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Open Source Mac Apps

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Open-Source Mac Apps

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🔶 Swift projects

OS X Frameworks

Visit this supporting repository here: mac-frameworks

OS X Apps

Communication

Adium: Instant Messaging Client
- https://github.com/adium/adium
Bitpost: OS X app for Bitmessage
- https://github.com/Voluntarynet/Bitpost
Colloquy: An IRC client for Mac OS X and iOS
- https://github.com/colloquy/colloquy
fb-mac-messenger: Mac wrapper for Facebook messenger
- https://github.com/rsms/fb-mac-messenger
Goofy: OS X client for Facebook Messenger
- https://github.com/danielbuechele/goofy
M: Email client with device-to-device encryption for messages sent between M users
- https://github.com/Mynigma/M
WhatsMac: A native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web
- https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat
Caprine: Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine
LimeChat: LimeChat is an IRC client for Mac OS X.
- https://github.com/psychs/limechat
Dejalu: Fast and Simple Email Client.
- https://github.com/dinhviethoa/dejalu

Text Editors

Atom: Cross-platform hackable text editor built in GitHub's Electron framework
- https://github.com/atom/atom
Brackets: Cross-platform code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- https://github.com/adobe/brackets
CotEditor: Lightweight plain-text editor for macOS 🔶
- https://github.com/coteditor/CotEditor
FocusWriter: Cross-platform simple fullscreen word processor written in C++, Qt
- https://github.com/gottcode/focuswriter
LibreOffice: Cross-platform office suite written in C++, Java, and Python
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice
macdown: Markdown editor
- https://github.com/uranusjr/macdown
Marp: Markdown-based presentation creator built in GitHub's Electron framework
- https://github.com/yhatt/marp
nvALT: MultiMarkdown version (with HTML source tab) of Notational Velocity, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking app
- https://github.com/ttscoff/nv
TextMate: A graphical text editor for OS X 10.9+
- https://github.com/textmate/textmate
TipTyper: Simple plain-text editor for OS X with multiple useful features
- https://github.com/brunophilipe/TipTyper
Visual Studio Code: Cross-platform code editor built in GitHub's Electron framework
- https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
VSCodium: Visaul Studio Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing
- https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

Web Browsers

Firefox: Cross-platform web browser
- https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
Yalqen: Keyboard-first Chromium browser for developers with vertical tabs, a command bar and built-in ad and tracker blocking
- https://github.com/YSamed/yalqen
TenFourFox: A fork of Firefox to maintain support for the Power Mac, supporting Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5
- https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox
Brave Browser: Web browser built on the Chromium engine with a strong focus on user privacy
- https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

Games

Freecell: Solitaire type card game for OS X
- https://github.com/alisdair/freecell
Open Emu: Multiple video game system
- http://openemu.org/
Screentendo: Turn your screen into a playable level of Mario
- https://github.com/AaronRandall/Screentendo
stockfish-mac: Beautiful, powerful chess app for the Mac
- https://github.com/daylen/stockfish-mac
Snk: Snake (with a twist) in Swift for Mac 🔶
- https://github.com/sfsam/Snk
GreenMahjong: Solitaire mahjong game with several themes and layouts
- https://github.com/danbeck/green-mahjong

