Apple-silicon projects on GitHub

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   #1 · AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

   stable-diffusion-webui

   A browser-based interface for Stable Diffusion, built with the Gradio library, letting you generate and edit AI images (txt2img, img2img, inpainting, outpainting and more) on your own machine.

   165.1K
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   #2 · hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

   Deep-Live-Cam

   Deep-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.

   97.1K
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   #3 · debpalash/VoiceStudio

   VoiceStudio

   VoiceStudio is an open-source, fully-local alternative to ElevenLabs: one app for voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription and audiobook creation in 646 languages.

   75.3K

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   nanoGPT

   63.9Kkarpathy/nanoGPT · Python

   nanoGPT is the simplest, fastest repository for training and finetuning medium-sized GPT language models, written as a minimal rewrite of minGPT.

   • karpathy
   • gpt-2
   • text-generation
   • gpt
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   GPT-SoVITS

   63.2KRVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS · Python

   GPT-SoVITS is a few-shot voice cloning and text-to-speech WebUI: feed it a short voice sample and it can clone that voice to read out any text, including in languages the speaker never recorded.

   • vits
   • voice-clone
   • voice-conversion
   • voice-cloning
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   container

   50.8Kapple/container · Swift

   A tool for creating and running Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on a Mac, optimized for Apple silicon.

   • oci
   • virtualization
   • containers
   • swift
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   exo

   48Kexo-explore/exo · Python

   exo turns a group of your own devices (Macs, Linux boxes) into a single AI cluster so you can run large AI models that would never fit on one machine, pooling their memory and compute together.

   • kimi
   • distributed
   • mlx
   • model-serving
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   stats

   42.6Kexelban/stats · Swift

   A free, open-source macOS system monitor in your menu bar: it shows CPU, GPU, memory, disk and network usage, battery level, temperatures, Bluetooth devices and a multi-timezone clock.

   • monitor
   • sensors
   • menubar
   • cpu
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   marker

   40.5Kdatalab-to/marker · Python

   Marker is a document conversion tool that turns PDFs (and other document types) into markdown, JSON, HTML, or chunked output quickly and accurately, extracting tables, equations, forms, and images along the way.

   • document-parsing
   • batch-processing
   • table
   • streamlit
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    FastChat

    39.5Klm-sys/FastChat · Python

    FastChat is an open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language model based chatbots. It is the release repo for Vicuna and powers Chatbot Arena (lmarena.ai), which has served over 10 million chat requests for 70+ LLMs.

    • gradio
    • vllm
    • fine-tuning
    • quantization
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    airllm

    39.4Klyogavin/airllm · Jupyter Notebook

    An open-source Python library that runs huge LLMs on tiny GPUs: a 70B model fits on a single 4GB card without quantization, distillation or pruning — even the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 runs in under 4GB.

    • consumer-gpu
    • chinese-nlp
    • qlora
    • mlx
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    jax

    36.5Kjax-ml/jax · Python

    JAX is a Python library for accelerator-oriented array computation and program transformation, built for high-performance numerical computing and large-scale machine learning.

    • tpu
    • wsl2
    • jax
    • scientific-computing
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    DragGAN

    35.7KXingangPan/DragGAN · Python

    DragGAN is the official implementation of the SIGGRAPH 2023 paper that lets you interactively drag points on a GAN-generated image to move or reshape objects within it.

    • image-manipulation
    • generative-adversarial-network
    • gan
    • gradio
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    btop

    35Karistocratos/btop · C++

    A terminal resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It is the C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop.

    • openbsd
    • rocm
    • system-monitor
    • amd
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    diffusers

    34.8Khuggingface/diffusers · Python

    Diffusers is Hugging Face's Python library for state-of-the-art pretrained diffusion models that generate images, audio, and even 3D molecule structures, all in PyTorch.

