MacOS apps
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.
Boot a virtual iPhone (iOS 26) via Apple's Virtualization.framework using PCC research VM infrastructure.
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A lightweight code editor with vim mode, Git integration, and agentic AI editing.
The Ultimate Desktop Companion for Your Immich Server.
ImmichSafe is a user-friendly, cross-platform desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux, designed to simplify the management, backup, and restoration of your self-hosted Immich photo and video management server. It provides a graphical user interface for complex Docker commands, making Immich administration accessible to everyone.
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.
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.
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.
Discover, download, and run local LLMs.
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Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox & Co.
Cryptomator offers multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud.
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Private, fast, and honest web browser.
The Chromium-based web browser made for people, with love. Best privacy by default, unbiased ad-blocking, no bloat and no noise.
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Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS.
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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.
A fast file searching tool for macOS.
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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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SQL & noSQL database manager.
Powerful and easy to use (no)SQL database client for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, …
DbGate is cross-platform database manager. It's designed to be simple to use and effective, when working with more databases simultaneously. But there are also many advanced features like schema compare, visual query designer, chart visualisation or batch export and import.
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr supports your writing process at every stage — from initial notes to journal submission or book manuscript.
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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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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🚀 The Ultimate Image Uploader for Efficient Creators.
Supports Obsidian, Typora, VS Code etc. and 60+ image hosting services (S3, GitHub, Cloudflare R2, Imgur, Aliyun OSS...). Paste, upload, done.
The best SQLite database editor for macOS
Base is a small, powerful, comfortable SQLite editor for everyone
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.
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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Scientific plotting and data analysis. LabPlot is a FREE, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone.
FREE, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone and trusted by professionals.
Open source Dropbox client
Maestral is a lightweight Dropbox client for macOS and Linux. It provides powerful command line tools, supports gitignore patterns to exclude local files from syncing and allows syncing multiple Dropbox accounts.
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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.
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 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 second brain for the AI era. Free forever.
Organize your notes as Markdown files. With native relationships, Git, and Claude Code integration.
A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development.
mux (Coding Agent Multiplexer) is a cross-platform desktop application for AI-assisted development with isolated workspace management.
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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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.
A Web Developer's Browser. Develop responsive web apps 5x faster!
A must-have DevTool for all Front-End developers that will make your job easier. A modified browser built using Electron that helps in responsive web development.
A modern GUI for yt-dlp (and other youtube-dl forks).
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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.
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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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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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.
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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Chat for Ollama, Private AI Chat.
Empowering LLM researchers and hobbyists with seamless control over self-hosted models. Connect remotely, customize prompts, manage chats, and fine-tune configurations. All in one intuitive app.
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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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An overengineered oversimplified hardware-agnostic frontend for FFMPEG.
A cross-platform batch video encoder that shrinks your video files to a target quality level. No need to babysit the queue or tweak settings per file - just pick a target bitrate, add your files, and hit start.
Al powered voice to text.
Write 3x faster, without lifting a finger.
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A modern desktop client for Navidrome/Subsonic servers built with React and Electron.
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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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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A desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally.
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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Make Your Images Crystal Clear.
Transform blurry, low-resolution images into stunning high-definition quality with AI.
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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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Run anything at startup by simply placing it in a special folder.
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speak into any text field.
A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.
Handy is a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) that provides simple, privacy-focused speech transcription. Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear in any text field—all without sending your voice to the cloud.
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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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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.
An open source anti-detect browser with robust fingerprint injection. 🦊 A stealthy, minimalistic, custom build of Firefox for web scraping 🦊
An app that adapts to you, not the other way around
Affinity comes with built-in Vector, Pixel, and Layout studios, but you’re not locked in. Rearrange panels and mix and match your favorite tools to build custom studios. You can save multiple setups, switch between them in a click, and even share with others or download theirs. It’s customization that flexes to your workflow.
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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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.
Logitech Mouse Remapper.
A lightweight, open-source, fully local alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping Logitech HID++ mice.
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