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List of awesome open source applications for macOS. This list contains a lot of native, and cross-platform apps. The main goal of this repository is to find free open source apps and start contributing. Feel free to contribute to the list, any suggestions are welcome!
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| 📱 Total Applications | 931 |
| 📂 Categories | 49 |
| 🔝 Top Languages | Swift: 476 • Objective-C: 142 • Javascript: 125 • Typescript: 83 • C++: 64 |
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- Wallpaper
- Window Management
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[Un]MuteMic - macOS app to mute & unmute the input volume of your microphone. Perfect for podcasters.
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Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software
Website: https://www.audacityteam.org/
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Audio Priority Bar - Native macOS menu bar app that automatically switches to your highest-priority connected headphones, speakers, and microphone.
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AUHost - Application which hosts AudioUnits v3 using AVFoundation API.
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Aural Player - Aural Player is a audio player application for the macOS platform. Inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows, it is designed to be to-the-point and easy to use.
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AutoMute - Automatically mute the sound when headphones disconnect / Mac awake from sleep.
Website: https://yoni.ninja/automute/
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Background Music - Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
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BlackHole - BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
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Blurt - Free, open-source dictation for macOS: hold a key, talk, and polished text lands in whatever app you're typing in. Powered by AssemblyAI speech-to-text (bring your own API key).
Website: https://www.assemblyai.com/blurt
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CAM - macOS camera recording using ffmpeg
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Clementine - Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer for Windows, Linux and macOS.
Website: https://www.clementine-player.org/
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Cog - Cog is an open source audio player for macOS. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate.
Website: https://cogx.org/
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Dictámelo - Voice dictation with downloadable local speech models, optional cloud providers and a configurable push-to-talk shortcut.
Website: https://www.dictamelo.com/en
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Earnote - Records lectures, meetings and calls, transcribes them locally with Whisper and writes structured notes with an on-device AI model.
Website: https://earnote.dev
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EnviousWispr - Free on-device AI dictation for macOS with Whisper and Parakeet speech models on Apple Silicon.
Website: https://enviouswispr.com/
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eqMac2 - System-Wide Equalizer for the Mac.
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Fader - Menu bar volume mixer with per-app volume, one-click audio output switching, and Bluetooth headphone control.
Website: https://fader.pantafive.dev
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fre:ac - The fre:ac audio converter project.
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HomeRec - Lightweight native macOS app for recording system audio as high-quality WAV files using ScreenCaptureKit.
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iTunes-Volume-Control - This app allows you to control the iTunes volume using volume up and volume down hotkeys.
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jmc - jmc is new macOS media organizer.
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Karaoke Forever - Host awesome karaoke parties where everyone can queue songs from their phone's browser. Plays MP3+G and MP4 with WebGL visualizations.
Website: https://www.karaoke-eternal.com/
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LocalRadio - LocalRadio is software for listening to "Software-Defined Radio" on your Mac and mobile devices.
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LosslessCut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing without re-encoding.
Website: https://mifi.no/losslesscut/
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Lurar - Menu-bar parametric EQ for headphones. Loads the AutoEq catalog and applies it system-wide via Apple's Core Audio Process Tap — no virtual audio driver.
Website: https://lurar.app/
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LyricGlow - macOS application displaying synchronized lyrics with animated word-by-word glow effects for Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music.
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Lyricism - macOS app to show you lyric what currently iTunes or Spotify is playing.
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LyricsX - Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox.
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Lyrimuse - Word-synced desktop lyrics for Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, Kugou and YouTube Music / Spotify Web in the browser, with translation, romanization and Last.fm scrobbling.
Website: https://yudaotor.github.io/lyrimuse/
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MonitorControl - Control your external monitor brightness, contrast or volume directly from a menulet or with keyboard native keys.
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Mooziac - Lightweight native macOS menu bar player for YouTube Music and local audio with trackpad gestures.
Website: https://mooziac.pages.dev
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Mous Player - Simple yet powerful audio player for BSD/Linux/macOS.
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MPV - Lightweight, highly configurable media player.
Website: https://mpv.io
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NarrateClaude - Hands-free, on-device voice loop for talking to Claude Code: Apple speech recognition in, cloned-voice text-to-speech out, no cloud.
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nastro - Terminal call recorder for macOS that captures system audio and mic (no bot joins the call) and transcribes on-device with speaker diarization, via TUI or headless CLI.
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NoiseBuddy - Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
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NoMicSwitch - Pins the default audio input to the Mac's built-in microphone and locks the input volume, so AirPods never take it over.
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OpenVoiceFlow - On-device voice dictation for macOS with local transcription and optional text cleanup.
Languages:
Swift
Objective-C
Python
ShellWebsite: https://openvoiceflow.com
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Petrichor - Offline music player for macOS with library management, smart playlists, synced lyrics and an equalizer.
Website: https://petrichor.page
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Plainsay - Free MIT-licensed Mac dictation with on-device Whisper and Parakeet (Apple silicon, macOS 14+).
Website: https://plainsay.app/
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PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
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Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.
Website: https://www.plugformac.com/
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Pulp - Audio Sample manager.
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Qwen Scribe - Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon, powered by Qwen3-ASR on MLX.
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qwen-audio-agent - Full-duplex voice interface for AI coding agents. Talk to Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and other ACP agents hands-free, with barge-in, spoken permission prompts, async task results read back, and a fully local wake word.
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Rekody - Voice dictation CLI for macOS: hold a hotkey, speak, and on-device transcription types the text at the cursor in any app.
Website: https://rekody.com
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Reprise - Call recorder that notices calls in Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime and more, and records both sides, and the screen if you want, to plain files.
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sbtfix - Menu bar app to control Sony headphones: noise cancelling, ambient sound, Speak-to-Chat and battery.
Website: https://github.com/htsecurity/sbtfix
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Scope - Audio Oscilloscope
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shairport-sync - macOS/Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD Airplay audio receiver.
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ShazamScrobbler - Scrobble vinyl, radios, movies to Last.fm.
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Sonora - Minimal, beautifully designed music player for macOS.
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Spotify4BigSur - Spotify widget for Notification Center.
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SpotMenu - Spotify and iTunes in your menu bar.
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SpotSpot - Spotify mini-player for macOS.
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StargateDAW - An all-in-one digital audio workstation (DAW) and plugin suite
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Suohai - Audio input/output source lock for macOS.
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Tickeys - Instant audio feedback for typing. macOS version.
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Tuner - Musical Instrument Tuner
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Vespertine - Bit-perfect music player that switches the DAC to each track's native format, plays DSD, Dolby Atmos, TrueHD and DTS, and detects fake hi-res files.
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Voicely - Offline dictation into any app, call recording with speaker labels and audio/video file transcription, all on-device with a local speech model.
Website: https://voicely.art
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waveSDR - macOS native desktop Software Defined Radio application using the RTL-SDR USB device.
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backy - Tiny multiprocessing utility for file backups.
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BitMatch - Offloads camera cards to several drives and verifies every copy with SHA-256 before the card is erased.
Website: https://bitmatchapp.github.io
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BorgBase/Vorta - Simple and Secure Offsite Backups
Website: https://www.borgbase.com/
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FilesNest - One-way, resumable sync of macOS Photos libraries to self-hosted or local storage.
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Mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (macOS/Linux).
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shallow-backup - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more.
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Syncalicious - Keeping multiple macOS preferences in sync can be painful, but it shouldn't be.
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UrBackup - UrBackup is Client/Server network backup for Windows, macOS and Linux.
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Beaker Browser - Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser.
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Brave Browser - Brave browser for Desktop and Laptop computers running Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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BrowBro - Keyboard-first macOS menu bar app to open clicked links in the right browser or profile.
Website: https://browbro.tiagomoraes.cloud
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Browser Cookie Bridge - Transfer signed-in sessions between local Chromium browsers and ChatGPT Codex on macOS.
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browserosaurus - macOS tool that prompts you to choose a browser when opening a link.
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Chromium - Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.
Website: https://www.chromium.org/
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Dao Browser - An open-source Chromium-based, Arc-like browser for macOS with a content-first UI, BYOK AI, and MCP support.
Website: https://dao.msgbyte.com
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Finicky - Always opens the right browser.
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Firefox - Fast, privacy aware browser from a non-profit. Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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Helium - Floating browser window for macOS.
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Min Browser - A fast and efficient minimal web browser.
Website: https://minbrowser.org
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otter-browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.
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Pennywise - Pennywise opens any website or media in a small floating window that remains on top of all other applications. It's a great alternative to Helium.
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Privacy Redirect for Safari - Redirect Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Translate to privacy friendly alternatives.
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Safari MCP - Native Safari browser automation for AI agents on macOS, exposing 98 tools via AppleScript and JavaScript.
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seb-mac - Safe Exam Browser for macOS and iOS.
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Vane - Native WebKit browser with sidebar tabs, Spaces, and Split View, in early development for macOS 26 or later.
Website: https://notnaki.github.io/vane/
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Yalqen - Chromium-based developer browser with vertical tabs, a keyboard-first command bar and built-in ad blocking.
Website: https://yalqen.com
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Adium - Instant messaging application that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.
Website: https://adium.im/
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Beagle IM - Powerful XMPP client with support for file transfer, VoIP and end-to-end encryption.
Website: https://beagle.im/
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ChitChat - Native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web.
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Conduck - Native voice and text client for your self-hosted or BYO-key AI, with a menu bar companion, global hotkey and Screenshot & Ask. Same conversation on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay.
Website: https://conduck.com/
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Electronic WeChat - Better WeChat on macOS and Linux.
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Element - Element is a collaboration app (currently Electron) for the Matrix protocol.
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Franz - Franz is messaging application for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more.
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FutureOS - One AI agent everywhere you work - terminal, desktop, mobile, and IM bots driven by a single Rust backend.
Website: https://future-os.cn
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Google Allo for Desktop - Native macOS & Windows desktop app for Google Allo.
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GroupMe - Unofficial GroupMe App.
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MessagesHistoryBrowser - macOS application to comfortably browse and search through your Messages.app history.
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Off Grid AI Desktop - Private on-device AI suite for Apple Silicon Macs: local LLM chat via llama.cpp, RAG search over your own data, MCP connectors, and Stable Diffusion image generation, with no account, no telemetry, and no cloud.
Website: https://getoffgridai.co/
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OnionShare - Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network.
Website: https://onionshare.org/
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Orkas - Local-first multi-agent desktop application where a Commander coordinates specialist agents for research, coding, data analysis, documents, and media.
Languages:
TypeScript
JavaScript
CSS
PythonWebsite: https://orkas.ai/
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RocketChat - Free open source chat system for teams. An alternative to Slack that can also be self hosted.
Website: https://www.rocket.chat/
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Signal Desktop - Electron app that links with your Signal Android or Signal iOS app.
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Swiftcord - Native Discord client built in Swift & SwiftUI. Light on your RAM and CPU.
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Telegram - Source code of Telegram for macOS on Swift.
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Telegram Desktop - Telegram Desktop messaging app.
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Textual - Textual is an IRC client for macOS.
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Thunderbird - Backed by Mozilla, Thunderbird is an extensible email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client.
Languages:
C++
JavaScript
RustWebsite: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
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Torchat-Mac - TorChat for Mac is a macOS native and unofficial port of torchat.
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WhatsAppBar - Send WhatsApp message from menu bar.
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Wire Desktop - Standalone Electron app for the chatapp Wire.
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Bitcoin Core - Official Bitcoin Core software for running a full Bitcoin node.
Website: https://bitcoincore.org/
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Blave Agent - Desktop workspace where your own Claude Code or Codex writes trading strategies, backtests them and runs them live on crypto exchanges.
Website: https://blave.org
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CoinBar - macOS menu bar application for tracking crypto coin prices.
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Copay - A secure bitcoin wallet platform for both desktop and mobile devices.
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Crypto Bar - macOS menu bar application built with Electron.
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Float coin - Native menu bar app with floating window and support for many Exchanges.
