macOS > Open Source Apps
Contents
- Audio (39)
- Music
- ️ Utilities (112)
- Streaming
- Backup
- Browser
- ️ Productivity (78)
- ️ Wallpaper (12)
- Security (11)
- Chat (20)
- Cryptocurrency
- ️ Database (18)
- IDE (14)
- Terminal (15)
- Graphics (17)
- Editors
- Git
- Development
- JSON Parsing
- Other Development
- Web Development
- iOS / macOS
- ️ Images (17)
- downloader (10)
- ️ Text
- CSV
- JSON
- Markdown
- Notes (19)
- TeX
- Extensions (14)
- Finder (13)
- Medical
- ️ Keyboard (10)
- Menubar (52)
- Window Management
- ️ System (24)
- VPN & Proxy
- ️ Podcast (7)
- Other (25)
- ️ Player (6)
- Screensaver (10)
- Sharing Files
- Social Networking
- ️ Touch Bar (6)
Applications
An open-source, self-hosted, low-latency AI that is trained for conversational responses and is highly adaptable.
An open-source, self-hosted, low-latency AI that is trained for conversational responses and is highly adaptable.
A Large Language Model trained on a massive dataset of code and natural language.
A family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing without re-encoding.
Yet Another PiP Extension. Finds all HTML5 videos on a webpage and allows you to play them in Picture-in-Picture mode from the Safari toolbar.
Fun Tic Tac Toe game equipped with multiplayer (local and online) and leveled single player available on the App Store.
Turn-based tactical strategy game, featuring both single-player and online multiplayer combat.
Dynamic Dark Mode is the app you are looking for to power up Dark Mode on macOS Mojave and beyond.
An elegant Go/Baduk/Weiqi board and SGF editor for a more civilized age.
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.
PyScript, an open-source project that lets you create desktop-like applications with Python and web technologies.
Write better newsletters. Typefully helps you craft compelling emails and track their performance.
A set of utilities for power users such as window management, bulk file renaming, and more.
A command-line tool to install, upgrade, and manage applications on Windows.
The official Windows Calculator app, open-source and cross-platform.
A modern, fast, efficient, and powerful terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells.
A terminal UI for docker, with support for various docker commands.
The official Git package for Windows, including Git Bash, Git GUI, and other tools.
A graphical client for Mercurial and Git on Windows, supporting both version control systems.
A hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron, Atom, and JavaScript.
A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
A fork of Vim aiming to have better extensibility, maintainability, and usability.
A tower defense game with a focus on resource management and automation.
Best way to watch the latest and greatest videos from your favourite developer conferences for free on your Mac.
HandBrake is a video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Transcribe and generate caption files (SRT, ASS and FCPXML) without manually entering time codes.
This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.
Audio (39)
macOS app to mute & unmute the input volume of your microphone. Perfect for podcasters.
Aural Player is a audio player application for the macOS platform. Inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows, it is designed to be to-the-point and easy to use.
Automatically mute the sound when headphones disconnect / Mac awake from sleep.
Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer for Windows, Linux and macOS.
This app allows you to control the iTunes volume using volume up and down hotkeys.
LocalRadio is software for listening to "Software-Defined Radio" on your Mac and mobile devices.
Music
Host awesome karaoke parties where everyone can queue songs from their phone's browser. Plays MP3+G and MP4 with WebGL visualizations.
Tiny menu bar app that listens iTunes and Spotify to detect chords of songs!
️ Utilities (112)
Control your external monitor brightness, contrast or volume directly from a menulet or with keyboard native keys.
Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
A simple but powerful tool that helps you make complex layouts for UICollectionView.
A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications.
Input Source Pro is macOS utility designed for multilingual users who frequently switch input sources.
Find and install macOS apps from Homebrew Cask and Fairground App catalogs.
Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse
dupeGuru is a tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan using file names and file contents.
It's a useful tool that would help you to find all duplicate files which have the same names in the specific folder.
Finder extension with 51+ right-click actions for file management, image conversion, and developer tools.
