MacOS apps
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.
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.
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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Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox & Co.
Cryptomator offers multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud.
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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.
📦 Mac App Store command line interface.
A command-line interface for the Mac App Store. Designed for scripting & automation.
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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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A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch.
Dorso monitors your posture in real-time using either your Mac's camera or AirPods motion sensors. When it detects that you're slouching, it progressively blurs your screen to remind you to sit up straight. Maintain good posture, and the blur clears instantly.
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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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An open source anti-detect browser with robust fingerprint injection. 🦊 A stealthy, minimalistic, custom build of Firefox for web scraping 🦊
Make Your Images Crystal Clear.
Transform blurry, low-resolution images into stunning high-definition quality with AI.
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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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Universal 2D Graphics Editor. one to rule them all.
PixiEditor is a universal 2D editor that was made to provide you with tools and features for all your 2D needs. Create beautiful sprites for your games, animations, edit images, create logos. All packed up in an intuitive and familiar interface.
Create non-destructibe, procedural graphics with Node Graph. Node Graph allows for creating fully non-destructible graphics and animations. Connect nodes to easily compose complex visuals. From pre-built effects to custom shaders, the possibilities are endless!
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Not so boring notch That Rocks 🎸🎶
Say hello to Boring Notch, the coolest way to make your MacBook’s notch the star of the show! Say goodbye to boring status bars: with Boring Notch, your notch transforms into a dynamic music control center, complete with a vibrant visualizer and all the essential music controls you need. But that’s just the start! Boring Notch also offers calendar integration, a handy file shelf with AirDrop support, a complete MacOS HUD replacement and more!
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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.
A modern desktop client for Navidrome/Subsonic servers built with React and Electron.
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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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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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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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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Al powered voice to text.
Write 3x faster, without lifting a finger.
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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 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.
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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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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Run anything at startup by simply placing it in a special folder.
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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.
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.
Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play.
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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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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.
A second brain for the AI era. Free forever.
Organize your notes as Markdown files. With native relationships, Git, and Claude Code integration.
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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Boot a virtual iPhone (iOS 26) via Apple's Virtualization.framework using PCC research VM infrastructure.
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The best SQLite database editor for macOS
Base is a small, powerful, comfortable SQLite editor for everyone
AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS.
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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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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.
Run beloved agents side by side. Multitask with agents, stay in control.
JetBrains Air is the Agentic Development Environment where Codex, Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, and Junie execute independent task loops without interfering with each other.
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.
A modern GUI for yt-dlp (and other youtube-dl forks).
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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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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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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.
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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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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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.
a free messaging app for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and more.
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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.
Terminal Reimagined for macOS.
A modern macOS terminal with file explorer, multi-pane grids, drag-and-drop, and native voice input. Lightweight. Fast. Beautiful.
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 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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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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Run AI locally on your Mac.
Local AI, native to your Mac. Chat, serve, monitor, and connect MLX models from one macOS app.
Containers and Kubernetes.
The best free and open source tool for developers to work with containers and Kubernetes. Simplify container management, streamline Kubernetes workflows, and transition from local development to production with ease.
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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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