List of software by Apple

Archiving, backup, restore, and recovery

Current

• Archive Utility – built-in archive file handler
• Time Machine – built-in backup software

  Discontinued

• Backup – built-in backup software, discontinued in 2012 with MobileMe

  CD and DVD authoring

Discontinued

• DVD Studio Pro – DVD authoring application, the final update was in 2009 and was removed from Final Cut Studio in 2011
• iDVD – a basic DVD-authoring application, last updated in 2010 and incompatible since macOS Catalina dropped 32-bit support in 2019

  Audio-specific software

Current

• GarageBand – an amateur-oriented digital audio workstation
• Logic Pro – a digital audio workstation
• MainStage – music software for use in live performances
• Shazam

  Discontinued

• Logic Express – a prosumer music production, discontinued in 2011
• Logic Studio – a music-writing studio package, discontinued in 2011 in favour of Logic Pro X
• *Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops, last updated in 2009 and has been discontinued, with its features integrated into Logic Pro
• *Apple Qmaster – app for automated work distribution for audio-visual rendering and part of both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio, discontinued as a standalone app and integrated into Compressor. Incompatible since MacOS Catalina dropped 32-bit support in 2019
• *Qadministrator – software to create and manage Qmaster clusters, incompatible since MacOS Catalina dropped 32-bit support in 2019
• *Soundtrack Pro – a musical composition and editing app and part of both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio, discontinued with the release of Logic Pro 9 and Final Cut Pro X

  Chat (text, voice, image, and video)

Current

• FaceTime – a videoconferencing between Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
• iMessage – an instant messaging service between Mac, and other apple devices
• Messages - an instant messaging software application for apple devices utilising SMS, MMS, iMessage and RCS

  Discontinued

• iChat – an instant messaging and videoconferencing application for Macs, discontinued since OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in favour of FaceTime and iMessage

  Developer tools, frameworks, and IDEs

Current

• Xcode – IDE made by Apple, available for macOS
• Script Editor
• Swift Playgrounds – an educational tool and development environment for the Swift programming language

  Discontinued

• Apple Media Tool – a multimedia authoring tool and programming environment for the Eiffel-based Apple Media Language object-oriented programming language
• MacApp – an object oriented application framework for the classic Mac OS
• Macintosh Programmer's Workshop – a software development environment for the Classic Mac OS operating system, discontinued in favour of Project Builder
• Project Builder – an IDE for software development, rebranded for OS X Panther in 2003 and became Xcode

  Email clients

Current

• Apple Mail – the bundled email client

  Discontinued

• Claris Emailer – classic Mac OS only, no longer supported

  Layout and desktop publishing

Current

• Preview – basic image and PDF viewer and editor

  Discontinued

• iBooks Author – an interactive book creating software for Apple Books, discontinued in 2020 and integrated its features into Pages

  Graphic and photo editors

Current

• Photos – a bundled image editing and management application
• Photo Booth – an application for taking and editing photos and videos

  Discontinued

• Aperture – an image editing and organising application, discontinued in 2015.
• iPhoto – a photo editor application, discontinued in 2015.
• MacDraw – a vector graphic drawing application
• MacPaint – a raster graphics editor

  Integrated software technologies

Current

• AVFoundation – a multimedia framework
• Finder – the native file manager for macOS
• Terminal – a command line interface for Macs
• XQuartz – a Mac port of the X11 windowing system

  Former

• HyperCard – a software application and development kit for Apple Macintosh and Apple IIGS computers, the last update was in 1998 but was officially discontinued in 2004
• MacTerminal – Telecommunications and terminal emulation application software program. Ceased development following the 1987 spin-off of Apple's software division into Claris.
• MacX – A display server implementation of the X11 windowing system for Macs using the A/UX, System 7, and Mac OS 8 and 9 operating systems. Discontinued in 1998 following the transition to Mac OS X which had native support for X11.
• QuickTime – A multimedia architecture for streaming, encoding and transcoding media. It was deprecated in favour of AVFoundation with OS X Lion.