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Bdash - Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis.
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Beekeeper Studio - SQL editor and manager with support for SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, CockroachDB, SQL Server, and Amazon Redshift.
Website: https://www.beekeeperstudio.io
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DB Browser for SQLite - SQLite database management GUI.
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DBeaver - Universal database tool and SQL client.
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DbGate - Database manager for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLite and others. Runs under Windows, Linux, Mac or as web application.
Languages:
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://dbgate.org
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gadak - Keeps Jira, Linear and Confluence in one local SQLite file you query with SQL, and is a tracker of its own with no account.
Website: https://gadak.dev
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Medis - 💻 Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use Mac database management application for Redis.
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mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac.
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MongoHub - Add another lightweight Mac Native MongoDB client.
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Postbird - PostgreSQL GUI client for macOS.
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Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac.
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Redis Desktop Manager - Cross-platform open source database management tool for Redis ®
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redis-pro - Redis management with SwiftUI.
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Redis.app - The easiest way to get started with Redis on the Mac.
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reventlou - Personal database as an information management system.
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Robo 3T - Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) is the free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.
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Sequel Ace - Sequel Ace is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL & MariaDB databases.
Website: https://sequel-ace.com/
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Sequel Pro - MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS.
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sqlectron - A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal with cross database and platform support.
Website: https://sqlectron.github.io/
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TablePro - Native macOS database client for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, and 15+ more.
Website: https://tablepro.app
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Agent Teams AI - Desktop control center for coordinating autonomous AI coding agent teams across multiple providers.
Website: https://agentteams.live
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Anima - Native macOS companion for Claude Code with per-project ASCII familiars, nim token economy, and cross-session watcher. Built with Tauri v2.
Website: https://github.com/btangonan/anima
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Apache Netbeans - Apache NetBeans is an IDE, Tooling Platform and Application Framework suitable for development in Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more.
Website: https://netbeans.apache.org/
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Blave Agent - Desktop workspace where your own Claude Code or Codex writes trading strategies, backtests them and runs them live on crypto exchanges.
Website: https://blave.org
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Brackets - Modern open-source code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that's built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Website: https://brackets.io/
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Claude Statistics - Native macOS menu bar app for monitoring Claude Code session usage, token costs, and Anthropic subscription limits in real time.
Website: https://claudestatistics.vercel.app/
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Clave - macOS app for managing multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel, with split/grid layouts, session groups, SSH remote sessions, a git panel, and usage analytics.
Website: https://github.com/antasphere/clave
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Clipboard - An easy-to-use clipboard manager with time saving features that work across all terminals.
Website: https://GetClipboard.app
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CodeBurn - Menu bar app that shows what your AI coding tools cost, by project, model and task, across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 38 more.
Website: https://codeburn.app
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Codex Account Switcher - Native macOS menu bar app for switching multiple Codex Desktop and CLI accounts and monitoring weekly usage.
Website: https://liuzhao1225.github.io/codex-account-switcher/
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ColorSet - ColorSet is a macOS utility and framework allowing developers to manage custom interface colors with ease.
Languages:
Swift
C#
Objective-CWebsite: https://imazing.com/colorset
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Device Hub Pro - Mirror, control and test Android emulators and phones, iOS simulators and iPhones side by side.
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Devie AI Quota Tracker - Dashboard and macOS menu bar for tracking AI subscription quotas in one place (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor). Supports multi-accounts, notifications, and session-timer start optimization.
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DevLint - A lightweight app for formatting and correcting Swift syntax.
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DevProjex - Cross-platform macOS codebase-context app for Intel and Apple Silicon, with GUI, TUI, CLI, live preview, redaction, and a built-in read-only MCP server.
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Dorothy - Desktop app to orchestrate multiple AI CLI agents simultaneously with automations, Kanban management, and remote control via Telegram.
Website: https://dorothyai.app
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Eclipse - Eclipse is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming, featuring a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment.
Website: https://www.eclipse.org
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FlowPeek - Previews the Mermaid diagram already on screen, read from a selection, the clipboard, the block under the pointer, or a file.
Website: https://flowpeek.github.io/flowpeek/
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gadak - Keeps Jira, Linear and Confluence in one local SQLite file you query with SQL, and is a tracker of its own with no account.
Website: https://gadak.dev
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GitAhead - A graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history.
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Gridfy - Quickly calculate column widths and get correct results for your grid.
Languages:
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://gridfy.astroon.pro/
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Higgs - Dashboard and chat app for the Higgs inference server: runs MLX models on Apple Silicon behind OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs, routes to remote providers, and traces every request.
Website: https://github.com/panbanda/higgs
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JustTags - JustTags in a macOS app for working with BERTLV EMV tags.
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KiCad - A software suite for electronic design automation.
Website: https://www.kicad.org/
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KinetAios - Local-first multi-engine AI agent dashboard: run Claude Code, Codex, and a built-in ReAct engine side by side with shared cross-engine memory, MCP, and 40+ tools.
Website: https://phinn.github.io/KinetAios/
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KyttoMCP - Manage MCP servers across Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Codex in one matrix, with health checks, a tool safety scan and local config backups.
Website: https://kytto.jakubhecht.sk/
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Layout Designer for UICollectionView - A simple but powerful tool that helps you make complex layouts for UICollectionView.
Website: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/layout-designer/id1507238011?l=en&mt=12
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Llamaport - Run local GGUF models with llama-server. Reads model headers directly for real quantisation and context length, shows the full launch command before starting, reports live token rates and memory pressure, and downloads models from Hugging Face with resume that survives a kill.
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Loadout - Inspects and manages the skills, slash commands, subagents, plugins and MCP servers that coding assistants load, with usage counts read from session logs.
Website: https://loadout.migsilva.dev
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LocationSimulator - Application to spoof your iOS or iPhoneSimulator location.
Website: https://schlaubischlump.github.io/LocationSimulator
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Lunavect - Menu bar app for Claude Code and Codex: live status of every session, weekly and five-hour usage limits, desktop widgets and activity statistics.
Website: https://lovach.github.io/Lunavect/
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M-Courtyard - Desktop app for fine-tuning LLMs on Apple Silicon Macs with zero code. Import documents, generate training datasets with AI, LoRA fine-tune, test, and export to Ollama — entirely offline.
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Mocker - Docker-compatible container CLI for macOS, built on Apple's Containerization framework.
Website: https://github.com/us/mocker
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Notepad++ for Mac - Native macOS port of the Notepad++ code editor — no Wine, no emulation; runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Website: https://nextpad.org
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Off Grid AI Desktop - Private on-device AI suite for Apple Silicon Macs: local LLM chat via llama.cpp, RAG search over your own data, MCP connectors, and Stable Diffusion image generation, with no account, no telemetry, and no cloud.
Website: https://getoffgridai.co/
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Oh My Android - Native control panel for the Android Emulator on macOS with ~48 one-click actions, Layout Inspector in dp, and TalkBack audit.
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Orchestrator - macOS workspace for Codex with repository browsing, Kanban tasks, subagent inspection and local code review.
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Orkas - Local-first multi-agent desktop application where a Commander coordinates specialist agents for research, coding, data analysis, documents, and media.
Languages:
TypeScript
JavaScript
CSS
PythonWebsite: https://orkas.ai/
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Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards.
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PR Cockpit - An extremely fast GitHub for reviewing pull requests: PRs open in about 20 ms. Keyboard-first, with a CLI for coding agents.
Website: https://prcockpit.com
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QuotaBar - Local-first macOS menu bar app for tracking OpenAI Codex usage limits, reset countdowns, and optional alerts.
Website: https://roketrp.github.io/QuotaBar/
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qwen-audio-agent - Full-duplex voice interface for AI coding agents. Talk to Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and other ACP agents hands-free, with barge-in, spoken permission prompts, async task results read back, and a fully local wake word.
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Rilmazafone - Design DMG installers on a WYSIWYG canvas and build exactly what you drew.
Website: https://kagerou.glass/rilmazafone/
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Shark - Cursor IDE workspace manager for macOS.
Website: https://ssbun.github.io/Shark
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Starcat - Native, local-first GitHub Stars manager that turns saved repositories into a searchable, AI-assisted knowledge base.
Website: https://starcat.ink/
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Stargazer Bar - Track one public GitHub repo's stars and release downloads from the menu bar.
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Stringz - A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications.
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Superagent - Desktop app that gives coding agents like Claude Code and Codex a real browser to drive, an iOS Simulator to install and screenshot apps in, and a phone companion app for remote monitoring.
Website: https://superagent.computer
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Tintpad - Hotkey launcher that opens your terminal at the right repo with a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex) already running.
Website: https://tintpad.com
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TouchGrassBar - Shows Codex and Claude limits, observed token usage, trends, and public friend rankings from the macOS menu bar.
Website: https://touchgrassbar.com/
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usage - macOS menu bar app that pins Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity CLI quota and burn rate to the screen, read from local session files.
Website: https://aqua5230.github.io/usage/
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utmapp - Virtualization for other operating systems.
Website: https://mac.getutm.app/
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Vigil - Native terminal that runs manager-led trees of coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode), with worker results rolling up as summaries while every node keeps its own TUI.
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YYLO CLI - Command-line orchestrator for coding agents with isolated task worktrees, Kanban task state, and a typed merge queue.
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Cashew - Cashew macOS Github Issue Tracker.
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Git Interactive Rebase Tool - Full feature terminal based sequence editor for interactive rebase.
Website: https://gitrebasetool.mitmaro.ca/
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GitAhead - A graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history.
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GitBlamePR - Mac app that shows pull request last modified each line of a file
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Gitee - Gitee, macOS status bar application for Github.
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Github contributions - GitHub contributions app, for iOS, WatchOS, and macOS.
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GitHub Desktop - Simple collaboration from your desktop.
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GithubListener - Simple app that will notify about new commits to watched repositories.
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GithubNotify - Simple macOS app to alert you when you have unread GitHub notifications.
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Gitify - Your GitHub notifications on your menu bar.
Website: https://www.gitify.io/
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GitSync - Minimalistic Git client for Mac.
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GitUp - The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.
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GitX - Graphical client for the git version control system.
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GPM - macOS application for easily operating GitHub Projects.
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osagitfilter - Filter to put OSA languages (AppleScript, JavaScript) into git, as if they where plain text-files.
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PR Cockpit - An extremely fast GitHub for reviewing pull requests: PRs open in about 20 ms. Keyboard-first, with a CLI for coding agents.
Website: https://prcockpit.com
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Streaker - GitHub contribution streak tracking menubar app.
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TeamStatus-for-GitHub - macOS status bar application for tracking code review process within the team.
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teebe - Shows every git worktree across your repos, marks which ones a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex) is working in, and live-diffs the files they change.
Website: https://teebe.io
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Tempo - Replace the Git CLI with a clear UI and AI assist.
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Trailer - Managing Pull Requests and Issues For GitHub & GitHub Enterprise.
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Xit - Xit is a graphical tool for working with git repositories.
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j2s - macOS app to convert JSON objects into Swift structs (currently targets Swift 4 and Codable).
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JSON Mapper - Simple macOS app to generate Swift Object Mapper classes from JSON.
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JSON to Model class - Template based highly customizable macOS app to generate classes from JSON string, supports many languages.
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JSONExport - Desktop application for macOS which enables you to export JSON objects as model classes with their associated constructors, utility methods, setters and getters in your favorite language.
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AI Switcher - Switch Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity CLI accounts with named profiles, one-click contexts and per-repository rules.
Website: https://aiswitcher.dev/desktop/
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Boop - A scriptable scratchpad for developers.
Website: https://boop.okat.best
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ChefInspector - Node and Attribute viewer for Chef
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Loadout - Inspects and manages the skills, slash commands, subagents, plugins and MCP servers that coding assistants load, with usage counts read from session logs.
Website: https://loadout.migsilva.dev
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macho-browser - Browser for macOS Mach-O binaries.