RSS & Atom feed reader that lives in the system status bar.
A minimal native macOS app to quickly view and Bulk kill running processes.
Clipboard history manager for macOS with terminal-style navigation, image previews, and cursor-following popup.
Menu bar app featuring darker than dark dimming, Night Shift fine tuning, and the ability to turn off TouchBar on MacBook Pro.
All-in-One status bar button, hide MacBook Pro's notch, dark mode, AirPods, Shortcuts
Privacy-first menu bar manager with Touch ID lock, Always-Hidden Zone, and automation triggers.
Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
Cross platform configuration tool for the Betaflight firmware.
Open-source automated time tracker that tracks how you spend time on your devices.
An Open-Source minimalist Eye Care reminder & Break Timer app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Developer Utilities for macOS, helps you with your tiny daily tasks with just a single click! i.e., JSON Formatter, UUID Generator...
Clipboard manager with Touch ID protection, AES-256-GCM encryption, and sensitive data detection.
Universal indie sales tracker for LemonSqueezy, Gumroad, and Stripe with on-device privacy.
24/7 screen and audio recording with AI-powered search. Local-first, privacy-focused rewind alternative.
Productivity tool, the main function is to search and launch external application actions and applications themselves, so you can stay focused on your current task. Kind of spotlight or alfred alternative.
Free to do list & time tracker for programmers & designers with Jira integration.
Simple macOS GateKeeper script. It helps you to control your GateKeeper.
System-level ad and tracker blocker via /etc/hosts with 200+ curated blocklists and Touch ID protection.
One-click screenshots, video recordings, app installation for iOS and Android
Control web based media players with the media keys found on Mac keyboards.
Cross-platform password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations.
Easily clear the format of your clipboard text with Clear Clipboard Text Format.
Get the physical location of your device and prints it to standard output
Crypter is an innovative, convenient and secure cross-platform crypto app that simplifies secure password generation and management by requiring you to only remember one bit, the MasterPass.
cross-platform file transfer over ad-hoc wifi, like AirDrop but for Mac/Windows/Linux.
Pick between the light appearance and the dark appearance on a per-app basis with the click of a button
A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application "Keepass Password Safe"
Archive manager for macOS. Preview (nested) archives without extracting them. Extract single files.
Nix is a reproducible package manager alternative to Homebrew, with over 80,000 packages.
OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a tool for installing new MacOS versions on legacy macs.
OpenRocket is a cross-platform utility tool to model and simulate model rockets and their flight characteristics.
Free file archiver utility and open source file compression and encryption tool supporting 200+ formats.
PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools.
Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files
Blockstack is an internet for decentralized apps where users own their data. The Blockstack Browser allows you to explore the Blockstack internet.
TRex is the easiest way to copy the uncopyable text from images, YouTube videos, Zoom calls and more. If you can see it - you can copy it. TRex captures any text right into your Clipboard with magic of OCR.
Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions.
Streaming
Backup
Browser
️ Productivity (78)
Pennywise opens any website or media in a small floating window that remains on top of all other applications. It's a great alternative to Helium.
A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal with cross database and platform support.
Your daily journal app, diary or anything else to unclutter your mind. Let linked help you get focused by writing down what is in your mind on a daily basis.
Plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration.
Make drag-and-drop easier using DropPoint. Helps to drag content without having to open side-by-side windows.
Cross-platform Text Expander, a powerful replacement for Alfred Snippets
App that allows you to gather everything you need for work in one place, organized by projects and workflows, and have a quick access to them.
An open source, free and hackable screenshot tracker. Re-watch what you've been working on!
Desktop app that uses the paperless API to manage your document scans.
Quicksilver is a fast macOS productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly.
Write anything in a matter of seconds. Create snippets that can substitute text, execute tedious tasks and more.
Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader designed for avid readers.
macOS app to block your own access to distracting websites etc for a predetermined period of time. It can not be undone by the app or by a restart – you must wait for the timer to run out.
Cross-platform electron app that reminds you to take breaks when working with computer.