Mac Interface Exclusives

AnyBar: OS X menubar status indicator
- https://github.com/tonsky/AnyBar
ApolloShell: Desktop shell for macOS 26 with a sidebar dock, launcher, dashboard and control centre 🔶
- https://github.com/Silvertree2010/ApolloShell
app-menu: The missing Applications Menu for macOS
- https://github.com/barseghyanartur/app-menu/
Awake: An app for mac osx to prevent sleeping; inspired by Caffeine
- https://github.com/xiaozi/Awake.app
Clock-Saver: Simple clock screensaver 🔶
- https://github.com/soffes/clock-saver
dshb: OS X system monitor in Swift 🔶
- https://github.com/beltex/dshb
Dockit: An application that can dock any window to the edge of the screen.
- https://github.com/xicheng148/Dockit
Featherbar: Featherweight menu-bar system monitor showing CPU, RAM, power, and temperature
- https://github.com/nim444/featherbar
Helium: A floating browser window for OS X 🔶
- https://github.com/JadenGeller/Helium
KeepingYouAwake: Prevents your Mac from going to sleep
- https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake
Keyty: Visualizes your keyboard and mouse input in real time as an on-screen overlay for demos, tutorials, and livestreams 🔶
- https://github.com/keytyapp/Keyty
Lockpaw: macOS menu bar screen guard — lock/unlock with a hotkey 🔶
- https://github.com/sorkila/lockpaw
MenuMeters: A is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X sitting in the menubar
- https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters
mirrorapp: Mirror Enterprise iOS and OSX App
- https://github.com/psutlt/mirrorapp
Octosaver: A Mac OS X Screensaver showing Octocats
- https://github.com/kimar/Octosaver
Plonk: Native macOS window manager with custom zones, workspaces, keep-awake, screenshots, and agent control 🔶
- https://github.com/ostapondo/Plonk
Quicksilver: Fast and free Mac OS X productivity application
- https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver
SomaFM miniplayer: Unofficial player that gives you minimal, background playback of SomaFM channels 🔶
- https://github.com/ealeksandrov/SomaFM-miniplayer
Spectacle: Organize your windows without using a mouse
- https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle
SelfControl: A free Mac application to help you avoid distracting websites
- https://github.com/SelfControlApp/selfcontrol
Shady: Menu bar app to dim Mac's screen
- https://github.com/mattgemmell/Shady
Shieldxy: Auditable application firewall and connection monitor for macOS 🔶
- https://github.com/RockxyApp/Shieldxy
tag: A command line tool to manipulate tags on Mac OS X files, and to query for files with those tags
- https://github.com/jdberry/tag
Eul: A macOS status monitoring app
- https://github.com/gao-sun/eul

For Developers

Agent Island: Native companion for Claude, Codex, Antigravity, Grok, and Cursor with local session status, your-turn alerts, and provider usage views 🔶
- https://github.com/tristan666666/agent-island
App Reviews: App Reviews help you keep track of user reviews for your iPhone Apps 🔶
- https://github.com/knutigro/AppReviews
Cakebrew: Manage your Homebrew formulas with style
- https://github.com/brunophilipe/Cakebrew
CCMenu: CCMenu is a Mac application to monitor continuous integration servers
- https://github.com/erikdoe/ccmenu
Cocoapods App: A full-featured and standalone installation of CocoaPods
- https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods-app
CocoaRestClient: A free, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints
- https://github.com/mmattozzi/cocoa-rest-client
Device Hub Pro: Mirror, control and test Android emulators and phones, iOS simulators and iPhones side by side 🔶
- https://github.com/gitemre/device-hub-pro
GitUp: A simple but powerful Git OS X app
- https://github.com/git-up/GitUp
Grove: Menu bar app and CLI for parallel Claude Code sessions on a product split across several repositories: each feature gets a workspace of git worktrees on one branch, and a session can move to another Claude account 🔶
- https://github.com/efim0v/grove
KyttoMCP: Control panel for MCP servers across Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Codex: every server against every client in one matrix, health checks, a tool-description safety scan and config backups 🔶
- https://github.com/heyitsjakub/KyttoMCP
Oh My Android: Control panel for the Android Emulator and real phones over adb: one-click dark mode, font scale, RTL, TalkBack, network and GPS, a Layout Inspector in dp and a built-in MCP server 🔶
- https://github.com/ateymoori/oh-my-android
Pasteboard Viewer: An app to inspect your system pasteboard 🔶
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/Pasteboard-Viewer
Pods Updater: A macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile
- https://github.com/kizitonwose/PodsUpdater
Realm Browser: A utility to open and modify realm database files
- https://github.com/realm/realm-browser-osx
Rem: Command-line tool to access OSX Reminders.app database
- https://github.com/kykim/rem
Resign: OSX utility to resign the IPA files
- https://github.com/LigeiaRowena/Resign
Rockxy: Native HTTP debugging proxy for intercepting HTTPS, inspecting APIs, mocking responses, and debugging WebSocket and GraphQL traffic 🔶
- https://github.com/RockxyApp/Rockxy
Touch Bar Simulator: Use the Touch Bar on any Mac 🔶
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator
Unused - A Mac app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources
- https://github.com/jeffhodnett/Unused
VisualJSON: JSON pretty-viewer for OS X
- https://github.com/youknowone/VisualJSON
Tempo: Replace the Git CLI with a clear UI and AI assist 🔶
- https://github.com/maoyama/Tempo
Tintpad: Hotkey launcher that opens your terminal at the right repo with a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex) already running 🔶
- https://github.com/sorkila/tintpad