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MQTTX - An elegant Cross-platform MQTT 5.0 desktop client.
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vegvisir - Browser based GUI for LLDB Debugger.
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aws-s3-uploader - Simple macOS app for uploading files to Amazon Web Services.
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Corectl App for macOS - Corectl App is a macOS Status bar App which works like a wrapper around the corectl command line tool corectld to control the server runtime process.
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CoreOS VM - CoreOS VM is macOS status bar app which allows in an easy way to control CoreOS VM on your Mac.
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HTTP Toolkit - HTTP Toolkit is a cross-platform tool to intercept, debug & mock HTTP.
Website: https://httptoolkit.com/
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Insomnia - Insomnia is a cross-platform REST client, built on top of Electron.
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iTunesConnect - macOS app to let you access iTunesConnect.
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KubeMonitor - KubeMonitor is a macOS app that displays information about your active Kubernetes cluster in your menu bar.
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KubeSwitch - KubeSwitch lists the available kubernetes cluster contexts on the mac, in Mac's Menu bar.
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Lantern - Dedicated Mac app for website auditing and crawling.
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LocalSites - Simple Menu Bar (Status Bar) App for macOS listing local Bonjour websites (as Safari 11 no longer has Bonjour Bookmarks).
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nodeScratchpad - Evaluate Nodejs/JS code snippets from Menubar.
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Requestly - A lightweight open-source API Development, Testing & Mocking platform
Website: https://requestly.com
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Rockxy - Open-source native macOS debugging proxy for inspecting HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, and GraphQL traffic.
Website: https://rockxy.io
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SimpleLocalize CLI - Open source tool for managing i18n keys in software projects.
Website: https://simplelocalize.io
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stts - macOS app for monitoring the status of cloud services.
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AppBox - Tool for iOS developers to build and deploy Development, Ad-Hoc and In-house (Enterprise) applications directly to the devices from your Dropbox account.
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AppIcons - Tool for generating icons in all sizes as required by macOS and iOS apps.
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AppStoreReviewTimes - Gives you indication about the average iOS / macOS app stores review times.
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Asset Catalog Tinkerer - App that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images.
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Assets - Assets is a macOS app that manages assets for your development projects (Xcode, web, etc).
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Attabench - Attabench is a microbenchmarking app for macOS, designed to measure and visualize the performance of Swift code.
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AVXCAssets Generator - Takes path for your assets images and creates appiconset and imageset for you in just one click.
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Board For GitHub - Small application to monitor your GitHub project web page in a native macOS app
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Brisk - macOS app for submitting radars.
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calabash-launcher - iOS Calabash Launcher is a macOS app that helps you run and manage Calabash tests on your Mac.
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Cleaner for Xcode - Cleaner for Xcode.app built with react-native-macOS.
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Clendar - Clendar is an universal calendar app. Written in SwiftUI.
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id1548102041
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CocoaRestClient - Native Apple macOS app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints.
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Corona Tracker - Coronavirus tracker app for iOS & macOS with maps & charts.
Website: https://coronatracker.samabox.com/
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Device Hub Pro - Mirror, control and test Android emulators and phones, iOS simulators and iPhones side by side.
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DevLint - A lightweight app for formatting and correcting Swift syntax.
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FilterShop - macOS App to explore CoreImage Filters.
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IconGenerator - macOS app to generate app icons.
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Iconizer - Create Xcode image catalogs (xcassets) on the fly.
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Iconology - Edit icons and then export to Xcode, icns, ico, favicon, macOS iconset, or a custom collection.
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iconology/id1463452867
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Icons.app - App for macOS which is designed to generate consistent sized icons of an existing application in various states, jiggling (shaking) etc.
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InjectionIII - overdue Swift rewrite of Injection.
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Input Source Pro - Input Source Pro is macOS utility designed for multilingual users who frequently switch input sources.
Website: https://inputsource.pro
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iOS Images Extractor - iOS Images Extractor is a Mac app to normalize, decode, and extract images from iOS apps.
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iSimulator - iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator and manage the app installed on the simulator.
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Knuff - The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs).
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LayerX - Intuitive app to display transparent images on screen.
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Localizable.strings - Mac app to localize your iOS and macOS projects.
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Localization Editor - Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side.
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Localizations - Localizations is an macOS app that manages your Xcode project localization files (.strings).
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LocationSimulator - Application to spoof your iOS or iPhoneSimulator location.
Website: https://schlaubischlump.github.io/LocationSimulator
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Menubar Colors - macOS app for convenient access to the system color panel.
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Notarize - Notarization status monitoring tool for macOS, supporting multiple developer accounts
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PodsUpdater - macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile.
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ProfilesManager - Apple iOS/macOS Provisioning Profiles management,.provisionprofile, .mobileprovision files manager tool for mac.
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PushNotifications - macOS app to test push notifications on iOS and Android.
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quokka - Inspect and clean a USB-connected iPhone from the macOS terminal: storage, apps, media, syslog. No jailbreak.
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ResignTool - This is an app for macOS that can (re)sign apps and bundle them into ipa files that are ready to be installed on an iOS device.
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Resizr - MacOS application for creating AppIcon for iOS and Android apps.
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SmartPush - iOS Push Notification Debug App.
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Stringz - A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications.
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TransporterPad - iOS/Android app deployment tool for macOS.
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WWDC - Unofficial WWDC app for macOS.
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WWDC.srt - Powerful app for downloading subtitle for each WWDC session video since 2013 in (srt) format.
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Xcodes.app - The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
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xib2Storyboard - Tool to convert Xcode .xib to .storyboard files.
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App Downloader - Easily search and download macOS apps from the huge
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App Fair - Find and install macOS apps from Homebrew Cask and Fairground App catalogs.
Website: https://appfair.app
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Applite - User-friendly GUI app for Homebrew Casks. Install, update, and uninstall apps with a single click.
Website: https://aerolite.dev/applite
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Extream Download Manager - a powerful tool to increase download speeds up to 500%
Website: https://subhra74.github.io/xdm/
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FileZilla - Free open-source FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client.
Languages:
c++Website: https://filezilla-project.org
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Get It - Native macOS video/audio downloader. Think of it as a youtube downloader that works on many sites.
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Motrix - A full-featured download manager.
Website: https://motrix.app/
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Pillager - macOS Video Downloader written in Swift and Objective-C.
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udemy-downloader-gui - desktop application for downloading Udemy Courses.
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YouTube Downloader for macOS - Simple menu bar app to download YouTube movies on your Mac. I wrote this as a test project to learn more about app development on macOS.
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AuroraEditor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS.
Website: https://auroraeditor.com
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Chime - An editor for macOS
Website: https://www.chimehq.com/
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CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
Website: https://www.codeedit.app/
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DevLint - A lightweight app for formatting and correcting Swift syntax.
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Downright - Native macOS Markdown reader and editor for ordinary files, with Quick Look, Finder thumbnails, source-preserving rendering, and safe review of external rewrites.
Website: https://downright.cc/
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Geany - Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.
Website: https://www.geany.org/
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LiteEdit - Fast, native macOS code editor under 1 MB built with Swift and AppKit, no Electron.
Website: https://arietan.github.io/lite-edit/
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Markout - Native Markdown editor with live preview, offline KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and HTML/PDF export.
Website: https://github.com/maxmilian/markout
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mxMarkEdit - A visual editor of Markdown document, tasks and tables.
Languages:
free-pascalWebsite: https://github.com/maxnd/mxMarkEdit
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Notepad++ for Mac - Native macOS port of the Notepad++ code editor — no Wine, no emulation; runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Website: https://nextpad.org
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PuppyOne - A local-first workspace where you and your AI work on the same files.
Website: https://www.puppyone.ai
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Zed - Zed is an open source, high-performance, and multiplayer code editor
Website: https://zed.dev
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TableTool - A simple CSV editor for macOS.
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JSON Editor - Dead simple JSON editor using josdejong/jsoneditor
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JSON-Splora - GUI for editing, visualizing, and manipulating JSON data.
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Coluracetam - Markdown reader with Quick Look and thumbnail extensions, so .md files render on spacebar and in Finder.
Website: https://kagerou.glass/coluracetam/
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Downright - Native macOS Markdown reader and editor for ordinary files, with Quick Look, Finder thumbnails, source-preserving rendering, and safe review of external rewrites.
Website: https://downright.cc/
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Edmund - Minimal, native macOS Markdown editor with live preview that works with your existing files, no vault.
Website: https://edmund.md
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Gingko - Tree-structured markdown editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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Imark - Markdown reader that keeps your comments inside the .md file, with a Quick Look extension, live reload, and a skill that lets coding agents open a document for review and wait for your notes.
Website: https://imarkmd.com
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JustMD - Native Markdown editor with hidden syntax, a rendered reading mode, and PDF export.
Website: https://justmd.nuta.life/
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linked - 🧾 Your daily journal app, diary or anything else to unclutter your mind. Let linked help you get focused by writing down what is in your mind on a daily basis.
Website: https://uselinked.com
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MacDown - Markdown editor for macOS.
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Mark Text - Realtime preview markdown editor for macOS Windows and Linux.
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markdown-quicklook - Rendered Markdown Quick Look preview with syntax highlighting, YAML front matter, configurable fonts/colors, and a menu bar toggle.
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MarkEdit - MarkEdit is a free and open-source Markdown editor, for macOS. It's just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.
Website: https://markedit.app/
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Markout - Native Markdown editor with live preview, offline KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and HTML/PDF export.
Website: https://github.com/maxmilian/markout
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Markup - Reader-first, native macOS Markdown editor: renders notes like a web page and edits on demand, with a vault, backlinks, graph view and full-text search.
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md-preview - Ultra-lightweight Markdown preview app (~1MB binary) built with Rust, with offline syntax highlighting, dark mode, and cross-platform support.
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mxMarkEdit - A visual editor of Markdown document, tasks and tables.
Languages:
free-pascalWebsite: https://github.com/maxnd/mxMarkEdit
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NoteGen - Local-first Markdown note-taking app that captures scattered information and organizes it into structured notes with AI.
Website: https://notegen.top/
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Notenik - Note-taking app with many organizational options.
Website: https://notenik.app
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Obsidian plugins & themes - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.
Website: https://obsidian.md/
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Pine - A modern MacOS markdown editor.
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QOwnNotes - Plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration.
Website: https://www.qownnotes.org/
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Quillite Markdown - Lightweight, local-first Markdown reader and editor with live preview, visual diagrams, math, and multi-format export.
Website: https://qm.ssssa.cn/
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Zettlr - A Markdown Editor for the 21st century.
Languages:
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://www.zettlr.com/
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BibDesk - Use BibDesk to edit and manage your bibliography
Website: https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io
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Qilin Editor - Text editor for exact sciences with built-in KaTeX/AsciiMath support.
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AuroraEditor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS.
Website: https://auroraeditor.com
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CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS.
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Downright - Native macOS Markdown reader and editor for ordinary files, with Quick Look, Finder thumbnails, source-preserving rendering, and safe review of external rewrites.
Website: https://downright.cc/
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Geany - Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.
Website: https://www.geany.org/
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LiteEdit - Fast, native macOS code editor under 1 MB built with Swift and AppKit, no Electron.
Website: https://arietan.github.io/lite-edit/
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MacVim - Text editor for macOS.
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Markout - Native Markdown editor with live preview, offline KaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, and HTML/PDF export.
Website: https://github.com/maxmilian/markout
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micro - A terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the capabilities of modern terminals.
Website: https://micro-editor.github.io
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mxMarkEdit - A visual editor of Markdown document, tasks and tables.
Languages:
free-pascalWebsite: https://github.com/maxnd/mxMarkEdit
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Notepad++ for Mac - Native macOS port of the Notepad++ code editor — no Wine, no emulation; runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
Website: https://nextpad.org
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Notesnook - A fully open source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
Languages:
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://notesnook.com
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Noto - Plain text editor for macOS with customizable themes.