    • text2image
    • qwen-image
    • flux
    • diffusion
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    timesfm

    34.6Kgoogle-research/timesfm · Python

    TimesFM is a pretrained time-series foundation model from Google Research used for time-series forecasting, similar in spirit to a language model but for numerical sequences.

    • forecasting
    • deep-neural-networks
    • time-series
    • foundation-models
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    MonitorControl

    34.5KMonitorControl/MonitorControl · Swift

    MonitorControl is a free, open-source macOS app that controls your external display's brightness, volume and contrast as if it were a native Apple Display — via Apple keyboard keys, custom shortcuts or menu bar sliders.

    • display
    • osx
    • menubar
    • keyboard
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    BetterDisplay

    34.1Kwaydabber/BetterDisplay

    BetterDisplay is a macOS menu bar app that unlocks extra display controls on your Mac, including flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR brightness boosts, DDC and HDMI-CEC hardware control, virtual screens, and picture-in-picture streaming.

    • scaling
    • 4k
    • display
    • osx
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    tabby

    33.9KTabbyML/tabby · Rust

    Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant that gives you an open-source, on-premises alternative to GitHub Copilot, with code completion and chat features.

    • code-completion
    • codegen
    • developer-experience
    • intellij
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    shadPS4

    33.7Kshadps4-emu/shadPS4 · C++

    shadPS4 is an early PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD, written in C++. It lets you run real PS4 game titles on a PC.

    • cpp23
    • imgui
    • sdl3
    • emulation
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    CodexPlusPlus

    32.3KBigPizzaV3/CodexPlusPlus · Rust

    Codex++ is an external launcher and management tool for the OpenAI Codex/ChatGPT desktop app, adding provider switching, protocol conversion, session management and UI enhancements on top of it.

    • installer
    • gpt
    • macos-app
    • chatgpt
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    colima

    31.3Kabiosoft/colima · Go

    Colima provides container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup: it starts a Linux VM running Docker, Containerd or Incus, all managed through one simple command.

    • containerd
    • k8s
    • runtime
    • virtualization
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    llm.c

    31.2Kkarpathy/llm.c · Cuda

    llm.c is Karpathy's project for training large language models in raw C and CUDA, with no dependency on 245MB of PyTorch or 107MB of cPython. It currently focuses on pretraining GPT-2 and GPT-3-scale models, with train_gpt2.cu as the main CUDA training path.

    • hpc
    • pretraining
    • training
    • gpt
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    cua

    30.1Ktrycua/cua · Rust

    An open-source stack for computer-use AI agents: desktop automation drivers, isolated cloud desktops, local macOS VMs, small specialist decision models, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation.

    • cua
    • manus
    • gui-agent
    • containerization
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    yabai

    29.7Kasmvik/yabai · C

    Yabai is a tiling window manager for macOS that extends the system's built-in window manager, arranging windows automatically using a binary space partitioning algorithm.

    • desktop-environment
    • ricing
    • tiling-window-manager
    • accessibility
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    mlx

    28.8Kml-explore/mlx · C++

    MLX is an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon, built by Apple's machine learning research team.

    • mlx
    • numpy
    • training
    • swift
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    vorssaint-utils

    28.2Kvorssaint/vorssaint-utils · Swift

    A free, open-source macOS app that packs the utilities Mac users usually buy one by one — volume mixer, system monitor, app switcher, clipboard history, uninstaller and more — behind a single menu bar icon.

    • finder
    • clipboard-manager
    • swift-ui
    • appkit
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    Qwen3

    27.7KQwenLM/Qwen3 · Python

    Qwen3 is a series of open-weight large language models built by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, released as both dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models from 0.6B up to 235B-A22B parameters, with switchable 'thinking' and 'non-thinking' reasoning modes.

    • qwen3
    • alibaba
    • llamacpp
    • foundation-models
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    windows95

    24.3Kfelixrieseberg/windows95 · TypeScript

    The complete Windows 95 operating system, packaged as a desktop app that runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux — the whole thing, boots and all.

