OS X Apps included with your Mac
Your Mac comes with a lot of fun and useful apps already installed. You can open some of these apps by clicking their icons in the Dock. Or you can click the Launchpad icon in the Dock to use Launchpad to see and open all of these apps.
Popular apps
These apps are also available in the Applications folder in the Finder.
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Safari Everything you expect in a web browser, plus an offline Reading List, Pinned Sites, AirPlay streaming video, and more. |
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Send, receive, and manage email using your favorite Internet accounts, such as iCloud, Google, Yahoo!, and Exchange, directly in Mail. |
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Contacts Store information—phone numbers, addresses, birthdays, and more—for your friends, family, and coworkers. |
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Calendar Keep track of all your meetings, events, and appointments in one place. |
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Reminders Create separate lists for to-dos, projects, groceries, and anything else you want to keep track of. |
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Notes Jot down a quick thought—add a photo, video, or URL—to keep track of for later. |
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Maps Get directions to or from a location—including current traffic conditions and built-in public transportation maps and schedules—and send it to your iOS device to use on the go. |
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Messages Stay in touch with your friends by sending messages with text, images, and other files. |
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FaceTime Make video and audio calls to your family and friends, whether they’re using iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or a Mac. |
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Photo Booth Take fun photos or record videos using your computer’s built-in camera or an external video camera connected to your Mac. |
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Photos Import, view, and organize your photos and videos, and create projects and prints from them. With iCloud Photo Library, photos and video in the photo library on your Mac are stored in iCloud, so you can access them from your other devices. |
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Game Center Discover new games for your Mac and iOS devices, see what games your friends are playing, and challenge friends to games. |
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iTunes Organize and play your music and videos; find music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and more; listen to iTunes Radio; stream or download songs from Apple Music; and set up your iPad, iPhone, or iPod. |
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iBooks Read a classic, keep up with the latest bestsellers, and study textbooks with iBooks for Mac. |
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App Store Find, buy, install, update, and review Mac apps. |
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Preview View and edit PDFs and images, import images from a camera, and take pictures of your screen. |
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Dictionary Quickly look up words in dictionaries, thesauruses, and other sources while working in apps or while browsing webpages. |
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Calculator Perform basic, advanced, or programmer calculations. |
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iMovie Import, edit, and share your home movies. |
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GarageBand A complete music studio on your Mac, so you can make your own music to share with the world. |
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Keynote Create stunning presentations with images, media, charts, animations, and more. |
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Numbers Create compelling spreadsheets with formulas, functions, charts, and more. |
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Pages Create beautiful documents with formatted text, images, media, tables, and more. |
All other apps
By default, these apps appear in the Other folder in Launchpad. You can also find and open them in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder in the Finder.
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Activity Monitor Get information about the processor, apps, disks, memory, and network activity on your Mac. |
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AirPort Utility Set up and manage a Wi-Fi network and AirPort Base Station. |
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Audio MIDI Setup Set up audio and MIDI devices connected to your Mac, select audio channel input and output devices, configure output speakers, and more. |
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Automator Create powerful automations without the need of complicated programming or scripting languages. |
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Boot Camp Assistant Use Windows on your Mac. |
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Bluetooth File Exchange Make short-range wireless connections between devices, eliminating the need for many cables. |
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Chess Play chess with your Mac. |
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ColorSync Utility Adjust your computer’s color profiles. |
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Console View log messages in Console, where you may find details about a problem that occurs with your Mac. |
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Digital Color Meter Find the color value of any color on your display. |
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Disk Utility Manage disks, disk images, and RAID sets. |
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DVD Player Play DVDs or DVD movie files on your Mac. |
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Font Book Install, manage, and preview fonts. |
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Grab Take pictures, or screenshots, of all or part of your screen. |
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Grapher Visualize and analyze implicit and explicit equations. |
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Image Capture Transfer and scan images, or take a picture. |
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Ink Add sketches and handwritten text wherever you can enter text, such as in a document. When you connect a graphics tablet to your Mac, Ink preferences appear in System Preferences. |
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Keychain Access Store your passwords and account information and reduce the number of passwords you have to remember and manage. |
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Migration Assistant Transfer your information from a Mac, PC, or disk. |
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QuickTime Player Play video or audio files. |
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Script Editor Create powerful scripts, tools, and even apps. |
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Stickies Keep notes, lists, and pictures in sticky notes on your desktop. |
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System Information Get details about the hardware, network, and software specifications for your Mac. |
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Terminal Access the complete UNIX operating system in OS X. |
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TextEdit Create and edit plain text, rich text, HTML, and other kinds of documents. |
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VoiceOver Utility Customize VoiceOver, the full-featured screen reader built into OS X. |
To buy or download more apps, visit the App Store.
If you previously had iPhoto on your Mac, it’s still on your Mac. However, it’s strongly recommended that you use Photos instead of iPhoto to work with your photos. For more information, see Switch to Photos from iPhoto.