From the desk
Mac torrents download: apps that last a wedding season
I'm Sam Okafor. I photograph weddings in London and edit on a MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro. This is the shelf of software still installed when the season gets loud: photo and design tools first, then the useful rest. About 800 programs, each with the version and the download size.
I have not lived with all of them. When a note is from my own week, I say so. When it is a version and a file size, that is the catalogue, not a promise.
- Photo tools I cull and colour with
- Presets and plugins I actually drop on a set
- Utilities that keep the laptop from filling up mid-season
Editor's pick
Editor's pick · 1 of 5
DxO PhotoLab
DxO PhotoLab 9 is the kind of tool that makes sense the moment you open a raw file and the lens corrections kick in.
Editor's pick · 2 of 5
Luminar AI
You have just shot a wedding in mixed light and the memory card is full of portraits that need consistent skin tones, a sky swap here and there, and maybe a bit of backgr...
Editor's pick · 3 of 5
ON1 Photo RAW
The latest version, 2026.5.2, speeds up filters and adds new lens profiles — small changes that add up when you are pushing through a busy season.
Editor's pick · 4 of 5
Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo 2 runs on any Mac from macOS 10.15 Catalina onwards, whether it’s an Intel machine or one of the newer Apple Silicon models.
Editor's pick · 5 of 5
Photomator
Wedding photographers, studio shooters, and anyone who spends their evenings culling and correcting knows that the right editing tool makes or breaks a season.
Fresh in the shelf
Builds that moved recently. The mark means I filed the update, not that I have lived with it yet.
Pacifist
4.1.4
ShaperBox
3.6.1
ForkLift
4.7.7
LanScan
8.2.17
Rising Front
1.01
CHUCHEL
2.0.0
A Highland Song
1.2.3
Moneyspire
26.08.3
Tuxera NTFS
2023.1
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII
1.5.0
Musify
5.3.0
EZbass
1.3.3
Effectrix
1.4.8
NotchBox
1.1.71
Civilization V
1.4.2
Guitar Rig
7.0.2
DVDFab
12.0.8
Kontakt
8.14.0
Photo
All Photo picksThis is where the heavy lifting lives.
Photoshop Plugins
All Photoshop Plugins picks
Design
All Design picksThis is where the heavy-lifting design apps live — the ones I reach for when a project needs proper modelling or precise vector work.
Video
All Video picksA quiet week on set means a busy week in the suite.
Mac Apps
All Mac Apps picksThese are the torrent apps that stayed on my MacBook Pro after a full season of edits and deadlines.
Utilities
All Utilities picksNot every piece of software in a photographer's life opens a RAW file.
Games
All Games picksBetween weddings I need something that boots fast and plays nicely on a MacBook Pro without fiddling.
VST Plugins
All VST Plugins picksWhen a wedding film needs a score or a photo slideshow calls for a polished voiceover, the right plugin makes the difference.
How the shelf is kept
I’m Sam, a wedding photographer in London, and this is the shelf I’ve built over years of editing on a MacBook Pro. mactorrentz started as a folder of tools I kept coming back to — Photoshop plugins that handle frequency separation without fuss, Lightroom presets that look like film stock, VSTs that sit nicely in a Logic session. It grew into a proper catalog because friends kept asking for copies.
You’ll find the heavy hitters here: Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve Studio, Ableton Live, Serum, Kontakt. But the real gems are often one folder deeper — a utility that renames a thousand RAWs in seconds, a design app that makes album layouts less painful, a video downloader that just works. The categories cover Photoshop Plugins, Lightroom Presets, VST Plugins, Photo, Video, Design, Utilities, Games and Mac Apps. Several hundred programs and counting, because a working toolkit never really stops growing.
