Every Mac comes with apps for creativity and apps for productivity. It also comes with a collection of great apps for things you do every day, like surfing the web, sending mail and messages, and organizing your calendar. It even comes with an app for finding new apps. Your Mac is more than full‑featured, it’s fully loaded.
iPhoto gives you everything you need to do everything you want with your photos. Keep them organized and easy to find in lots of different ways. Use powerful yet simple editing tools to perfect each shot. Send your photos via Mail and Messages. Post them to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. Create entertaining slideshows, or share your pictures with friends and family using iCloud Photo Sharing. You can even turn your favorite shots into gorgeous photo books, cards, calendars, and prints — all without ever leaving iPhoto. Learn more
iPhoto lets you easily organize your photo library using Faces, Places, and Events.
With just a click, the Enhance feature automatically improves lighting, color saturation, and more.
Use effects to convert pictures to black and white, add a vignette, blur the edges, and more.
Pick your favorite snapshots and easily create beautiful photo books, calendars, cards, and prints — right from your Mac.
The all-new Photos app for Mac is designed for the way you take, edit, and share your photos and videos today. Now you can enjoy your entire library across all your devices like never before. Learn more
With iMovie, you have a perfect home for all your home video. An intuitive design makes it easy to browse and lets you share your favorite moments instantly. And when you want to transform a few clips into your all‑time favorite movie or trailer, iMovie gives you the tools to share it with your closest fans or make it ready for your world premiere. Learn more
With iMovie, all your clips are organized in one place. So they’re easy to browse, watch, and share in a few quick clicks.
You don’t need a Hollywood studio to make your own blockbuster. Pick your clips, insert titles, and add effects and a soundtrack with easy-to-use tools.
Easily create Hollywood-style movie trailers in almost any genre, complete with stunning graphics and cinematic soundtracks.
With iMovie Theater, you have a beautiful place to showcase your movies and trailers. And thanks to iCloud, your Theater is kept up to date across all your devices — automatically.
Creating music on your Mac has never been easier. Or more fun. GarageBand gives you a dream collection of amps and stompboxes, an all‑new Sound Library of instruments and loops — even a virtual session drummer that follows your lead. And you can release your hit single to the world in seconds. From music lessons to mastering tools, GarageBand has everything you need to make and share great music, while having a blast doing it. Learn more
Start jamming right away. Plug in your guitar or mic and choose from an array of amps, effects, sounds, and loops. You can even select from up to 18 drummers in four genres.
Take guitar and piano lessons. And learn to perform hit songs from the actual artists themselves. Instant feedback helps you hone your playing skills.
Create and mix up to 255 audio tracks. Edit down to the note. Get everything in perfect rhythm. And then finish your song like a pro.
Release your hit to friends, family, or the entire web via social networks. Or save it as a ringtone. You can even export your song to your iTunes library.
From the first letter you type, you’ll realize how natural it is to make beautiful documents in Pages. Paint a picture with words. Or add a picture, shape, or interactive chart. Tools for whatever you’re doing appear right when you need them. When you’re ready, you can share in lots of ways with a single click. Writing has never been so effortless. Period.1 Learn more
Pages has all the tools you need to turn your writing into an art form. Apple‑designed templates, preset styling options, intelligent word wrap, an interactive sidebar — the list goes on.
Apple‑designed templates help make your documents look professional from the start. There are 60 beautiful designs for all kinds of uses. It’s like having a graphic designer built in.
Start your document on one device. Finish it on another. Or let someone else make edits as you collaborate with colleagues who are miles away.
It’s easy to work with others, even if they don’t use Pages. You can open a Microsoft Word document in Pages and export a Pages file so it can be opened in Word.
Numbers helps you make spreadsheets more insightful — and more beautiful. Drop your data into a stunning, Apple‑designed template. Or start with a blank canvas. Add in some quick calculations. Then visualize the numbers with a dramatic interactive chart. Suddenly, you see what it all means. How beautiful is that?1 Learn more
Spreadsheets have never looked this good. With prebuilt templates and styling options, you can make a craft of crunching those numbers.
Drop your data into one of more than 30 gorgeous, Apple‑designed templates. Suddenly, the numbers look better than they ever have.
Start your spreadsheet on one device. Finish it on another. Or let someone else make edits as you collaborate with colleagues who are miles away.
It’s easy to work with others, even if they don’t use Numbers. You can open a Microsoft Excel document in Numbers and export a Numbers file so it can be opened in Excel.
