Topics / #app
App projects on GitHub
General tag for end-user applications across platforms.
As of , the most-starred App projects on GitHub are react-native (126.7K stars), immich (116.4K stars) and awesome-mac (116.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 185 App repositories with 3.2M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was sill, with +939 stars in a day.
Hot right now
Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16
+939sill
Saffsanity/sill · ★ 2.8KSill streams a window from your Mac, or your whole desktop, live to your iPhone or iPad, so you can touch, type and draw on it as if it were local.
+427wordcraft
storytold/wordcraft · ★ 13.7KWordCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust: a word processor with the Word workflow you know - ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references, mail merge - built by the ArtCraft team.
lightcraft
storytold/lightcraft · ★ 13.2KLightCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom built entirely in Rust: a non-destructive RAW photo editor and library manager with its own color pipeline, masking tools, and presets.
YunX
CYQawa/YunX · ★ 4.6KYunX (云析) is an open-source Android app that parses share links from Chinese cloud storage services and downloads the files directly, with chunked concurrent downloading and resume support.
The all-time top
Top 100 of 185 · by stars
- 126.7K
#1 · react/react-native
react-native
React Native lets you build native mobile apps for Android, iOS, and other platforms using React. UI is described in JavaScript but rendered with real native platform components, not a webview.
- 116.4K
#2 · immich-app/immich
immich
Immich is a self-hosted platform for backing up, organizing and browsing your photos and videos, built as an open-source alternative to Google Photos.
- 116.3K
#3 · jaywcjlove/awesome-macawesome-mac
It is a curated, categorized list of high-quality macOS software, covering everything from text editors and developer tools to design apps, utilities, and security tools.
- 4
Deep-Live-Cam
97.1Khacksider/Deep-Live-Cam · PythonDeep-Live-Cam is an app that performs real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfakes using just a single source image, working live through your webcam or on existing images/videos.
- 5

AFFiNE
73.6Ktoeverything/AFFiNE · TypeScriptAFFiNE is an open-source, all-in-one workspace that merges docs, whiteboards and tables into one knowledge base, positioned as a privacy-first alternative to Notion and Miro.
- 6

drawio-desktop
63.5Kjgraph/drawio-desktop · JavaScriptdrawio-desktop is the official Electron build of draw.io, a desktop diagramming app that wraps the core draw.io editor so you can build flowcharts and diagrams without a browser.
- 7

ChatGPT
54.6Klencx/ChatGPT · RustChatGPT Desktop is a native desktop wrapper around ChatGPT, built with Tauri and Rust, available as a dedicated app for Mac, Windows and Linux.
- 8

lazydocker
53.2Kjesseduffield/lazydocker · GoLazydocker is a simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library - 'the lazier way to manage everything docker', as its tagline goes.
- 9

open-source-ios-apps
52.6Kdkhamsing/open-source-ios-appsA collaborative, curated list of open-source iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS apps, organized by category so you can find real-world example code for any kind of Apple app.
- 10

spotube
50Kteam-spotube/spotube · DartSpotube is an open-source, cross-platform music streaming app for desktop and mobile that lets you bring your own music metadata, playlists, and audio sources through plugins instead of relying on one locked-in backend.
- 11

legado
47.1Kgedoor/legado · KotlinLegado (阅读) is an e-book reader app written in Kotlin, presented as 'Legado 3.0 Book Reader with powerful controls & full functions'.
- 12

iina
46.8Kiina/iina · SwiftIINA is a free, open-source, modern video player built specifically for macOS, using mpv for media decoding.
- 13

edex-ui
45KGitSquared/edex-ui · JavaScripteDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor styled like a sci-fi computer interface, heavily inspired by TRON: Legacy's Board Room scene. It combines a real terminal with live CPU/RAM/network monitoring and touchscreen support.
- 14
gkd
42.9Kgkd-kit/gkd · KotlinGKD is an Android app that taps the screen automatically: it watches for specific on-screen conditions (like certain text appearing) using Android's Accessibility service, then clicks the matching node or location based on your own custom selector rules.
- 15