    • retro
    • fun
    • retrogaming
    • emulator
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    ds4

    23.9Kantirez/ds4 · C

    DwarfStar (ds4) is a small, self-contained local inference engine specialized for running DeepSeek V4 Flash and PRO, plus GLM 5.2/5.3, on consumer hardware like high-memory Macs, NVIDIA GPUs, and AMD Strix Halo systems.

    • kv-cache
    • llm-serving
    • rocm
    • glm
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    bend

    23.8Kbendlang/bend · TypeScript

    A high-level, massively parallel programming language. It feels like Python or Haskell (closures, unrestricted recursion, continuations) but scales across many cores and GPUs with no thread or lock code to write.

    • parallel-programming
    • compilers
    • theorem-proving
    • parallel-computing
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    Karabiner-Elements

    23Kpqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements · C++

    Karabiner-Elements is a powerful key remapper for macOS — a tool for customizing how your keyboard behaves.

    • input
    • intel
    • keyboard
    • configuration
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    omlx

    22.9Kjundot/omlx · Python

    oMLX is a local LLM inference server for Apple Silicon Macs. It serves text LLMs, vision models, OCR, embeddings and rerankers with continuous batching and a tiered KV cache, managed from the macOS menu bar.

    • menubar-app
    • vlm
    • mlx
    • model-serving
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    surya

    21.5Kdatalab-to/surya · Python

    Surya is Datalab's open-source document OCR system built around a 650M parameter model. It reads text from images and PDFs, and also does layout analysis, reading order, and table recognition.

    • document-intelligence
    • table-extraction
    • table
    • layout
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    voice-changer

    21.2Kw-okada/voice-changer · Python

    It's VCClient, a real-time AI voice changer: it converts your microphone input on the fly so you can speak live with a different voice.

    • voice-conversion
    • voice-ai
    • japanese
    • realtime
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    ebook2audiobook

    20.4KDrewThomasson/ebook2audiobook · Python

    A converter that turns DRM-free e-books into audiobooks with chapters and metadata, using TTS engines with optional voice cloning, in 1158+ languages. It runs locally on modest hardware or in Docker.

    • colab-notebook
    • audiobook
    • kaggle
    • converter
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    BlackHole

    19.9KExistentialAudio/BlackHole · C

    A virtual audio loopback driver for macOS: it creates an audio device that lets one application pass its sound to another application with zero additional latency.

    • recording
    • system
    • driver
    • installer
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    ml-stable-diffusion

    18Kapple-aiml-research/ml-stable-diffusion · Python

    This is Apple's toolkit for running Stable Diffusion image generation on Apple Silicon using Core ML, so it can run efficiently on Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

    • coreml
    • on-device
    • stable-diffusion
    • text-to-image
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    questdb

    17.4Kquestdb/questdb · Java

    QuestDB is an open-source, low-latency time-series database on open formats: it ingests millions of events per second, computes on live data in milliseconds, and keeps years of history queryable through one SQL engine.

    • time-series-database
    • tsdb
    • parquet
    • stream-processing
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    vphone-cli

    15.7KLakr233/vphone-cli · Swift

    vphone-cli boots a virtual iPhone on a Mac using Apple's Virtualization.framework, built on Apple's PCC research VM infrastructure, so you can run, test, and even jailbreak iOS without a physical device.

    • vnc
    • vm
    • jailbreak
    • virtualization
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    ChatGLM2-6B

    15.5Kzai-org/ChatGLM2-6B · Python

    ChatGLM2-6B is an open bilingual (Chinese-English) conversational language model with 6 billion parameters, the second generation of ChatGLM-6B from Zhipu AI (Z.ai).

    • chatglm
    • glm
    • bilingual
    • gradio
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    F5-TTS

    15.4KSWivid/F5-TTS · Python

    F5-TTS is a text-to-speech system that generates fluent, faithful speech using flow matching with a Diffusion Transformer (ConvNeXt V2 backbone), and it supports cloning a speaker's voice from a short reference clip.

