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Secure, ephemeral browsing in a disposable VM (macOS only).
Bromure is a native macOS app that runs every browser session inside a lightweight, disposable Linux virtual machine using Apple's Virtualization.framework. The browser and your Mac don't share an operating system, a filesystem, or even a kernel. When you close the window, the VM is destroyed -- cookies, history, malware, trackers, all of it. Gone.
Free Open Source Video Downloader. The Most Powerful Automated Video Downloader
Download videos from YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, Bilibili, and 1000+ other platforms with fast, high-quality up to 4K downloads, batch queues, and RSS auto-download automation.
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ANSI art screensaver for macOS — streams art from 16colo.rs BBS archive packs.
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A macOS app that enhances control over Elgato lights, offering features beyond the standard Elgato Control Center software.
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Run a team of coding agents on your Mac.
Create parallel Codex + Claude Code agents in isolated workspaces. See at a glance what they're working on, then review and merge their changes.
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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.
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.
Watch once. Then take the stage. A Teachable Desktop Agent.
Understudy is a teachable desktop agent. It operates your computer like a human colleague across GUI, browser, shell, files, and messaging. You demonstrate a task once, it learns the intent, remembers successful paths, and gradually upgrades to faster execution routes.
Open Source Voice Cloning Desktop App Powered by Qwen3-TTS. Create natural-sounding speech from text with near-perfect voice replication.
The open-source voice synthesis studio. Clone voices. Generate speech. Build voice-powered apps. All running locally on your machine.
Voicebox is a local-first voice cloning studio with DAW-like features for professional voice synthesis. Think of it as a local, free and open-source alternative to ElevenLabs — download models, clone voices, and generate speech entirely on your machine.
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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.
Boot a virtual iPhone (iOS 26) via Apple's Virtualization.framework using PCC research VM infrastructure.
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macOS menu bar app that exposes Apple's on-device Foundation Models as an OpenAI-compatible local API. Zero cloud. Zero dependencies.
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Make Your Images Crystal Clear.
Transform blurry, low-resolution images into stunning high-definition quality with AI.
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Extensible MacOS system telemetry generator.
MacNoise is an extensible and modular macOS system telemetry generation framework. It generates real system events (network connections, file writes, process spawns, plist mutations, TCC permission probes, and more) so security teams can validate that their EDR, SIEM, and firewall tooling detects what it is supposed to detect.
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Python app to work with pictures and associated metadata from Apple Photos on macOS. Also includes a package to provide programmatic access to the Photos library, pictures, and metadata.
OSXPhotos provides the ability to interact with and query Apple's Photos.app library on macOS and Linux. You can query the Photos library database — for example, file name, file path, and metadata such as keywords/tags, persons/faces, albums, etc. You can also easily export both the original and edited photos. OSXPhotos also works with iPhoto libraries though some features are available only for Photos.
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🚀 The Ultimate Image Uploader for Efficient Creators.
Supports Obsidian, Typora, VS Code etc. and 60+ image hosting services (S3, GitHub, Cloudflare R2, Imgur, Aliyun OSS...). Paste, upload, done.
KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”.
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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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FlashSpace is a blazingly fast virtual workspace manager for macOS ⚡
FlashSpace is a blazingly-fast virtual workspace manager for macOS, designed to enhance and replace native macOS Spaces. No more waiting for macOS animations.
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Read Smarter with AI.
A modern, cross-platform, and free AI RSS reader.
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Industrial-grade secure snippet warehouse for your system tray. 📦 Built with Rust (Tauri v2) & React. Offline-first, AES-256 encrypted, and recursive.
Sklad is a cross-platform snippet manager that lives in your system tray. Store passwords, API keys, code snippets, and any text you copy frequently — encrypted and always one click away.
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Easy Linux virtual machine on MacOS to sandbox LLM agents.
Vibe is a quick, zero-configuration way to spin up a Linux virtual machine on Mac to sandbox LLM agents.
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WiFiman is here to save your network from sluggish surfing, endless buffering, and congested data channels.
- Detect available WiFi networks and Bluetooth LE devices instantly.
- Scan network subnets for additional details on detected devices, such as Bonjour, SNMP, NetBIOS, and Ubiquiti discovery protocols.
- Connect to your UniFi network remotely via Teleport - a free, zero-configuration VPN.
Teleprompter for macOS.
A very basic, always-on-top floating text prompter for macOS. Perfect for quick videos, or keeping important text visible while you work.