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reventlou - Personal database as an information management system.
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SubEthaEdit - General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.
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TextMate - TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS.
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Tincta - One-window text editor with syntax highlighting.
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VimR - Refined Neovim experience for macOS.
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AdGuard for Safari - The most advanced ad blocking extension for Safari
Website: https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html
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BetterPiP - Use native picture-in-picture with browsers such as Google Chrome for HTML5 videos.
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Is It Private? - A Safari Extension providing a toolbar icon that changes its visual appearance if Private Browsing is enabled.
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Middleclick - Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse
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nef - This Xcode extension enables you to make a code selection and export it to a snippets. Available on Mac AppStore.
Website: https://nef.bow-swift.io/
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PageExtender - Extend pages with your own CSS and JS files.
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PiPifier - PiPifier is a native macOS 10.12 Safari extension that lets you use every HTML5 video in Picture in Picture mode.
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PiPTool - Add the Picture-in-Picture Functionality to YouTube, Netflix, Plex and other video broadcasting services in macOS.
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Privacy Redirect for Safari - Redirect Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Translate to privacy friendly alternatives.
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Sessions - Safari extension to save your working sessions
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Swimat - Swimat is an Xcode plug-in to format your Swift code.
Website: https://jintin.github.io/Swimat/
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ThenGenerator - Xcode Source Editor Extension for 'Then'
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Ultra TabSaver - Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari
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Yape - Yet Another PiP Extension. Finds all HTML5 videos on a webpage and allows you to play them in Picture-in-Picture mode from the Safari toolbar.
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Burette - Molecular workspace and Finder Quick Look extension for macOS: 3D structures, chemistry grids, and local workflow-artifact inspection.
Languages:
TypeScript
Rust
SwiftWebsite: https://burette-landing.vercel.app
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cd to... - Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal
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Clipy - Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS.
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CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features
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dupeGuru - dupeGuru is a tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan using file names and file contents.
Website: https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/
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Duplicate Finder - It's a useful tool that would help you to find all duplicate files which have the same names in the specific folder.
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Finder Go - macOS app and Finder Sync Extension to open Terminal, iTerm, Hyper from Finder.
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FiScript - Execute custom scripts from the MacOS context menu (CTRL+click) in Finder.
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FolderForge - Customize macOS folders with colors, artwork, icons, reusable presets, and rule-based workspace styling.
Website: https://folder-forge.vercel.app/
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muCommander - A lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface.
Website: https://www.mucommander.com/
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OpenInCode - Finder toolbar app to open current folder in Visual Studio Code.
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OpenInTerminal - Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty.
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Preview3MF - Quick Look extension that shows a 3D preview and Finder thumbnails for .3mf 3D-printing files.
Website: https://cavoco.github.io/Preview3MF/
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Quick Look plugins - List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers.
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SaneClick - Finder extension with 51+ right-click actions for file management, image conversion, and developer tools.
Website: https://saneclick.com
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Shuffle - Fast, GPU-rendered file manager and Finder alternative built in Rust with GPUI, featuring dual panes, tabs, a fuzzy command palette, terminal mode, and theming.
Website: https://shuffleapp.co
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zoxide - zoxide is a smarter cd command for your terminal.
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0 A.D. - Real-time strategy game of ancient warfare
Website: https://play0ad.com
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Amazing Tic Tac Toe - Fun Tic Tac Toe game equipped with multiplayer (local and online) and leveled single player available on the App Store.
Website: https://ariessciences.com/highlight?product=tic-tac-toe
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Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based tactical strategy game, featuring both single-player and online multiplayer combat.
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Boxer - The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac.
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Chess - The chess app that comes with macOS.
Languages:
objective-cWebsite: https://www.apple.com/
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Dolphin - Powerful emulator for Nintendo GameCube and Wii games.
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Dynamic Dark Mode - Dynamic Dark Mode is the app you are looking for to power up Dark Mode on macOS Mojave and beyond.
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OpenEmu - Retro video game emulation for macOS.
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OpenRCT2 - Re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2.
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Quest for Duskara - Single-player island strategy game where you build a town, trade, raise an army, and conquer a 15-city archipelago.
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Sabaki - An elegant Go/Baduk/Weiqi board and SGF editor for a more civilized age.
Website: http://sabaki.yichuanshen.de
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Screentendo - Turn your screen into a playable level of Mario.
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Soju - Run Battle.net, Diablo II: Resurrected and Steam games on Apple Silicon Macs with a fully free Wine stack built from GPL sources; one-line installer.
Website: https://github.com/BCD1210/soju
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Stockfish - Beautiful, powerful chess application.
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Whisky - Native SwiftUI Wine wrapper for macOS with D3DMetal/DXVK backends and built-in launcher compatibility (Steam, Epic, EA App, Battle.net). Active community fork of the archived whisky-app/whisky.
Website: https://github.com/frankea/Whisky
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Widelands - Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.
Languages:
c++
Python
Lua
JavaScriptWebsite: https://www.widelands.org
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Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux).
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Blender - Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and video editing.
Website: https://www.blender.org
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CaptuocrToy - Tool to capture screenshot and recognize text by online ocr apis.
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ColorSet - ColorSet is a macOS utility and framework allowing developers to manage custom interface colors with ease.
Languages:
Swift
C#
Objective-CWebsite: https://imazing.com/colorset
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CrossGen - Local-first AI image workspace for generating, editing, organizing, and reusing images through a desktop app, JSON CLI, and MCP-compatible agents.
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FreeCAD - FreeCAD is an open-source 3D parametric modeler
Website: https://www.freecad.org/
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Gaphor - Gaphor is the simple modeling tool for UML and SysML.
Website: https://gaphor.org
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GifCapture - Gif capture app for macOS.
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Gifcurry - Video to GIF maker with a graphical interface capable of cropping, adding text, seeking, and trimming.
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Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs.
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InfiniteCanvas - Proof of concept Mac drawing application.
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ItsPaint - Focused paint and screenshot markup app. Step badges, pixelate redaction, Instant Alpha. No account, no telemetry.
Website: https://itspaintmac.com/
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Krita - Krita is a cross-platform application for creating digital art files from scratch like illustrations, concept art, matte painting, textures, comics and animations.
Website: https://krita.org/en/
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LibreCAD - LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. Support and documentation are free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.
Website: https://librecad.org
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LightTable - Digital darkroom and RAW developer with physically modelled film stock simulation.
Website: https://lighttable.app
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macSVG - macOS application for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view.
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Material Colors Native - Choose your Material colours and copy the hex code.
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Nugget - Video editing software designed for motion effects and versatility.
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Pencil2D Animation - Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
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ScreenToLayers for macOS - ScreenToLayers is a macOS application to easily capture your screen as a layered PSD file.
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Apache Netbeans - Apache NetBeans is an IDE, Tooling Platform and Application Framework suitable for development in Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more.
Website: https://netbeans.apache.org/
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AuroraEditor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS.
Website: https://auroraeditor.com
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Brackets - Modern open-source code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that's built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Website: https://brackets.io/
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Cate - IDE built on an infinite zoomable canvas. Editor, terminal, browser, and AI agent panels float in a spatial workspace instead of tabs.
Website: https://cate.cero-ai.com
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CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
Website: https://www.codeedit.app/
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Eclipse - Eclipse is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming, featuring a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment.
Website: https://www.eclipse.org
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Geany - Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.
Website: https://www.geany.org/
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IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition - IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment written in Java for developing computer software
Website: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
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LiveCode - Cross-platform development IDE.
Website: https://livecode.org/
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Oni - Oni is a modern take on modal editing code editor focused on developer productivity.
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Vim - ubiquitous text editor
Website: https://www.vim.org/
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Visual Studio Code - Code editor developed by Microsoft.
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VSCodium - VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft's VS Code with all telemetry removed.
Website: https://vscodium.com/
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Zed - Zed is an open source, high-performance, and multiplayer code editor
Website: https://zed.dev
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ZeroBraneStudio - ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight cross-platform Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, remote debugger, code analyzer, live coding, and debugging support for various Lua engines.
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APNGb - macOS app which assembles and disassembles animated png files.
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CrossGen - Local-first AI image workspace for generating, editing, organizing, and reusing images through a desktop app, JSON CLI, and MCP-compatible agents.
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Crunch - Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization.
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ExifCleaner - Remove image metadata with drag and drop, multi-core batch processing, and dark mode.
Website: https://exifcleaner.com
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Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
Website: https://flameshot.org
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Freehand - macOS Status Bar App for quick sketch.
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Gimp - Gimp is GNU Image Manipulation Program.
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Iconology - Edit icons and then export to Xcode, icns, ico, favicon, macOS iconset, or a custom collection.
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iconology/id1463452867
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ImageAlpha - Mac GUI for pngquant, pngnq and posterizer.
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Imagine - Imagine is a desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI.
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Inkscape - Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor.
Languages:
c++Website: https://inkscape.org/
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InVesalius - 3D medical imaging reconstruction software
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Katana - Katana is a simple screenshot utility for macOS that lives in your menubar.
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Krita - Krita is a cross-platform application for creating digital art files from scratch like illustrations, concept art, matte painting, textures, comics and animations.
Website: https://krita.org/en/
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LightTable - Digital darkroom and RAW developer with physically modelled film stock simulation.
Website: https://lighttable.app
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PhotoMiner - macOS app for finding and lost forgotten photos on your disks.
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Screenbar - macOS menubar app for automating screenshots.
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Seashore - Easy to use macOS image editing application for the rest of us.
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Shotnix - Screenshot and screen recording app for the menu bar with annotation, pinned screenshots, scrolling capture, OCR, and a video editor.
Website: https://shotnix.com/
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TetherShot - Capture pixel-perfect iPhone screenshots from the macOS menu bar over USB or Wi-Fi.
Website: https://tethershot.apoorvdarshan.com
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WebPonize - WebPonize is a macOS App for converting PNG, JPEG, animated (or not) GIF images into WebP.
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AnnePro-mac - macOS application for controlling AnnePro keyboard over bluetooth.
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CmdIME - Input source switcher that gives each input source its own key, such as Left Command for English and Right Command for Chinese.
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CrossMacro - A cross-platform macro recorder, player, editor, and text expansion tool.
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Fluor - Handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application.
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GokuRakuJoudo - Karabiner-Elements configuration manager, rescue to bloated karabiner.json
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Input Source Pro - Input Source Pro is macOS utility designed for multilingual users who frequently switch input sources.
Website: https://inputsource.pro
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Karabiner - Karabiner (KeyRemap4MacBook) is a powerful utility for keyboard customization.
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Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.
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Kawa - Better input source switcher for macOS.
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Keycastr - Keystroke visualizer.
Languages:
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LangSwitcher - Open-source keyboard layout text converter for macOS.
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Thor - Switch the right application ASAP.
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Unshaky - A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard
Website: https://unshaky.nestederror.com/
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WindowCycle - A focused macOS current-app window switcher with a visible panel.
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apple-mail-mcp - Fast access to Apple Mail from the command line and AI clients (MCP). Sub-millisecond full-text search using Mail's own SQLite index, verified sends, reviewed bulk triage.
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Correo - Menubar/taskbar Gmail App for Windows and macOS.
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dejalu - Fast and Simple Email Client.
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ElectronMail - Unofficial desktop app for ProtonMail and Tutanota end-to-end encrypted email providers.
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Mailspring - 💌 A beautiful, fast and maintained fork of @nylas Mail by one of the original authors
Website: https://getmailspring.com/
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Rambox - Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
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SimpleLogin - Email Alias solution: protect your real email address.
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Thunderbird - Backed by Mozilla, Thunderbird is an extensible email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client.
Languages:
C++
JavaScript
RustWebsite: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
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InVesalius - 3D medical imaging reconstruction software
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Abendrot - Free open-source Mac screen warmer that cuts nighttime blue light and warms every display around local sunset.