    • amd-gpu
    • diffusion
    • speech-synthesis
    • voice-cloning
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    hidden

    15.2Kdwarvesf/hidden · Swift

    Hidden Bar (Hidden) is an ultra-light macOS utility that lets you hide menu bar icons to give your Mac's menu bar a cleaner look.

    • utilities
    • menu-bar
    • macos-app
    • swift
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    Pearcleaner

    14.9Kalienator88/Pearcleaner · Swift

    Pearcleaner is a free, source-available Mac app cleaner that uninstalls apps along with their leftover files, inspired by AppCleaner and Sun Knudsen's app-cleaner script.

    • disk-cleaner
    • cleanup
    • file-management
    • self-hosting
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    tortoise-tts

    14.9Kneonbjb/tortoise-tts · Jupyter Notebook

    Tortoise is a text-to-speech system built with an emphasis on quality: strong multi-voice capabilities and highly realistic prosody and intonation. This repo contains everything needed to run it in inference mode.

    • speech-synthesis
    • diffusion-models
    • tts
    • text-to-speech
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    OmniVoice

    14.8Kk2-fsa/OmniVoice · Python

    OmniVoice is a zero-shot text-to-speech model that supports over 600 languages, built on a diffusion language model-style architecture, with voice cloning and voice design capabilities.

    • speech-synthesis
    • voice-cloning
    • gradio
    • tts
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    palmier-pro

    14.6Kpalmier-io/palmier-pro · Swift

    Palmier Pro is a native macOS video editor built for AI, with built-in generative video/image models and MCP support so AI agents can create and edit directly on the timeline.

    • claude-desktop
    • video-editor
    • ai-video
    • discord
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    needle

    14.1Kcactus-compute/needle · Python

    Needle 2 is an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use and structured extraction that ships as a single 14MB binary and runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM. This repo is its Python package for inference, LoRA fine-tuning and export.

    • jax
    • function-calling
    • on-device-ai
    • tool-calling
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    ACE-Step-1.5

    13.8Kace-step/ACE-Step-1.5 · Python

    ACE-Step 1.5 is an open-source local music generation model that turns text prompts (and optional reference audio) into full songs, aiming for quality on par with commercial tools like Suno.

    • text-to-audio
    • amd-gpu
    • audio-generation
    • gradio
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    diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui

    13.6Kdivamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui · JavaScript

    Diffusion Bee is a macOS GUI app that lets you run Stable Diffusion locally on your Mac to generate images from text prompts, with a one-click installer and no technical setup.

    • img2img
    • controlnet
    • ai-art
    • inpainting
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    video-subtitle-remover

    13.3KYaoFANGUK/video-subtitle-remover · Python

    Video-subtitle-remover (VSR) is an AI tool that removes hard-coded subtitles and text-like watermarks from videos and images, outputting the result at the original resolution without calling any third-party API.

    • paddlepaddle
    • watermark-removal
    • inpainting
    • subtitles
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    FluidVoice

    12.3Kaltic-dev/FluidVoice · Swift

    FluidVoice is an open-source voice-to-text dictation app for macOS that transcribes speech on-device and can enhance the text with AI, acting as a local alternative to Wispr Flow.

    • dictation
    • llama-cpp
    • on-device-ai
    • voice-assistant
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    PlayCover

    12KPlayCover/PlayCover · Swift

    PlayCover lets you run iOS apps and games on Apple Silicon Macs, with support for mouse, keyboard and controller input, originally built to play Genshin Impact on a Mac.

    • macos-app
    • homebrew
    • gaming
    • swift
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    whoogle-search

    11.6Kbenbusby/whoogle-search · Python

    Whoogle was a self-hosted metasearch engine that fetched Google search results and stripped out ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, and IP tracking. As of July 2026 it is officially dead: Google closed off the last way to fetch results without JavaScript, so the app no longer returns any search results.

