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Free open-source apps

Indie Mac apps and developer tools that are permanently free and open source. They are listed here only — never among time-limited Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals.

Free · open source

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2 free open-source apps

Digisensus Recorder

Mac app · AI · Mac

Free open-source call recorder and AI meeting note taker for Mac. Records Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, FaceTime, WhatsApp and phone calls with no meeting bot;…

Free · open source GPL-3.0

OffPDF

Mac app · Utilities · Mac, Windows, iOS

Offline PDF tools for desktop and iPhone. Edit, merge, scan, compress, OCR and convert PDFs locally with no uploads. Desktop app is free and open source; iPhone has…

Free · open source MIT

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