r/MacOS is a subreddit with 592k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses macos, mac, app, update, and macbook, and they frequently recommend/review browser, ad blocker, and macos.
A community to talk about macOS, the operating system powering Apple's Macintosh computers.
Popular Themes in r/MacOS
#1
Solution Requests
: "WebsiteArchiver - MacOS - Don’t rely on the internet to remember. Make sure it does."
19 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Enjoying the memory leaks in macOS 26.5 so far!"
9 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I built brew-browser. An open source, MIT Licensed, Homebrew Manager."
6 posts
#4
Advice Requests
: "A month ago I posted here about fixing the macOS right-click menu. hundereds of upvotes later, here's what I shipped from your feedback."
4 posts
Popular Topics in r/MacOS
#1
Macos
: "Looks like someone is running VLC on a very old version of Macos"
189 posts
#2
Mac
: "I made a free MacOS app to download videos from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and 1000+ other sites — no terminal, no setup, just drag and drop"
63 posts
#3
App
: "I made a free macOS App to download videos from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and 1000+ other sites — no terminal, no setup, just drag and drop"
39 posts
#4
Update
: "Unable to send RCS/SMS from Mac after Update"
28 posts
#5
Macbook
: "202GB of Ѕystem Data on my M3 Max Macbook Pro — how do I actually clear this? (full specs inside)"
18 posts
#6
Screen
: "Black Screen/patch in backgorund of notification sidebar"
16 posts
#7
Issue
: "they destroyed macos' best feature"
16 posts
#8
Dock
: "Do you like this Dock design?"
15 posts
#9
Monitor
: "[Developer Saturday] I built SnapState – a free, open-source native Mac utility to stop external Monitors from scrambling your workspace layouts"
13 posts
#10
Bug
: "Help / Bug - Can't copy / move any file in macOS Tahoe 26.5"
12 posts
Products Discussed in r/MacOS
Browser
149 reviews
#1
Apple
4.5★ from 52 reviews
#2
Mozilla
4.5★ from 36 reviews
#3
Brave
4.2★ from 21 reviews
Ad Blocker
99 reviews
#1
AdGuard
4.5★ from 18 reviews
#2
uBlock Origin
4.9★ from 15 reviews
#3
Wipr
4.6★ from 15 reviews
Macos
74 reviews
#1
Transmission
4.3★ from 19 reviews
#2
qBittorrent
4.1★ from 15 reviews
#3
Apple
4.2★ from 13 reviews
Flair Used in r/MacOS
#1
Help
: "This message popped up after turning on my mac ?!"
98 posts
#2
Discussion
: ""Apps" app is one of the worst things in entire macOS history - and whoever was responsible for it should never engineer anything again"
25 posts
#3
Bug
: "they destroyed macos' best feature"
23 posts
#4
Developer Saturday
: "I built brew-browser. An open source, MIT Licensed, Homebrew Manager."
17 posts
#5
Feature
: "Found additional hidden hardware accent colors in macOS Tahoe"
8 posts
#6
Tips & Guides
: "terminalcam : a camera for your terminal"
6 posts
#7
Creative
: "Looks like someone is running VLC on a very old version of macOS"
5 posts
#8
Nostalgia
: "The Oldest (Copyrighted) Code in MacOS"
3 posts
#9
News
: "Built a free, open-source CleanMyMac alternative because I was tired of the subscription"
3 posts
#10
Apps
: "[ Removed by moderator ]"
1 post
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+154k members(35.0%)
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Last updated: June 4, 2026