Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity

There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap. We show you the best selection of free and/or open source Mac applications that will help you be a more efficient designer.

• aLunch
  A very handy launcher that runs from your Mac’s menu bar.
• Kuler
  Color themes generator.
• Name Changer
  A powerful batch name changer.
• YemuZip
  Creating Zip files has never been so easy.
• Dateline
  Linear calendar for your desktop.
• DropBox
  Online file sharing system.
• Quicksilver
  Adaptive appliction launcher.
• Transmit
  Powerful FTP client software.
• iTunes
  Digital media player from Apple.
• iClockr
  Timing application for multiple projects.
• Caffeine
  Keep your mac from sleep.
• iTool
  Complete System Maintenance, cleaning and customizing the look of Leopard.
• The Unarchiver
  Unarchive with power.
• Paparazzi!
  Grab stunning screenshots of webpages.
• AllBookmarks
  Bookmarks from your menu bar.
• TaskMate
  Task management made easy with a OS X feel.
• Symbol Caddy
  Keeps a bunch of common special characters at your fingertips.
• iZoom
  Allows you to easily resize and crop your photos for optimized display.
• JumpCut
  Provides “clipboard buffering” – access to text that you’ve cut or copied, even if you’ve subsequently cut or copied something else.
• Name Mangler
  A batch file renamer that supports all common renaming tasks.
• CyberDuck
  An open source FTP, SFTP-client.
• TextWrangler
  The powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.
• Growl
  A notification system for Mac OS X.
• Gmail Notifr
  Sends you notifications about the received e-mails and other events in your Google account.
• MAMP
  Installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer.