Panic is an Oregon-based Software company that specializes in shareware applications for Mac OS. It was founded by Steven Frank and Cabel Sasser.

Their first program release was Transmit (FTP client), an File Transfer Protocol FTP client. The program currently competes with Fetch (FTP client), the other popular FTP client for Mac OS X. Transmit has won a number of design awards, including Macworld Best of Show and a 2005 Apple Design Award, for the Best Use of Mac OS X Tiger Technologies.

Transmit was followed up by Audion, a skinnable MP3 media player that competed with MacAMP, the only other Mac OS MP3 player at the time. When ITunes was released in 2001, Audion s days were numbered and by 2005, Panic retired Audion s development and began releasing it free of charge. Audion s story is documented on [http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ Panic s web site]

In 2004, Panic released their third major program, Unison (Usenet client), a Usenet reader. Unison also won an 2004 Apple Design Award, for Best Mac OS X User Experience, and was runner-up for Best Mac OS X Product of the year.

In addition to their major applications, Panic also has a lineup of what they call Li l Apps : a series of smaller applications. These include:

= External links =