

Just download it, install, and you will forget you even have it. If you commonly find yourself using your computer in the dark, this app will adapt to the proper brightness so you aren’t over stimulated before slumber. Screen brightness can negatively affect your sleep quality if you are beating your retinas to death with bright light prior to sleep. This app is created with the purpose of improving your sleep.

This also falls under the umbrella of must-have apps. Unarchiver strives to be the only app one would ever need top open any file format, and they do a pretty damn good job of accomplishing just that. If you need a file opened on OS X, this is the app to do it. Jump on this right away if you haven’t already. Out of the best free Mac apps, Alfred is undoubtably king. OK, maybe not lost, but terribly annoyed. It’s one of the only apps we use on a daily basis and we would be lost without it. This app is a must! All StackSocial employees are encouraged to download Alfred upon joining the team. *Please note that these votes may have increased from the time this data was collected.

Considering nothing is more appealing than free, we took the time to sieve through the hundreds of submitted apps to bring you the top 5 free Mac OS X apps according to Reddit. The Apple subreddit recently threw a thread together to find everyones favorite applications.
