MacOS apps
Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS.
The Little Snitch Network Monitor shows you where your Mac connects to on the Internet. You decide what you want to allow or deny.
The Ultimate CSV Editor. SmoothCSV is a powerful and intuitive tool for editing CSV files.
SmoothCSV is a cross-platform CSV editor built for real work. Edit your files intuitively, exactly how you want. Lightning-fast performance, handles messy data, and powerful features like SQL queries. Just smooth CSV editing that works.
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Ollama Manager App.
Unofficial Ollama manager app for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS, featuring server management, model management, and simple chat feature.
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Your entire server infrastructure at your fingertips. Manage all your servers from your local desktop. No remote setup required.
XPipe is a new type of shell connection hub and remote file manager that allows you to access your entire server infrastructure from your local machine. It works on top of your installed command-line programs and does not require any setup on your remote systems. So if you normally use CLI tools like ssh, docker, kubectl, etc. to connect to your servers, you can just use XPipe on top of that.
See and Manage Open Ports on Mac.
When you're working on multiple projects at the same time, it's easy to lose track of what's running. A database here, a dev server there, an API you forgot was still open... before long, your ports become a mess.
Portero gives you a clear view of everything running on your machine, so you always know what's using each port, can stop what you don't need, and get back to building instead of debugging port conflicts.
a tiling window manager for macos.
Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.
Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play.
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bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes.
A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers - just pure encrypted communication.
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brew autosuggestions for unknown commands on macos. Transform command-not-found errors into brew install suggestions
Alchemist is a smart command-not-found handler for macOS that automatically suggests Homebrew packages when you type an unrecognized command. It distinguishes between formulae and casks, provides intelligent matching, and can even offer to install packages immediately.
Discover, download, and run local LLMs.
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Convert weird video files to MP4 in one click.
Magicbrake is a simple macOS GUI for handbrakecli. It’s equivalent to running ./HandBrakeCLI -i input.mkv -o output.mp4 --preset="Very Fast 1080p30". It accepts one or many files.
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Open-source app for incredible screen recordings. Create polished product demo videos effortlessly.
Recordly is an open-source screen recorder that adds auto-zoom, smooth cursor animations and more to your videos. Expect bugs.
The terminal built for coding agents, multitasking.
Native macOS app built on Ghostty. Vertical tabs, notification rings when agents need attention, split panes, and a CLI for programmability.
A timeline of your day, automatically. Turns your screen activity into a clean timeline with AI summaries and distraction highlights.
Dayflow is a native macOS app (SwiftUI) that records your screen at 1 FPS, analyzes it every 15 minutes with AI, and generates a timeline of your activities with summaries. It's lightweight (25MB app size) and uses ~100MB of RAM and <1% cpu.
A lightweight mac status bar development port monitor.
A lightweight cross-platform status bar app that monitors and manages development processes running on configurable ports. The app provides real-time process detection and allows you to kill individual processes or all processes at once.
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The most intuitive desktop API client
Organize and execute REST, GraphQL, and gRPC requests in a simple and intuitive app. Yaak is a desktop API client for organizing and executing REST, GraphQL, and gRPC requests. It's built using Tauri, Rust, and ReactJS.
Download. Flash. Boot. The all-in-one USB creator for Mac.
macUSB is a guided macOS app for creating bootable USB media on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs from local .dmg, .iso, .cdr, and .app files, or with the built-in macOS downloader.
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A lightweight code editor with vim mode, Git integration, and agentic AI editing.
Teleprompter for macOS.
A very basic, always-on-top floating text prompter for macOS. Perfect for quick videos, or keeping important text visible while you work.
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Virtual desktop pet cats for macOS — pixel art cats that live on your dock and chat with you via Ollama LLM.
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Compress your pictures up to 90% without visible quality loss.
Caesium is an image compression software that helps you store, send and share digital pictures, supporting JPG, PNG, WebP and TIFF formats. You can quickly reduce the file size (and resolution, if you want) by preserving the overall quality of the image.
AI Vision for macOS. Fast Screen Capture & VQA.
Peekaboo is a macOS CLI & optional MCP server that enables AI agents to capture screenshots of applications, or the entire system, with optional visual question answering through local or remote AI models.
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Uncensorable Peer-to-Peer. Where Friendship Meets Freedom. Decentralized application with Friend-to-Friend technology.
Xeres allows you to interact with people in a fully decentralized way. No server or account required, which means: nobody can censor you.
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WiFiman is here to save your network from sluggish surfing, endless buffering, and congested data channels.
- Detect available WiFi networks and Bluetooth LE devices instantly.
- Scan network subnets for additional details on detected devices, such as Bonjour, SNMP, NetBIOS, and Ubiquiti discovery protocols.
- Connect to your UniFi network remotely via Teleport - a free, zero-configuration VPN.
Al powered voice to text.
