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Awesome Open Source Apps
🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS.
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Audio
Application which hosts AudioUnits v3 using AVFoundation API
Audio Editor
Aural Player is an audio player for macOS, inspired by Winamp for Windows.
A MacOS menu bar app that mutes the sound on headphones disconnect / 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.
macOS camera recording using ffmpeg
Clementine Music Player
Open karaoke party system
📻 LocalRadio is "Radio for Cord-Cutters" – a Software-Defined Radio (SDR) app for your Mac and mobile devices. With an inexpensive RTL-SDR USB device, LocalRadio provides a casual, home-based radio listening experience for your favorite local frequencies - FM broadcasts/free music/news/sports/weather/public safety & aviation scanner/etc.
macOS app to show you lyric what currently iTunes or Spotify is playing.
🎶 Ultimate lyrics app for macOS.
Lightweight audio player & converter for FreeBSD/Linux/macOS
🎶 Control Apple Music right from your macOS menu bar.
Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/audiotools
Last.fm scrobbler for the Shazam Mac app
A minimal, beautifully designed music player for OS X.
Spotify and iTunes in your menu bar
A Spotify mini-player for macOS
Audio input/output source lock/switcher for macOS.
Instant audio feedback for typing. macOS version. (Rust)
Musical instrument strobe tuner
macOS System-wide Audio Equalizer 🎧
The fre:ac audio converter project
Controlling iTunes and Spotify volume using volume up and volume down hotkeys.
jmc - a new macOS media organizer
AirPlay audio player. Shairport Sync adds multi-room capability with Audio Synchronisation
macOS native desktop Software Defined Radio app
Cog is an open source audio player for macOS. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate. ![objective_c_icon]
Backup
Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)
🍫 Syncalicious
UrBackup - Client/Server Open Source Network Backup for Windows, MacOS and Linux
Git-integrated backup tool for macOS and Linux devs.
Browser
An experimental peer-to-peer Web browser
Next generation Brave browser for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android.
A macOS app for customizing which browser to start
A floating browser window for OS X
Cross-platform application to open any website or media in a floating window
💦 Make any website your Mac desktop wallpaper
The browser prompter for macOS
Experimental web browser with minimalistic design
Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5
Safe Exam Browser for macOS and iOS
Chat
XMPP client for macOS based on TigaseSwift XMPP library
A native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web
A better WeChat on macOS and Linux. Built with Electron by Zhongyi Tong.
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
Franz is a free messaging app for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more.
A "native-like" OS X, Windows, & Linux desktop app for Google Allo
Unofficial GroupMe App
a macOS/OSX app to comfortably browse and search through your Messages.app history.
Official OSX, Windows, and Linux Desktop Clients for Rocket.Chat
A truly native Matrix client for macOS - written in Swift/Cocoa, with E2E encryption support
Signal — Private Messenger for Windows, Mac, and Linux
Source code of Telegram for macos on Swift 5.0
Telegram Desktop messaging app
Textual is an IRC client for OS X
macOS native TorChat client
Little sweet addition to your WhatsApp Desktop
Wire for desktop
Cryptocurrency
Balance Open: A GPL3-licensed macOS menu bar app for all the world’s currencies.
☠️ macOS menu bar application for tracking crypto coin prices.
Copay is a secure Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash wallet platform for both desktop and mobile devices.
📈 A menu bar app that updates cryptocurrencies prices in real-time
Floating window for Crypto curriency rates
Database
Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project. Previously known as "SQLite Database Browser" and "Database Browser for SQLite". Website at:
Free universal database tool and SQL client
💻 Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use Mac database management application for Redis.
Mac Native Mongodb Client
Open source PostgreSQL GUI client for macOS, Linux and Windows
The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac
The easiest way to get started with Redis on the Mac
Native cross-platform MongoDB management tool
MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS
MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS
The easiest way to get started with MongoDB on the Mac
Development
Apache NetBeans
ColorSet is a macOS utility and framework allowing developers to manage custom interface colors with ease.
a simple but highly customizable paging layout for UICollectionView.
Git
Cashew macOS Github Issue Tracker
macOS application for easily operating GitHub Projects (HEAVY LIMITATION, CURRENTLY).