Start by choosing a polished Apple‑designed theme. Bring in photos and videos, and tweak them with powerful graphics tools. Spotlight crucial points with animated, interactive charts. Then cue up cinematic effects and transitions. It’s all available from an intuitive interface. With Keynote, giving a spectacular presentation is astonishingly easy.1 Learn more
Keynote offers an array of features and easy-to-use tools that make it simple to create a presentation that shines.
Show off your work. Cinematic transitions, animated flourishes, and a customizable Presenter Display help you create less of a presentation and more of a showstopper.
Start your presentation on one device. Finish it on another. Or let someone else make edits as you collaborate with colleagues who are miles away.
It’s easy to work with others, even if they don’t use Keynote. You can open a Microsoft PowerPoint document in Keynote and export a Keynote file so it can be opened in PowerPoint.
Safari has all kinds of innovative features that let you enjoy more of the web. With Shared Links, it’s easy to see web pages shared by people you follow on Twitter and LinkedIn. It’s also easy for you to share pages. Just click the Share button to tweet, post to Facebook, or send to a friend. In OS X Yosemite, a new streamlined toolbar puts the most important controls at your fingertips and creates more room for your web pages. There are easy ways to access your favorite sites and manage tabs. Energy‑saving technologies let you surf longer. And built‑in privacy features protect you from being tracked as you go. Learn more
OS X Yosemite gives you quick access to your favorite websites using the new Favorites view. Click in the Smart Search field and your favorites appear front and center.
Share anything you come across on the web right from Safari. Just click the Share button, then choose how you want to send it off: Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook.
The best way to see what’s up on the web is with Shared Links, which shows you web pages from people you follow. You can scroll seamlessly from one story to the next, no clicking required.
Click Tab view to see all your tabs, on all your Mac computers and iOS devices, in a nicely organized view. Click a tab to revisit the web page. Tabs from the same site are grouped together, so they’re easier to manage.
Mail is the simple, powerful way to manage email on your Mac. It’s easy to set up and works with many popular email services like iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft Exchange. Have multiple email accounts? No problem. Add your accounts to Mail and you’ll be able to access all your email from one place. Mail lets you work with all the messages in your inbox when you’re offline, too. Searching is fast and powerful. Attaching files or images is as simple as dragging and dropping them. A new feature called Mail Drop lets you send large attachments — up to 5GB — without worrying about whether they’ll go through. With Markup, you can quickly annotate an attachment you receive and send it back.
Mail looks great, too. It makes full use of your display with a widescreen view featuring a full-height message on the right and an inbox view that shows you snippets of messages on the left. The Conversations view groups message threads together, so it’s easy to keep track of replies.
Get a widescreen view of your inbox. See one open message and a list of messages with previews.
Conversations keeps messages from the same thread together in the order they were sent.
Markup lets you quickly annotate an image or PDF attachment. Or fill out a form and even sign it using the trackpad, then send it back — without leaving Mail.
FaceTime lets you make video calls from your Mac, so you can talk, smile, and laugh with anyone on a Mac or iOS device.3 Catch up, hang out, and stay in touch with just a click. Simply find the person you want to see by typing their name, email address, or phone number to start a FaceTime call. You can even make FaceTime calls from Contacts, Messages, or Spotlight. When someone calls, you’ll get a notification that tells you who’s calling and lets you accept, decline, or set a callback reminder. It works even if FaceTime isn’t running, so you never have to worry about making yourself available.
Make video calls from your Mac to anyone on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or another Mac.
Keep track of your busy schedule and share it with others using Calendar. Create separate calendars — one for home, another for school, a third for work, and so on. See all your calendars in a single window or choose to see only the calendars you want. The inspector not only lets you add a location to your event, it also helps you out by suggesting locations as you type, then provides a map and a weather forecast. Calendar also works with iCloud, Yahoo, and Google. And when you use iCloud, every Calendar change you make on your Mac automatically appears on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.4 So no dinner dates are missed, no meeting goes unattended, and no anniversary is forgotten.
See all your calendars in a single window. Or choose to see only the calendars you want.
Stay up to date with what’s going on the entire week. View multiple calendars at the same time, or focus on a particular one.
Get a complete view of the day’s events. Double-click an event to see all the details.