sniffnet
41.6KGyulyVGC/sniffnet · RustSniffnet is a cross-platform desktop app for monitoring your network traffic in real time, with a graphical interface instead of raw terminal output.
- 16

vim
41.1Kvim/vim · Vim ScriptVim (Vi IMproved) is a greatly improved version of the classic UNIX editor Vi - a text editor geared to editing programs and other plain text files. The current release is version 9.2.
- 17
halo
39.9Khalo-dev/halo · JavaHalo is a powerful, easy-to-use open-source website building tool: from personal blogs and knowledge bases to corporate sites and online stores, it aims to cover your site-building needs in one place.
- 18

devdocs
39.6KfreeCodeCamp/devdocs · RubyDevDocs combines documentation from many programming languages, frameworks, and tools into one fast, searchable web interface with offline support, a mobile version, dark theme, and keyboard shortcuts.
- 19

everyone-can-use-english
39KZuodaoTech/everyone-can-use-english · TypeScriptEnjoy is an AI-powered learning companion built around the idea that AI is the best foreign-language teacher and Enjoy is its best teaching assistant. It's the software side of the long-running 'everyone-can-use-english' (人人都能用英语) project, which also includes two companion books on learning methodology.
- 20

directus
38.5Kdirectus/directus · TypeScriptDirectus is an open-source backend platform that wraps your existing SQL database with instant REST and GraphQL APIs, a no-code admin app, authentication, and fine-grained permissions - turning any database into a headless CMS, admin panel, or custom app backend.
- 21

AndroidUtilCode
33.6KBlankj/AndroidUtilCode · JavaAndroidUtilCode is a powerful and easy-to-use library of utility classes for Android development, collecting commonly used helper functions so developers do not have to rewrite them in every project.
- 22

cursor
33.3Kcursor/cursorCursor is a downloadable code editor application from the Cursor team; the repository itself is mainly a landing page pointing to the website, docs and community forum rather than hosting the editor's source code.
- 23

calculator
31.1Kmicrosoft/calculator · C#The official Windows Calculator that ships pre-installed with Windows, open-sourced by Microsoft — a modern Windows app written in C++ and C#, updated regularly with new features via the Microsoft Store.
- 24

koreader
30.4Kkoreader/koreader · LuaKOReader is a free, open-source ebook reader and document viewer primarily aimed at e-ink devices like Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook, Cervantes and reMarkable, and it also runs on Android and Linux.
- 25

librepods
30.3Klibrepods-org/librepods · KotlinLibrePods is an app that unlocks AirPods features normally exclusive to Apple devices on Linux and Android — noise control modes, ear detection, battery status, head gestures, conversational awareness and more.
- 26

facefusion
30.3Kfacefusion/facefusion · PythonFaceFusion is an industry leading face manipulation platform - AI software for swapping faces and syncing lips in media, which you download and run on your own machine rather than use as a web service.
- 27
deskflow
29.8Kdeskflow/deskflow · C++A free, open-source app that lets the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer control several nearby computers, moving seamlessly between them — like a software KVM but without the video.
- 28

hey.xyz
29.4Kslymnoyann/hey.xyz · TypeScriptHey is a decentralized, permissionless social media app built on Lens Protocol. This repo preserves the last open-source version of its code, as it existed before May 15, 2026.
- 29
wezterm
29.3Kwezterm/wezterm · RustWezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer, written in Rust by @wez.
- 30

Resume-Matcher
28.7Ksrbhr/Resume-Matcher · PythonResume Matcher is a free, open-source AI harness for tailoring your resume to each job application, working with Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Gemma and other LLMs, both local and remote.
- 31

SmsForwarder
28.5Kpppscn/SmsForwarder · KotlinAn Android app that watches a phone's SMS, incoming calls, and app notifications and forwards them by your rules to DingTalk, WeCom, Feishu, email, bark, webhook, Telegram, ServerChan, PushPlus, or another phone via SMS.
- 32

GDevelop
27.6K4ian/GDevelop · JavaScriptGDevelop is an open-source, no-code game development app for building 2D, 3D and multiplayer games. It is designed to be fast and intuitive for everyone.
- 33

winget-cli
26.5Kmicrosoft/winget-cli · C++WinGet is the Windows Package Manager client - a tool for quickly discovering and installing the packages that make your PC environment special, straight from the command line.
- 34
iptv-api
25.6KGuovin/iptv-api · PythonAn IPTV source auto-update tool: it collects live stream links from multiple sources, checks availability, speed-tests them and outputs playable M3U/TXT playlists or an API endpoint you can import into any player.
- 35

TVAPP
25.2Kyouhunwl/TVAPP · JavaScriptThis is a huge curated collection of Android TV box apps — video/movie players, live TV, karaoke, games and utility tools — bundled with download links, version info, status flags and TVBox/影视仓-style interface source URLs to configure them.
- 36

HandBrake
24.7KHandBrake/HandBrake · CHandBrake is an open-source video transcoder: it takes videos you already have and makes new ones that play on phones, tablets, TV media players, game consoles, computers, and web browsers.
- 37

mihon
24.4Kmihonapp/mihon · KotlinMihon is a free, open-source manga reader for Android. It lets you discover and read manga, webtoons, comics, and more on your phone.
- 38

happy
24.2Kslopus/happy · TypeScriptAn open-source client for AI coding agents: run Claude Code or Codex on your computer and control the session from your phone, web or desktop, with end-to-end encryption. The repo description also names Grok.
- 39

Cap
23.4KCapSoftware/Cap · RustAn open source Loom alternative: it records your screen, camera and microphone and turns takes into shareable links or exported videos — for demos, bug reports, tutorials and async standups.
- 40

RedisDesktopManager
23.2Kredis/RedisDesktopManager · C++RESP.app, formerly known as RedisDesktopManager, is a GUI for Redis — a desktop client for working visually with Redis databases.
- 41

CodeEdit
23.1KCodeEditApp/CodeEdit · SwiftCodeEdit is a free, open-source code editor for macOS, built by the community and written natively in Swift for the Mac.
- 42

CodeHub
22.5KCodeHubApp/CodeHub · C#CodeHub is an iOS app for browsing and maintaining your GitHub repositories from an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad — from pull requests down to comments on individual file diffs.
- 43

TrollStore
22.4Kopa334/TrollStore · Objective-CTrollStore is a permasigned jailed app for iOS that permanently installs any IPA you open in it. It works via an AMFI/CoreTrust bug: iOS doesn't correctly verify code signatures when a binary has multiple signers, so TrollStore can resign apps with its fake root certificate and keep them installed for good.
- 44

desktop
22Kdesktop/desktop · TypeScriptGitHub Desktop is an open-source, Electron-based GitHub app: a visual client for working with Git and GitHub without wrestling with the command line. It is written in TypeScript and uses React.
- 45

Maccy
22Kp0deje/Maccy · SwiftMaccy is a lightweight, open-source clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of everything you copy and lets you quickly search, navigate, and reuse previous clipboard contents.
- 46

nowinandroid
21.9Kandroid/nowinandroid · KotlinNow in Android is a fully functional Android app built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. It doubles as an official reference for Android design and development best practices and, as a running app, delivers news updates about Android development.
- 47

Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller
21.9KBCUninstaller/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller · C#Bulk Crap Uninstaller (BCU) is a free, open-source Windows uninstaller built for removing large amounts of applications with minimal user input. It also cleans leftovers and detects orphaned apps.
- 48

wechat-app-mall
21.9KEastWorld/wechat-app-mall · JavaScriptThis is an open-source WeChat Mini Program e-commerce mall/storefront template that has been maintained long-term, now including support for live-streaming sales.
- 49

helium
21.6Kimputnet/helium · C++Helium is a Chromium-based web browser built for privacy: unbiased ad-blocking out of the box, no bloat and no noise. It is free, open source, and currently in beta.
- 50

deskreen
21.6Kpavlobu/deskreen · TypeScriptDeskreen turns any device with a web browser — a phone, tablet or laptop — into a second screen for your computer. It is an Electron app that streams your screen live over WebRTC.
- 51

Aerial
21KJohnCoates/Aerial · SwiftA screensaver for macOS that plays the Apple TV Aerial Views — the aerial footage Apple TV is known for — right on your desktop.
- 52

Obtainium
20.5KImranR98/Obtainium · DartObtainium is a free, open-source Android app that installs and updates apps straight from their release pages — GitHub, GitLab, F-Droid and many more — and notifies you when a new release comes out.
- 53

vlc
20.1Kvideolan/vlc · CVLC is a free, open-source media player and multimedia engine that plays nearly every audio and video format, plus discs, streams and capture devices, on almost every platform.
- 54

komi-store
19.5Kkomi-store/komi-store · KotlinKomi Store, formerly GitHub Store, is a free open-source app store for browsing, discovering and one-click installing apps from developer releases on GitHub, Codeberg and Forgejo.
- 55

carbonyl
19.5Kfathyb/carbonyl · RustCarbonyl is a Chromium-based browser that runs entirely inside your terminal, so you can browse the modern web without leaving the command line.
- 56
Kap
19.4Kwulkano/Kap · TypeScriptKap is a free, open-source screen recorder for macOS that lives in your menu bar — a desktop app built with web technology.
- 57

spotify-tui
19.4KRigellute/spotify-tui · RustSpotify TUI is a Spotify client that runs entirely in the terminal, written in Rust. The binary is called spt — a keyboard-driven way to search music and control Spotify playback without opening the GUI app.
- 58

BackgroundMusic
19.3Kkyleneideck/BackgroundMusic · C++A free macOS audio utility that does three things: it automatically pauses your music when another audio source starts, gives every app its own volume slider, and lets you record your Mac's system audio.
- 59

osu
19.3Kppy/osu · C#osu! (lazer) is a free-to-win rhythm game — the open-source, future and final iteration of the osu! game client, marking the beginning of an open era for the project.
- 60

activitywatch
19.3KActivityWatch/activitywatch · PythonActivityWatch is a free and open-source automated time tracker. It records which apps and websites you use and how active you are, stores the data on your own machine, and shows it in a dashboard so you can see where your time actually goes.
- 61

kivy
19Kkivy/kivy · PythonKivy is an open source UI framework written in Python for rapid development of applications with innovative, often multi-touch interfaces. The same codebase runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.
- 62

lx-music-mobile
18.8Klyswhut/lx-music-mobile · TypeScriptLX Music Mobile is a free, open-source music player app for Android, built with React Native and Redux. It plays music from online sources you configure and organizes tracks into playlists.
- 63

xbar
18.1Kmatryer/xbar · Goxbar is a macOS menu bar app that puts the output of any script or program right into your menu bar. It is the reboot of BitBar, completely rewritten from the ground up in Go.
- 64

TVBoxOSC
17.9Kj4Uq/TVBoxOSCTVBoxOSC is an Android TV box video player app built on top of the open-source CatVodTVOfficial/TVBoxOSC project, reusing code from the related TVBoxOS and Box repositories.
- 65

netch
17.7Knetchx/netch · C#Netch is a simple, free and open-source proxy client for Windows that routes your traffic through proxy servers. It has been on GitHub since 2019 and has about 17.7k stars.
- 66