Darwin Package Managers

Fink: The fink package manager for macOS (in Perl)
- https://github.com/fink
Homebrew: The missing package manager for macOS (in Ruby)
- https://github.com/Homebrew
MacPorts: Ports system for macOS (in Tcl)
- https://github.com/macports

Tools

Burn: Burn data, audio, video, and disk images to various disc formats
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/burn-osx/
Calibre: Cross-platform e-book manager and converter written in Python, C, C++, Qt
- https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
Color Picker Pro: Color Detection Tool for Designers and Developers
- https://github.com/oscardelben/Color-Picker-Pro
Cyberduck: Cross-platform browser for FTP/SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage written in Java and C#
- https://svn.cyberduck.io/trunk/
FileZilla: Cross-platform FTP/SFTP file management tool written in C++, wxWidgets
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
Gifs: A Mac App for finding GIFs
- https://github.com/orta/gifs
Grand Perspective: Disk usage visualisation app for macOS
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/grandperspectiv/
Dusty: Menu bar disk cleaner with an allowlist-only Swift deletion engine 🔶
- https://github.com/yagcioglutoprak/dusty
HandBrake: Cross-platform video/audio encoder/decoder
- https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake
Hex Fiend: A fast and clever hex editor for Mac OS X
- https://github.com/ridiculousfish/HexFiend
ImageAlpha: Mac GUI for pngquant, pngnq and posterizer
- https://github.com/pornel/ImageAlpha
iro: Color picker menu bar app for Mac OSX 10.9+
- https://github.com/ripeworks/iro
mac2imgur: Upload screenshots to imgur 🔶
- https://github.com/mileswd/mac2imgur
MactsAsBeacon: A tiny app to turn a Bluetooth LE-equipped Mac into an iBeacon
- https://github.com/timd/MactsAsBeacon
Monolingual: Remove extra language localization files to free up hard disk space 🔶
- https://github.com/IngmarStein/Monolingual
my41cx: Microcode emulator for HP-41 C/CV/CX (OS X & iOS) 🔶
- https://github.com/mperovic/my41
PlugNPlayMac: A script to automate tasks when connect a device to your Mac
- https://github.com/Piero24/PlugNPlayMac
Sigil: Cross-platform editing software for EPUB files (e-books) written in C++, Qt
- https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil
Tracexy: Native, local-first network intelligence for live traffic and PCAP or PCAPNG investigation as app-aware sessions 🔶
- https://github.com/RockxyApp/Tracexy
VideoMessageExporter: OSX app to export Skype video messages
- https://github.com/alvarop/VideoMessageExporter
VLC: Cross-platform media player and streaming media server written in C, C++, Qt, Objective-C
- https://wiki.videolan.org/OSXCompile/
Miro: Miro can play any video format (much more than quicktime), download torrents, permanently save videos from YouTube, and watch video podcasts.
- https://github.com/pculture/mirocommunity
Kap: An open-source screen recorder built with web technology
- https://github.com/wulkano/kap
Radiola: Lightweight Internet radio player for macOS
- https://github.com/SokoloffA/radiola

OS X Versions, GUIs and Other Wrappers

Cloudy: mac app wrapper for overcast 🔶
- https://github.com/calebd/cloudy
CoinManager: OS X app for Coinbase
- https://github.com/D-32/CoinManager
GoogleMusicMac: Wrapper for Google Music that is compatible with the Mac's media keys
- https://github.com/JamesFator/GoogleMusicMac
Soundcleod: Standalone Mac OS X browser for SoundCloud
- https://github.com/salomvary/soundcleod
tunnelblick: Graphic user interface for OpenVPN
- https://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/
WWDC: WWDC app for OS X 🔶
- https://github.com/insidegui/WWDC

