A curated list of the most important apps from the Mac App Store running natively on Apple Silicon M1
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2022-01-31
- SiteSucker – Automatically download web sites
- Cyberduck – FTP & Cloud storage browser
- Download Shuttle – Download manager
- Line – Messenger, Video calls
- Details Pro – UI Design Tool
- Duplicate File Finder – Remove Duplicates, Merge Folders
- Gemini II – The Duplicate Finder
- Qlone – 3D Object Capture
- PhotoCatch – Turn photos into 3D models
- Sonic Visualiser (Vendor download)
- Aerial Companion (Vendor download)
- Blender (Vendor download)
- Android Studio (Vendor download)
- Handbreak (Vendor download)
- Proxyman (Vendor download)
- Insta360 Studio (Vendor download)
- Exodus (Vendor download)
- Burn (Vendor download)
- makeMKV (Vendor download)
- Standard Notes (Vendor download)
- Radio Silence (Vendor download)
2021-06-15
- LensOCR: Extract text & image
- Hand Mirror – One-click camera check
- Whisk – Webpage editor + live preview
- Shapr 3D CAD modeling – Design models, draft drawings
- Cardhop – The contacts app you’ll love
- Colibri – Native Lossless Audio
- Boom3D: Volume Booster and EQ – 3D Audio, Radio & Equalizer
- Pine Player – HQ Audio, DSD, EQ, Up Sampling
- Be Focused – Pomodoro Timer – Focus timer for work and study
- CD DVD Label Maker – Graphics & Design
- TechSmith Camtasia 2021 – Photo & Video
- Boxcryptor (Vendor download)
- Adobe Illustrator (Vendor download)
- Adobe InDesign (Vendor download)
- Adobe Lightroom Classic (Vendor download)
2021-05-11
- Krita – full-featured free digital painting studio (Download)
- Shutter Encoder – free professional encoder (Download)
2021-05-03
- Acoustica – Digital Audio Editor (Vendor download)
- SDFX – Paint & Cartoon Filter
- Face2Cartoon – Cartoon yourself
- HighDesign Lt – CAD and vector drawing
- The Unarchiver – Open every archive in seconds
- Taskade – Collaboration tool
- Soulver 3 – Notepad meets calculator
2021-04-20
- Scan Thing – Scan everything
- NotePlan 3 – Calendar driven note taking
- JustStream – Stream to TV, mirror display
- Noizio – Calm meditation nature sounds
- Parallels Desktop (Vendor download)
- Docker (Vendor download)
2021-04-13 Apple Arcade Games special
2021-04-09
- Acorn 7 – Image editing for humans
- Tayasui Sketches – Amazing drawing tools
- MainStage – Live rig for musicians
- Things 3 – Organise your life
- Name Mangler 3 – multi-file renaming tool
- Leech – Download manager
- Desktop Curtain – Cover your desktop clutter
- Moom – Move and resize windows
- Keymou – Keyboard control of your mouse
- Time Sink – logs time spend in applications
- Butler – Recurring tasks made easy (Vendor download)
- Diarly – Diary, Journal & Notes
- TripMode – Data usage monitor
- DataGraph – Data analysis and graphing
- LensOCR – Screenshots to text
- CloudMounter – Protect your online data
- CloudClip Manager – Cloud clipboard between Mac and phone
- MediaInfo – display technical details of video files (Vendor download)
- Opera – browser (Vendor download)
2021-03-12
- DaVinci Resolve – Free professional video editor from Blackmagic Design
- Silenz – Mix music with ambient sounds
- Presentify – Annotate any screen
- Prizmo – Scan to PDF with text editing
- 1Password – Generate & keep passwords safe
- Bitdefender – Virus Scanner
- Adobe Photoshop – Professional photo editor (Vendor download)
2021-02-28
- Spike Email – Mail, Chat, Docs
- Keyshape – Vector graphics animation tool
- Diagrams – Diagram & Flowchart Editor
- SecKey – One Time Passwords
- WireGuard – VPN Client
