MacOS apps
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.
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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User-friendly SSH Connection Manager.
SSH Pilot is a user-friendly, lightweight SSH connection manager with an integrated terminal and SFTP client.
No more memorizing host aliases or complex SSH commands to manage your machines, deploy keys or set up port forwarding.
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Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software 🖥️ 📸. Open Source Screenshot Software.
Flameshot is a free and open-source, cross-platform tool to take screenshots with many built-in features to save you time.
KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.
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Logitech Mouse Remapper.
A lightweight, open-source, fully local alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping Logitech HID++ mice.
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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.
Run anything at startup by simply placing it in a special folder.
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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.
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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👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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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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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.
🚀 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 missing Mac app for Dark Mode. Toggle dark mode from anywhere with a single click.
Umbra makes switching to Dark Mode simple. Option click the Umbra icon in the Menu Bar or use the Umbra menu item to toggle your system appearance.
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save links, notes, and images. private & open source.
vault is a desktop app to collect and organize links, notes, and images. it’s open source, private, and everything is stored locally.
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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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a free messaging app for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and more.
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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.
Discover, download, and run local LLMs.
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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.
Terminal Reimagined for macOS.
A modern macOS terminal with file explorer, multi-pane grids, drag-and-drop, and native voice input. Lightweight. Fast. Beautiful.
📦 Mac App Store command line interface.
A command-line interface for the Mac App Store. Designed for scripting & automation.
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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.
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.
A lightweight code editor with vim mode, Git integration, and agentic AI editing.
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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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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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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Boot a virtual iPhone (iOS 26) via Apple's Virtualization.framework using PCC research VM infrastructure.
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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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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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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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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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Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS.
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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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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.
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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A second brain for the AI era. Free forever.
Organize your notes as Markdown files. With native relationships, Git, and Claude Code integration.
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.
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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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.
Fast PostgreSQL Client for Developers.
A minimal, fast SQL client desktop application with AI-powered querying. Built for developers who want to quickly peek at their data without the bloat. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS.
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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.
Beautiful native macOS video downloader. Download and trim in one app.
Media Downloader lets you download, quickly copy, reveal, and trim videos from social media and video platforms in one focused app. Paste a URL from services such as YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, Vimeo, Reddit, and many other sites supported by yt-dlp; the app downloads an MP4, copies the finished file to the clipboard, saves it to your chosen folder, and keeps a local history for fast access.
The best SQLite database editor for macOS
Base is a small, powerful, comfortable SQLite editor for everyone
Say goodbye to proprietary music players filled with ads, tracking, and profiling. Nuclear empowers you to listen to what you want, where you want, and how you want, for free.
Nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from various free sources.
This means that you can search for your favorite artists, albums, and songs, and the player will find information about them, as well as song streams, lyrics, music recommendations, and more, aggregating data from multiple sources.
Nuclear has no ads and no tracking.
A modern desktop client for Navidrome/Subsonic servers built with React and Electron.
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 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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Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.
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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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ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical adventure and role-playing games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator.
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Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play.
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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.
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.