macOS-app projects on GitHub

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   #1 · clash-verge-rev/clash-verge-rev

   clash-verge-rev

   Clash Verge Rev is a modern desktop GUI client for the Clash Meta (mihomo) proxy core, letting you manage proxy configurations visually on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

   152.1K
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   #2 · jaywcjlove/awesome-mac

   awesome-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.

   116.4K
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   #3 · tw93/Mole

   Mole

   Mole is a free, open-source command-line tool for macOS (mo) that cleans junk files, uninstalls apps, analyzes disk usage, runs system maintenance, and shows live hardware/network status, rolling CleanMyMac, AppCleaner, DaisyDisk, and iStat Menus-style features into one terminal binary.

   71.2K

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   ghostty

   62.3Kghostty-org/ghostty · Zig

   Ghostty is a terminal emulator built around ending the usual trade-off: the README says other emulators force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs, and Ghostty provides all three.

   • gtk
   • systemd
   • zig
   • simd
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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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   UTM

   36Kutmapp/UTM · Swift

   UTM is a full system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS, built on QEMU, that lets you run Windows, Linux, and other operating systems directly on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

   • risc-v
   • hypervisor
   • qemu
   • vm
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   etcher

   34.5Kbalena-io/etcher · TypeScript

   Etcher is an open-source OS image flasher: it safely writes OS images to SD cards and USB drives, turning them into bootable media in a couple of clicks.

   • linux-app
   • electron-app
   • raspberry-pi
   • windows-app
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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
   • productivity-tools
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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
    • chatgpt
    • windows-app
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    Rectangle

    30.1Krxhanson/Rectangle · Swift

    Rectangle is a window management app for macOS that lets you move and resize windows using keyboard shortcuts and screen-edge snap areas.

    • window-manager
    • swift
    • customization
    • utility
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    Ice

    29.8Kjordanbaird/Ice · Swift

    Ice is a menu bar manager for macOS that lets you hide and show individual menu bar items, with a growing set of extra features aimed at making it one of the most versatile menu bar tools around.

    • statusbar
    • status-bar
    • menubar-app
    • menubar
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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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    SteamTools

    27.2KBeyondDimension/SteamTools · C#

    Watt Toolkit (formerly Steam++) is an open-source, cross-platform multi-functional Steam and gaming toolbox. Version 3.0 ships its features as default plugins — network acceleration, account switching, inventory management, local authenticator tokens and game tools — which you can remove or disable.

    • accelerator
    • dotnetcore
    • xaml
    • avalonia
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    beekeeper-studio

    23.8Kbeekeeper-studio/beekeeper-studio · TypeScript

    Beekeeper Studio is a cross-platform SQL editor and database manager for MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server, and many other databases, built to feel fast and uncluttered compared to other GUI DB tools.

    • cassandra
    • dynamodb
    • oracle-database
    • sql-editor
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    CodeEdit

    23.1KCodeEditApp/CodeEdit · Swift

    CodeEdit is a free, open-source code editor for macOS, built by the community and written natively in Swift for the Mac.

    • autocompletion
    • swift-ui
    • extensions
    • task-runner
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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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    CodexBar

    22.6Ksteipete/CodexBar · Swift

    CodexBar is a tiny macOS 14+ menu bar app that keeps AI coding-provider usage limits visible and shows when each usage window resets, so you can plan long tasks instead of guessing whether you have quota left.

    • usage-tracking
    • menubar-app
    • cost-tracking
    • token-usage
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    V2rayU

    20.2Kyanue/V2rayU

    V2rayU is a macOS client built on the v2ray/xray core, used for circumventing internet censorship ('scientific internet access'). It's written natively in Swift.

    • xray-core
    • xray
    • vmess
    • vless
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    komi-store

    19.6Kkomi-store/komi-store · Kotlin

    Komi 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.

    • open-source-project
    • appstore
    • kotlin-multiplatform
    • kotlin-android
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    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.

    • recording
    • driver
    • objective-c
    • foss
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    moonlight-qt

    19.1Kmoonlight-stream/moonlight-qt · C++

    An open source client that streams games from your own PC to another screen using NVIDIA GameStream or Sunshine, with hardware-accelerated video and gamepad support.

    • game-streaming
    • sdl2
    • pc-gaming
    • multimedia
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    quick-look-plugins

    18.8Ksindresorhus/quick-look-plugins

    A curated list of Quick Look plugins for developers. Quick Look is the macOS preview you get by hitting Space in Finder; each plugin here teaches it a new file type, like Markdown, JSON, or source code.

