Access the intuitive ClickShare app from your chosen device by downloading from here. Get the ClickShare app for Windows, iOS and mobile devices. Alexa for Mac is always ready to play your favourite music, provide weather and news updates, answer questions, create lists, and much more. Built for macOS. And a new uniform shape for app icons adds consistency while letting the personality of Mac shine through. Control Center for Mac Instantly access the controls you use most — like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth — and new controls to play music and enable Dark Mode for your display.
Native Mac apps built with Mac Catalyst can share code with your iPad apps, and you can add more features just for Mac. In macOS Big Sur, you can create even more powerful versions of your apps and take advantage of every pixel on the screen by running them at native Mac resolution. Apps built with Mac Catalyst can now be fully controlled using just the keyboard, access more iOS frameworks, and take advantage of the all-new look of macOS Big Sur. There's never been a better time to turn your iPad app into a powerful Mac app.
Designed for macOS Big Sur.
When an app built with Mac Catalyst runs on macOS Big Sur, it automatically adopts the new design. The new Maps and Messages apps were built with the latest version of Mac Catalyst.
Get a head start on your native Mac app.
Your iPad app can be made into an excellent Mac app. Now's the perfect time to bring your app to life on Mac. The latest version of Xcode 12 is all you need. Begin by selecting the 'Mac' checkbox in the project settings of your existing iPad app to create a native Mac app that you can enhance further. Your Mac and iPad apps share the same project and source code, making it easy to make changes in one place.
Optimize your interface for Mac.
Your newly created Mac app runs natively, utilizing the same frameworks, resources, and runtime environment as apps built just for Mac. Fundamental Mac desktop and windowing features are added, and touch controls are adapted to the keyboard and mouse. By default, your app will scale to match the iPad's resolution. On macOS Big Sur, you can choose 'Optimize interface for Mac' to use the Mac idiom, running your app using the native resolution on Mac. This gives you full control of every pixel on the screen and allows your app to adopt more controls specific to Mac, such as pull-down menus and checkboxes.
Even more powerful.
The new APIs and behaviors in macOS Big Sur let you create even more powerful Mac apps. Apps can now be fully controlled using just the keyboard. You can create out-of-window and detachable popovers, control window tabbing using new window APIs, and make it easier for users to select photos in your app by using the updated Photos picker. iOS Photos editing extensions can now be built to run on Mac. And your app is even easier to manage when it's running in the background with improved app lifecycle APIs.
New and updated frameworks.
Mac Catalyst adds support for new and updated frameworks to extend what your apps can do on Mac. HomeKit support means home automation apps can run alongside the Home app on Mac. The addition of the ClassKit framework lets Mac apps track assignments and share progress with teachers and students. Plus, there are updates to many existing frameworks, including Accounts, Contacts, Core Audio, GameKit, MediaPlayer, PassKit, and StoreKit.
Tools and resources.
Download Xcode 12 and use these resources to build native Mac apps with Mac Catalyst.
What's everyone saying?
Ethan Marcotte
'I couldn't use Twitter without Twitterrific.'
Ethan Marcotte — @beep
John Siracusa
'Twitterrific's unified timeline matches the way I think about Twitter: a single, chronological stream of tweets, regardless of type. The fact that Twitterrific is also a great Twitter client with all the other features you'd expect—including separate views for mentions, DMs, etc.—is just icing on the cake.'
John Siracusa — @siracusa
Michael Lopp
'A daily corner of my desktop feels revitalized.'
Michael Lopp — @rands
Manuel Alejandro López Zarzosa
'Now I can finally use the best client on all my devices!'
Manuel Alejandro López Zarzosa — @manuelale69
Alex Waddell
'I've been an active participant in the Phoenix Kickstarter beta and I'm delighted with the final app. Its elegant features, combined with lot of great UI touches, make Twitter a delight to use on the Mac again.'
Alex Waddell — @alexwaddell
Daniel Jalkut
'It's exciting to see the very first Twitter client being rethought in 2017 as the very newest one.'
Daniel Jalkut — @danielpunkass
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Brent Simmons
'I switched immediately. It was like coming home.'
Brent Simmons — @brentsimmons
Seth Roby
Alexa Desktop App Mac
'Twitterrific makes Twitter simple, fun, and quick. Thank you for bringing it back to the Mac, where I still spend most of my days.'
Seth Roby — @TALlama
Mac Desktop App Store
'Twitterrific has the potential to make bored users fall in love with Twitter all over again.'
'Twitterrific has the potential to make bored users fall in love with Twitter all over again.'
Christine Preusler — HostingAdvice.com
'My favorite Twitter client.'
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Robyn Oglesby — MacSources
'Features the same finesse that we've seen in Twitterrific for iOS, but at the same time, also leverages all the features offered by macOS.'
Preshit Deorukhkar — Beautiful Pixels
'The Iconfactory has given users a high degree of control over how Twitterrific looks within a clean, easy-to-read design.'
John Voorhees — MacStories
'Packs a ton of features into the new app...fantastic keyboard and accessibility support, delightful sounds, and a few nostalgic Easter eggs from past incarnations.'
Chris De Jabet — Full City Press
'The app delivers a good handful of features Mac users will like.'
Sarah Perez — TechCrunch
'Finally, a modern desktop Twitter client that not only looks amazing and performs, but offers all the features you would expect. So relieved to have Twitterrific resurrected!'
R.C. Rains — @shadowbottle