- Simplenote – The simplest way to keep notes
- iBoostUp – Optimize your Mac
- Color Finale – Color Grading in Final Cut Pro (Vendor download)
2021-02-12
- Cleaner-App – Clean Up Your Hard Drive
- Day One – Your journal for life
- Test the future – Benchmark
- Termius – SSH client
- Corkulous Professional – Cork board app
- Moon FM – Podcast player
- Craft – Docs and notes editor
- Newton – Supercharged emailing (Vendor download)
- KeePassXC – Cross-Platform Password Manager (Vendor download)
2021-01-26
- Microsoft Edge – Web browser (Vendor download)
- VueScan – Scanner Software (Vendor download)
- KeeWeb – Free cross-platform password manager (Vendor download)
- Mounty for NTFS – (Vendor download)
- TG Pro – Temperature monitoring & fan control (Vendor download)
- CPU Stress Test – Easiest way to test the CPU (Vendor download)
- Folder Tidy – Tidy up folders quickly
- Bigger Picture – the intelligent picture enlarger
- Bandizip: Archiver – All-in-One Archiver
- Simple Comic – Comic book reader
- Maccy – Copy history without fluff
- LyricsX – Open source lyrics app
- Screenium 3 – Screen recorder
- Calendar 366 II
- Viper FTP
- Video Caption Maker
2021-01-18
- VLC media player – free and open source cross-platform multimedia player
2021-01-16
- VisualDiffer – Compare folders and files
- Home Inventory – Document & organize your home
- ScreenFlow – Screen Recorder & Video Editor
- PrestoPhoto – Photo Book, Prints, Wall Art
2021-01-12
- Physics 101
- PDFZone
- VisualGrep
- Textastic
- ffWorks for FFmpeg (Vendor download)
- Exposure (Vendor download)
- Sip Color Picker (Vendor download)
- CPUSetter (Vendor download)
- Tiles (Vendor download)
- BusyCal (Vendor download)
- BusyContact (Vendor download)
2021-01-07
- Transloader
- Yoink
- ScreenFloat-Better Screenshots
- Flickery
- Glimpses – Still Motion Videos
- Hype 4
- Nisus Writer Express 4
- Nisus Writer Pro 3
- Merlin Project: Gantt & Kanban
- GPG Suite (Vendor download)
- MacZip (Vendor download)
2021-01-05
2021-01-01
- VirtualDJ
- Todoist
- Brave Browser (Vendor download)
2020-12-30
- Pixave
- Application Wizard (Vendor download)
- coconutBattery 3 (Vendor download)
- WebStorm (Vendor download)
2020-12-28
- Unbound Photo Manager
- TrashMe 3
- TunesArt
- Displays
- ImageFramer
- Trickster
- TextSniper
- SEE Finance 2
- Quiet Content Blocker
- DropDMG
- Karabiner-Elements (Vendor download)
- xScan (Vendor download)
- Carbon Copy Cloner (Vendor download)
2020-12-22
- Zoom (Vendor download)
- Paprika Recipe Manager 3
2020-12-20
- AdBlock Pro
- DEVONshpere Express
- DEVONagent (including Pro, Lite and Express)
- Audirvana (Vendor download)
- Python (Free open source download)
2020-12-18
- Eve 5
- VMware Remote Console
- Neural Mix Pro
- World of Hex
- Loopback (Vendor download)
- Airfoil (Vendor download)
- SoftMaker Office (Vendor download)
- Rectangle (Free open source download)
2020-12-15
2020-12-14
- Snapfax
- Hex Fiend
- Screens 4.8.1
- Dancing Line
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Original iOS app)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (Original iOS app)
- NeroFinder (Vendor download)
2020-12-12
- Audio Hijack (Vendor download)
- Farrago (Vendor download)
- Fission (Vendor download)
- Piezo (Vendor download)
- Soundsource (Vendor download)
- Tiny Player
- Cookie
- EtreCheck
2020-12-11
- HomePass for HomeKit
- MenuBar Stats
- PopClip
- Xliffix
- iA Writer
- Logoist
- forScore
- Fretello
- Highlights
- Bear
- PDF Expert
- Plany 4
- OmniOutliner 5
- Noto
- Universe
- xScope 4
- Pastel
- MarsEdit 4
- SubEthaEdit
- Codye
- Cascadea
