Released in early 2018, Version 11.3 introduced over 100 new functions and several major capabilities for Mac users:

Many universities (such as UC Berkeley , NYU , and Temple University ) provide Mathematica to students and staff at no direct cost.

You can download the Wolfram Engine for free on macOS. While it doesn't include the standard "Notebook" graphical interface, it allows you to run the same code through a command line or integrated with third-party tools like Jupyter Notebook or Visual Studio Code .