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Open Source Mac Apps

Discover popular open source Mac apps

Pika

Pika

An open-source colour picker app for macOS

Color Picker
Itsycal

Itsycal

Itsycal is a tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar

CalendarMenu Bar
Meeting Bar

Meeting Bar

Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar

Menu BarCalendar
Control Room

Control Room

A macOS app to control the Xcode Simulator.

Developer ToolsSimulator
Handbrake

Handbrake

Open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows

ConverterVideo
Keyboard Cowboy

Keyboard Cowboy

The missing keyboard shortcut utility for macOS

KeyboardAutomation
Loop

Loop

MacOS window management made elegant.

Window Management
Rectangle

Rectangle

Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

Window Management
AltTab

AltTab

Windows alt-tab on macOS

Window Management
SwiftQuit

SwiftQuit

Automatic quitting of macOS apps when closing their windows.

Menu Bar
Calendr

Calendr

Menu bar calendar for macOS

Menu BarCalendar
Hidden Bar

Hidden Bar

Hidden Bar lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.

Menu Bar
Mac Mouse Fix

Mac Mouse Fix

Make Your $10 Mouse Better Than an Apple Trackpad!

Mouse
Monitor Control

Monitor Control

Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display

Display
Insomnia

Insomnia

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC

Developer Tools
Espanso

Espanso

Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

Text Expander
Maccy

Maccy

Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS

Clipboard Manager
Swift Bar

Swift Bar

Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool

Menu Bar
iTerm2

iTerm2

iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

Terminal
Armed

Armed

Never lose your mac again.

Productivity
NetNewsWire

NetNewsWire

RSS reader for macOS and iOS.

RSS
Kap

Kap

An open-source screen recorder built with web technology

Screen Recorder
KeyCastr

KeyCastr

Keystroke visualizer

Keyboard
LuLu

LuLu

LuLu is the free macOS firewall

Firewall
ImageOptim

ImageOptim

GUI image optimizer for Mac

ImageConverter
IINA

IINA

The modern video player for macOS

Video Player
Keka

Keka

The macOS file archiver.

File Archiver
Stats

Stats

macOS system monitor in your menu bar

Menu BarMonitor
Transmission

Transmission

Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client

BitTorrent
Bitwarden

Bitwarden

The password manager trusted by millions

Password Manager
Flameshot

Flameshot

Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software

Screenshot
Zettlr

Zettlr

Zettlr brings simplicity back to your texts

MarkdownEditor
Cyberduck

Cyberduck

Cyberduck is an FTP client for Mac

FTP ClientFile
OpenShot

OpenShot

Video editor for Mac

VideoEditor
Brave

Brave

Next generation Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows.

Browser
Background Music

Background Music

Automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

Audio
Aerial

Aerial

Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac

Screensaver
Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018

Screensaver
AnyBar

AnyBar

OS X menubar status indicator

Menu Bar
MiniSim

MiniSim

MacOS menu bar app for launching iOS  and Android 🤖 emulators

SimulatorDeveloper Tools
Gray

Gray

Pick between the light appearance and the dark appearance on a per-app basis

Dark Mode
Plash

Plash

Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper

WallpaperDesktop
Ice Cubes

Ice Cubes

A SwiftUI Mastodon client

MastodonSocial Media
Quicksilver

Quicksilver

Accessing applications, documents, contacts, music and much, much more

Productivity
Hyper

Hyper

A terminal built on web technologies

Terminal
PearCleaner

PearCleaner

Open-source MacOS app cleaner.

Cleaner
ueli

ueli

Keystroke launcher for Windows and macOS

Launcher
Aural

Aural

An audio player for macOS, inspired by Winamp.

Music Player
Pritunl

Pritunl

Open Source OpenVPN Client

VPN
Tabby

Tabby

A terminal for a more modern age

Terminal
CodEditor

CodEditor

Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

Editor
Pine

Pine

A modern, native macOS markdown editor

MarkdownEditor
Macdown

Macdown

Open source Markdown editor for macOS

MarkdownEditor
DevToysMac

DevToysMac

DevToys For mac

Developer Tools
OnlySwitch

OnlySwitch

All-in-One menu bar app

Menu Bar
CodeEdit

CodeEdit

Swift code editor

Editor
BatteryBoi

BatteryBoi

The battery app your Mac

ProductivityAutomation
TomatoBar

TomatoBar

TomatoBar is world's neatest Pomodoro timer for the macOS menu bar. All the essential features are here - configurable work and rest intervals, optional sounds, discreet actionable notifications, global hotkey.