Best-App
17.6Khzlzh/Best-AppA curated Chinese-language list recommending paid and free Mac/iOS apps, accessories, and tips worth your money, organized by category like productivity tools, developer tools, and subscription services.
- 67

BBLL
17.5Kxiaye13579/BBLLBBLL is a third-party Bilibili client for Android TV, built by an individual developer for learning and communication. It is not a hack of the official app: it simply wraps Bilibili's existing APIs to bring Bilibili videos and live streams to the big screen.
- 68

sway
17.4Kswaywm/sway · CSway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor: the program that draws and arranges your windows on Linux, tiling them automatically like the i3 window manager.
- 69

wtf
17.1Kwtfutil/wtf · GoWTF (aka 'wtfutil') is a personal information dashboard for your terminal, giving at-a-glance access to your important but rarely-needed stats and data. It is free and open-source and is used by thousands of developers and tech people.
- 70

Qv2ray
16.9KQv2ray/Qv2ray · C++Qv2ray is a cross-platform graphical client for V2Ray: it connects you to V2Ray-based proxy servers and ships an extensible plugin system for extra protocols.
- 71

linsa
16.9Klinsa-io/linsa · TypeScriptlinsa.io is a service for storing any kind of digital content with end-to-end encryption, so only you can access it, with extra features promised on top.
- 72

avatarify-python
16.5Kalievk/avatarify-python · PythonIt puts photorealistic animated avatars into Zoom, Skype and other video-conferencing apps: instead of your webcam feed, an AI model drives a face photo with your movements.
- 73

Amethyst
16.3Kianyh/Amethyst · SwiftAmethyst is an automatic tiling window manager for macOS, in the spirit of xmonad: it arranges your open windows into layouts for you instead of letting them pile up and overlap.
- 74

plaid
16.2Knickbutcher/plaid · KotlinIt's an Android app that pulls in design news and inspiration, written to showcase material design in a real application rather than in isolated demos.
- 75

dart_simple_live
16.1Kxiaoyaocz/dart_simple_live · DartSimple Live is a cross-platform Flutter app for watching Chinese livestreaming platforms (Huya, Douyu, Bilibili Live, Douyin) with danmaku (chat overlay) support, built for simple, no-frills viewing.
- 76

VirtualXposed
16.1Kandroid-hacker/VirtualXposed · JavaVirtualXposed is an Android app, built on VirtualApp and epic, that lets you run Xposed modules on your phone without root, an unlocked bootloader, or a custom system image.
- 77

NanaZip
15.9KM2Team/NanaZip · C++An open source file archiver forked from the source code of 7-Zip, rebuilt for the modern Windows experience with a Fluent-style UI, MSIX packaging and extra codecs and hash algorithms.
- 78

organicmaps
15.7Korganicmaps/organicmaps · C++Organic Maps is a free offline maps and GPS navigation app for Android and iOS, built on OpenStreetMap data, aimed at hikers, cyclists, and travelers.
- 79

gsy_github_app_flutter
15.5KCarGuo/gsy_github_app_flutter · DartGSYGithubApp Flutter is an open-source Flutter app that works as a full-featured GitHub client, letting you browse repos, trending projects and notifications and manage your personal GitHub account from your phone.
- 80

documenso
15.4Kdocumenso/documenso · TypeScriptDocumenso is an open source DocuSign alternative — a digital document-signing platform you can self-host and inspect. Its goal is to make fast, easy digital signing the best practice for every document signed worldwide.
- 81

WeFlow
15.2Khicccc77/WeFlow · TypeScriptWeFlow is a tool for viewing, analyzing, and exporting your WeChat chat history — it crunches your chats into personal data visualizations and a one-of-a-kind annual report.
- 82

Easydict
15Ktisfeng/Easydict · SwiftEasydict is a macOS app for looking up word definitions and translating text, pulling results from multiple dictionary and translation services at once.
- 83

edit
14.7Kmicrosoft/edit · RustEdit is a small terminal text editor from Microsoft for quick, simple jobs — an homage to the classic MS-DOS Editor, rebuilt with a modern interface and input controls similar to VS Code.
- 84