Native cross platform full feature terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. Written in Rust using ncurses.
Mac app that shows pull request last modified each line of a file, Written in SwiftUI
Simple collaboration from your desktop
A minimalistic Git client for Mac
The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.
git GUI for macOS. Current development focus is on removing legacy git command line usage in favour of libgit2 and objective-git.
Gitee, OS X status bar application for Github
GitHub contributions app, for iOS, WatchOS, and OSX
Notifying about new commits from watched repos on github
Simple MacOS app to alert you when you have unread GitHub notifications
GitHub notifications on your menu bar. Available on macOS, Windows & Linux.
🐙 GitHub contribution streak & stat tracking menu bar app
A macOS application for tracking code review process
Managing Pull Requests and Issues For GitHub & GitHub Enterprise
Mac OS X Git GUI
JSON Parsing
A simple macOS app to generate Swift Object Mapper classes from JSON
MacOS app for Generating JSON classes (Template based)
JSONExport is a desktop application for Mac OS X which enables you to export JSON objects as model classes with their associated constructors, utility methods, setters and getters in your favorite language.
A macOS app to convert JSON to Swift structs
Other Development
A scriptable scratchpad for developers. In slow yet steady progress.
macOS app to view nodes in a Chef installation
MQTT X - Elegant MQTT 5.0 Client Tool of Cross-platform
Mac browser for Mach-O binaries (macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS)
A browser based GUI for LLDB Debugger.
Web Development
Local development docker/rkt CoreOS VM App for macOS made very simple
Controlling app of corectld server daemon for macOS
Electron wrapper to build and distribute HTTP Toolkit for the desktop
The Open Source API Client and Design Platform for GraphQL, REST and gRPC
KubeMonitor is a macOS app that displays information about your active Kubernetes cluster in your menu bar
MacOS Status Bar App to switch between kubernetes contexts
Mac app for website auditing and crawling
Simple Menu Bar (Status Bar) App for mac OS and simple table app for iOS listing local Bonjour websites (as Safari 11 no longer has Bonjour Bookmarks)
Mockup Generator is a macOS app built with AngularJS/Electron that sits in your menu bar allowing you to capture screenshots of your favourite websites and wrap them in device mock-ups.
An example of building a desktop application using the Now API
🍎 macOS Electron+React App for uploading files to S3 directly from Status Bar
A Mac OS X App That Lets You Access iTunes Connect
npm desktop manager https://720kb.github.io/ndm
Evaluate Nodejs Code Snippets From Menubar!
A simple macOS app for monitoring the status of cloud services
iOS / macOS
AVXCAssets Generator takes path for your assets images and creates appiconset and imageset for you in just one click
AppBox is a tool for iOS developers to build and deploy Development, Ad-Hoc, and In-house (Enterprise) applications directly to the devices from your Dropbox account. Download latest version -
AppIcon generator for macOS and iOS
An iOS open source project for the great site that gives you indication about the average iOS / MacOS app stores review times.
🍎Objective C Method Tracing Call Chart
An app that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images.
macOS app that manages assets for your development projects (Xcode, web, etc)
Microbenchmarking app for Swift with nice log-log plots
A small application to monitor your GitHub project web page in a webview-based native macOS app
A macOS app for submitting radars
Cleaner for Xcode.app built with react-native-macos
A free, native Apple macOS app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints
Coronavirus tracker app for iOS & macOS with maps & charts
A macOS App to explore CoreImage Filters.
🍱 A macOS app to generate app icons
Create Xcode asset catalogs swift and painless. Generate images for macOS and iOS app icons, launch images and image sets.
I got tired of manually exporting every icon size (for Xcode and more), so I made an app to do it.
Icons.app – App for macOS which is designed to generate consistent sized icons of an existing application in various states, jiggling (shaking) etc.
Re-write of Injection for Xcode in (mostly) Swift
The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs).
An intuitive app to display transparent images on screen.
Mac app to localize your iOS and macOS projects
Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS and macOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side
macOS app that manages localizations of Xcode projects.
A macOS app for convenient access to the system color panel
Notarization status monitoring tool for macOS, supporting multiple developer accounts.
A macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile.
Apple iOS/macOS Provisioning Profiles management,.provisionprofile, .mobileprovision files manager tool for mac
🐉 A macOS, Linux, Windows app to test push notifications on iOS and Android
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. Unrestricted by the applicationIdentifier in the ProvisioningProfile file.
MacOS application for creating AppIcon for iOS and Android (coming soon)
SmartPush,一款iOS苹果远程推送测试程序,Mac OS下的APNS工具APP,iOS Push Notification Debug App
iOS/Android app deployment tool for macOS
The unofficial WWDC app for macOS
WWDC.srt is a powerful app for downloading subtitles in (srt) format or data links ( video links , pdf links , sample code links ) for each WWDC session video since 2013 .
iOS Calabash Launcher is a macOS app that helps you run and manage Calabash tests on your Mac.
A Mac app to decode and extract images from iOS apps, support png/jpg/ipa/Assets.car files.
iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator, and manage the app installed on the simulator.
A tool to convert Xcode .xib to .storyboard files
Downloader
Easily search for macOS apps from the homebrew cask app catalog.
A macOS GUI for youtube-dl
A full-featured download manager.
macOs Video Downloader written in Swift and Obj.-C
Simple menu bar app to download YouTube movies on your Mac
A desktop application for downloading Udemy Courses
CSV
A simple CSV editor for the Mac
JSON
Dead simple JSON editor using josdejong/jsoneditor
GUI for editing, visualizing, and manipulating JSON data
Markdown
Gingko Writer. Tree-based writing software, written in Elm.
Open source Markdown editor for macOS.
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
A modern, native macOS markdown editor
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
TeX
Fully hackable text editor developed for exact sciences with built-in KaTeX and AsciiMath support. Extensible via plugins and themes. Exportable as HTML, PDF and GFM.
Text
Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
Vim - the text editor - for macOS
Noto is a beautiful and simple plain text editor for macOS written in Swift.
General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.
TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later
VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift
Extensions
A macOS application that enables the use of native picture-in-picture with browsers such as Google Chrome for HTML5 videos.
Middleclick with triple click/tap for MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse.
Safari extension that injects custom CSS and JS files based on page host.
Add the Picture-in-Picture Functionality to YouTube, Netflix, Plex and other video broadcasting services in macOS Sierra
PiPifier is a native macOS 10.12 Safari extension that lets you use every HTML5 video in Picture in Picture mode
Safari extension to save your working sessions
An Xcode formatter plug-in to format your swift code.
The open source Tab Manager Extension for Safari.
🔌 an Xcode extension to use nef features easily
Finder
Clipboard extension app for macOS.
Clipboard manager with advanced features
Duplicate Finder is a MacOS Application that is written by Swift. It's a useful tool that would help you to find all duplicate files which have the same names in the specific folder.
Execute custom scripts from the MacOS context menu (CTRL+click) in Finder.
🐢 Open terminal quickly from Finder
macOS Finder toolbar app to open current folder in Visual Studio Code
✨ Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty.
List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers
Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal
Games
An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
The DOS game emulator that's fit for your Mac.
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS
An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢
Turn your screen into a playable level of Mario
Beautiful, powerful chess app for the Mac
Graphics
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)
A tool to capture screenshot and recognize text by online ocr apis
ColorSet is a macOS utility and framework allowing developers to manage custom interface colors with ease.
Gaphor is the simple modeling tool
🏇 Gif capture app for macOS
😎 The open-source, Haskell-built video editor for GIF makers.
🌈 Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac
Proof of concept for a vector drawing app without canvas boundaries.
Material Colors - A React Native App to Select Material Colors for macOS.
Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Pencil2D is open source and cross-platform.
macOS app to capture your screen as a layered PSD file
macSVG - An open-source macOS app for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view ➤➤➤
IDE
Apache NetBeans
The hackable text editor
LiveCode cross-platform development environment (engine)
Oni: Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim
The official Vim repository
Visual Studio Code
Lightweight Lua-based IDE for Lua with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, remote debugger, and code analyzer; supports Lua 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, LuaJIT and other Lua interpreters on Windows, macOS, and Linux
Images
macOS app which assembles and disassembles animated png files
Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization
Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata
A macOS status bar App for quick sketch
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp
I got tired of manually exporting every icon size (for Xcode and more), so I made an app to do it.