Menu BarProductivity
Reminders MenuBar

Reminders MenuBar

Simple macOS menu bar app to view and interact with reminders.

Menu BarProductivity
Tuneful

Tuneful

Tuneful provides a convenient way to control music playback for both Spotify and Apple Music, and see the currently playing song directly in the menu bar.

Menu BarMusic Player
VoiceOver Designer

VoiceOver Designer

Design, prototype and test accessibility of iOS-apps

Developer ToolsAccessibility
SwiftShift

SwiftShift

Sweet window manager. Never look for those tiny arrows again.

Window ManagementMenu Bar
Bruno

Bruno

API client

APIDeveloper Tools
Flycut

Flycut

Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers, syncs across iCloud

Clipboard Manager
CalendarX

CalendarX

A lightweight macOS app for displaying calendar and time

CalendarMenu Bar
Karabiner-Elements

Karabiner-Elements

A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS.

Productivity
Hammerspoon

Hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Productivity
WezTerm

WezTerm

A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer

Terminal
Hello HTTP

Hello HTTP

A cross-platform HTTP client desktop application for testing HTTP and REST APIs, WebSocket, GraphQL (including subscriptions) and gRPC endpoints.

APIDeveloper Tools
BrightIntosh

BrightIntosh

BrightIntosh enables your MacBook Pro M1 (or newer) to use the increased brightness (1000 nits) of its XDR display anytime. By default this is only possible when displaying HDR content.

Display
LeafView

LeafView

Minimalist image viewer based on Leaflet.js and Electron

Image
Elephicon

Elephicon

Utility to generate Apple ICNS and Microsoft ICO files from PNG files

Converter
Tauview

Tauview

Minimalist image viewer based on Leaflet.js and Tauri

Image
Clop

Clop

Clipboard optimizer for macOS

Compress
MacSymbolicator

MacSymbolicator

Symbolicating macOS/iOS crash reports, easily.

Developer Tools
HostsX

HostsX

A lightweight macOS app for updating local hosts

Menu Bar
Diffusion Bee

Diffusion Bee

Run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac

AIDiffusion
Multi

Multi

Create custom, lightweight macOS apps from websites

ProductivityBrowserWindow Management
Omnivore

Omnivore

Omnivore is the free, open source, read-it-later app for serious readers. Distraction free. Privacy focused. Open source. Designed for knowledge workers and lifelong learners.

NewsRSS
OpenEmu

OpenEmu

Multiple Video Game System

EmulatorGame
Cork

Cork

A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI

Developer Tools
Ice

Ice

Powerful menu bar management tool.

Menu Bar
Jan

Jan

Jan is an open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs 100% offline on your computer.

AI
JukeBox

JukeBox

Jukebox is a macOS application that allows you to display and control the currently playing song from Spotify or Apple Music in the menu bar.

AudioMusic
Gifski

Gifski

Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac

VideoConverterFile
LinearMouse

LinearMouse

The mouse and trackpad utility for Mac.

Mouse
Blurred

Blurred

A macOS utility that helps reduce distraction by dimming your inactive noise.

Desktop
UnnaturalScrollWheels

UnnaturalScrollWheels

Invert scroll direction for physical scroll wheels while maintaining "Natural" scrolling for trackpads on MacOS.

Mouse
System Color Picker

System Color Picker

The macOS color picker as an app with lots of extra features.

Color PickerMenu Bar
Actions

Actions

Additional actions for the Shortcuts app

ProductivityAutomation
Tiny Wi-Fi Analyzer

Tiny Wi-Fi Analyzer

Simple, open-source Wi-Fi channel and strength analyzer for macOS.

Network
Zed

Zed

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor

Editor
SelfControl

SelfControl

Block your own access to distracting websites.

Productivity
SlowQuitApps

SlowQuitApps

A macOS app that adds a global delay of 1 second to the Cmd-Q shortcut.

Utility
MarkEdit

MarkEdit

MarkEdit is a free and open-source Markdown editor for macOS. It's just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.

ProductivityNotes
AutoMute

AutoMute

A MacOS menu bar app that mutes the sound on headphones disconnect / awake from sleep

AutomationAudio
Mackup

Mackup

Keep your application settings in sync.