Contacts is a flexible and convenient place to store information for everyone you know. It’s easy to import names, numbers, addresses, and photos from other applications like Facebook or LinkedIn. Contacts automatically includes your friends’ and connections’ profile photos and information and keeps them up to date. You can create smart groups for clubs, activities, and business purposes; print address labels and envelopes; and more. iCloud updates your contacts on your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac — so when you enter someone’s contact info once, you have it everywhere. If you have an iPhone, you can even dial a number from Contacts and use your Mac as a speakerphone.
When you add, delete, or edit a contact, iCloud updates your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac.
The Mac App Store offers endless possibilities to browse and purchase apps on your Mac. New apps install in one step right to Launchpad. And the Mac App Store can automatically update your apps for you, so you always have the latest versions. Learn more about the Mac App Store
Download thousands of apps from the Mac App Store straight to Launchpad on your Mac.
iTunes is the best way to organize and enjoy the music, movies, and TV shows you already have and shop for the ones you want to get. And now you can easily share your purchases with other members of your family. iTunes also gives you access to free streaming radio stations through iTunes Radio. Learn more
iTunes is the app for organizing and enjoying all your music, movies, TV shows, and more.
You can use iTunes on your Mac to discover and download music, movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, and iOS apps.
With Family Sharing, you can browse and download iTunes and App Store purchases made by up to six members of your family.
iTunes Radio is free streaming radio that features DJ-curated and genre-specific stations you’ll love. And the more you listen, the more personalized your stations become.
Download and read everything from classic novels to the latest page-turners. Reading is easy and intuitive — turn pages with a swipe and zoom in with a pinch. If you’re a student hitting the books, you can keep as many open as you like. And when you take notes or highlight passages on your Mac, iCloud pushes them to all your devices automatically. It even remembers which page you’re on, so you can always pick up right where you left off.
From current best sellers to classic literature to textbooks, it’s easy to find what you’re looking for in the iBooks Store. You can browse by top sellers, author, or genre. And click to see details, check out reviews, or read a free sample.
When you buy a book on your Mac, it can be pushed to all your OS X and iOS devices. If you’re reading a book on your iPad and you highlight text or take notes, it’s all there when you continue reading on your Mac or iPhone. iCloud even remembers which page you’re on.
iBooks Textbooks have interactive diagrams, photos, and videos. Your notes and highlights are displayed in the Notes panel.
You can keep as many books open as you like — perfect for studying or doing research when you might want to view two books side by side. You can also use other apps like Pages or Numbers at the same time.
Now you’ve got the whole world on your desktop. And at your fingertips like never before. You can look up directions on your Mac and send them right to your iPhone for voice navigation on the way.5 In addition, your bookmarks and recent searches are automatically pushed to all your iOS devices, so you can plan trips on your Mac and have all the locations easily at hand when you’re on the road. Of course, you can get information on local points of interest like restaurants and hotels, with phone numbers, photos, and even Yelp reviews.
Because it’s a native app, you can use every pixel of your display to explore new destinations. Maps also takes full advantage of the graphics power of your Mac. So zooming is incredibly smooth and responsive, and you get gorgeous views such as Flyover, a photo-realistic, interactive 3D experience that lets you soar high above select cities.
Use Maps to decide where you’re going, learn how to get there, and check traffic along your route.
Get a whole new perspective with stunning, photo-realistic 3D views as you use intuitive Multi-Touch gestures to soar over select major cities and their landmarks.
Click a pin or a point of interest on the map to get the complete address, phone number, website link, photos — even Yelp reviews.
Plan a trip on your Mac and send the map directly to your iPhone, where Maps can give you turn-by-turn voice navigation as you go.
Take fun snapshots and make short videos in Photo Booth. You can share what you shoot directly to Facebook and Twitter thanks to the built-in Share button. Use photos as your Messages icons. Assign them to friends and family in Contacts. And add photos to your iPhoto library. But the real fun starts when you use the effects and backdrops. Snap a photo of yourself at the Eiffel Tower or in outer space. Choose from nine effects that use facial tracking technology so effects look great whether you’re front and center — or left of center. Snap single photos or shoot multiples in a four-photo burst. You can even shoot and trim video clips, complete with effects. And see your Photo Booth photos full screen.
Take quick snapshots and film short videos. Even add fun effects.
Time Machine works with your Mac and an external hard drive or AirPort Time Capsule (sold separately). Connect the drive and designate it as your Time Machine drive, then start enjoying some peace of mind. Time Machine automatically backs up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on any given day — so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past or retrieve an older version of a document you created. You can also restore your entire system from a Time Machine backup.
Browse by date to see how your system looked at any previous time. And restore your Mac with a click.