  Media

Current

• iTunes – a media library and player
• Music – a media player application
• Apple Podcasts – a podcast streaming application
• Apple Books – an e-book reading and store application

  Former

• Front Row - a media center application for navigating and viewing video, photos, podcasts and music from a computer, optical disc or the Internet

  Networking and telecommunications

• Apple Remote Desktop – a remote desktop program

  News aggregators

• Apple News – a news aggregator application

  Office and productivity

Current

• FileMaker – a relational database management system
• Calendar – a bundled calendar app
• Calculator – a basic calculator application
• Contacts – a computerized address book
• Dictionary
• Grapher – a graphing calculator application bundled with macOS since Mac OS X Tiger
• iWork – suite:
• *Pages – word processor application
• *Numbers – spreadsheet application
• *Keynote – presentation application
• Notes – a note-taking app
• Pixelmator Pro
• Reminders – a task management program

  Discontinued

• AppleWorks – An office suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. Discontinued in 2007 and replaced by iWork.
• Claris Resolve - a spreadsheet computer program, discontinued in 1994 with support ending in 1995
• MacProject- a project management and scheduling business application, later sold to Claris and officially discontinued in 1998
• MacWrite - word processor application, later sold to Claris and officially discontinued in 1998

  Operating systems

Current

• Darwin – the BSD-licensed and XNU-based core of macOS
• iOS – operating System for iPhones
• iPadOS – operating System for iPads
• macOS – A Darwin-based Operating system for Macintosh computers. Originally named "Mac OS X" until 2012 and then "OS X" until 2016.
• tvOS – operating System for Apple TV
• visionOS – operating System for Apple Vision Pro
• watchOS – operating System for Apple Watch
• XNU – a kernel based on Mach that is used as the core of apple operating systems

  Discontinued

• A/UX – a Unix-based operating system for Macintosh computers, discontinued in 1995
• Apple DOS – a disk operating system for Apple II, discontinued in 1983 and succeeded by ProDOS
• Apple GS/OS – an operating system for Apple IIGS, it was a core component of System Software from System 4.0 through System 6.0.1
• Apple Pascal – An operating system based on UCSD Pascal created for Apple's implementation of the Pascal programming language. The final update for it was in 1983 with version 1.1.
• Apple ProDOS – A disk operating system for Apple IIs, with 8-bit and 16-bit versions. Discontinued in 1993, with the 16-bit version succeeded by GS/OS.
• Apple SOS – a disk operating system for Apple III
• Classic Mac OS – a series of operating systems developed for Macintosh computers, discontinued in 2001 and replaced with OS X
• *System 1
• *System 2, 3 & 4
• *System 5
• *System 6
• *System 7
• *Mac OS 8
• *Mac OS 9
• Lisa OS – An operating system based on Apple SOS developed 3 years prior. It was discontinued in 1986 alongside the Lisa line of computers, with System Software being partially based on it.
• macOS Server – the server computing variant of macOS
• MkLinux – an open-source Linux-based software computer operating system, support dropped by Apple in 2002
• Newton OS – a mobile operating system for the Apple Newton, discontinued in 1997

  Text editors

• TextEdit – text editor and word processor

  Utilities

Current

• Activity Monitor – native system monitor for hardware and software with task manager functionality
• Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
• Files
• Stickies – put Post-It Note-like notes on the desktop

  Discontinued

• Dashboard – Built-in macOS widgets, removed in macOS Catalina. With macOS Sonoma in 2023, widgets were reintroduced through the Notification Center.
• Grab – built-in macOS screenshot utility, replaced with another tool in macOS Mojave
• iSync – syncing software, bundled with Mac OS X up to version 10.6
• Sherlock – File searching, web services. Discontinued with the introduction of Mac OS X Leopard.

  Support for non-Macintosh software

• Boot Camp – A multi-boot utility built into macOS from 10.5 Support dropped in transition from intel macs to Apple silicon.

  Video

Current

• Apple TV app – a media player software program
• DVD Player – DVD player software built into macOS
• Final Cut Pro – video-editing software
• Final Cut Camera - pro video recording app
• iMovie – basic video editing application
• QuickTime Player

  Discontinued

• Clips
• Final Cut Express – A video editing suite, a prosumer version of Final Cut Pro. Discontinued in 2011 in favour of Final Cut Pro X.
• Final Cut Studio – audio-video editing suite:
• *Cinema Tools
• *Compressor
• *LiveType
• *Motion 2
• QuickTime Pro – Video editor and encoder. Support was dropped in 2018 when 32-bit support was dropped.