Log work hours and get notified when it's time to leave the office and start to live.
️ Wallpaper (12)
Simple macOS app for the status bar to automatically download photos from 500px.com to a local folder that can be set as a source of wallpapers.
A macOS application for bringing dedicatedly 18th century Arts to everyone
Win / Linux / macOS tool for managing and cycling desktop wallpapers.
Equinox is an application that allows you to create macOS dynamic wallpapers.
macOS app to automatically set your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view overhead.
Security (11)
Redirect Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Translate to privacy friendly alternatives.
A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud.
Chat (20)
Instant messaging application that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more.
Powerful XMPP client with support for file transfer, VoIP and end-to-end encryption.
Element is a collaboration app (currently Electron) for the Matrix protocol.
Franz is messaging application for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more.
macOS application to comfortably browse and search through your Messages.app history.
Free open source chat system for teams. An alternative to Slack that can also be self hosted.
Electron app that links with your Signal Android or Signal iOS app.
Cryptocurrency
️ Database (18)
SQL editor and manager with support for SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, CockroachDB, SQL Server, and Amazon Redshift.
Database manager for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLite and others. Runs under Windows, Linux, Mac or as web application.
Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use Mac database management application for Redis.
Cross-platform open source database management tool for Redis
Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) is the free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.
IDE (14)
Apache NetBeans is an IDE, Tooling Platform and Application Framework suitable for development in Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more.
Modern open-source code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that's built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Eclipse is an open-source integrated development environment (IDE) used in computer programming, featuring a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment.
CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.
IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment written in Java for developing computer software
Oni is a modern take on modal editing code editor focused on developer productivity.
Terminal (15)
An easy-to-use clipboard manager with time saving features that work across all terminals.
macOS app and Finder Sync Extension to open Terminal, iTerm, Hyper from Finder.
Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty.
App for macOS that opens a new Finder window and changes the current directory to the folder launched by the app.
Graphics (17)
ColorSet is a macOS utility and framework allowing developers to manage custom interface colors with ease.
Video to GIF maker with a graphical interface capable of cropping, adding text, seeking, and trimming.
LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. Support and documentation are free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.
macOS application for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view.
Editors
Git
A graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history.
Full feature terminal based sequence editor for interactive rebase.
Simple app that will notify about new commits to watched repositories.
Simple macOS app to alert you when you have unread GitHub notifications.
The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.
Filter to put OSA languages (AppleScript, JavaScript) into git, as if they where plain text-files.
Development
JSON Parsing
Other Development
Web Development
Corectl App is a macOS Status bar App which works like a wrapper around the corectl command line tool corectld to control the server runtime process.
CoreOS VM is macOS status bar app which allows in an easy way to control CoreOS VM on your Mac.
HTTP Toolkit is a cross-platform tool to intercept, debug & mock HTTP.
KubeMonitor is a macOS app that displays information about your active Kubernetes cluster in your menu bar.
KubeSwitch lists the available kubernetes cluster contexts on the mac, in Mac's Menu bar.
Simple Menu Bar (Status Bar) App for macOS listing local Bonjour websites (as Safari 11 no longer has Bonjour Bookmarks).
iOS / macOS
Tool for iOS developers to build and deploy Development, Ad-Hoc and In-house (Enterprise) applications directly to the devices from your Dropbox account.
Tool for generating icons in all sizes as required by macOS and iOS apps.
Gives you indication about the average iOS / macOS app stores review times.
App that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images.
Assets is a macOS app that manages assets for your development projects (Xcode, web, etc).
Attabench is a microbenchmarking app for macOS, designed to measure and visualize the performance of Swift code.
Takes path for your assets images and creates appiconset and imageset for you in just one click.
Small application to monitor your GitHub project web page in a native macOS app !
iOS Calabash Launcher is a macOS app that helps you run and manage Calabash tests on your Mac.
App for macOS which is designed to generate consistent sized icons of an existing application in various states, jiggling (shaking) etc.
iOS Images Extractor is a Mac app to normalize, decode, and extract images from iOS apps.
iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator and manage the app installed on the simulator.
Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side.
Localizations is an macOS app that manages your Xcode project localization files (.strings).
Notarization status monitoring tool for macOS, supporting multiple developer accounts
macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile.
Apple iOS/macOS Provisioning Profiles management,.provisionprofile, .mobileprovision files manager tool for mac.
This is an app for macOS that can (re)sign apps and bundle them into ipa files that are ready to be installed on an iOS device.
Powerful app for downloading subtitle for each WWDC session video since 2013 in (srt) format.
️ Images (17)
Edit icons and then export to Xcode, icns, ico, favicon, macOS iconset, or a custom collection.
Remove image metadata with drag and drop, multi-core batch processing, and dark mode.
Imagine is a desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI.
downloader (10)
Easily search and download macOS apps from the huge homebrew cask app catalog.
User-friendly GUI app for Homebrew Casks. Install, update, and uninstall apps with a single click.
️ Text
JSON
Markdown
Notes (19)
A fully open source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
Notes manager for macOS/iOS: modern notational velocity (nvALT) on steroids.
Note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Notes is a macOS application built to create notes, using text amongst other formats: images, videos, contacts, and etc.
Simple note taking app for macOS and iOS which uses Realm and CloudKit for syncing.
TeX
Extensions (14)
Use native picture-in-picture with browsers such as Google Chrome for HTML5 videos.
A Safari Extension providing a toolbar icon that changes its visual appearance if Private Browsing is enabled.
This Xcode extension enables you to make a code selection and export it to a snippets. Available on Mac AppStore.
PiPifier is a native macOS 10.12 Safari extension that lets you use every HTML5 video in Picture in Picture mode.
Finder (13)
️ Keyboard (10)
Handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application.
Karabiner-Elements configuration manager, rescue to bloated karabiner.json
Karabiner (KeyRemap4MacBook) is a powerful utility for keyboard customization.
Unofficial desktop app for ProtonMail and Tutanota end-to-end encrypted email providers.
A beautiful, fast and maintained fork of @nylas Mail by one of the original authors
Menubar (52)
A handy (native) menu bar translator app that supports Google Translate.
Simple menu bar macOS application for displaying lists of your iCloud Tabs and Reading List.
macOS System Monitor (cpu, memory, network, fan and battery) for the Status Bar.
Monitor Bar app supports three modes, compact, normal, extra. It monitors battery, Disk, Memory, CPU, Network bandwidth, Wi-Fi.
Night Shift Control is a simple macOS menubar app for controlling Night Shift. It's aim is to bring features from f.lux which are missing from Night Shift such as disabling Night Shift for certain apps.
A mac menu bar app that provides note taking functionality though a quick dropdown menu.
Small menu bar utility that lets you use your third-party mouse's side buttons for navigation across a variety of apps.
Window Management
Ice is a versatile menu bar manager that goes beyond hiding and showing items to offer a rich set of productivity features.
Switch between open applications on macOS with a Windows-like Alt+Tab experience.
Rectangle is a window manager heavily based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
️ System (24)
App for macOS with a minimalistic UI which lets you quickly throttle down the CPU usage of any running process.
Diagnostics is an application displaying the diagnostic reports from applications on macOS.
Monitor your Mac's fan speed and CPU temperature from your Notification Center.
Small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use.
macOS Application to create standard or customized configuration profiles.
Sloth is an macOS application that displays a list of all open files and sockets in use by all running applications on your system.
VPN & Proxy
️ Podcast (7)
Other (25)
A genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists.
Simple macOS app to preview animations created with Facebook's keyframes framework.
Mac developer tool that creates application bundles from command line scripts.
Desktop app for inspecting your React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows.
️ Player (6)
Screensaver (10)
Sharing Files
Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox.
Allows users to easily host their local images to the internet through multiple services and available on App Store.
Simple Mac app designed to make uploading images and screenshots to Imgur quick and effortless.
Social Networking
Web UI
Frameworks
An open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language models.
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference engine for large language models.