Write 3x faster, without lifting a finger.
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The database client Mac deserves. Fast, native database client for Mac
Connect to MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Mongo, Redis, and a dozen more. Built with SwiftUI. Ships under 50 MB. Launches in under a second.
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macOS menu bar app that exposes Apple's on-device Foundation Models as an OpenAI-compatible local API. Zero cloud. Zero dependencies.
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Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux, macOS and Windows.
Ardour is a professional digital workstation for working with audio and MIDI.
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FlashSpace is a blazingly fast virtual workspace manager for macOS ⚡
FlashSpace is a blazingly-fast virtual workspace manager for macOS, designed to enhance and replace native macOS Spaces. No more waiting for macOS animations.
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Hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS. 100% local, powered by WhisperKit and local LLM cleanup. Hold Control to record, release to transcribe and paste.
Run anything at startup by simply placing it in a special folder.
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Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.
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KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.
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Stay ahead of your repositories without opening a browser. Show status of GitHub Repos right in your menu bar and terminal: CI, Issues, Pull Requests, Latest Release.
RepoBar is a focused macOS menu bar app that surfaces the signal you care about: CI status, issues and PR counts, releases, traffic, and a compact activity heatmap for every repo you pin.
A modern desktop client for Navidrome/Subsonic servers built with React and Electron.
Ship 100x With The Agent IDE. The most powerful Agent Development Environment (ADE).
Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop and mobile. Run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and more side by side in isolated worktrees. Get the mobile companion for iOS or Android.
The best fork of the best lightweight, visual git client for macOS.
GitX is an OS X (MacOS) native graphical client for the git version control system.
GitX has a long history of various branches and versions maintained by various people over the years. This github org & repo are an attempt to consolidate and move forward with a current, common, community-maintained version.
Logitech Mouse Remapper.
A lightweight, open-source, fully local alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping Logitech HID++ mice.
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An open source anti-detect browser with robust fingerprint injection. 🦊 A stealthy, minimalistic, custom build of Firefox for web scraping 🦊
Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service.
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macOS Workspace Manager.
The workspace manager macOS should've shipped with.
Pin apps. Snap windows to halves, thirds, quarters. Switch profiles per desktop. Save and restore sessions. All from keyboard shortcuts.
Turns the MacBook notch into a drop zone
Easily share files using AirDrop, Mail, Messages and more by simply dropping them into your MacBook notch area.
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A desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally.
The best SQLite database editor for macOS
Base is a small, powerful, comfortable SQLite editor for everyone
Emulator of retro x86-based machines.
86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.
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Terminal Reimagined for macOS.
A modern macOS terminal with file explorer, multi-pane grids, drag-and-drop, and native voice input. Lightweight. Fast. Beautiful.
All the AI, on your Mac.
Chat with o3, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others all at once. The best models, as soon as they come out, in one open source app.
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Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG.
RCLI is an on-device voice AI for macOS. A complete STT + LLM + TTS pipeline running natively on Apple Silicon — 38 macOS actions via voice, local RAG over your documents, sub-200ms end-to-end latency. No cloud, no API keys.
📦 Mac App Store command line interface.
A command-line interface for the Mac App Store. Designed for scripting & automation.
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Free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, etc.
Boot a virtual iPhone (iOS 26) via Apple's Virtualization.framework using PCC research VM infrastructure.
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The ultimate tv renamer / subtitle downloader / sfv validator.
FileBot is the ultimate tool for renaming your tv shows and anime, downloading subtitles from various sources or just simple file verification.
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Browse Android files on macOS with style
A beautiful, native macOS application for browsing and managing your Android device files via ADB. Fast, intuitive, and powerful.
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Enchanted is iOS and macOS app for chatting with private self hosted language models such as Llama2, Mistral or Vicuna using Ollama.
Enchanted is open source, Ollama compatible, elegant macOS/iOS/visionOS app for working with privately hosted models such as Llama 2, Mistral, Vicuna, Starling and more. It's essentially ChatGPT app UI that connects to your private models. The goal of Enchanted is to deliver a product allowing unfiltered, secure, private and multimodal experience across all of your devices in iOS ecosystem (macOS, iOS, Watch, Vision Pro).
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Protect your SSH keys with your Mac's Secure Enclave.
Secretive is an app for protecting and managing SSH keys with the Secure Enclave.
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Orion — A web browser designed from the ground-up. Native WebKit speed, compatibility with a wide selection of extensions, and absolute privacy — finally together in one browser that respects you.
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The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux).
Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple (or your Linux system) didn’t.
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Free Up Tens to Hundreds of GB on Your Mac
Trim universal binaries from your audio plugins. If you're on Apple Silicon, you're only using half the code. Get that space back.
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Run AI locally on your Mac.
Local AI, native to your Mac. Chat, serve, monitor, and connect MLX models from one macOS app.