    • utilities
    • syntax-highlighting
    • apple
    • homebrew
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    OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

    18.6Kdortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher · Python

    A Python-based tool built on Acidanthera's OpenCore and Lilu that revives Macs Apple no longer supports: it lets you install and run macOS Big Sur or newer on hardware as old as 2007.

    • hackintosh
    • patcher
    • wifi
    • mac
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    Masonry

    18.1KSnapKit/Masonry · Objective-C

    Masonry is a lightweight Objective-C library that wraps Apple's AutoLayout NSLayoutConstraints in a chainable, expressive syntax, making layout code far more concise and readable than writing raw constraints.

    • cocoapods
    • ios-app
    • objective-c
    • apple
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    xbar

    18.1Kmatryer/xbar · Go

    xbar 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.

    • macosx
    • menubar-app
    • menubar
    • tray
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    OpenEmu

    17.8KOpenEmu/OpenEmu · Swift

    OpenEmu is a free, open-source retro game emulator for macOS that aims to make playing classic console games feel like a first-class native Mac experience.

    • cocoa
    • retro
    • auto-update
    • emulation
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    ego-lite

    17.6Kcitrolabs/ego-lite · JavaScript

    ego lite is a desktop browser built to be shared with AI coding agents: your agents run browser tasks in their own Spaces while your own tabs stay yours.

    • parallel-agents
    • skills-sh
    • hermes-agent
    • chrome
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    Compositor

    17.4Krobbietilton/Compositor · Swift

    Compositor is a free and open-source, full-featured image editor for Mac, built as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop with a workflow centered on compositing and post-processing.

    • adobe
    • design-tool
    • photo-editor
    • image-manipulation
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    alt-tab-macos

    16.4Klwouis/alt-tab-macos · Swift

    It's a macOS app that recreates the Windows alt-tab experience on a Mac: an on-screen window switcher you drive with the alt-tab keys, from developer lwouis with 16k+ stars on GitHub.

    • window-manager
    • keyboard
    • swift
    • utility
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    electerm

    15.4Kelecterm/electerm · JavaScript

    Electerm is a free, open-source desktop app that bundles a terminal with SSH, SFTP, FTP, Telnet, serial port, RDP, VNC, and Spice clients into one window.

    • harmonyos
    • ftp
    • rdp
    • ssh-client
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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
    • apple-silicon
    • swift
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    keycastr

    15.2Kkeycastr/keycastr · Objective-C

    KeyCastr is an open-source keystroke visualizer for macOS that displays your keystrokes and mouse clicks on screen, useful for screencasts, presentations, or pair programming.

    • screen-recording
    • presentation
    • menu-bar
    • objective-c
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    Whisky

    15.1KWhisky-App/Whisky · Swift

    Whisky is a free, open-source Wine wrapper for macOS with a native SwiftUI interface, letting you run Windows apps and games on a Mac without a Windows installation.

    • wine
    • compatibility-layer
    • mac
    • metal
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    Easydict

    15Ktisfeng/Easydict · Swift

    Easydict is a macOS app for looking up word definitions and translating text, pulling results from multiple dictionary and translation services at once.

    • tencent
    • baidu
    • translator
    • translate
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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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    dsh-desktop

    14.9Kdataelement/dsh-desktop · JavaScript

    DSH Desktop is a local-first, cross-platform desktop app that packages the local DeepSeek Harness Agent runtime and Web UI as an installed application, managing model providers, plugins, workspaces, and sessions.

    • dsh-plugin-desktop
    • apps
    • dsh-desktop
    • pptx
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    ImageGlass

    14.7Kd2phap/ImageGlass · C#

    ImageGlass is a fast, open-source, cross-platform image viewer that supports 90+ formats, including WEBP, GIF, SVG, AVIF, JXL, and HEIC, for smooth browsing on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

    • winforms
    • avalonia
    • gif
    • linux-app
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    AltStore

    14.6Kaltstoreio/AltStore · Swift

    AltStore 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.

    • store
    • certificate
    • background-jobs
    • marketplace
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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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    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.

    • cocoa
    • code-editor
    • c-plus-plus
    • objective-c
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    WeChatTweak

    13.8Ksunnyyoung/WeChatTweak · Swift

    WeChatTweak is a macOS command-line tool that patches the installed WeChat desktop client to block message-recall notices, disable WeChat's automatic updater, and let you run multiple WeChat instances at once.

    • injection
    • alfred
    • weixin
    • wechat
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    spectacle

    13.6Keczarny/spectacle · Objective-C

    Spectacle is a free Mac app that lets you organize windows — move, resize, center, or maximize them — entirely from the keyboard, without touching the mouse.