AltStore
14.6Kaltstoreio/AltStore · SwiftAltStore is an alternative app store that lets you sideload .ipa apps onto a non-jailbroken iOS device using only your Apple ID, no jailbreak required.
- 85

textmate
14.6Ktextmate/textmate · Objective-C++TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later — a long-running open-source project with about 14.5k stars on GitHub.
- 86

QloApps
14.4KQloapps/QloApps · PHPQloApps is a free, open-source hotel management and reservation system: a booking engine plus a Property Management System (PMS) that powers your own hotel booking website.
- 87

thunderbird-android
14.1Kthunderbird/thunderbird-android · KotlinThunderbird for Android is an open-source, privacy-focused email app that lets you manage multiple accounts from one place with a Unified Inbox option; it's built on the former K-9 Mail codebase.
- 88

electronic-wechat
13.8Kzhongyi-tong/electronic-wechat · JavaScriptElectronic WeChat was a free, open-source desktop WeChat client for macOS and Linux, built with Electron to make Web WeChat feel like a native app. It is now archived and no longer maintained.
- 89
LunaTranslator
13.8KHIllya51/LunaTranslator · C++LunaTranslator is a Windows desktop tool that extracts text from visual novels and galgames in real time (mainly via text hooking) and translates it, so you can play untranslated Japanese games.
- 90
omi
13.8KBasedHardware/omi · PythonOmi is an open-source AI that captures your screen and conversations, transcribes them in real time, and turns them into summaries, action items and a chat that remembers everything you've seen and heard. It works on desktop, phone and wearables.
- 91

lawnchair
13.7KLawnchairLauncher/lawnchair · JavaLawnchair is a free, open-source home app (launcher) for Android. Built on Launcher3, Android's default home app, it adds Pixel Launcher features plus deep customization.
- 92

wordcraft
13.7Kstorytold/wordcraft · RustWordCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust: a word processor with the Word workflow you know - ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references, mail merge - built by the ArtCraft team.
- 93

LuLu
13.3Kobjective-see/LuLu · Objective-CLuLu is a free, open-source firewall for macOS: it watches the network connections apps on your Mac try to make and lets you allow or block them.
- 94
lightcraft
13.2Kstorytold/lightcraft · RustLightCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom built entirely in Rust: a non-destructive RAW photo editor and library manager with its own color pipeline, masking tools, and presets.
- 95

pixez-flutter
13.1KNotsfsssf/pixez-flutter · DartPixEz is a third-party Pixiv client built with Flutter that lets users browse Pixiv artwork, including ugoira (animated illustrations), with a direct connection option for users in mainland China who would otherwise need a proxy.
- 96

firefox-ios
13.1Kmozilla-mobile/firefox-ios · SwiftFirefox for iOS — Mozilla's open-source web browser for iPhone and iPad. This one repository also contains Focus iOS, Mozilla's second iOS app.
- 97

keeweb
13Kkeeweb/keeweb · HTMLKeeWeb is a free, cross-platform password manager that opens and creates KeePass-compatible kdbx vault files, running as either a browser app or a desktop app.
- 98

phabricator
12.3Kphacility/phabricator · PHPPhabricator is a collection of web applications for software development, tied to code review and to Git, Mercurial and SVN repositories.
- 99

xManager
12.1KTeam-xManager/xManager · JavaxManager is a free Android app that lets you download, install, and manage different versions of a music streaming app, giving you an ad-free experience with extra features not in the official app.
- 100
Thaw
12.1Kthaw-app/Thaw · SwiftThaw is an open source menu bar manager for macOS that lets you hide, organize, and restyle your menu bar icons, with hover/click/scroll reveal gestures, hotkeys, and conditional triggers.
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