Website: https://abendrot.app
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Adrafinil - Keeps your Mac awake only while AI agents are working, then lets it sleep normally.
Website: https://kagerou.glass/adrafinil/
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AIQuotaBar - Menu bar app that shows Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and GitHub Copilot usage limits with reset countdowns and pace warnings.
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Airpass - Status bar Mac application to overcome time constrained WiFi networks.
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AirPoise - Menu bar app that uses AirPods motion sensors for head-posture reminders and configurable head-gesture shortcuts.
Website: https://airpoise.vercel.app/
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AirStats - Menu bar system monitor for CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk, battery, temperature, and processes, with a desktop widget.
Website: https://airstats.app
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Akku - The missing macOS bluetooth headset battery indicator app.
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Aman Disk - S.M.A.R.T. health, temperature history and performance test for your Mac's internal drives.
Website: https://github.com/MidZai/aman_disk
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AnyBar - macOS menubar status indicator.
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app-menu - The missing Applications Menu for macOS.
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Atalaya - Watch and maintain Linux servers over SSH: live dashboard, Docker containers, systemd services, your own scripts, package updates and files over SFTP, with nothing installed on the server.
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Audio Priority Bar - Native macOS menu bar app that automatically switches to your highest-priority connected headphones, speakers, and microphone.
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AutoDoc - Private, local-first meeting notes with on-device transcription and AI summaries.
Website: https://getautodoc.com/
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BannerHither - Menu bar app that moves macOS notification banners to the display you are looking at: the screen under the mouse pointer, the screen of the active window, or a fixed display.
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baRSS – Menu Bar RSS Reader - RSS & Atom feed reader that lives in the system status bar.
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BarTranslate - A handy (native) menu bar translator app that supports Google Translate.
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Better Resource Monitor - Lightweight macOS menu bar monitor for CPU, memory, storage, GPU, and network usage.
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Bolo - Voice dictation menubar app using Telnyx STT and LLM APIs.
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Browser Cookie Bridge - Transfer signed-in sessions between local Chromium browsers and ChatGPT Codex on macOS.
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Bye-AppQuit - A minimal native macOS app to quickly view and Bulk kill running processes.
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Candela - Protects your displays from OLED burn-in and wear: panel health history, a checkup for defects, and the everyday brightness, volume, and scaling controls macOS leaves out.
Website: https://candela.fyi
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Claude Statistics - Native macOS menu bar app for monitoring Claude Code session usage, token costs, and Anthropic subscription limits in real time.
Website: https://claudestatistics.vercel.app/
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Claude Usage - Menu bar app that shows your Claude Code usage — current session, weekly, Sonnet, and credits.
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Claude Usage Monitor - Native macOS menu bar app that tracks Claude.ai usage with colour-coded icons and reset timers.
Website: https://github.com/theDanButuc/Claude-Usage-Monitor
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Claudoscope - Menu bar app for Claude Code session analytics with real-time secret detection, config health linting, and token/cost tracking.
Website: https://claudoscope.com/
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ClearDisk - Visualize and clean developer caches to reclaim disk space on macOS.
Website: https://bysiber.github.io/cleardisk
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Clipbara - Paste-like clipboard manager with pinboards, Quick Look previews, search, and one-click copying.
Website: https://github.com/mobrava/Clipbara
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Clipboard Router - Native macOS clipboard manager with searchable history, text transforms, paste queues, reviewed actions, and an encrypted Vault.
Website: https://ibrolord.github.io/clipboard-router-releases/
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ClipFlow - Clipboard history manager for macOS with terminal-style navigation, image previews, and cursor-following popup.
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CloudyTabs - Simple menu bar macOS application for displaying lists of your iCloud Tabs and Reading List.
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Cluxo - Menu bar app that highlights your mouse cursor for screencasts, presentations, and pair programming.
Website: https://github.com/kykim79/Cluxo
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CodeBurn - Menu bar app that shows what your AI coding tools cost, by project, model and task, across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 38 more.
Website: https://codeburn.app
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Codex Account Switcher - Native macOS menu bar app for switching multiple Codex Desktop and CLI accounts and monitoring weekly usage.
Website: https://liuzhao1225.github.io/codex-account-switcher/
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Command Reopen - Makes Cmd+Tab restore minimized and closed windows with zero permissions.
Website: https://commandreopen.com/
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Conduck - Native voice and text client for your self-hosted or BYO-key AI, with a menu bar companion, global hotkey and Screenshot & Ask. Same conversation on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay.
Website: https://conduck.com/
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Core-Monitor - Open-source macOS system monitor with menu bar stats, a full dashboard, optional fan control, and Touch Bar widgets.
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Crisp - Menu bar app for external displays: HiDPI scaling, DDC brightness and volume, presets and virtual displays.
Website: https://crispmac.app/
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Dantrolene - Stops the screen from locking while on your home WiFi; locks normally on every other network.
Website: https://kagerou.glass/dantrolene/
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DatWeatherDoe - Simple menu bar weather app for macOS written in Swift.
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Deckle - Subtle paper-grain texture overlay for the whole screen. Click-through menu bar app with 18 textures, global hotkey, and per-display control.
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Devie AI Quota Tracker - Dashboard and macOS menu bar for tracking AI subscription quotas in one place (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor). Supports multi-accounts, notifications, and session-timer start optimization.
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Dictámelo - Voice dictation with downloadable local speech models, optional cloud providers and a configurable push-to-talk shortcut.
Website: https://www.dictamelo.com/en
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DisplayMenu - Simple (bare-bones) macOS menubar extra to apply display presets.
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Dozer - Hide MacOS menubar items.
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Dusty - Menu bar disk cleaner that only deletes from a fixed allowlist and shows every path and size before removing anything.
Website: https://toprak.sh/dusty/
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EK Bridge - Menu bar app that lets AI agents such as Claude, Codex and Cursor use only the calendars and reminder lists you choose, over MCP, and asks you before each change.
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eul - macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.
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Fader - Menu bar volume mixer with per-app volume, one-click audio output switching, and Bluetooth headphone control.
Website: https://fader.pantafive.dev
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Featherbar - Featherweight menu bar system monitor showing CPU, RAM, power, and temperature in two color-coded lines.
Website: https://crates.io/crates/featherbar
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FlowPeek - Previews the Mermaid diagram already on screen, read from a selection, the clipboard, the block under the pointer, or a file.
Website: https://flowpeek.github.io/flowpeek/
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FunNotch - Puts the MacBook notch to work: media controls, a drag-and-drop file shelf, clipboard history, focus sessions that block sites and apps, and twelve configurable widgets.
Website: https://funnotch.xyz
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Grayscale Mode - Manage grayscale mode from menu bar.
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Grux - AI agent that runs terminal sessions it can undo and reaches your mail, calendar, meetings, and files, using your own API key or a local model.
Website: https://gruxai.com
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gSwitch - macOS status bar app that allows control over the gpu on dual gpu macbooks.
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Hangar - Menu bar launcher for one-click, toggleable terminal and app snippets.
Website: https://github.com/0fuz/hangar
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Hidden Bar - An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
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Holeberry - A native and modern macOS menu bar app to monitor and control your Pi-hole instances.
Website: https://holeberryapp.com
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Hop - Eighteen everyday tools in one menu bar panel: timer, time tracker, keep-awake, system monitor, clipboard history, file converter, window manager, torrents, archives, text recognition, screenshots with an editor, drawing over the screen, color picker, VPN switcher, app launcher, app uninstaller, keyboard lock and internet speed test. Native, offline, no telemetry.
Website: https://hop.tools
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horita - Menu bar app that counts down to your next meeting and joins Zoom, Meet and Teams calls in one click.
Website: https://horita.app
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Ice - Powerful menu bar manager for macOS
Website: https://icemenubar.app/
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iGlance - macOS System Monitor (cpu, memory, network, fan and battery) for the Status Bar.
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ILoveNotch - Turns the MacBook notch into a tray for media, files, calendar, reminders, notes, and timers.
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inlaut - Menu bar dictation for German and English that runs a Parakeet model fully on-device and types at the cursor.
Website: https://inlaut.de
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Itsycal - A tiny calendar for that lives in the Mac menu bar.
Website: https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
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KubeContext - import, manage and switch between your Kubernetes contexts on Mac.
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LanGuard - Wi-Fi off when wired LAN active, back on when unplugged. Edge-based, wake-aware, no admin required.
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LinkLiar - Keep your MAC address random for privacy (intuitive GUI for ifconfig)
Website: https://halo.github.io/LinkLiar/
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Live Translator - Real-time on-screen translation of any system audio (YouTube, podcasts, meetings) using OpenAI or Google Gemini.
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Lunavect - Menu bar app for Claude Code and Codex: live status of every session, weekly and five-hour usage limits, desktop widgets and activity statistics.
Website: https://lovach.github.io/Lunavect/
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Lurar - Menu-bar parametric EQ for headphones. Loads the AutoEq catalog and applies it system-wide via Apple's Core Audio Process Tap — no virtual audio driver.
Website: https://lurar.app/
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Lyrimuse - Word-synced desktop lyrics for Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, Kugou and YouTube Music / Spotify Web in the browser, with translation, romanization and Last.fm scrobbling.
Website: https://yudaotor.github.io/lyrimuse/
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MacFanPro - Fan control for Apple Silicon Macs with a menu bar app, smart temperature curves and a CLI.
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MacNTop - macOS menu bar system monitor with retro CRT aesthetics.
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MakLock - Free macOS menu bar app that locks applications with Touch ID, Apple Watch proximity, or password using a full-screen blur overlay.
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Market Bar - Tiny stocks watcher for the menu bar.
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MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings
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Menubar Brightness - macOS app to change the screen brightness on the menubar.
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MenuMeters - CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for macOS.
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MiniSim - MacOS menu bar app for launching iOS and Android 🤖 emulators.
Website: https://www.minisim.app/
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Mole Widget - Lightweight macOS desktop system monitor with live CPU, memory, disk, network, battery, and process metrics, managed from the menu bar.
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Monitor Bar - Monitor Bar app supports three modes, compact, normal, extra. It monitors battery, Disk, Memory, CPU, Network bandwidth, Wi-Fi.
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Mooziac - Lightweight native macOS menu bar player for YouTube Music and local audio with trackpad gestures.
Website: https://mooziac.pages.dev
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MRRDock - Menu bar app that adds up your MRR from Stripe, RevenueCat, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Dodo Payments and Gumroad, keeping the API keys in the macOS Keychain.
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mysa - A macOS menu bar app for quick breathing breaks, with a frosted screen overlay and handwritten quotes.
Website: https://github.com/alishansnsn/mysa
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Night Shift Control - Night Shift Control is a simple macOS menubar app for controlling Night Shift. It's aim is to bring features from f.lux which are missing from Night Shift such as disabling Night Shift for certain apps.
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Nightwatch - Menu-bar app for amateur astronomers that says when tonight will be clear enough for a long imaging session, and what to point at.
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Nimclip
- Native, local-first clipboard history manager with search, tags, image support, and quick paste.
Website: https://hukdoesn.github.io/Nimclip/
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Nocturnal - Menu bar app featuring darker than dark dimming, Night Shift fine tuning, and the ability to turn off TouchBar on MacBook Pro.
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Nocturne - Makes the menu bar clock unreadable so it stops telling you how late it is, without hiding anything or asking for permissions.
Website: https://dotcomjack.com/nocturne
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NoiseBuddy - Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
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Notch So Good - A pixel-art crab lives in your MacBook notch and monitors Claude Code sessions with 13 animations, smart notifications, and multi-session support.
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Notchi - Turn the MacBook notch into a place to ask AI, save notes, set reminders, or run coding agents.
Website: https://www.notch.website/
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Notchly - Lightweight native macOS app that turns the MacBook notch into an interactive space for music controls, battery states, gestures, and custom HUDs.