    • multi-monitor
    • tiling
    • cocoa
    • carthage
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    primitive

    13.5Kfogleman/primitive · Go

    It recreates a target image out of geometric primitives: the algorithm keeps adding one shape at a time, each chosen to minimize the difference from the original, until the result is recognizable yet artistic and abstract.

    • primitives
    • gif
    • generative-art
    • art
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    glazewm

    12.9Kglzr-io/glazewm · Rust

    GlazeWM is a tiling window manager inspired by i3wm that lets you organize windows and adjust their layout on the fly with keyboard-driven commands, instead of dragging windows around manually.

    • i3wm
    • status-bar
    • tiling-window-manager
    • window-management
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    Thaw

    12.1Kthaw-app/Thaw · Swift

    Thaw 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.

    • alfred
    • raycast
    • menubar-app
    • menu-bar
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    GitUp

    12.1Kgit-up/GitUp · Objective-C

    GitUp is a native Mac Git client that reinvents how you interact with Git: instead of memorizing commands, you manipulate a live, interactive graph of your repository.

    • macos-installer
    • version-control
    • objective-c
    • homebrew
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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.

    • homebrew
    • gaming
    • apple-silicon
    • swift
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    Loop

    11.8Kmrkai77/Loop · Swift

    Loop is a macOS app that simplifies window management, letting you move, resize, and arrange windows with a radial menu, keyboard shortcuts, or mouse gestures.

    • window-management
    • keyboard
    • menu-bar
    • swiftui
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    venera

    11.2Kvenera-app/venera · Dart

    Venera is a comic reader app for reading local comics as well as comics from online sources. You can also manage favorites, download comics, and view comments, tags and other comic info.

    • manga-reader
    • comics-reader
    • reader
    • dart
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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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    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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    NetNewsWire

    10.5KRanchero-Software/NetNewsWire · Swift

    A free and open-source feed reader for macOS and iOS — an app for following sites via RSS, Atom, JSON Feed and RSS-in-JSON feeds.

    • rss-reader
    • reader
    • news
    • rss
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    pock

    10.2Kpock/pock · Swift

    Pock is a free, open-source widgets manager for the MacBook's Touch Bar that gives quick access to your favorite controls and services while maximizing your on-screen real estate.

    • weather
    • status-bar
    • widgets
    • media-player
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    FineTune

    9.8Kronitsingh10/FineTune · Swift

    FineTune is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app for sound control: per-app volume with up to 4x boost, audio routing to multiple output devices, and a 10-band EQ with headphone correction — pitched as an alternative to SoundSource.

    • menubar-app
    • menubar
    • audio-processing
    • menu-bar
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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
    • homebrew
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    tinycast

    8.7Kabue-ammar/tinycast · Swift

    Tinycast is a tiny, fully native macOS launcher: one global hotkey summons a palette for launching apps, clipboard history, snippets, window tiling and more — all under 100 MB of RAM.

    • clipboard-manager
    • tiling
    • app-launcher
    • emoji
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    spotifast

    8.4Kcrmne/spotifast · Rust

    Fastpotify is a lightweight, native Spotify client written in Rust with the egui toolkit, playing music through librespot while using a fraction of the RAM of Spotify's official desktop app.

    • egui
    • playlist
    • spotify
    • linux-desktop
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    clicky

    7.7Kfarzaa/clicky · Swift

    Clicky is an AI teacher that lives next to your cursor: it sees your screen, talks to you, and can even point at things on screen, like having a real teacher sitting beside you.

    • menubar
    • voice-assistant
    • screenshot
    • computer-use
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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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    OrcaSlicer-bambulab

    7.2KFULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab · C++

    This is a fork of OrcaSlicer, the 3D-printing slicer, that restores full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers so you can print over the internet instead of being stuck with LAN-only mode.

    • 3d-printing
    • wsl
    • linux-app
    • firmware
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    ProxyBridge

    6.8KInterceptSuite/ProxyBridge · C

    ProxyBridge is a cross-platform proxy client that transparently redirects TCP and UDP traffic from specific Windows/macOS/Linux applications through SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies, acting as an open-source alternative to Proxifier.

    • http3
    • udp
    • http-proxy
    • proxy-server
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    flyingmouse-format

    6.7KLaoFeng-mouse/flyingmouse-format · JavaScript

    FlyingMouse Format is a free, offline desktop app for Windows (and macOS) that converts files between image, document, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF, e-book, audio, video, and ZIP formats, with built-in OCR.

