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Osx projects on GitHub

macOS platform development and utilities

As of , the most-starred Osx projects on GitHub are tldr (64K stars), Docker-OSX (53K stars) and MonitorControl (34.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 17 Osx repositories with 387.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was PureMac, with +30 stars in a day.

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387.4KStars in total
+120Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+30

PureMac

momenbasel/PureMac · ★ 7.2K

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.

+16

BetterDisplay

waydabber/BetterDisplay · ★ 34.1K

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.

+15

nmap

nmap/nmap · ★ 13.8K

Nmap is the Network Mapper — a free, open-source tool for network discovery and security scanning. It finds live hosts, open ports, and the services running on them, from a single machine up to whole subnets.

+11

tldr

tldr-pages/tldr · ★ 64K

tldr-pages is a community-maintained collection of simplified help pages for command-line tools, meant as a more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

The all-time top

17 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · tldr-pages/tldr

    tldr

    tldr-pages is a community-maintained collection of simplified help pages for command-line tools, meant as a more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

    64K
  2. #2 · sickcodes/Docker-OSX

    Docker-OSX

    Docker-OSX lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container using KVM, giving near-native performance for security research, CI/CD, and development without owning a real Mac.

    53K
  3. #3 · MonitorControl/MonitorControl

    MonitorControl

    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.

    34.5K
  1. 4

    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.

  2. 5

    OSX-KVM

    23.7Kkholia/OSX-KVM · Shell

    Scripts and OpenCore configuration for running macOS as a virtual machine under QEMU/KVM on a Linux host, supporting recent macOS versions such as Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma.

  3. 6

    macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide

    22.6Kdrduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide · Shell

    A community-maintained guide collecting techniques for improving security and privacy on macOS, written for Apple silicon Macs.

  4. 7

    Mos

    21.7KCaldis/Mos · Swift

    Mos is a free, open-source macOS menu bar tool that smooths mouse wheel scrolling and lets you set scroll direction independently — making a plain wheel feel like a trackpad.

  5. 8

    macos

    21.7Kdockur/macos · Shell

    dockur/macos lets you run a full macOS virtual machine inside a Docker container, complete with a web-based viewer so you can control it right from your browser.

  6. 9

    pop

    19.5Kfacebookarchive/pop · Objective-C++

    Pop is an extensible animation engine for iOS, tvOS, and OS X that adds spring, decay, basic, and custom physics-based animations on top of Core Animation, letting you animate any property on any object.

  7. 10

    Mailspring

    17.9KFoundry376/Mailspring · TypeScript

    Mailspring is an open-source desktop email client for Mac, Windows, and Linux, built as a faster, leaner successor to Nylas Mail.

  8. 11

    hammerspoon

    16.3KHammerspoon/hammerspoon · Objective-C

    Hammerspoon is a bridge between macOS and a Lua scripting engine, letting you automate and control your Mac through extensions that expose system functionality to Lua scripts.

  9. 12

    nmap

    13.8Knmap/nmap · C

    Nmap is the Network Mapper — a free, open-source tool for network discovery and security scanning. It finds live hosts, open ports, and the services running on them, from a single machine up to whole subnets.

  10. 13

    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.

  11. 14

    mas

    12.4Kmas-cli/mas · Swift

    mas is a command-line interface for the Mac App Store, built for scripting and automation — search, install, update and uninstall App Store apps straight from the terminal.

  12. 15

    openFrameworks

    10.4Kopenframeworks/openFrameworks · C++

    It's a community-developed, cross-platform toolkit for creative coding in C++ — you use it to build interactive graphics, audio, video and computer-vision projects.

  13. 16

    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.

  14. 17

    Doll

    1.2Kxiaogdgenuine/Doll · Swift

    Doll is a Mac app that keeps the unread badges of message apps like Mail, Slack and Teams visible in the macOS Menu bar, so new messages catch your eye on any screen.

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