    • tor
    • heroku
    • flask
    • adblock
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    NarratoAI

    11.5Klinyqh/NarratoAI · Python

    NarratoAI is an all-in-one AI tool for film/show narration and automated video editing: it uses an LLM to write the narration script, then automatically edits the footage, generates voice-over, and adds subtitles.

    • gemini-api
    • voice-cloning
    • video-editing
    • webui
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    darwin-xnu

    11.3Kapple/darwin-xnu · C

    This is the source code of the XNU kernel, the core of Darwin, the operating system behind macOS and iOS. It is the kernel that ships on Apple devices, published as source for reading, building and debugging.

    • x86-64
    • freebsd
    • operating-system
    • arm64
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    moshi

    11.3Kkyutai-labs/moshi · Python

    Moshi is a speech-text foundation model and full-duplex spoken dialogue framework, meaning the model can listen and speak at the same time rather than taking turns like typical voice assistants.

    • codec
    • conversational-ai
    • foundation-models
    • on-device
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    WhisperLiveKit

    11.2KQuentinFuxa/WhisperLiveKit · Python

    WhisperLiveKit is a self-hosted pipeline for real-time, local speech-to-text with streaming ASR, speaker diarization, live translation, and OpenAI/Deepgram-compatible APIs.

    • voice-activity-detection
    • speaker-diarization
    • asr
    • mlx
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    LTX-Video

    11.1KLightricks/LTX-Video · Python

    LTX-Video is the official repo for Lightricks' DiT-based video generation model, which generates synchronized audio+video, supports text-to-video and image-to-video, keyframe conditioning, video extension, and video-to-video transformations.

    • foundation-models
    • image-to-video
    • comfyui
    • text-to-video
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    mac-mouse-fix

    11.1Knoah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix · Objective-C

    A macOS app that makes cheap third-party mice feel as good as an Apple Trackpad or a Logitech MX Master - smoother scrolling, remappable buttons and click-and-drag gestures. The author wants it to become the best mouse driver ever.

    • input
    • scroll
    • mouse
    • driver
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    boring.notch

    11.1KTheBoredTeam/boring.notch · Swift

    Boring Notch turns your MacBook's notch into a dynamic control hub: it becomes a music player with a live visualizer, calendar integration, a file shelf with AirDrop support, and a full replacement for macOS's volume/brightness/backlight HUDs.

    • menubar-app
    • calendar
    • widget
    • music-player
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    llama-gpt

    10.9Kgetumbrel/llama-gpt · TypeScript

    LlamaGPT is a self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot powered by Llama 2 (and now Code Llama), so you get a familiar chat UI without sending any data to a third-party cloud.

    • localai
    • llama2
    • gpt-4
    • llamacpp
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    krita-ai-diffusion

    10.7KAcly/krita-ai-diffusion · Python

    A free, open-source Krita plugin that brings generative AI into painting and editing workflows: inpaint, outpaint, live-paint and upscale images with an optional text prompt, running on your own hardware.

    • controlnet
    • ai-art
    • inpainting
    • upscaling
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    petals

    10.6Kbigscience-workshop/petals · Python

    Petals lets you run big open LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style: you join a public swarm that serves models like Llama 3.1 (405B), Mixtral (8x22B), Falcon (40B+) and BLOOM (176B) for inference and fine-tuning right from your desktop or Google Colab, up to 10x faster than offloading.

    • distributed-computing
    • colab
    • community-driven
    • open-weights
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    tg-ws-proxy

    10.6KFlowseal/tg-ws-proxy · Python

    TG WS Proxy is a local MTProto proxy for Telegram Desktop that speeds up or partially bypasses Telegram's blocking by routing traffic through WebSocket (TLS) connections, without relying on any third-party servers.

    • pyinstaller
    • proxy-server
    • linux-app
    • menu-bar
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    runanywhere-sdks

    10.3KRunanywhereAI/runanywhere-sdks · C++

    A toolkit of eight SDKs over one C++ core that runs AI fully on-device — LLM chat, vision, speech, voice agents, RAG, and image generation — on phones, browsers, and desktops. Everything is private by default and works offline.

