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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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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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a free messaging app for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and more.
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Anvil is a graphical, multi-pane tiling editor that makes bold use of the mouse and integrates closely with the shell. It supports syntax highlighting, multiple cursors and selections, remote file editing, and contains a powerful text manipulation language.
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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a tiling window manager for macos.
Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.
Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS.
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CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal. It is open source project and can be used free of charge, even for business. It starts quite fast: ~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3GHz. It is extensible by Python add-ons: plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools. Syntax parser is feature-rich, from EControl engine.
Light-weight control pane to run CLI coding agents(Claude Code, Codex) in parallel.
A desktop terminal application for running multiple CLI coding agents simultaneously, each in isolated git worktrees.
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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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Audio Production Without Limits.
REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
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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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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.
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.
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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A modern GUI for yt-dlp (and other youtube-dl forks).
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📦 Mac App Store command line interface.
A command-line interface for the Mac App Store. Designed for scripting & automation.
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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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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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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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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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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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A C++ library for reading MacBook lid angle sensor data, based on reverse engineering of HID device specifications.
Hi, I’m Sam Gold. Did you know that you have rights a lid angle sensor in your MacBook? The human interface device utility says you do.
This is a little utility that shows the angle from the sensor and, optionally, plays a wooden door creaking sound if you adjust it reeaaaaaal slowly.
An open source anti-detect browser with robust fingerprint injection. 🦊 A stealthy, minimalistic, custom build of Firefox for web scraping 🦊
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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- Execution sequence for .bash_profile, .bashrc, .bash_login, .profile, and .bash_logout @ The Geek Stuff.
- Brew, le gestionnaire de paquets pour macOS et Linux @ DevSecOps :fr:.
- Distributing your own scripts via Homebrew @ justin․searls․co.
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features.
curl is used in command lines or scripts to transfer data. curl is also libcurl, used in cars, television sets, routers, printers, audio equipment, mobile phones, tablets, medical devices, settop boxes, computer games, media players and is the Internet transfer engine for countless software applications in over twenty billion installations.
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The best SQLite database editor for macOS
Base is a small, powerful, comfortable SQLite editor for everyone
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.
The Elegant Desktop Companion for Claude Code.
A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code - Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more.
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Whispering is an open-source speech-to-text application. Press a keyboard shortcut, speak, and your words will transcribe, transform, then copy and paste at the cursor.
Open source, cross-platform, unofficial YouTube Music Desktop App with built-in ad blocker and downloader
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Simple & Fast Online Markdown Editor with Live Preview. Quickly and easily get started writing your markdown documents with MKEditor's rich set of features.
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Chat UI for Coderunner.
coderunner-ui is a local‑first AI workspace that lets you:
- Chat with local or remote LLMs
- Run generated code inside a fully isolated Apple Container VM
- Browse the web and automate tasks via a built‑in headless browser (Playwright) All without sending your data to the cloud.
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Run AI Generated Code Locally. A secure local sandbox to run LLM-generated code using Apple containers.
CodeRunner is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that executes AI-generated code in a sandboxed environment on your Mac using Apple's native containers.
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OAuth credential MAnager.
Many IMAP/SMTP clients, like msmtp, fdm, isync, aerc, neomutt or mutt can use OAuth2 access tokens but lack the ability to renew and/or authorize OAuth2 credentials. The purpose of oama is to provide these missing capabilities by acting as a kind of smart password manager. In particular, access token renewal happens automatically in the background transparent to the user.
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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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The calendar and tasks app you won't be able to live without.
Give Your Calendar Superpowers Supercharge your schedule. Fantastical gives your existing calendar the powers you always wished it had.
Organize, coordinate, and conquer your day with ease.
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Positron, a next-generation data science IDE.
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A free, next-generation data science IDE built by Posit PBC.
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An extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data.
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A familiar environment for reproducible authoring and publishing.
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You can create a blog or a website. Or just share few notes with your friends or colleagues. Every Apple Note becomes a page on your site. You can use text, images, audio, video etc.
Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a precise digital weighing scale
TrackWeight is a macOS application that transforms your MacBook's trackpad into an accurate weighing scale by leveraging the Force Touch pressure sensors built into modern MacBook trackpads.
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
A simple and elegant open-source markdown editor that focused on speed and usability.
Awesome Mac application sharing recommendation.
This project is now very large, and is very different from the original idea. Here, we collect awesome macOS software and arrange them into various categories. Feel free to star and fork.
The AI IDE for prototype to production.
Kiro is an agentic IDE that helps you go from prototype to production with spec-driven development, agent hooks, and natural language coding assistance. Build faster with AI-powered features that understand your entire codebase, turn prompts into structured specs, and automate repetitive tasks.
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Run a bunch of Claude Codes in parallel.
Each Claude gets an isolated workspace. See who’s working, see who’s stuck, and what’s changed.
The Open-Source Agentic Browser. Your Browser, Reimagined.
We believe browsers must be open source, not owned by search or ad companies. And the future is AI agents automating your work locally and securely. We're building the best browser for that future.
Use @decorator comments in your .env file(s) to create a declarative schema for your config and a new function call syntax to securely load secrets from external sources.
Varlock is our tool that uses this parser to actually load your .env files, and then applies the schema that you have defined. It is a CLI, library, and will communicate with a native Mac application that enables using biometric auth to securely encrypt your local secrets.
Halloy is an open-source IRC client written in Rust, with the iced GUI library. It aims to provide a simple and fast client for Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms.
mouse & keyboard sharing via LAN.
Lan Mouse is a cross-platform mouse and keyboard sharing software similar to universal-control on Apple devices. It allows for using multiple PCs via a single set of mouse and keyboard. This is also known as a Software KVM switch.
Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers.
Deskflow is a free and open source keyboard and mouse sharing app. Use the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer to control nearby computers, and work seamlessly between them. It's like a software KVM (but without the video). TLS encryption is enabled by default. Wayland is supported. Clipboard sharing is supported.
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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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- Episode 623: 50 Days of Blue @ Linux Unplugged.
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