Website: https://notchly.xyz
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OATS - Open-source local-first macOS meeting-notes app with live transcription, speaker labels, AI summaries, and an offline on-device mode.
Website: https://ariso.ai/oats
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Offsend - Local-first menu bar app that prepares projects, files, and clipboard text for AI tools by detecting and masking sensitive data.
Website: https://offsend.io
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OmniMac - Dynamic Island for any Mac (notch or not) plus ten more utilities in one lightweight menu-bar app: keep-awake, ⌘Tab by windows, window shortcuts and layouts, clipboard history, per-app volume and equaliser, performance monitor, OCR and app cleaner.
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OnlySwitch - All-in-One status bar button, hide MacBook Pro's notch, dark mode, AirPods, Shortcuts
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OpenClip - Lightweight floating action bar for macOS that turns selected text into instant actions.
Website: https://getopenclip.app
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OpenQuack - Local-only voice dictation for macOS — press a hotkey, speak, and the transcript is pasted at the cursor. Runs WhisperKit on Apple Silicon with no telemetry.
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Pareto Security - A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
Website: https://paretosecurity.com/
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Performance Monitor - Lightweight menu bar system monitor: CPU, memory, network, disk, GPU, per-sensor temperatures, SSD wear, and battery health. No telemetry.
Website: https://perfmon.knhome.nl
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Pesty - Free, open-source clipboard manager inspired by Paste, with a slide-up color-coded clipboard strip, pinboards, search, and keyboard-driven pasting.
Website: https://github.com/momenbasel/pesty
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Phosphene - Use any video as your macOS wallpaper on the desktop and the lock screen, picked directly from System Settings.
Website: https://kagerou.glass/phosphene/
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Pi Stats - macOS app to visualize Pi-hole information.
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Pika - Is an easy to use, open-source, native colour picker for macOS.
Website: https://superhighfives.com/pika
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Plainsay - Free MIT-licensed Mac dictation with on-device Whisper and Parakeet (Apple silicon, macOS 14+).
Website: https://plainsay.app/
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PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
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Plonk - Ten menu bar utilities in one app: a window manager with snap zones you draw yourself, workspaces that reopen your apps on the right monitor, on-device OCR, keep-awake, screenshot annotation, pointer tools and a shortcut guide. An AI agent can drive all of it over MCP.
Website: https://ostapondo.github.io/Plonk/
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Presspeech - Push-to-talk dictation for Apple Silicon Macs. Hold a key, speak, release — the transcript pastes at the cursor in about 100 ms, fully on-device.
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PSIBar - Quickly hacked up PSI macOS status bar app.
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Quick Weather - Simple and elegant menubar weather app on the App Store.
Website: https://ariessciences.com/highlight?product=quick-weather
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Quickeys - A mac menu bar app that provides note taking functionality though a quick dropdown menu.
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QuotaBar - Local-first macOS menu bar app for tracking OpenAI Codex usage limits, reset countdowns, and optional alerts.
Website: https://roketrp.github.io/QuotaBar/
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R2Drop - Native macOS menu bar application for uploading files to Cloudflare R2 storage.
Website: https://r2drop.com
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Realign - Saves a window layout per display setup and puts every window back with one shortcut, or automatically when you dock or undock.
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Recall - Local-first clipboard manager with on-device semantic search, two-factor codes, and credentials that delete themselves.
Website: https://github.com/cnazk/recall-mac
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Reprise - Call recorder that notices calls in Zoom, Meet, Teams, FaceTime and more, and records both sides, and the screen if you want, to plain files.
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RustCast - Blazingly fast, customisable multi tool, application launcher
Website: https://rustcast.umangsurana.com
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SaneBar - Privacy-first menu bar manager with Touch ID lock, Always-Hidden Zone, and automation triggers.
Website: https://sanebar.com
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sbtfix - Menu bar app to control Sony headphones: noise cancelling, ambient sound, Speak-to-Chat and battery.
Website: https://github.com/htsecurity/sbtfix
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ScreenHint - A simple screenshotting utility for thinking clearly.
Website: https://screenhint.com
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SensibleSideButtons - Small menu bar utility that lets you use your third-party mouse's side buttons for navigation across a variety of apps.
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Shifty - macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift.
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Sleepless - Keep your MacBook awake with the lid closed, on battery, with no external display, with a battery-floor auto-off.
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SlimHUD - Cyanocitta - Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
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SSH Tunnel Manager - Menu bar app for managing SSH port forwards (local, remote, SOCKS, jump host) that auto-reconnects when the connection drops.
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Stargazer Bar - Track one public GitHub repo's stars and release downloads from the menu bar.
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Stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar
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SwiftBar - Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool.
Website: https://swiftbar.app
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TetherShot - Capture pixel-perfect iPhone screenshots from the macOS menu bar over USB or Wi-Fi.
Website: https://tethershot.apoorvdarshan.com
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Thaw - Actively maintained menu bar manager for macOS 26+: hide and show items, search, hotkeys, profiles, and appearance controls.
Website: https://www.getthaw.app
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TimeScribe - Simple and free working time recording.
Languages:
CSS
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://timescribe.app
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TimeScribe - Simple and free working time recording.
Languages:
CSS
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://timescribe.app
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TopOff - Menu bar app for Homebrew — a full beer mug when packages are fresh, half a mug when it's time to refill.
Website: https://github.com/ihazgithub/TopOff
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TouchGrassBar - Shows Codex and Claude limits, observed token usage, trends, and public friend rankings from the macOS menu bar.
Website: https://touchgrassbar.com/
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Translate Like Me - Menu bar translator that replaces the selected text in any app, in your own writing style, via Claude, ChatGPT or Grok.
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TuckBar - Hides the menu bar on the displays you choose, covering it with your live wallpaper to reduce OLED burn-in.
Website: https://tuckbar.com
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TypeCue - Types a prepared script into any app, one hotkey press per line, as real keystrokes at a human pace, for demo recordings and live presentations.
Website: https://typecue.app
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usage - macOS menu bar app that pins Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity CLI quota and burn rate to the screen, read from local session files.
Website: https://aqua5230.github.io/usage/
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Vercel Deployment Menu Bar - Open-source macOS menu bar app to monitor Vercel deployment status in real time.
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Vitals - Native macOS system monitor for Apple Silicon, SMC sensors, processes, disks, network and system health.
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Vocula - Hold-to-talk dictation that transcribes on-device with Whisper or Parakeet and pastes the text at the cursor.
Website: https://vocula.app
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Voicely - Offline dictation into any app, call recording with speaker labels and audio/video file transcription, all on-device with a local speech model.
Website: https://voicely.art
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VPN Bypass - Route specific domains and services around your corporate VPN while keeping the rest of your traffic protected.
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Vuvuzela - FIFA World Cup 2026 desktop widget with live scores, group standings, and the knockout bracket.
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WhatCable - Tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can do — speed, power, and e-marker info — from the menu bar.
Website: https://whatcable.uk
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Whisk - Clipboard manager with a Paste-style panel, pins, search operators, paste stack and rich previews.
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WiFi Lens - Native Wi-Fi analyzer and network diagnostics app with real-time spectrum scanning and BLE device tracking.
Website: https://wifi-lens.shiinalabs.com
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xbar - Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar.
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Yap - On-device voice dictation from the menu bar. Set a hotkey, talk, and the text is pasted into whatever field you were typing in. It runs offline in native Swift with no model to download.
Website: https://frigade.com/yap
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Zielzeit - Menu bar app projecting the year your Scalable Capital portfolio reaches a savings goal, read-only through the official broker CLI.
Website: https://mannafee.github.io/zielzeit-scalable-capital/
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Carol - A minimal and beautiful lyrics app that stays in the menu bar of macOS.
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ChordDetector - Tiny menu bar app that listens iTunes and Spotify to detect chords of songs!
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DeezPlayer - Deezer Desktop app for Windows, Linux and macOS.
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iTunes Graphs - macOS app to visualise your iTunes library as graphs.
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Karaoke Forever - Host awesome karaoke parties where everyone can queue songs from their phone's browser. Plays MP3+G and MP4 with WebGL visualizations.
Website: https://www.karaoke-eternal.com/
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Kaset - Native macOS client for YouTube Music and YouTube, built with Swift and SwiftUI.
Website: https://github.com/sozercan/kaset
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Lilypond UI - Create beautiful musical scores with LilyPond.
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lyricsify - Simple Spotify lyrics viewer menu bar app for macOS in Swift.
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Lyrimuse - Word-synced desktop lyrics for Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, Kugou and YouTube Music / Spotify Web in the browser, with translation, romanization and Last.fm scrobbling.
Website: https://yudaotor.github.io/lyrimuse/
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Mooziac - Lightweight native macOS menu bar player for YouTube Music and local audio with trackpad gestures.
Website: https://mooziac.pages.dev
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MPV - Lightweight, highly configurable media player.
Website: https://mpv.io
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NoiseBuddy - Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
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Petrichor - Offline music player for macOS with library management, smart playlists, synced lyrics and an equalizer.
Website: https://petrichor.page
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PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
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Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.
Website: https://www.plugformac.com/
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SoundCleod - SoundCloud for macOS and Windows.
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spicetify-cli - Command-line tool to customize the official Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Website: https://spicetify.app/
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Spotify-Cli-Mac - Control Spotify without leaving your terminal. 🎶
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StargateDAW - An all-in-one digital audio workstation (DAW) and plugin suite
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Vespertine - Bit-perfect music player that switches the DAC to each track's native format, plays DSD, Dolby Atmos, TrueHD and DTS, and detects fake hi-res files.
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YouTube-Music - macOS wrapper for music.youtube.com.
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baRSS – Menu Bar RSS Reader - RSS & Atom feed reader that lives in the system status bar.
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Diurna - Basic/Classic Hacker News app, used as a Cocoa & Swift learning platform.
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hacker-menu - Hacker News Delivered to Desktop.
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NetNewsWire - Feed reader for macOS.
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Vienna - Vienna is a RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS.
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Winds - A Beautiful Open Source RSS & Podcast App Powered by Getstream.io
Website: https://getstream.io/winds/
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AutoDoc - Private, local-first meeting notes with on-device transcription and AI summaries.
Website: https://getautodoc.com/
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BibDesk - Use BibDesk to edit and manage your bibliography
Website: https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io
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Boostnote - Note-taking application made for programmers just like you.
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Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface.
Website: https://www.getdnote.com/
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Earnote - Records lectures, meetings and calls, transcribes them locally with Whisper and writes structured notes with an on-device AI model.
Website: https://earnote.dev
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FromScratch - Little app that you can use as a quick note taking or todo app.
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FSNotes - Notes manager for macOS/iOS: modern notational velocity (nvALT) on steroids.
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joplin - Note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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Jupyter Notebook Viewer - Notebook viewer for macOS.
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linked - 🧾 Your daily journal app, diary or anything else to unclutter your mind. Let linked help you get focused by writing down what is in your mind on a daily basis.
Website: https://uselinked.com
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Logue - Privacy-first AI meeting notes and writing assistant with on-device transcription, smart minutes, action items, and 60+ writing modes — runs entirely on Apple Silicon.
Website: https://github.com/bitwize-ai/Logue
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notable - Simple note taking application.
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Notchi - Turn the MacBook notch into a place to ask AI, save notes, set reminders, or run coding agents.
Website: https://www.notch.website/
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NoteGen - Local-first Markdown note-taking app that captures scattered information and organizes it into structured notes with AI.
Website: https://notegen.top/
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Notenik - Note-taking app with many organizational options.
Website: https://notenik.app
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Notes - Notes is a macOS application built to create notes, using text amongst other formats: images, videos, contacts, and etc.
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Notesnook - A fully open source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
Languages:
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://notesnook.com
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NoteTaker - Simple note taking app for macOS and iOS which uses Realm and CloudKit for syncing.
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OATS - Open-source local-first macOS meeting-notes app with live transcription, speaker labels, AI summaries, and an offline on-device mode.
