This list of software by Apple covers software written by Apple Inc., organised by category.
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 (previously part of the iLife suite)
Audio-specific software
Current GarageBand – an amateur-oriented digital audio workstation (previously part of the iLife suite) Logic Pro – a digital audio workstation (previously part of Logic Studio) 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 MLX – open-source machine learning framework developed for Apple silicon 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 (AML) 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 (PBX) – 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 (macOS) – 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 Photomator – a powerful yet easy-to-use photo editor for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro Pixelmator Pro – a powerful, easy-to-use image editor that brings professional tools and powerful AI features to everyone across Mac and iPad
Discontinued
Aperture – an image editing and organising application, discontinued in 2015. iPhoto – a photo editor application, discontinued in 2015. (previously part of the iLife suite) 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 (formerly known as X11.app)
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 (previously known as iBooks until iOS 12 and macOS Mojave)
Former Front Row (software) - 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 (known as iCal until 2012) Calculator – a basic calculator application Contacts – a computerized address book (known as Address Book prior to Mac OS X Mountain Lion) 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 (known as iPhoneOS until version 4 in 2010) iPadOS – operating System for iPads (called iOS until version 13.1 in 2019) 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 (called Apple TV Software until version 9 in 2015) 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 (DOS) 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 (now Classic MacOS) from System 4.0 through System 6.0.1ll 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 (discontinued after version 1.3 in 1982) Classic Mac OS – a series of operating systems developed for Macintosh computers, discontinued in 2001 and replaced with OS X System 1 (discontinued in 1984) System 2, 3 & 4 (discontinued in 1985, 1988, and 1987 respectively) System 5 (final release in 1987, succeeded by System 6 in 1988) System 6 (succeeded by System 7 in 1991, and discontinued in 1992) System 7 (became Mac OS after version 7.6, discontinued in 1997) Mac OS 8 (discontinued in 1999) Mac OS 9 (discontinued in 2001) 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 (version 2), web services (version 3). 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 (formerly part of Final Cut Studio) Final Cut Camera - pro video recording app iMovie – basic video editing application (previously part of iLife suite) 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.
Stores
App Store – an app marketplace for iOS and iPadOS apps Mac App Store – an app marketplace for macOS apps
Others Apple Intelligence – an artificial intelligence suite integrated into Siri in iOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia (Apple Silicon Macs only) Classroom Clock Safari – a graphical web browser based on WebKit Find My – an asset tracking app and service utilising Bluetooth and UWB Font Book – a font manager Health Launchpad – an application launcher Apple Maps – a web mapping app and service Shortcuts Siri – a virtual assistant Translate Weather
Discontinued
AppleLink/eWorld – Client software to access Apple's online service for its dealers, third-party developers, and users. The service was discontinued in 1997. iWeb – a HTML editor for creating websites and blogs, discontinued in 2012 alongside MobileMe (previously part of the iLife suite)
Software for non-Apple operating systems
Current
Apple Music (Windows) Apple Maps (Web) iTunes (Windows) Apple Devices – a Microsoft Windows app for managing Apple devices Apple TV (Windows) iCloud (Windows, Online) Photos (Windows, Online) Find My (Online)
Discontinued
Safari (Windows) QuickTime (Windows)
See also List of built-in iOS apps List of built-in macOS apps List of Swift software and tools
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