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🛸 Hermes Agent — Portable & Cross-Platform.
Run a fully self-contained, self-improving AI agent from a single folder or USB drive. No global installation. Zero host pollution. All conversations, configs, memories, and skills stay inside your folder.
Open-source database client for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB and SQLite with SQL notebooks, visual EXPLAIN, AI and MCP built in. Hackable with plugins.
Tabularis is an open-source desktop SQL workspace for PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, and SQLite, with a built-in MCP server so Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf can read your schema and run queries through the same app you already use.
A local-first desktop and web app for browsing, searching, and analyzing your past AI coding sessions. See what your agents actually did across every project.
The free, open-source, cross-platform GTD app. Local-first, no account required. Mind Like Water.
A complete Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity system for desktop and mobile.
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Create stunning demos for free. Open-source, no subscriptions, no watermarks, and free for commercial use. An alternative to Screen Studio.
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The ultimate webcam suite!
Webcamoid is a full featured and multiplatform camera suite.
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A minimalist markdown scratchpad.
Scratch is an offline-first markdown notes app. It's AI-friendly, keyboard-optimized, and design-centered.
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A GitHub Desktop fork with advanced functionality and Bitbucket, GitLab integration.
A local-first desktop IDE for Amazon ECS.
Mercek is a desktop app for Amazon ECS. It uses the AWS credentials already on your machine and shows your services across every account and region. It's read-only until you approve a change, and it talks to AWS directly, with no server in between and no telemetry.
A beautiful, non-destructive, and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor built with performance in mind.
A cross-platform Electron Desktop App to stream and download any Movie, TV Series or Anime in the World. Zero Ads and Tracking
LLM inference, optimized for your Mac. Local AI, no more waiting on your Mac.
LLM inference server with continuous batching & SSD caching for Apple Silicon — managed from the macOS menu bar.
macOS-native MLX server with smart caching. Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Cursor respond in 5 seconds, not 90.
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Own your AI.
The native macOS harness for AI agents that run on your machine. Any model. Your files. Your memory. Free and open source.
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Your Logitech mouse, finally local.
A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — with no account and no telemetry.
A native window onto Homebrew.
Install, update, and clean up your brew packages from a quiet Mac‑native app. 14,000+ formulae and casks — no terminal required.
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.
Terminal-first AI-native dev workspace.
Terax is a lightweight open-source terminal (ADE) built on Tauri 2 + Rust and React 19. A native PTY backend with a WebGL renderer, an agentic AI side-panel that runs against your own keys or fully local models, plus a code editor, file explorer, source control with a git graph, and a web preview pane built in. About 7-8 MB on disk. No telemetry. No account.
Canvas Terminal Editor.
An infinite zoomable canvas for coding — editor, terminal, and browser panels in a spatial workspace.
Cate is a desktop IDE built on an infinite canvas. Instead of stacking windows and tabs, you spread editors, terminals, browsers, documents, and AI agents across freeform space and arrange them however you think about the project. Float panels on the canvas, dock them into tabs and splits, or detach them into their own OS windows. Cate restores everything when you reopen the folder.
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.
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-chain compromises.
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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 Personal AI super intelligence. Private, Simple and extremely powerful. OpenHuman is an open-source agentic assistant designed to integrate with you in your daily life. Each bullet links to the deeper writeup in the docs.
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.
Peekaboo is a macOS automation toolkit for humans and agents. It captures pixels, reads the accessibility tree, drives input, and ships an agent runtime plus an MCP server so AI clients (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor) can drive the desktop with the same primitives you'd use from the shell.
AI-powered desktop SQL client. Cross-platform. Built with Flutter.
openhare is an AI-powered, cross-platform desktop SQL client with multi-database support, built for everyday development, data analysis, and DBA management workflows.
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Gives you a folder for every commit in your git repository.
Extremely experimental software with lots of bugs but it works for me and I've found it a tiny bit useful.
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Go full --yolo. We've got you.
macOS-native sandboxing for local agents. Move fast, break nothing. Sandbox your local AI agents so they can read/write only what they need
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Know what your USB-C cable can really do. macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do .
WhatCable explains cable speed, charging limits, e-marker data, and connected devices in plain English. No more guessing why a cable charges slow or refuses to drive your display.
A simple Markdown viewer for reading .md files.
A native macOS app for reading Markdown.
SNES Emulator.
The two original developers of ZSNES are finally back together! Introducing SUPER ZSNES! Re-written completely from scratch, this GPU-powered SNES emulator is here to bring you the following: some of what is familiar, some of what's new, and then some of what goes beyond.
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An elegant Apple Music desktop client for Linux, macOS and Windows. No frippery, just quality. A better class of Cider 🍎
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Build, benchmark, and deploy agents that use computers.
Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows).
A desktop application for managing PostgreSQL databases — backups, restores, scheduling, encryption, data browsing, and more.
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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.
Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
Share files, chat, and find people with similar interests. Nicotine+ is user-friendly, fast, free, and open source. It provides features and refinements that focus on usability, while remaining fully compatible with other Soulseek clients.
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Workspace manager for macOS. Saved Workspaces for macOS.
SpacePigeon is a native macOS app (powered by Hammerspoon) that lets you define workspaces — which apps open, which desktop spaces they go to, and how windows are arranged.
Effortlessly transition between workflows. SpacePigeon instantly orchestrates your applications, windows, and displays into the perfect environment for any task with a single click or hotkey.
Free, open-source macOS app manager and system cleaner. Uninstall apps completely. Find orphaned files. Clean system junk. No subscriptions. No telemetry. No data collection.
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache cleanup. MIT licensed.
a terminal for the coding agents age. A terminal for ur coding agents.
A lightweight easy to use markdown viewer.
A fast, native markdown viewer for macOS built with Tauri v2, React, and markdown-it. Beautiful rendering of tables, code blocks, task lists, math, and diagrams — with live reload.
Open-Source Design Editor.
Opens Figma files. Built-in AI. Fully programmable. Also a toolkit for building custom editors.
A sliding, tiling window manager for MacOS.
Paneru is a MacOS window manager that arranges windows on an infinite strip, extending to the right. A core principle is that opening a new window will never cause existing windows to resize, maintaining your layout stability.
Each monitor operates with its own independent window strip, ensuring that windows remain confined to their respective displays and do not "overflow" onto adjacent monitors.
Claude Code orchestrator in one window.
Orchestrate multiple Claude Code sessions across projects. Review diffs, annotate code, send instructions — all from one window.
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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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Sync and store locally all of your X / Twitter bookmarks.
An open source, free CLI tool for collecting and categorizing your personal X/Twitter bookmarks. Makes your bookmarks locally available to Claude Code, Codex, or any other agent with shell access.
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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.
Full autonomy. Controlled environment. OS-level containment for AI coding agents on macOS.
macOS containment for AI agents — user isolation, kernel sandbox, pf firewall, DNS blocklist, backup/rollback. TLA+ verified.
AI coding agents are most useful when you let them work autonomously. But full autonomy means the agent runs with your full privileges, your credentials, your files.
Hazmat makes that safe.
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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.
A free, cross-platform alternative to Microsoft’s RSAT.
OpenRSAT is a free and open source solution that allows system administrators to manage an Active Directory (AD) environment directly from any operating system: Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Designed as a lightweight alternative to Microsoft’s RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools), OpenRSAT offers a modern, cross-platform graphical interface. It enables system administrators to manage users, groups, and organizational units on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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The free AI already on your Mac.
macOS Tahoe ships with a 3B parameter LLM. apfel gives you CLI access with one brew install. No model downloads, no API keys, no configuration needed, just works.
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Cozy Office for Claude Code.
Outworked is a desktop app that turns Claude into a team of AI employees. Hire agents. Give them roles. Watch them write code, interact with the web, send messages, and run scheduled tasks — all from an office on your Mac.
AI-Native macOS Launcher.
Command your Mac at the speed of thought.
Voice typing, text-to-speech, persistent memory, AI prompt, clipboard history, and thousands of extensions — all in one launcher built natively for macOS.
Clock associating time with historical or mathematical facts.
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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.
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.
Showcase your next product demo with Open Screen. Professional screen recordings with zoom effects, annotations, and beautiful backgrounds.
Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop.
Pure C/Metal inference engine that runs Qwen3.5-397B-A17B (a 397 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model) on a MacBook Pro with 48GB RAM at 4.4+ tokens/second with production-quality output including tool calling.
The entire 209GB model streams from SSD through a custom Metal compute pipeline. No Python. No frameworks. Just C, Objective-C, and hand-tuned Metal shaders.
Run agentic coding workflows in a fully native desktop app for Git worktrees, terminals, and diffs. Fully Native App for Agentic Coding. Run issue-driven coding workflows in one native workspace.
Arbor is a Rust-powered native workspace with a shared daemon for the desktop app, web UI, CLI, and MCP server. Create worktrees from issues, run embedded terminals and managed processes, inspect PR context, and keep coding agents visible without juggling tools.
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 fastest macOS package manager. Written in Zig.
A fast package manager for macOS and Linux. Written in Zig. Uses Homebrew's bottles and formulas under the hood, plus native .deb support for Docker containers.
calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts.
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Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it. Still, it is easy to get started through playable tutorials.
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