and designing and publishing sophisticated web and mobile content with Adobe GoLive.
Most popular applications for Mac OS X