Website: https://ariso.ai/oats
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OpenHabitTracker - Take notes, plan tasks, track habits. Free, open source, all data stays on your device.
Website: https://openhabittracker.net
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QOwnNotes - Plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration.
Website: https://www.qownnotes.org/
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Simplenote - Simplest way to keep notes.
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Standard Notes - Safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work.
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Stik - Instant thought capture for macOS. Global hotkey summons a post-it note, type and close. Notes stored as plain markdown files.
Website: https://stik.ink
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tmpNote - Very simple macOS app to make temporary notes.
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Tusk - Unofficial, third-party, community driven Evernote app with a handful of useful features.
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Betaflight Configurator - Cross platform configuration tool for the Betaflight firmware.
Website: https://betaflight.com/
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Cakebrew - Manage your Homebrew formulas with style using Cakebrew.
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ChipMunk - Log analysis tool.
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DevDocs for macOS - An unofficial DevDocs API documentation viewer.
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Gas Mask - Hosts file manager for macOS.
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Gramps - A genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists.
Website: https://gramps-project.org
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Helix - Free, open-source and private alternative to GraphPad Prism for scientific statistics and publication-ready graphs, powered by R.
Website: https://www.helix-desktop.com
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Hosts - Cocoa GUI for /etc/hosts.
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ImageOptim - GUI image optimizer for Mac.
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Keyframes Player - Simple macOS app to preview animations created with Facebook's keyframes framework.
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Lepton - Democratizing Code Snippets Management (macOS/Win/Linux).
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Letters - Teach your kids the alphabet and how to type.
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macGist - Simple app to send pasteboard items to GitHub's Gist.
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Numi - Beautiful calculator app for macOS
Website: https://numi.app/
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Platypus - Mac developer tool that creates application bundles from command line scripts.
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Posnic - Offline-first open source POS and billing software for retail shops and restaurants.
Website: https://www.posnic.com/
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QorumLogs - Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs.
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React Native Debugger - Desktop app for inspecting your React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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Reactotron - Desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows.
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RktMachine - Menu bar macOS app for running rkt in a macOS hypervisor CoreOS VM.
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Ruby.app - macOS app that contains a full Ruby installation (for use with Ruby/Gosu).
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Shuttle - Simple SSH shortcut menu for macOS.
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SwiftyBeaver - Convenient logging during development & release in Swift.
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SwitchShuttle - Simple commands shortcut menu for macOS.
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syncthing-macosx - Frugal nativemacOS macOS Syncthing application bundle.
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Unused - Mac app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources.
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Vagrant Manager - Manage your vagrant machines in one place with Vagrant Manager for macOS.
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Frame Player - Video player built on libmpv with seekbar previews, subtitle search matched to the release, torrent streaming, casting to Chromecast and DLNA televisions, and watching together in sync.
Website: https://frameplayer.app
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IINA - The modern video player for macOS.
Website: https://iina.io
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IPTVMac - Native IPTV player for Xtream Codes and M3U playlists, with instant search, a built-in mpv player, Picture in Picture and catch-up.
Website: https://goelir.github.io/IPTVMac/
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Mac Classic Player - Keyboard-driven media player for macOS, in the spirit of Media Player Classic.
Website: https://mcp.kkweb.io/
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MacMorpheus - 3D 180/360 video player for macOS for PSVR with head tracking.
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Movie Monad - Desktop video player built with Haskell that uses GStreamer and GTK+.
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MPlayerX - Media player on macOS.
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MPV - Lightweight, highly configurable media player.
Website: https://mpv.io
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Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.
Website: https://www.plugformac.com/
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Vespertine - Bit-perfect music player that switches the DAC to each track's native format, plays DSD, Dolby Atmos, TrueHD and DTS, and detects fake hi-res files.
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Cumulonimbus - Simple, beautiful podcast app.
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Doughnut - Podcast player and library for mac
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gPodder - gPodder is a simple, open source podcast client.
Website: https://gpodder.github.io/
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mkchromecast - Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices.
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PodcastMenu - PodcastMenu is a simple app which puts Overcast on your Mac's menu bar so you can listen to your favorite podcasts while you work.
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Podlive for macOS - macOS client to listen to live streaming podcasts (only). It currently supports all livestreams broadcasting via Ultraschall with Studio Link On Air.
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Winds - A Beautiful Open Source RSS & Podcast App Powered by Getstream.io
Website: https://getstream.io/winds/
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ActivityWatch - Open-source automated time tracker that tracks how you spend time on your devices.
Website: https://activitywatch.net
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Agent Teams AI - Desktop control center for coordinating autonomous AI coding agent teams across multiple providers.
Website: https://agentteams.live
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AI Gist - Local-first AI prompt manager with variable filling, Jinja templates, AI generation, and WebDAV/iCloud backup.
Languages:
TypeScript
JavaScriptWebsite: https://getaigist.com
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AI Monitor - Companion app that shows Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Cursor usage limits on a USB-connected ESP32 desk display.
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AirPoise - Menu bar app that uses AirPods motion sensors for head-posture reminders and configurable head-gesture shortcuts.
Website: https://airpoise.vercel.app/
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Aman Disk - S.M.A.R.T. health, temperature history and performance test for your Mac's internal drives.
Website: https://github.com/MidZai/aman_disk
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Ao - Elegant Microsoft To-Do desktop app.
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App Fair - Find and install macOS apps from Homebrew Cask and Fairground App catalogs.
Website: https://appfair.app
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AutoDoc - Private, local-first meeting notes with on-device transcription and AI summaries.
Website: https://getautodoc.com/
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BibDesk - Use BibDesk to edit and manage your bibliography
Website: https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io
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Blink Eye - An Open-Source minimalist Eye Care reminder & Break Timer app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Website: https://blinkeye.vercel.app/
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Blurt - Free, open-source dictation for macOS: hold a key, talk, and polished text lands in whatever app you're typing in. Powered by AssemblyAI speech-to-text (bring your own API key).
Website: https://www.assemblyai.com/blurt
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Bye-AppQuit - A minimal native macOS app to quickly view and Bulk kill running processes.
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Bzz - Automatic keyboard layout switcher (RU↔EN). Detects mistyped words like "ghbdtn" and replaces with "привет" on the fly. Open-source replacement for the abandoned Punto Switcher.
Website: https://github.com/zlopixatel/bzz
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Calculeta - Calculator for macOS which working on statusbar.
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Cerebro - Cross-platform launcher app.
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Clendar - Clendar is an universal calendar app. Written in SwiftUI.
Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id1548102041
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Clipbara - Paste-like clipboard manager with pinboards, Quick Look previews, search, and one-click copying.
Website: https://github.com/mobrava/Clipbara
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Clipboard - An easy-to-use clipboard manager with time saving features that work across all terminals.
Website: https://GetClipboard.app
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Clipboard Router - Native macOS clipboard manager with searchable history, text transforms, paste queues, reviewed actions, and an encrypted Vault.
Website: https://ibrolord.github.io/clipboard-router-releases/
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ClipMenu - Clipboard manager for macOS.
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Clocker - macOS app to plan and organize through timezones.
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Codex Account Switcher - Native macOS menu bar app for switching multiple Codex Desktop and CLI accounts and monitoring weekly usage.
Website: https://liuzhao1225.github.io/codex-account-switcher/
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Command Reopen - Makes Cmd+Tab restore minimized and closed windows with zero permissions.
Website: https://commandreopen.com/
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Condution - Create tasks, manage due dates, and filter with powerful perspectives.
Website: https://www.condution.com
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ControlPlane - Automate running tasks based on where you are or what you do.
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CrossGen - Local-first AI image workspace for generating, editing, organizing, and reusing images through a desktop app, JSON CLI, and MCP-compatible agents.
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CrossMacro - A cross-platform macro recorder, player, editor, and text expansion tool.
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DevUtils.app - Developer Utilities for macOS, helps you with your tiny daily tasks with just a single click! i.e., JSON Formatter, UUID Generator...
Website: https://devutils.com
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Dictámelo - Voice dictation with downloadable local speech models, optional cloud providers and a configurable push-to-talk shortcut.
Website: https://www.dictamelo.com/en
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Dockit - An application that can dock any window to the edge of the screen.
Website: [official site](official site)
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DropPoint - Make drag-and-drop easier using DropPoint. Helps to drag content without having to open side-by-side windows.
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DSH Desk Pet - Desktop pet that mirrors your coding agent's state, with skins generated from a photo of your own pet.
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Earnote - Records lectures, meetings and calls, transcribes them locally with Whisper and writes structured notes with an on-device AI model.
Website: https://earnote.dev
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EK Bridge - Menu bar app that lets AI agents such as Claude, Codex and Cursor use only the calendars and reminder lists you choose, over MCP, and asks you before each change.
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espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander, a powerful replacement for Alfred Snippets
Website: https://espanso.org
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far2l - Linux/Mac fork of FAR Manager v2
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Fazm - The fastest AI computer agent for macOS. Takes voice commands and controls your entire desktop.
Website: https://fazm.ai
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File Architect - Create file and folder structures from plain text descriptions.
Website: https://filearchitect.com
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Flycut - Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers.
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FolderForge - Customize macOS folders with colors, artwork, icons, reusable presets, and rule-based workspace styling.
Website: https://folder-forge.vercel.app/
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Freeter - App that allows you to gather everything you need for work in one place, organized by projects and workflows, and have a quick access to them.
Website: https://freeter.io/
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FunNotch - Puts the MacBook notch to work: media controls, a drag-and-drop file shelf, clipboard history, focus sessions that block sites and apps, and twelve configurable widgets.
Website: https://funnotch.xyz
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FutureOS - One AI agent everywhere you work - terminal, desktop, mobile, and IM bots driven by a single Rust backend.
Website: https://future-os.cn
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gadak - Keeps Jira, Linear and Confluence in one local SQLite file you query with SQL, and is a tracker of its own with no account.
Website: https://gadak.dev
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Grux - AI agent that runs terminal sessions it can undo and reaches your mail, calendar, meetings, and files, using your own API key or a local model.
Website: https://gruxai.com
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Hop - Eighteen everyday tools in one menu bar panel: timer, time tracker, keep-awake, system monitor, clipboard history, file converter, window manager, torrents, archives, text recognition, screenshots with an editor, drawing over the screen, color picker, VPN switcher, app launcher, app uninstaller, keyboard lock and internet speed test. Native, offline, no telemetry.
Website: https://hop.tools
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horita - Menu bar app that counts down to your next meeting and joins Zoom, Meet and Teams calls in one click.
Website: https://horita.app
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Ice - Ice is a versatile menu bar manager that goes beyond hiding and showing items to offer a rich set of productivity features.
Website: https://icemenubar.app/
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inlaut - Menu bar dictation for German and English that runs a Parakeet model fully on-device and types at the cursor.
Website: https://inlaut.de
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Itsycal - A tiny calendar for that lives in the Mac menu bar.
Website: https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/
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jevme - Voice control for any Mac app that acts while you're still talking and learns from its own AI decisions.
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KeyHolder - Record shortcuts in macOS, like Alfred.app.
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KIAgent - Personal digital memory: indexes your mail, chats and documents into a local SQLite database and serves them to AI assistants over MCP.
Website: https://localkiagent.com
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KinetAios - Local-first multi-engine AI agent dashboard: run Claude Code, Codex, and a built-in ReAct engine side by side with shared cross-engine memory, MCP, and 40+ tools.
Website: https://phinn.github.io/KinetAios/
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Kiwix - Kiwix for iOS and macOS, build on Swift.
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Layout Designer for UICollectionView - A simple but powerful tool that helps you make complex layouts for UICollectionView.
Website: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/layout-designer/id1507238011?l=en&mt=12
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linked - 🧾 Your daily journal app, diary or anything else to unclutter your mind. Let linked help you get focused by writing down what is in your mind on a daily basis.
Website: https://uselinked.com
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Linked Ideas - macOS application to write down and connect ideas.
