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Userspace macOS ARM64 → Linux aarch64 translation layer (CLI-first, no JIT).
Load Darwin Mach-O on Linux aarch64, map a freestanding libSystem, translate BSD syscalls, and run real guests (clang probes, 7-Zip 7zz, curl, threads).
Run LLMs Locally on Apple Silicon, Fast.
The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.
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Open-source, native Postgres GUI for macOS. Ask questions in English; review the SQL before it runs.
Postgres GUI using the LLM already on your Mac. Free, open-source native macOS database GUI using Apple's on-device Foundation Model for text-to-sql.
Local PHP, without the friction. Local PHP development environment for macOS & Linux.
Serve your projects on .test domains over HTTP and HTTPS, run a different PHP version per site, and manage it all from one tiny daemon. No Docker, no sudo for everyday work, no subscription.
Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in about 2 GB of RAM A custom Swift + Metal runtime for any Apple Silicon Mac, even the 8 GB ones.
The Open Graph Viz Platform. Open-source project for visual network analysis.
Gephi is an award-winning open-source platform for visualizing and manipulating large graphs. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
the Git client that actually resolves conflicts.
10 deterministic patterns auto-resolve the trivial 95%, full trace on the rest. Native (Tauri 2 + Rust), free, MIT.
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Your files, found in seconds. Privately.
bHive reads what's inside your documents, photos and recordings — so you can find anything by describing it, or simply ask a question and get an answer drawn from your own files. All on your Mac. Nothing is ever uploaded.
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SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics. Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows, and macOS infrastructure.
osquery is an operating system instrumentation framework for Windows, OS X (macOS), and Linux. The tools make low-level operating system analytics and monitoring both performant and intuitive.
osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open network connections, browser plugins, hardware events or file hashes.
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Turn your spare Apple devices into second monitors for your Mac (free & open source).
Free, open-source Sidecar/Duet alternative — use your iPhone or iPad as a true second monitor for your Mac over USB or WiFi. Low latency H.264, Retina HiDPI, touch input.
a native macOS UI for Apple containers.
A fully native macOS app for Apple's container platform. Run Linux containers on Apple silicon; no Docker Desktop required.
The video editor built for AI.
Let AI tools like Claude and Codex directly read and edit your multi-track timeline. Generate images and videos inline using the latest models.
A fast, lightweight HTTP client focused on .http file support
A lightweight, fast, and offline-first HTTP debugging tool with first-class support for .http files. No account required. No telemetry. Just you and your APIs.
Docker, Kubernetes, and full Linux desktops for Mac.
A free, open-source native macOS app for Docker & Linux containers, an alternative to OrbStack and Docker Desktop. Universal for Intel and Apple silicon..
GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link).
Artemis Qt is an enhanced cross-platform client for NVIDIA GameStream and Apollo/Sunshine servers. It brings the advanced features from Artemis Android to desktop platforms.
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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.
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 best and easiest way to storyboard.
Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.
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An OS 9 browser that loads the modern web. the modern web, on a 25-year-old Mac.
MacSurf is a native web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 — real CSS3, modern JavaScript (ES2023 via macQJS), and native TLS 1.3, running on a 25-year-old Mac.
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Grow Wealth. Keep Control.
A beautiful, private and open-source investment tracker that runs locally on all your devices.
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private, local-first notes for every device.
Fast, private, local-first notes. Native on iOS and Android, with a real desktop app for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Plain markdown you own — no vendor lock-in.
A home for your thoughts. Keyboard-first local Markdown notes with Vim motions, diagrams, and MCP integration.
ZenNotes keeps every note as a local .md file you own — with real Vim motions, live math & diagrams, an MCP server for your assistant, and a bundled zen CLI. Native on Mac, Windows, and Linux, or self-host in any browser.
Application-Level Face Recognition Lock for macOS.
World's first Face Authentication enabled MacOS App-locker. Unlock your Mac apps using Face , TouchID or password. Completely local and encrypted - your data never leaves your Mac.
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Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it allows you to run 68k MacOS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating system. However, you still need a copy of MacOS and a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II.
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Media Casting Made Easy.
Cast media files to Smart TVs and Chromecast devices. Now with optional on-the-fly transcoding via FFmpeg.
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Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into an AI server. LLM inference, chat UI, voice, agents, workflows, RAG, and image generation.
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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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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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OpenSuperWhisper is a macOS application that provides real-time audio transcription using the Whisper model. It offers a seamless way to record and transcribe audio with customizable settings and keyboard shortcuts.
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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.
A native Kubernetes desktop client — nothing in your cluster. Helm, Argo CD, Flux CD, Gateway API & cert-manager built in. MIT-licensed.
mac-Native AWS GUI, enables you to perform some fundamental actions without a CLI mess.
A native macOS app for AWS-compatible endpoints, built in SwiftUI. Vibe-coded, local-first, and SigV4 signing is wired in so pointing at real AWS works for everyday browsing.
Terminal Reimagined for macOS.
A modern macOS terminal with file explorer, multi-pane grids, drag-and-drop, and native voice input. Lightweight. Fast. Beautiful.
macOS CLI for OCR and searchable PDFs using Apple's Vision framework.
A macOS command-line tool that reads text from images and PDFs, and creates searchable PDFs. Runs entirely on your Mac with Apple's Vision framework; nothing is uploaded.
Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play.
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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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