    • libreoffice
    • file-converter
    • converter
    • epub
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    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
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    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
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    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
    • fingerprint
    • network-monitoring
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    TablePro

    6.3KTableProApp/TablePro · Swift

    TablePro is a free, open-source native database client for macOS and iOS, built as the native alternative to TablePlus that the author wanted.

    • cassandra
    • dynamodb
    • etcd
    • database-management
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    opendisplay

    5.7Kpeetzweg/opendisplay · Swift

    OpenDisplay turns a spare iPhone, iPad, or Mac into a true extended second display for your Mac, free and open source, without the subscription or hardware-dongle restrictions of Duet Display or Luna Display.

    • ipad
    • monitor
    • iphone
    • usb
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    coucou

    5.5KLouis-CFM/coucou · Swift

    Coucou is a small animated character named Mochi that lives in your Mac's notch (or the top edge of the screen on Windows) and watches your AI coding agent sessions — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and Antigravity — so you can approve permission requests and chat with Claude right from there.

    • menubar-app
    • antigravity
    • swiftui
    • gemini-cli
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    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
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    Mouser

    5.3KTomBadash/Mouser · Python

    Mouser is a lightweight, open-source, fully local app for remapping Logitech HID++ mice (like the MX Master and MX Anywhere series), built as a free alternative to Logitech Options+.

    • personal
    • mouse
    • menubar
    • tray
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    port-killer

    5.1Kproductdevbook/port-killer · Swift

    PortKiller is a cross-platform desktop app for developers that monitors open TCP ports, manages Kubernetes port-forward sessions, integrates Cloudflare Tunnels, and lets you kill processes with one click.

    • process-manager
    • tunnel
    • menu-bar
    • swiftui
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    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
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    DigUp

    4.6KARahim3/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
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    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
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    textream

    4.1Kf/textream · Swift

    Textream is a free, open-source teleprompter app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that highlights your script in real time as you speak, shown in a Dynamic Island-style overlay, floating window, or fullscreen.

    • recording
    • remote-control
    • presentation
    • qr-code
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    misaka26

    4Kstraight-tamago/misaka26

    misaka26 is an iOS/iPadOS customization tool that uses the same underlying bug as TrollRestore to unlock hidden system features on supported devices, running iOS 16.0 through 26.1 and the 26.2 beta 1, without a full jailbreak.

    • tweaks
    • jailbreak
    • exploit
    • ios-app
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    wslmanager

    4Kbostrot/wslmanager · Dart

    WSL Manager is a free, open source GUI for the Windows Subsystem for Linux: install, back up, move and configure distros without memorising wsl.exe flags. On macOS the same app also manages native Linux and macOS VMs.

    • wsl2
    • winget
    • wsl
    • vm
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    claude-devtools

    4Kmatt1398/claude-devtools · TypeScript

    claude-devtools is a free, open-source debugging tool for Claude Code that reads the session logs already saved on your machine and reconstructs tool calls, thinking steps, subagent trees, token usage, and context window breakdowns in a visual desktop UI.

    • context-window
    • subagents
    • token-usage
    • devtools
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    DmNote

    4KDmNote-App/DmNote · TypeScript

    DM Note is a customizable key viewer (key overlay) that shows your keypresses in real time, built for DJMAX RESPECT V but usable with any game for streaming or recording.

    • overlay
    • monitor
    • keyboard
    • tauri
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    quill

    3.9Khumanitas-labs/quill · Swift

    quill is a minimal, fully local macOS meeting recorder and transcriber. One menu-bar click records your mic and all system audio; when you stop, it transcribes both tracks on-device into a speaker-tagged transcript.

    • meeting-notes
    • speaker-diarization
    • recording
    • menubar-app
84. 84

    lap

    3.9Kjulyx10/lap · Vue

    Lap is an open-source, local-first photo manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux that lets you browse family albums, find old photos quickly, and organize large personal media libraries entirely offline.

    • image-search
    • deduplication
    • photography
    • face-recognition
85. 85

    tutti

    3.8Ktutti-os/tutti · TypeScript

    Tutti is a real-time shared workspace where you and multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Hermes) work together with connected context, files, apps, and tasks, so agents can pick up each other's work instead of you manually copy-pasting between them.

    • agent-collaboration
    • ai-workspace
    • agentic-workflow
    • vibe-coding
86. 86

    rumps

    3.3Kjaredks/rumps · Python

    rumps is a Python library that lets you build macOS menu bar (status bar) apps with very little code, without writing raw PyObjC underscore syntax.

