They never caused issues in Windows, but I'd like to know if they are considered safe by mac community?
https://www.gimp.org/
www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
https://www.gimp.org/
www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
https://www.gimp.org/
and
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Are the correct and official sites. They're great apps, I use them myself.
Yep... safe as long as you get the download from official web sites.
PS... Oops... exactly what Floris said.
It took me years to switch over to VLC and now I can't stand to use anything else. My only gripe is it's difficult (not really supported) to have multiple VLC instances running at the same time. But I only rarely have the need to do that anyway.
Have never used GIMP but I know it's one of the oldest and most respected open source apps in the world.