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Apple Silicon Monitor Top.
mactop is a terminal-based monitoring tool "top" designed to display real-time metrics for Apple Silicon chips written by Carsen Klock. It provides a simple and efficient way to monitor CPU and GPU usage, E-Cores and P-Cores, power consumption, GPU frequency, temperatures, and other system metrics directly from your terminal
Browse Android files on macOS with style
A beautiful, native macOS application for browsing and managing your Android device files via ADB. Fast, intuitive, and powerful.
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A drop-in, 5-20x faster, experimental Homebrew alternative.
zerobrew applies uv's model to Mac packages. Packages live in a content-addressable store (by sha256), so reinstalls are instant. Downloads, extraction, and linking run in parallel with aggressive HTTP caching. It pulls from Homebrew's CDN, so you can swap brew for zb with your existing commands.
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.
Autonomous multi-agent coding framework that plans, builds, and validates software for you.
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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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Export ALL your data from Apple Photos.
PhotosExport is a small macOS command-line tool that exports Apple Photos library assets to the filesystem, and that I developed out of frustration with Shortcuts’ limited (i.e., non-existent) Photos export capabilities and the brokenness of AppleScript-based solutions.
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A modern desktop client for Navidrome/Subsonic servers built with React and Electron.
An app that adapts to you, not the other way around
Affinity comes with built-in Vector, Pixel, and Layout studios, but you’re not locked in. Rearrange panels and mix and match your favorite tools to build custom studios. You can save multiple setups, switch between them in a click, and even share with others or download theirs. It’s customization that flexes to your workflow.
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.
An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork, powered by OpenCode.
OpenWork is an extensible, open-source “Claude Work” style system for knowledge workers. It’s a native desktop app that runs OpenCode under the hood, but presents it as a clean, guided workflow.
Orion is a free, lightning-fast, privacy-focused, WebKit-based browser for Mac, iOS, and soon Linux that blocks ads and trackers by default.
Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.
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A High-Performance, GPU-Accelerated Redis Client Built with Rust 🦀 and GPUI ⚡️
Zedis is a next-generation Redis GUI client designed for developers who demand speed.
💌 A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.
Boost your productivity and send better email with Mailspring, the best mail client for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
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Universal Pasteboard Across Devices. Copy anything and paste it on any device, seamlessly.
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A fast, lightweight text editor for Markdown, JSON, YAML, and TOML files. Built with Rust and egui for a native, responsive experience.
Noi is a macOS/Windows application and browser extension that improves productivity and reduces digital clutter through features like AI chat prompt management, multi-window organization, and an integrated terminal.
Your All-in-One MQTT Client Toolbox.
A Powerful and All-in-One MQTT 5.0 client toolbox for Desktop, CLI and WebSocket.
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MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
The aim of this project is to bring the users a client app capable of making use of all the features of the version 5 of the MQTT protocol. The lack of any application that can offer the compatibility with the newer version of the protocol forced us to implement one to test the data of MQTT brokers workwise, why not to share this tool with others that may have the same issue?
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Protect your SSH keys with your Mac's Secure Enclave.
Secretive is an app for protecting and managing SSH keys with the Secure Enclave.
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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 Better Way to Work with Claude Code.
Nimbalyst is the free, local, WYSIWYG editor & session manager where you iterate with Claude Code on your full context: markdown docs, mockups, diagrams, data models, MCP, and code
Run anything at startup by simply placing it in a special folder.
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Iterate on code with powerful AI. Your AI Coding Swiss Army Knife.
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Scientific plotting and data analysis. LabPlot is a FREE, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone.
FREE, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone and trusted by professionals.
Fast PostgreSQL Client for Developers.
A minimal, fast SQL client desktop application with AI-powered querying. Built for developers who want to quickly peek at their data without the bloat. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.
A lightweight code editor with vim mode, Git integration, and agentic AI editing.
A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development.
mux (Coding Agent Multiplexer) is a cross-platform desktop application for AI-assisted development with isolated workspace management.
A fast file searching tool for macOS.
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A high-quality visual cross-platform gemini browser.
Kristall is a browser without support for css/js/wasm or graphical websites. It can display user-styled documents in several formats, including gemini, html, markdown, … provided by a server via gemini, gopher, http, finger, …
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Enchanted is iOS and macOS app for chatting with private self hosted language models such as Llama2, Mistral or Vicuna using Ollama.
Enchanted is open source, Ollama compatible, elegant macOS/iOS/visionOS app for working with privately hosted models such as Llama 2, Mistral, Vicuna, Starling and more. It's essentially ChatGPT app UI that connects to your private models. The goal of Enchanted is to deliver a product allowing unfiltered, secure, private and multimodal experience across all of your devices in iOS ecosystem (macOS, iOS, Watch, Vision Pro).
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