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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.
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.
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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A Graphical IDE for Kubernetes.
Freelens is a Kubernetes IDE that provides a graphical interface for managing and monitoring Kubernetes clusters. Freelens is maintained by the community.
Freelens is a free and open-source user interface designed for managing Kubernetes clusters. It provides a standalone application compatible with macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems, making it accessible to a wide range of users. The application aims to simplify the complexities of Kubernetes management by offering an intuitive and user-friendly interface.
A portable version of LEGO Island (1997).
This initiative is a portable version of LEGO Island (Version 1.1, English) based on the decompilation project. Our primary goal is to transform the codebase to achieve platform independence, thereby enhancing compatibility across various systems while preserving the original game's experience as faithfully as possible.
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🦀 ⚡ kubectl port forward manager, with support for UDP and proxy connections through k8s clusters
A handy app for managing Kubernetes port forwarding on any platform. It makes things easier for teams.
kftray and kftui are independent, cross-platform applications. They help you set up and manage multiple port-forwarding settings easily. Both apps are part of the same open-source project and aim to make working with Kubernetes easier. kftray has a desktop interface, while kftui has a terminal interface, so you can choose the one that suits you best.
AI-powered Postgres Client. cursor for data ⚡️ - explore your postgresql db in seconds.
OCR-powered screenshot tool to capture text instead of images.
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container is a tool that you can use to create and run Linux containers as lightweight virtual machines on your Mac. It's written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
The tool consumes and produces OCI-compliant container images, so you can pull and run images from any standard container registry. You can push images that you build to those registries as well, and run the images in any other OCI-compliant application.
Enhanced developer tools for React Native applications, supporting React Query DevTools and device storage monitoring with a beautiful native interface.
Beautiful macOS app for debugging React Query in ANY React-based application (Mobile, Web, TV, VR). Monitor queries across devices in real-time with a gorgeous native interface. Features device management, query visualization, state simulation, and automatic production safety. Works with React Native, React Web, Next.js, Expo, and any platform where.
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS.
The Containerization package allows applications to use Linux containers. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.
Cross-platform Xcode replacement. Build and deploy iOS apps with SwiftPM on Linux, Windows, macOS.
Run MCPs without the complexity ⚡️
OneMCP is an app that lets you run any MCP without the complexity of downloading repos, reading docs, or setting up servers.
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All-in-One Desktop App to Analyze Data Locally.
TextQuery is an all-in-one desktop app to import, query, modify, and visualize your raw data with SQL.
macOS & Linux Containers for Computer-Use AI Agents on Apple Silicon. Run Docker Containers for Computer-Use AI Agents on Apple Silicon.
TL;DR: c/ua (pronounced "koo-ah", short for Computer-Use Agent) is a framework that enables AI agents to control full operating systems within high-performance, lightweight virtual containers. It delivers up to 97% native speed on Apple Silicon and works with any vision language models.
Rust based package manager for macOS.
Sapphire is a next‑generation, Rust‑powered package manager inspired by Homebrew. It installs and manages:
- Formulae: command‑line tools, libraries, and languages
- Casks: desktop applications and related artifacts on macOS
ARM only for now, might add x86 support eventually.
macOS clipboard manager.
Clipboard manager for macOS which does one job - keep your copy history at hand. Period.
Lightweight. Open source. No fluff.
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Get an Edge in Editing.
Kate is a Feature-Packed Text Editor
Kate is packed with features that will make it easier for you to view and edit all your text files. Kate lets you to edit and view many files at the same time, both in tabs and split views, and comes with a wide variety of plugins, including an embedded terminal that lets you launch console commands directly from Kate, powerful search and replace plugins, and a preview plugin that can show you what your MD, HTML and even SVG will look like.
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Keep control of your news reading with Reeder, RSS reader and read later client in one app, now with support for iCloud syncing.
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OpenRsync is a FREE, easy to use implementation of the rsync program.
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Developer Friendly Kubernetes 👁️ .
Cyclops is an open-source dev tool that simplifies Kubernetes with an easy-to-use UI, making it less intimidating. Instead of creating and configuring your Kubernetes manifests with YAML, use Cyclops to painlessly configure and deploy your applications - validations included!
free macOS app to help with digital eye strain.
BlinkMoreFree is an open source macOS menu bar application that helps reduce eye strain by fading your screen when you stare at it for too long without blinking. Using automated eye-tracking and customized settings to encourage you to blink more.
Shell scripts to help manage, clean, and optimize your macOS system. Includes app cleanup, path management, and more.
CR - Mac Helper is a personal project designed to streamline Mac maintenance and management. It's born out of the need to automate cleaning, auditing, and optimizing my macOS environment after years of installing, uninstalling, and experimenting with countless applications and tools. This script helps keep track of system health, remove unnecessary files, and generally keep my Mac running smoothly. Sharing is caring, so here it is!
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Install the AWS CLI on modern Macs without a package manager.
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A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. Powered by llama.cpp.
Chat with an local LLM that can respond with information from your files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. All conversations happen offline, and your data is saved locally.
Powerful CLI tool to take control of the Spotify client.
Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
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Al powered voice to text.
Write 3x faster, without lifting a finger.
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💩🚀 Windows 95 in Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows. This is Windows 95, running in an Electron app. Yes, it's the full thing. I'm sorry.
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Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE new generation.
Here you will find privilege escalation tools for Windows and Linux/Unix* and MacOS.
These tools search for possible local privilege escalation paths that you could exploit and print them to you with nice colors so you can recognize the misconfigurations easily.
A GUI for controlling Gatekeeper, unquarantining apps and more.
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Visual tool to explore SQLite databases page-by-page, the way they're stored on disk and the way SQLite sees them. A small GUI application built in redbean that lets you explore your SQLite databases "page by page" the way SQLite sees them.
build-once run-anywhere c library.
Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD 7.3 + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.
📱 Display and control your Android device with a Graphical Interface of Scrcpy powered by Electron.
A lightweight CLI and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) natively on Apple Silicon.