Automation
Browserosaurus

Browserosaurus

macOS tool that prompts you to choose a browser when opening a link.

Browser
Free Ruler

Free Ruler

A ruler application for Mac OS Features - Horizontal and vertical rulers. - Choose from units: pixels, millimeters, or inches (press U to cycle). - Float rulers above other applications (press F to toggle). - Move rulers independently or as a group (press G to toggle). - Drag the end of each ruler to resize. - Show or hide the shadow behind rulers (press S to toggle). - Align rulers at mouse location (press O for origin). - Reset ruler locations with Command-R.

ProductivityMonitorAccessibility
MacBox

MacBox

MacBox is an optional manager app for the 86Box emulator to make it easier to handle multiple virtual machines.

Emulator
Cronica

Cronica

Cronica is a minimalist watchlist app for all your Apple devices, that reminds you about upcoming releases.

Entertainment
Alacritty

Alacritty

Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance. The supported platforms currently consist of BSD, Linux, macOS and Windows.

Terminal
ScriptManager

ScriptManager

An easy and comfortable macOS menu bar-tool, to organize and use your own terminal-scripts.

ProductivityMenu BarDeveloper Tools
WWDC

WWDC

The unofficial WWDC app for macOS

Developer Tools
KeePassXC

KeePassXC

Cross-platform community-driven port of Keepass password manager

Password Manager
Selected

Selected

The floating toolbar that appears when you select any text.

Utility
Freeter

Freeter

Gather everything you need for work in one place, organized by projects and workflows, and have a quick access to them.

ProductivityDesktopLauncherBrowser
Hoppscotch

Hoppscotch

Open source API development ecosystem.

APIProductivityDeveloper Tools
Mos

Mos

A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction independently for your mouse on macOS

Mouse
MakeItHome

MakeItHome

'=== Welcome to MakeItHome: Your Personal Open Source Workspace Revolution === MakeItHome transforms your workspace into a personalized sanctuary, where your most-used applications are just a flick of the mouse away. Say goodbye to the confines of your screen and experience the freedom to effortlessly access your preferred tools and apps. == Unleash Your Productivity == Accelerate your pointer along the edges or bottom of your screen, breaking the boundaries of your computer. Dive into your favorite applications instantly and declutter your workspace. Don't need an app anymore? A simple drag removes it, giving you control like never before. == Innovative Screen-Breaking Technology == Discover the magic of our screen-breaking effect. Seamlessly break through the traditional limitations of your screen to access hidden features, notes, widgets, or even effortlessly drag and drop files, creating a dynamic, scrolling clipboard. == Tailored to Your Workflow == MakeItHome adapts to your needs, supporting virtual desktops and multi-monitor setups without disrupting your workflow. Customizable settings, accessible from the Menu Bar, empower you to fine-tune your experience, ensuring seamless integration into your unique setup. == What Sets MakeItHome Apart == Unlike anything you’ve experienced, MakeItHome not only elevates your productivity but also offers a glimpse into the future of user interaction. The screen recording feature, essential for our breakthrough effect, ensures a seamless and immersive experience, without compromising your privacy. == Join the Revolution == Be a part of the future of workspace interaction. Gecko's Ink invites you to explore the limitless possibilities of MakeItHome. Our team is dedicated to refining your experience, and your feedback at our support center is invaluable in shaping the future of our innovative tool. == How It Works == It's effortless. Move your mouse beyond the screen borders, and witness the magic unfold. Experience the liberating feeling of breaking free from the constraints of your monitor, and reimagine how you interact with your digital world. MakeItHome intuitively displays your frequently used applications, empowering you to effortlessly remove unwanted ones with a simple drag-away gesture, putting you in control of your workspace To work MakeItHome requires screen recording permission: it is necessary to save apps previews and create the screen's boundaries-breaking effect. No screenshots will be saved or sent anywhere. MakeItHome could also require the Accessibility permission to create a transparent mouse slowing effect where necessary (like the Dock or menu side) to avoid the involuntary activation of the overscreen effect maintaining the cursor under the control of the user.

ProductivityDeveloper ToolsClipboard ManagerNotesMenu BarDisplayUtility
Marker Data

Marker Data

The avant-garde Marker extraction application crafted for Final Cut Pro

VideoProductivityAutomationUtilityImage