    • apple-intelligence
    • edge
    • voice-ai
    • llamacpp
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    PixelRAG

    10.3KStarTrail-org/PixelRAG · Python

    An open-source research codebase from Berkeley for pixel-native search: PixelRAG renders web pages, PDFs and images as screenshots and retrieves over the images directly, instead of parsing pages into text.

    • vision
    • vlm
    • vector-search
    • vector-database
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    pocket-tts

    9.9Kkyutai-labs/pocket-tts · Python

    Pocket TTS is a lightweight text-to-speech engine from Kyutai that runs efficiently on CPU only, using a tiny 100M-parameter model with streaming audio output and voice cloning.

    • on-device
    • speech-synthesis
    • voice-cloning
    • raspberry-pi
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    kev

    9.3Kjaredpalmer/kev · Python

    Kev is an open family of small decision models (0.8B to 27B parameters) built on Qwen3.5/3.8 that answer yes/no, multiple-choice and rating questions about text with calibrated probabilities, acting as a self-hosted drop-in replacement for TypeSafe's hosted Jev model.

    • qwen3
    • decision-model
    • jev
    • mlx
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    KytyPS5

    9.1KKytyPS5/KytyPS5 · C++

    KytyPS5 is a free and open-source PlayStation 5 emulator (translation layer) written in C++ for Windows and Linux, with experimental macOS support, based on a heavily modified version of the Kyty project.

    • ps5
    • qt6
    • sdl3
    • nixos
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    whatcable

    8.9Kdarrylmorley/whatcable · Swift

    A macOS menu bar app that tells you in plain English what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do — and why your Mac might be charging slowly.

    • menubar-app
    • menubar
    • swiftui
    • macos-app
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    tilelang

    8.6Ktile-ai/tilelang · Python

    TileLang (tile-lang) is a domain-specific language for writing high-performance GPU/CPU/NPU kernels like GEMM, Dequant GEMM, FlashAttention, and LinearAttention, using Pythonic syntax backed by a TVM-based compiler.

    • blackwell
    • cuda-kernels
    • dsl
    • gpu-programming
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    modly

    8.2Klightningpixel/modly · TypeScript

    Modly is a desktop app that turns a photo (or a text prompt) into a 3D mesh using open source AI models, running entirely on your own GPU with no cloud calls.

    • gaussian-splatting
    • image-to-3d
    • 3d-generation
    • local-ai
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    tart

    7.6Kopenai/tart · Swift

    Tart lets you create and run macOS and Linux virtual machines directly on Apple Silicon Macs, built specifically for use in CI pipelines and other automated workflows.

    • fair-source
    • bare-metal
    • vm
    • virtual-machine
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    ANE

    7.3Kmaderix/ANE · Objective-C

    ANE is a research project that trains neural networks directly on Apple's Neural Engine using reverse-engineered private APIs, instead of CoreML's inference-only path.

    • model-training
    • edge-ai
    • objective-c
    • optimization
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    PureMac

    7.2Kmomenbasel/PureMac · Swift

    PureMac is a free, open-source macOS cleaner that handles app uninstalling, cache/junk cleanup, storage exploration, and system health checks, built as a no-telemetry alternative to paid tools like CleanMyMac.

    • cache-cleaner
    • disk-cleaner
    • cleanup
    • disk-space
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    magnitude

    7.2Kmagnitudedev/magnitude · Rust

    Magnitude is an open source inference server that profiles your machine, recommends local models that fit it, then downloads, tunes, and runs them for your coding agent.

    • model-router
    • on-device
    • model-serving
    • amd
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    turboquant_plus

    7KTheTom/turboquant_plus · Python

    TurboQuant+ is the research home for TurboQuant (ICLR 2026), a KV cache compression method for transformer LLMs. It shrinks the KV cache 3.8-6.4x using PolarQuant plus Walsh-Hadamard rotation, and this repo holds the Python reference implementation, validation papers and benchmark data.