- MacFamilyTree 9
- Drafts
- Deliveries
- PCalc
- Expenses
- Parcel
- BetterSnapTool
- GoodLinks
- Yoink
- FastScripts
- Tot
2020-12-09
- Adobe Lightroom
- MoneyMoney
- Fork (Vendor download)
- Hazel (Vendor download)
2020-12-08
- 9to5Mac – Breaking Tech News (Original iOS app)
- ShareTheMeal – Charity Donation (Original iOS app)
- Monster – Job search (Original iOS app)
- Indeed – Job search (Original iOS app)
- Glassdoor – Job search, company reviews (Original iOS app)
- Documents by Readdle – File manager, viewer, player (Original iOS app)
2020-12-07
- Monodraw
- Channels (Original iOS app)
- Capture One Pro (Vendor download)
- NTFS for MAC (Vendor download)
2020-12-06
- mmhmm (Vendor download)
- Go64 (Vendor download)
- TableCruncher (Vendor download)
- Disco Elysium – Detective role playing game
- xLine
- xPlan
- xStand
- ServerAccess
2020-12-04
- iMazing Profile Editor
- iMazing HEIC Converter
- iMazing Silicon (Vendor download)
- Vectornator Pro
- Tinker Tool (Vendor download)
- Noted
- HazeOver
- Vysor (Vendor download)
- GrandPerspective (Vendor download)
- SiriMote (Vendor download)
- MindNode
- Elpass
- Agenda
- Textify
- Capo
- Transmit 5
- BBEdit
- WPS Office
- AmorphousDiskMark
- Scapple
- Quip
2020-12-02
- iMazing
- Notion
- Fishshell
- iTerm
- Nova
- Overcast (Original iOS app)
- Apollo for Reddit (Original iOS app)
- Nero KnowHow (Original iOS app)
2020-12-01
2020-11-28
- TouchSwitcher (Vendor download)
- Airmail 4
- Hype 4
- Keka
- Claquette
- Highland 2
- Timebox 3D Collage Maker
- Elpass
- Daisydisk
- AnyDesk
- Magnet
2020-11-25
- Tweetbot
- Litte Snitch (Vendor download)
2020-11-24
- TeamViewer (Vendor download)
2020-11-23
- WiFi Explorer Pro 3 (Vendor download)
- iStatistica
2020-11-22
- Tweetdeck
- Astropad (Vendor download)
- Lunadisplay (Vendor download)
- Quicken (Vendor download)
2020-11-20
2020-11-19
- Google Chrome (Vendor download)
- CrossOver 20 (Vendor download)
- Cinema 4D (Vendor download)
- Firefox (Vendor download)
2020-11-17
- GFXBench
- Fantastical (App of the Year 2020)
- World of Warcraft (Vendor download)
- Logic Pro
- Final Cut Pro
2020-11-16 (First Apple Silicon M1 powered devices arrive with customers)
All the apps included in MacOS BigSur:
- Finder
- Safari
- Photos
- Maps
- iMovie
- Quicktime Player
- Preview
- Podcasts
- Music
- Notes
- Reminders
- Calendar
- Messages
- Stocks
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
- Xcode
- …
The list mainly shows apps that are available on the Mac App Store, as this is the recommended way to install apps on your brand new Mac mini, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro with the Apple M1 chipset. However some vendors prefer to make their software only available as direct download from their web site, those are marked (Vendor download). Some native apps are available as beta versions today, however they only will appear here after they have been officially released.
Please note: With Rosetta 2 your new Mac has a compatibility layer to run any apps that have been created for the previous Intel chipset and most of the apps are running perfectly well on it. However, at the moment, there a some exceptions like e.g. Skype, Standard Notes that will require some adaptions from the vendor. In such cases you can try to install the iPad/iPhone version of the app from the Mac App Store. If it isn’t available there, you can use a tool like iMazing (now a native app, too) to get it from your iPhone to the Mac.
Please check out our latest list about Apple Vision Pro apps, too.
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