    • status
    • statusbar
    • mac
    • menu-bar
87. 87

    nvidia-macos-driver

    3.3Knullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver · Rust

    A free, open-source Metal driver that lets NVIDIA Turing-and-later GeForce/RTX/Quadro cards act as a fully supported GPU on Intel Macs running macOS 15 Sequoia via OpenCore, covering desktop rendering, Metal apps, games, Core ML/MPS and OpenCL.

    • hackintosh
    • opencl
    • intel
    • games
88. 88

    macUSB

    3.3KKruszoneq/macUSB · Swift

    macUSB is a guided macOS desktop app for creating bootable USB installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux, acting as an all-in-one alternative to tools like Rufus.

    • macos-installer
    • uefi
    • utilities
    • swiftui
89. 89

    deepseek-harness-desktop

    3.2Kdsh-tauri/deepseek-harness-desktop · TypeScript

    DeepSeek Harness Desktop is a native desktop wrapper for the DeepSeek Harness (dsh) AI agent CLI, built with Tauri so it ships as an 8MB installer with zero manual environment setup on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

    • dsh-desktop
    • desktop-pet
    • auto-update
    • linux-app
90. 90

    disktree

    3.1Ktobi/disktree · Rust

    disktree is a treemap visualizer for finding what is filling up your disk: it draws every directory as a nested mosaic sized by how much space it actually uses, lets you mark files or folders for removal, and keeps the free space of the whole volume in view the whole time.

    • disk-cleaner
    • disk-usage
    • system-cleaner
    • omarchy
91. 91

    codenotch

    2.9Kvinzdg/codenotch · Swift

    Codenotch is a macOS app that pins a small notch to a screen edge showing how much of each coding assistant's usage limit you have burned, and whether a session is working, done, or waiting on you.

    • sparkle
    • cursor-ai
    • menu-bar
    • github-copilot
92. 92

    try-omarchy

    2.7Komacom/try-omarchy · Swift

    Try Omarchy lets you run the Omarchy Arch Linux desktop as a native, hardware-accelerated macOS app on Apple Silicon, with no manual VM setup required.

    • archlinux
    • aarch64
    • omarchy
    • qemu
93. 93

    BrewUI

    2.7KHomebrew/BrewUI · Swift

    Homebrew's official macOS GUI for discovering, installing, updating and managing packages without the Terminal, while staying transparent about what Homebrew is doing underneath.

    • swift-package-manager
    • localization
    • swiftui
    • agplv3
94. 94

    rift

    2.6Kacsandmann/rift · Rust

    Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability, offering multiple layout styles like i3-style tiling, bspwm-style BSP, floating, dwm-style master-stack, niri-style scrolling columns, and a stack/accordion layout.

    • tiling
    • i3
    • i3wm
    • tiling-window-manager
95. 95

    tendedero

    2.3Kalejandrobujan/tendedero · Swift

    Tendedero is a tiny native macOS app that hangs every screenshot you take on a line just below the menu bar, instead of letting it pile up on your Desktop.

    • screen-capture
    • menubar
    • screenshot
    • menu-bar
96. 96

    quiver-launcher

    2.3Ktgeorgiadis/quiver-launcher · C#

    Quiver Launcher is a desktop app for downloading, installing, and running apps and games from GitHub and GitLab releases, backed by a personal library, a community app catalog, and mod management support.

    • app-launcher
    • avalonia
    • portable
    • download-manager
97. 97

    fsearch

    2.1Knoahdunnagan/fsearch · Rust

    FSearch is a whole-disk file search tool for macOS that finds any file by name in about a millisecond, tolerates typos, and can search inside file contents using an index.

    • grep
    • regex
    • daemon
    • fuzzy-search
98. 98

    mlx-serve

    2Kddalcu/mlx-serve · Zig

    mlx-serve is a native local inference server for Apple Silicon Macs that runs MLX and GGUF language models and exposes OpenAI-, Anthropic-, and Ollama-compatible APIs, plus generates images, video, music, speech, and 3D models, all without Python or a cloud connection.

    • anthropic-api
    • voice-agent
    • zig
    • 3d-generation
99. 99

    NotProton

    1.8KNotProtonNot/NotProton · Scala

    NotProton unlocks the 'Steam Play' feature of the Linux Steam client inside the macOS Steam app, letting Windows-only games run on a Mac through a ported version of Valve's Proton.

    • wine
    • compatibility-layer
    • scala
    • game-modding
100. 100

     yovoice

     1.6Kleemysw/yovoice · TypeScript

     yovoice is an open-source desktop app for macOS and Windows that turns text into natural, expressive speech locally, with voice cloning and emotion control, and no cloud API calls or per-character fees.

     • midi
     • music-generation
     • voice-cloning
     • speech-synthesis

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