    • long-context
    • llamacpp
    • mlx
    • amd
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    laya-mlx

    7Kmizorewww/laya-mlx · Python

    Laya-MLX is a native MLX runtime that runs the open-weight Laya typed decision models locally on Apple Silicon, returning structured answers like a choice, a rubric score, or a probability in milliseconds instead of generating text.

    • system-one
    • typed-decisions
    • decision-model
    • mlx
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    turbo-fieldfare

    6.9Kdrumih/turbo-fieldfare · Swift

    TurboFieldfare is a custom Swift and Metal runtime that runs the instruction-tuned Gemma 4 26B-A4B model on Apple Silicon Macs using only about 2 GB of RAM, even on 8 GB machines, by streaming only the experts needed for each token from SSD instead of loading the full 14.3 GB model.

    • gpgpu
    • gemma
    • on-device-ai
    • mixture-of-experts
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    whichllm

    6.8KAndyyyy64/whichllm · Python

    A CLI tool that finds the best local LLM for your machine: it auto-detects your GPU/CPU/RAM and ranks HuggingFace models that fit, scored by real benchmarks rather than parameter count.

    • gguf
    • hardware
    • quantization
    • local-llm
82. 82

    AirCard

    6.7KMak5er/AirCard · Swift

    AirCard is a macOS app that lets you customize Apple Wallet card skins and iOS lockscreen passcode keypad themes on iOS 18+ without jailbreaking your iPhone.

    • universal
    • iphone
    • x86
    • jailbreak
83. 83

    apfel

    6.5KArthur-Ficial/apfel · Swift

    Apfel is a CLI tool and local OpenAI-compatible server that exposes the built-in FoundationModels LLM shipped on Apple Silicon Macs, letting you prompt it from the shell, pipe text through it, or point OpenAI SDK clients at it — entirely on-device.

    • apple-intelligence
    • on-device
    • tool-calling
    • unix
84. 84

    sharpemu

    6.4Ksharpemu/sharpemu · C#

    SharpEmu is an experimental PlayStation 5 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS, written from scratch in C#. It is in early development, with the current focus on accuracy and infrastructure rather than game-specific compatibility.

    • ps5
    • emulation
    • emulator
    • arm64
85. 85

    koharu

    6.4Kkoharu-rs/koharu · Rust

    Koharu is an ML-powered manga translator written in Rust that combines object detection, OCR, inpainting, and LLMs to automate translating manga pages while running everything locally.

    • manga
    • inpainting
    • japanese
    • rocm
86. 86

    DockDoor

    6.4Kejbills/DockDoor · Swift

    DockDoor adds live window previews, Alt+Tab switching and keyboard controls to the macOS Dock you already have, so hovering an app shows all its open windows as thumbnails.

    • liquid-glass
    • window-management
    • window-manager
    • keyboard
87. 87

    ClashMac

    6.3K666OS/ClashMac

    ClashMac is a native macOS proxy client built entirely in SwiftUI around the Clash/Mihomo engine, with a real-time dashboard, system-wide TUN proxying, and a built-in anti-detect fingerprint browser.

    • antidetect-browser
    • clash-meta
    • network-monitoring
    • fingerprint
88. 88

    dflash

    6.2Kz-lab/dflash · Python

    DFlash is a lightweight block diffusion model built for speculative decoding, drafting tokens in parallel blocks so a larger target LLM can verify them faster than generating one token at a time.

    • gpt-oss
    • gemma
    • minimax
    • sglang
89. 89

    Edge0

    5.7KEdge0-AI/Edge0 · Python

    Edge0 is an open-source streaming MoE (Mixture-of-Experts) inference framework that lets you run large MoE models, like a 35B-parameter model, using only about 2.5-2.9 GB of active RAM by streaming expert weights from SSD and predicting routing one step ahead.

