Find the Best Mac Apps for Your Work
Discover curated, powerful applications that enhance your productivity, creativity, and workflow on macOS.
ArtRage Vitae
ArtRage Vitae is a digital artist's studio that provides a range of realistic and intuitive painting tools, mimicking traditional media. It caters to artists of all skill levels, offering tools that behave like real-world counterparts, allowing users to employ familiar painting techniques in a digital environment. It's suitable for creating original artwork, tracing images, and using reference images, and includes professional digital editing features and customizable tools.
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite is a professional graphic design software solution for Windows, Mac, and web. It provides vector illustration, layout, photo editing, typography tools and more, trusted by millions of designers worldwide. Available as subscription or one-time purchase.
GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product.
Krita
Krita is a powerful, free and open-source digital painting application designed for artists. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for illustration, comics, animation, concept art, and more, making it a strong alternative to paid software like Photoshop.
Monosnap
Monosnap is a versatile screenshot utility for Mac that allows users to capture screenshots and screencasts, annotate images, and share them quickly. It offers a user-friendly interface and a range of editing tools to enhance visual communication.
Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is the industry-leading image editing and graphic design software for macOS, used by photographers, designers, and artists worldwide to create and enhance images, illustrations, and 3D artwork.
Procreate
Procreate is a digital painting app designed for iPad and iPhone. It is not officially available for macOS. While there are workarounds to use it on a Mac, it's primarily built for touch screen devices and Apple Pencil. For Mac users seeking similar functionality, several alternatives offer robust digital art creation tools.
QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress is page layout and desktop publishing software for Mac that allows users to produce stunning layouts for print and digital media. From newspapers and magazines to websites and e-books, QuarkXPress provides tools for typography, graphics & illustrations, and digital publishing, making it suitable for independent designers, publishers, students, and business users.
Seashore
Seashore is a free and open-source image editor for macOS, similar to Photoshop/GIMP, but designed to be simpler and easier to use for non-professional users. It supports layers and common image editing features.
Sketch
Sketch is a complete digital design toolkit for macOS. It's a vector-based design tool primarily used for UI/UX design of websites and mobile apps, offering powerful features for design and prototyping, collaboration, and developer handoff.
Sketchbook
Sketchbook is an award-winning sketching, painting, and drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Artists and illustrators love Sketchbook for its professional-grade feature set and highly customizable tools. Everyone loves Sketchbook for its elegant interface and natural drawing experience, free of distractions so you can focus on capturing and expressing your ideas. From quick sketches to fully finished artwork, Sketchbook goes where your creativity takes you.