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Logue - Privacy-first AI meeting notes and writing assistant with on-device transcription, smart minutes, action items, and 60+ writing modes — runs entirely on Apple Silicon.
Website: https://github.com/bitwize-ai/Logue
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Mac Screenshot Tracker - An open source, free and hackable screenshot tracker. Re-watch what you've been working on!
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Maccy - Lightweight search-as-you-type clipboard manager.
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macOrganizer - macOS app for organizing files or removing unnecessary files.
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Manta - Flexible invoicing desktop app with beautiful & customizable templates.
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MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings
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Middleclick - Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse
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Mimer - Fast, private, developer-first clipboard manager with type-aware history, ⌘K transforms, and history encrypted at rest.
Website: https://mimer.hasanjafri.com/
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MRRDock - Menu bar app that adds up your MRR from Stripe, RevenueCat, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Dodo Payments and Gumroad, keeping the API keys in the macOS Keychain.
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mysa - A macOS menu bar app for quick breathing breaks, with a frosted screen overlay and handwritten quotes.
Website: https://github.com/alishansnsn/mysa
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NarrateClaude - Hands-free, on-device voice loop for talking to Claude Code: Apple speech recognition in, cloned-voice text-to-speech out, no cloud.
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nastro - Terminal call recorder for macOS that captures system audio and mic (no bot joins the call) and transcribes on-device with speaker diarization, via TUI or headless CLI.
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Nimclip
- Native, local-first clipboard history manager with search, tags, image support, and quick paste.
Website: https://hukdoesn.github.io/Nimclip/
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Notchi - Turn the MacBook notch into a place to ask AI, save notes, set reminders, or run coding agents.
Website: https://www.notch.website/
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NoteGen - Local-first Markdown note-taking app that captures scattered information and organizes it into structured notes with AI.
Website: https://notegen.top/
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Numi - Beautiful calculator app for macOS
Website: https://numi.app/
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OATS - Open-source local-first macOS meeting-notes app with live transcription, speaker labels, AI summaries, and an offline on-device mode.
Website: https://ariso.ai/oats
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Off Grid AI Desktop - Private on-device AI suite for Apple Silicon Macs: local LLM chat via llama.cpp, RAG search over your own data, MCP connectors, and Stable Diffusion image generation, with no account, no telemetry, and no cloud.
Website: https://getoffgridai.co/
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OffPDF - An offline PDF toolkit with 23 tools for editing, converting, organizing, OCR, and more.
Website: https://offpdf.com
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OmniMac - Dynamic Island for any Mac (notch or not) plus ten more utilities in one lightweight menu-bar app: keep-awake, ⌘Tab by windows, window shortcuts and layouts, clipboard history, per-app volume and equaliser, performance monitor, OCR and app cleaner.
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OmniPrompt - Your ultimate GPT companion for seamless access on your Mac
Website: https://omniprompt.app/
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OpenClip - Lightweight floating action bar for macOS that turns selected text into instant actions.
Website: https://getopenclip.app
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OpenHabitTracker - Take notes, plan tasks, track habits. Free, open source, all data stays on your device.
Website: https://openhabittracker.net
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OpenVoiceFlow - On-device voice dictation for macOS with local transcription and optional text cleanup.
Languages:
Swift
Objective-C
Python
ShellWebsite: https://openvoiceflow.com
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Orchestrator - macOS workspace for Codex with repository browsing, Kanban tasks, subagent inspection and local code review.
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Orkas - Local-first multi-agent desktop application where a Commander coordinates specialist agents for research, coding, data analysis, documents, and media.
Languages:
TypeScript
JavaScript
CSS
PythonWebsite: https://orkas.ai/
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Paperless Desktop - Desktop app that uses the paperless API to manage your document scans.
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PDF Archiver - Nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks.
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Pennywise - Pennywise opens any website or media in a small floating window that remains on top of all other applications. It's a great alternative to Helium.
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Pesty - Free, open-source clipboard manager inspired by Paste, with a slide-up color-coded clipboard strip, pinboards, search, and keyboard-driven pasting.
Website: https://github.com/momenbasel/pesty
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Pomodoro Cycle - Pomodoro Cycle for macOS
Website: https://github.com/ziulev/pomodoro-cycle-app/releases
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Posnic - Offline-first open source POS and billing software for retail shops and restaurants.
Website: https://www.posnic.com/
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PuppyOne - A local-first workspace where you and your AI work on the same files.
Website: https://www.puppyone.ai
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QOwnNotes - Plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration.
Website: https://www.qownnotes.org/
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Quicksilver - Quicksilver is a fast macOS productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly.
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Quickwords - Write anything in a matter of seconds. Create snippets that can substitute text, execute tedious tasks and more.
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Quillite Markdown - Lightweight, local-first Markdown reader and editor with live preview, visual diagrams, math, and multi-format export.
Website: https://qm.ssssa.cn/
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Qwen Scribe - Private, local transcription and system-wide dictation for Apple Silicon, powered by Qwen3-ASR on MLX.
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Readest - Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers.
Website: https://readest.com
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Recall - Local-first clipboard manager with on-device semantic search, two-factor codes, and credentials that delete themselves.
Website: https://github.com/cnazk/recall-mac
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Repose - Break reminder for macOS that automatically pauses during meetings.
Website: https://github.com/fikrikarim/repose
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reventlou - Personal database as an information management system.
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RustCast - Blazingly fast, customisable multi tool, application launcher
Website: https://rustcast.umangsurana.com
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SaneClip - Clipboard manager with Touch ID protection, AES-256-GCM encryption, and sensitive data detection.
Website: https://saneclip.com
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SaneSales - Universal indie sales tracker for LemonSqueezy, Gumroad, and Stripe with on-device privacy.
Website: https://sanesales.com
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ScreenHint - A simple screenshotting utility for thinking clearly.
Website: https://screenhint.com
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Screenpipe - 24/7 screen and audio recording with AI-powered search. Local-first, privacy-focused rewind alternative.
Website: https://screenpi.pe
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SelfControl - macOS app to block your own access to distracting websites etc for a predetermined period of time. It can not be undone by the app or by a restart – you must wait for the timer to run out.
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Sessions - Safari extension to save your working sessions
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Shark - Cursor IDE workspace manager for macOS.
Website: https://ssbun.github.io/Shark
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Skilly - Voice-first AI tutor that watches your screen and points at on-screen UI elements to teach creative software like Blender, Figma, and Premiere.
Website: https://tryskilly.app
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Slime - App icon assets generator written in SwiftUI
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Speed Reader - Read faster with the power of silencing vocalization with SpeedReader.
Website: https://apps.apple.com/app/speed-reader/id1258448209
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Spotter - Productivity tool, the main function is to search and launch external application actions and applications themselves, so you can stay focused on your current task. Kind of spotlight or alfred alternative.
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sqlectron - A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal with cross database and platform support.
Website: https://sqlectron.github.io/
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Starcat - Native, local-first GitHub Stars manager that turns saved repositories into a searchable, AI-assisted knowledge base.
Website: https://starcat.ink/
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status-bar-todo - Simple macOS app to keep TODO-list in status bar.
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StickyNotes - A Windows 10-esque Sticky Notes app implemented in AppKit.
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Strategr - No-fuss time management.
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stretchly - Cross-platform electron app that reminds you to take breaks when working with computer.
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Super Productivity - Free to do list & time tracker for programmers & designers with Jira integration.
Languages:
TypeScript
JavaScriptWebsite: https://super-productivity.com
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Tameo - Privacy-first clipboard manager with history search, on-device image OCR, and snippets.
Website: https://tameo.ati-mirai.co.jp
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Tapflow - Turn your iPad or Android tablet into a customizable touch control panel for your Mac.
Website: https://tapflow.work
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Tequila - A native macOS productivity app integrating Focus, Timer, Calendar, Unified Mail, and Logs.
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ThenGenerator - Xcode Source Editor Extension for 'Then'
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Thyme - The task timer for OS X.
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Time to Leave - Log work hours and get notified when it's time to leave the office and start to live.
Languages:
JavaScript
CSS htmlWebsite: https://timetoleave.app/
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Timer - Simple Timer app for Mac.
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TimeScribe - Simple and free working time recording.
Languages:
CSS
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://timescribe.app
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TimeScribe - Simple and free working time recording.
Languages:
CSS
JavaScript
TypeScriptWebsite: https://timescribe.app
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Toggl Desktop - Toggl Desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux.
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TomatoBar - Pomodoro Technique Timer for macOS with Touch Bar support.
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TrelloApp - Unofficial wrapper application for Trello.com written in Swift. This is almost a "Hello World" for a site specific browser.
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Tungsten Edge - Per-window taskbar and Dock replacement: every open window gets its own place on the bar, one click away.
Website: https://tungstenedge.app
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TypeCue - Types a prepared script into any app, one hotkey press per line, as real keystrokes at a human pace, for demo recordings and live presentations.
Website: https://typecue.app
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Ueli - A keystroke launcher for macOS (and Windows) like Spotlight or Alfred.
Website: https://ueli.app/
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Ultra TabSaver - Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari
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Unbury - Searches your saved browser bookmarks by meaning rather than by title, using a one-line description it writes for each link.
Website: https://unbury.migsilva.dev
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Unfoldly - Local-first AI file search for macOS that indexes selected personal files on-device with embeddings, visual search, and local GGUF models.
Languages:
TypeScript
Rust
PythonWebsite: https://www.unfoldly.io/
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Vocula - Hold-to-talk dictation that transcribes on-device with Whisper or Parakeet and pastes the text at the cursor.
Website: https://vocula.app
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Voicely - Offline dictation into any app, call recording with speaker labels and audio/video file transcription, all on-device with a local speech model.
Website: https://voicely.art
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Watson - A CLI application for time tracking.
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Whale - Unofficial Trello app.
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Whisk - Clipboard manager with a Paste-style panel, pins, search operators, paste stack and rich previews.
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Xournal++ - Take handwritten notes with ease
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Yap - On-device voice dictation from the menu bar. Set a hotkey, talk, and the text is pasted into whatever field you were typing in. It runs offline in native Swift with no model to download.
Website: https://frigade.com/yap
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Yippy - macOS open source clipboard manager
Website: https://yippy.mattdavo.com
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Yomu - Manga reader app for macOS.
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Zielzeit - Menu bar app projecting the year your Scalable Capital portfolio reaches a savings goal, read-only through the official broker CLI.
Website: https://mannafee.github.io/zielzeit-scalable-capital/
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Aerial - Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for macOS.
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Brooklyn - Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018.
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Epoch Flip Clock Screensaver - Unix epoch timestamp flip clock screensaver.
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Gibson - Screen saver that draws a hacker film dashboard from real system telemetry.
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Haze - Live wallpapers, a matching screensaver and animated Metal gradients from the menu bar.
Website: https://github.com/adrbn/haze
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Image-As-Wallpaper - Utility application helps with selection of images for using as desktop wallpaper or in screensaver on Mac computers.
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Irvue - Screensaver for macOS.
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Life Saver - An abstract screensaver based on Conway's Game of Life implemented with SpriteKit
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MinimalClock - Simple and elegant screensaver that displays the time.
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MusaicFM - iTunes Screensaver Clone for Spotify and Last.fm
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Predator - A predator-inspired clock screensaver for macOS
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The GitHub Matrix Screensaver - The GitHub Matrix Screensaver for macOS.
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AppLocker - Kernel-level application locking tool built with Apple Endpoint Security and Liquid Glass UI.
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ClearanceKit - File-access control for macOS that protects sensitive user data from supply-chain attacks using Endpoint Security.
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Cloaker - simple drag-and-drop, password-based file encryption.
Website: https://adequate.systems/
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Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud.
Website: https://cryptomator.org/
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Holeberry - A native and modern macOS menu bar app to monitor and control your Pi-hole instances.
Website: https://holeberryapp.com
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