    • on-device-ai
    • edge-ai
    • language-model
    • moe
90. 90

    openmed

    5.7Kmaziyarpanahi/openmed · Python

    OpenMed is a local-first healthcare AI SDK: clinical NER and HIPAA PII de-identification that runs on your own hardware, with 2,200+ medical models and Python, MLX, Android, and browser runtimes.

    • on-premise
    • pii
    • healthcare
    • mlx
91. 91

    xquad

    5.6KQuipNetwork/xquad · Python

    XQuad is a hardware-agnostic toolchain for expressing and running quadratic optimization problems (QUBO / Ising / discrete) across quantum annealers and classical solvers, acting as a common intermediate representation you write once and retarget to any supported backend.

    • quantum-computing
    • ffi
    • jupyter
    • scientific-computing
92. 92

    floral-notepaper

    5.5KAchilng/floral-notepaper · Rust

    Floral Notepaper (花笺) is a lightweight, elegant cross-platform desktop sticky-notes app with Markdown editing and live preview.

    • katex
    • productivity-tools
    • clipboard
    • markdown-editor
93. 93

    spank

    5Ktaigrr/spank · Go

    Spank is a joke CLI tool that uses your MacBook's Apple Silicon accelerometer to detect physical slaps on the laptop and plays funny audio responses (pain sounds, escalating 'sexy mode' moans, Halo death sounds, or your own MP3s).

    • fun
    • hardware
    • cli-tool
    • audio
94. 94

    RemoveMacAI

    4.9Komlahore/RemoveMacAI · Swift

    RemoveMacAI is a macOS 27 tool that turns off Apple Intelligence features (Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, image generation, and more), deletes the AI models already downloaded for them, and blocks macOS from downloading those models again, with every change reversible.

    • apple-intelligence
    • bloatware-removal
    • system-cleaner
    • debloat
95. 95

    SemIf-OpenJev

    4.8KTheoLeeCJ/SemIf-OpenJev · Python

    SemIf (formerly OpenJev) is an independent research project that runs runtime-defined semantic decisions with open models on one consumer GPU, mirroring the interface of TypeSafe's closed Jev service but not its undisclosed model.

    • decision-making
    • webgpu
    • llama-cpp
    • mlx
96. 96

    DigUp

    4.8KARahim3/DigUp · Swift

    DigUp is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that lets you search the files on your Mac by what's actually in them — photos, PDFs, documents, recordings, videos and code — using Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 model running entirely on-device.

    • file-search
    • code-search
    • gemma
    • menubar-app
97. 97

    sentrysearch

    4.6Kssrajadh/sentrysearch · Python

    SentrySearch is a CLI tool that lets you semantically search through video footage (like Tesla dashcam clips) by typing what you're looking for and getting back a trimmed clip of the matching moment.

    • chromadb
    • mp4
    • mlx
    • search-engine
98. 98

    openusage

    4.4Krobinebers/openusage · Swift

    OpenUsage is a free, open-source native macOS menu bar app written in Swift that tracks how much of your AI coding subscriptions (Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor and more) you've used — session and weekly limits, credits, and spend — all in one popover.

    • subscription
    • subscriptions
    • cost-tracking
    • token-usage
99. 99

    zen-desktop

    4.3Kirbis-sh/zen-desktop · Go

    Zen is an open-source, system-wide ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, macOS, and Linux that blocks ads, trackers, and malware across all applications, not just a browser.

    • adblocker
    • ad-blocker
    • adblock
    • arm64
100. 100

     arcbox

     4.2Karcboxlabs/arcbox · Rust

     ArcBox is a fast, open-source container and VM runtime for macOS, built from scratch in Rust, that acts as a drop-in Docker replacement while also offering disposable sandboxes for AI agents, native Kubernetes, and full Linux and macOS VMs.

     • microvm
     • oci
     • virtual-machine
     • computer-use

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