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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.
IntelliDock hides the Dock when it's overlapped by a window.
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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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.
List system USB buses and devices. A modern cross-platform lsusb that attempts to maintain compatibility with, but also add new features.
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A native MacOS Postgres client.
Searchlight is a native macOS, open-source PostgreSQL client designed to be simple, lightweight, and developer-friendly. It offers a clean and intuitive interface for managing databases and running queries without the complexity of full-scale database management tools. Searchlight focuses on delivering a smooth and efficient experience for developers who need quick and easy access to their PostgreSQL databases.
Discover, download, and run local LLMs.
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- Faire tourner un LLM localement sur votre ordinateur @ Quoi de neuf les devs ? :fr:.
- Drames et dramas d’août @ Le RDV Tech podcast.
- LM Studio : Faire tourner son IA (LLM) facilement (Chat, Developpement, ...) @ Adrien Linuxtricks' YouTube :fr:.
Swift is a powerful and intuitive programming language optimized when running on iOS, macOS, and other Apple platforms.
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Fast and friendly network scanner. the original IP scanner for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Angry IP Scanner (or simply ipscan) is an open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use. It scans IP addresses and ports as well as has many other features.
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Professional screen recorder for macOS. Beautiful Screen Recordings in Minutes.
Screen Recorder producing high-impact videos automatically. Designed for macOS.
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AI Image Upscaler.
#1 Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows.
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
A customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal, supporting Linux, macOS, and Windows. Inspired by other tools like gtop, gotop, and htop.
Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows, and macOS infrastructure.
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Painting Made Simple. Simple GTK# Paint Program.
Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing.
Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, Windows, and *BSD.
👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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- Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature @ Mitchell Hashimoto.
- Ghostty 1.2 Adds Quick Terminal on Linux, Command Palette + More @ OMG Ubuntu.
- Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit @ Mitchell Hashimoto.
PS4 emulator for PC.
PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++
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Solve Puzzles. Learn Metal 🤘.
Port of srush/GPU-Puzzles to Metal using MLX Custom Kernals.
GPUs are crucial in machine learning because they can process data on a massively parallel scale. While it's possible to become an expert in machine learning without writing any GPU code, building intuition is challenging when you're only working through layers of abstraction. Additionally, as models grow in complexity, the need for developers to write efficient, high-performance kernels becomes increasingly important to leverage the power of modern hardware.
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for POSIX-compliant systems (e.g. *BSD, GNU/Linux, macOS) and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop. It can also run on Wayland (with caveats), macOS, output to your console, a file, or even HTTP (oh my!).
Upgrade all the things.
Keeping your system up to date usually involves invoking multiple package managers. This results in big, non-portable shell one-liners saved in your shell. To remedy this, topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.
A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers.
Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers.
Lima launches Linux virtual machines with automatic file sharing and port forwarding (similar to WSL2).
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SOFA supports MacAdmins by efficiently tracking and surfacing information on updates for macOS and iOS.
SOFA supports MacAdmins by efficiently tracking and surfacing information on updates for macOS and iOS.
Say goodbye to proprietary music players filled with ads, tracking, and profiling. Nuclear empowers you to listen to what you want, where you want, and how you want, for free.
Nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from various free sources.
This means that you can search for your favorite artists, albums, and songs, and the player will find information about them, as well as song streams, lyrics, music recommendations, and more, aggregating data from multiple sources.
Nuclear has no ads and no tracking.
Zebar is a tool for creating customizable and cross-platform taskbars, desktop widgets, and popups.
Synchronize Files and Folders.
FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files.
Modern System Monitor for macOS. Monitor Your System With Style.
A beautiful, lightning-fast system monitor built with Rust and Svelte. Experience real-time performance monitoring like never before.
Run .NET and Node.js code in-process on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Edge.js allows you to run Node.js and .NET code in one process on Windows, macOS, and Linux
You can call .NET functions from Node.js and Node.js functions from .NET. Edge.js takes care of marshaling data between CLR and V8. Edge.js also reconciles threading models of single-threaded V8 and multi-threaded CLR.
gocryptfs uses file-based encryption that is implemented as a mountable FUSE filesystem. Each file in gocryptfs is stored one corresponding encrypted file on the hard disk. The screenshot below shows a mounted gocryptfs filesystem (left) and the encrypted files (right).
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning.
yabai is a window management utility that is designed to work as an extension to the built-in window manager of macOS. yabai allows you to control your windows, spaces and displays freely using an intuitive command line interface and optionally set user-defined keyboard shortcuts using ↗ skhd and other third-party software.
comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️♂️. "If you're looking for a quick and easy way to monitor your network traffic, this cross-platform app written in Rust definitely passes the Sniff Test"
Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool to help you easily keep track of your Internet traffic.
Whether you want to gather statistics, or you need to inspect more in depth what's going on in your network, this app will get you covered.
🤖 CLI AI Assistant
A simple command-line AI assistant that translates natural language into shell commands. Supports all Windows and Unix-based systems (Linux, MacOS).
Menu Bar Manager.
Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.
macOS Window Manager
A window manager that boosts productivity by snapping windows into predefined zones, like a Japanese bento box organizing meals.