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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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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.
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.
Git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux. The intuitive, fast, and beautiful cross-platform Git client. Free!
Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and Unix-based systems.
Lynis is a battle-tested security tool for systems running Linux, macOS, or Unix-based operating system. It performs an extensive health scan of your systems to support system hardening and compliance testing. The project is open source software with the GPL license and available since 2007.
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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Lumen is a menu bar application for macOS that magically sets the screen brightness based on your screen contents.
Understand your Git history!
Gittyup is a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history.
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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.
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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Open-Source Enterprise Backup Software. Backup & Recovery Open Source Software.
Bareos is a cross-network Open Source backup solution (licensed under AGPLv3) which preserves, archives, and recovers data from all major operating systems.
Bareos is a reliable, cross-network open-source backup solution for data protection, archiving, and recovery. It supports Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, macOS, and other well-established operating systems. Bareos offers scalable, enterprise-grade features for businesses of all sizes, ensuring secure and efficient data management.
Since 2012, Bareos provides a robust open-source backup and recovery software, ensuring that your data remains secure and completely under your control across all major operating systems.
Make Your Images Crystal Clear.
Transform blurry, low-resolution images into stunning high-definition quality with AI.
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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.
a to do list to get your head free.
Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project.
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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.
What if there was a way to control all of your RGB devices from a single app, on both Windows and Linux, without any nonsense? That is what OpenRGB sets out to achieve. One app to rule them all.
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.
Orange Intelligence is a powerful, fully customizable productivity tool for macOS. With its elegant floating window interface, you can capture, process, and replace text seamlessly across any application. Whether you're running basic text processing, leveraging the power of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI or local LLaMA, or creating complex agent systems, Orange Intelligence empowers you to work smarter, faster, and better.
Apple Intelligence is closed, limited, and inflexible. Orange Intelligence brings the power of customization and open source innovation to macOS, making it the perfect productivity tool for developers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts.
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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Itsycal is a tiny menu bar calendar.
If you want, it will display your events as a companion to the Mac Calendar app.
a tiling window manager for macos.
Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.
Maximize Your Privacy and Security. Enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy.
Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy.
A modern desktop client for Navidrome/Subsonic servers built with React and Electron.
Universal Pasteboard Across Devices. Copy anything and paste it on any device, seamlessly.
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A cross-platform Electron Desktop App to stream and download any Movie, TV Series or Anime in the World. Zero Ads and Tracking
Autonomous multi-agent coding framework that plans, builds, and validates software for you.
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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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Sysinternals ZoomIt for MacOS.
Sysinternals ZoomIt for Mac is a macOS menu-bar utility modeled after Sysinternals ZoomIt. It provides screen zoom, live zoom, drawing and typing annotations, screenshots, snips, recording, webcam picture-in-picture, and scrolling panorama capture.
Orion is a free, lightning-fast, privacy-focused, WebKit-based browser for Mac, iOS, and soon Linux that blocks ads and trackers by default.
File Manager for macOS. Native. Extensible. Fast.
Marta is a native macOS application written entirely in Swift. It offers a native experience and is blazingly fast.
Stop launching the Music app whenever you press ▶ Play.
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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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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.
Discover, download, and run local LLMs.
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Free Open-Source Mac Cleaner & App Uninstaller (CleanMyMac Alternative).
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Over 100,000 developers and designers are more productive with Tower - the most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.
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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AI-powered Postgres Client. cursor for data ⚡️ - explore your postgresql db in seconds.
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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a terminal for a more modern age Tabby is an infinitely customizable cross-platform terminal app for local shells, serial, SSH and Telnet connections.
Lightweight, container-free sandbox for running commands with network and filesystem restrictions.
Fence wraps commands in a sandbox that blocks network access by default and restricts filesystem operations based on configurable rules. It's most useful for running semi-trusted code (package installs, build scripts, CI jobs, unfamiliar repos) with controlled side effects, and it can also complement AI coding agents as defense-in-depth.
A desktop app for browsing, searching, and managing CLI coding sessions. Your command center for Claude Code sessions.
Switchboard is a desktop app that gives you a unified view of all your Claude Code sessions across every project. Launch, resume, fork, and monitor sessions from a single window — no more juggling terminal tabs or digging through ~/.claude/projects to find that one conversation from last week.
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.
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr supports your writing process at every stage — from initial notes to journal submission or book manuscript.
A new type of shell.
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Pipelines to control any OS :Nu works on Linux, macOS, BSD, and Windows. Learn it once, then use it anywhere.
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Everything is data: Nu pipelines use structured data so you can safely select, filter, and sort the same way every time. Stop parsing strings and start solving problems.
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Powerful plugins: It's easy to extend Nu using a powerful plugin system.
A native command-line interface for working with Apple Core ML models on macOS. Inspect, run inference, benchmark, and manage Core ML models without Xcode or Python.
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The gold standard of macOS file transfer apps just drove into the future. Transmit 5 is here. Upload, download, and manage files on tons of servers with an easy, familiar, and powerful UI. It’s quite good.
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.
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.
Privacy-first and free Speech-to-Text.
Murmure is an AI-powered, offline speech-to-text tool designed with Privacy first in mind and powered by NVIDIA Parakeet 🦜. Your voice always stays yours.
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.
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.
Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows, and macOS infrastructure.
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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.
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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Build native Windows & macOS apps with Javascript and React.
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