Productivity and Others

Audacity: Cross-platform multi-track audio editor and recorder written in C, C++
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
BibDesk: Bibliographic reference management software for macOS
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/bibdesk/
Cactus: Static site generator for designers in Python and Django templates, with lightweight GUI app for macOS
- https://github.com/eudicots/Cactus
Carol: A minimal and beautiful lyrics app that stays in the menu bar of macOS, written in C#
- https://github.com/AnaghSharma/Carol
Catch: Broadcasting made easy 🔶
- https://github.com/mipstian/catch
Clementine: Cross-platorm music player and library organizer written in C++, Qt
- https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine
GraphSketcher: A fast, simple graph drawing and data plotting app for OS X and iPad from the Omni Group
- https://github.com/graphsketcher/GraphSketcher
ItsPaint: MS Paint for the Mac — open it, draw, close it. 2.96 MB, written in Swift
- https://github.com/joshlin2201/itspaint
Jekyll: Blog-aware, static site generator in Ruby
- https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll
MacGesture: Global mouse gesture for Mac OS X
- https://github.com/CodeFalling/MacGesture
Markoff：A light-weight Markdown (CommonMark) previewer for OS X 🔶
- https://github.com/thoughtbot/Markoff
PDF Archiver: A nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks 🔶
- https://github.com/JulianKahnert/PDF-Archiver
QGIS: Cross-platform geographic information system (GIS) written in C++, Python, Qt
- https://github.com/qgis/QGIS
Quickwords: Write anything in a matter of seconds. Create snippets that can substitute text, execute tedious tasks and more. ✏️
- https://quickwords.co
Seashore: Image editor based on parts of GIMP but built entirely in Cocoa
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/seashore/
Simple Comic: Comic viewer
- https://github.com/arauchfuss/Simple-Comic
Skim: PDFKit-based PDF reader and annotation for macOS
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app/
SlowQuitApps: Add a global delay to Command-Q to stop accidental app quits
- https://github.com/dteoh/SlowQuitApps
Stash: Personal finance application for Mac OS X
- http://github.com/ppearson/Stash
TimeScribe: Simple and free working time recording.
- https://timescribe.app
ToDoOSX: OS X app using Parse and managing to-dos
- https://github.com/ParsePlatform/TodoOSX
Vienna: RSS/Atom Reader
- https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss
Wallpapers: A Mac app for downloading wallpapers
- https://github.com/orta/Wallpapers

Menubar Apps

Abendrot: Screen warmer that cuts nighttime blue light on every display 🔶
- https://github.com/matthewrball/abendrot
Headroom: Claude Code usage meter — live 5h session and 7d week percentages in the menubar, color-coded as a limit approaches 🔶
- https://github.com/patwalls/headroom
MacMistral: Your Conversational AI Companion Right in Your Mac's Menubar
- https://github.com/peterdsp/macmistral
Americano: Simple caffeinate wrapper stay at menu bar
- https://github.com/LZhenHong/Americano
Clippy: Card-based clipboard manager with content-aware previews, AI transformations, a built-in screenshot editor, and file converter 🔶
- https://github.com/yarasaa/Clippy
Yap: On-device voice dictation. Press a hotkey, talk, and the text is pasted into whatever field you were typing in. It runs offline in native Swift with no model to download.
- https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap
Pulse: Menu bar system monitor with live CPU, memory, temperature, fan, network, disk, power, and battery stats
- https://github.com/emgeorrk/pulse
StandLock: Stand-up break enforcer that puts a full-screen overlay on every display, with three discipline levels from a skippable prompt to full input blocking 🔶
- https://github.com/yagizdo/StandLock
Lunavect: Claude Code and Codex companion that shows which session is working, waiting for you, or done, plus weekly and five-hour usage limits with reset times 🔶
- https://github.com/lovach/Lunavect
AIQuotaBar: Live Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot usage limits in the menubar, with reset countdowns, pace warnings, and alerts before a limit is hit
- https://github.com/yagcioglutoprak/AIQuotaBar
Shotnix: Screenshots, screen recordings, and a video editor: scrolling capture, annotation, text recognition, and recordings that open with zooms on clicks, a redrawn cursor, and on-device captions 🔶
- https://github.com/OMARVII/Shotnix
Holeberry: Native macOS menu bar app to monitor and control your Pi-hole instances: live blocking status and query stats, timed or indefinite disable with a countdown pill, one-click unblock of the current browser tab's domain, gravity updates, and recently blocked domains 🔶
- https://github.com/pedrovieira/Holeberry

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