Mac GUI for pngquant, pngnq and posterizer
🖼️ PNG/JPEG optimization app for macOS, Windows and Linux.
3D medical imaging reconstruction software
🚀 a powerful, open-source screenshot utility for macOS
Photo finder application for macOS
A MacOS menubar app for automating screenshots
easy to use mac osx image editing application for the rest of us
⚠️ Temporary repository for Sparkle update
Keyboard
MacOS application for controlling AnnePro keyboard over bluetooth
A handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application.
config karabiner with ease
Karabiner (KeyRemap4MacBook) is a powerful utility for keyboard customization.
Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.
A macOS input source switcher with user-defined shortcuts.
Switch the right application ASAP.
A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard [not actively maintained]
A menubar/taskbar Gmail App for Windows and macOS
Unofficial ProtonMail Desktop App
A beautiful, fast and maintained fork of @Nylas Mail by one of the original authors.
Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
macOS client with Safari extension for SimpleLogin
Fast and Simple Email Client
Medical
3D medical imaging reconstruction software
Menubar
Airpass - status bar Mac app to overcome time constrained WiFi networks.
OS X menubar status indicator
Put the output from any script or program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar
CloudyTabs is a simple menu bar application that lists your iCloud Tabs.
Simple menu bar weather app for macOS
A simple (bare-bones) macOS menubar extra to apply display presets.
Hide menu bar icons on macOS
A macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Grayscale Mode.
An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
Itsycal is a tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar. http://www.mowglii.com/itsycal
Menu Bar App for Managing Kubernetes Contexts on Mac
Your next meeting always before your eyes in the macOS menu bar
my fork of MenuMeters by http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
MacOS app to change the screen brightness on the menubar.
🎶 Control Apple Music right from your macOS menu bar.
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 Dimness and Night Shift menu bar app for macOS 🌙
Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
A quickly hacked up PSI OS X status bar app
macOS app to visualize Pi-hole information
macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
A mac menu bar app that provides note taking functionality though a quick dropdown menu.
A macOS menu bar app that enables system-wide navigation functionality for the side buttons on third-party mice.
☀️ A macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift.
Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
macOS menu bar app that allows control over the gpu on dual gpu macbooks
Free system monitor for OSX and macOS. See all system information at a glance in the menu bar.
Music
A tiny menu bar app that listens iTunes and Spotify to detect chords of songs!
Deezer Desktop app for Windows, Linux and macOS
Open karaoke party system
A simple IDE for LilyPond
🎶 Control Apple Music right from your macOS menu bar.
Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
SoundCloud for macOS and Windows
🎶 A nodejs app to control Spotify without leaving your terminal. 🎶
A Mac app wrapper for music.youtube.com
A macOS app to visualise your iTunes library as graphs.
A simple Spotify lyrics viewer menu bar app for macOS in Swift 3
News
Basic/Classic Hacker News app, used as a Cocoa & Swift learning platform
RSS reader for macOS and iOS.
Vienna is a free and open-source RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS.
Hacker News Delivered to Desktop
Notes
A markdown editor for developers on Mac, Windows and Linux.
A simple command line notebook for programmers
Notes manager for macOS/iOS
Autosaving Scratchpad. A simple but smart note-taking app
A Jupyter notebook viewer for macOS
A simple note taking app for macOS and iOS which uses Realm and CloudKit for syncing
Notes is a macOS application built to create notes, using text amongst other formats: images, videos, contacts, and etc.
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
Simplenote for macOS
A free, open-source, and completely encrypted notes app. https://standardnotes.org
Refined Evernote desktop app
Joplin - an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. Forum: https://discourse.joplinapp.org/
Notable - a simple note taking application
Yet another simple notes app
Other
Manage your Homebrew formulas with style using Cakebrew.
An unofficial DevDocs API Documentation viewer for macOS.
Hosts file manager for OS X
a Cocoa GUI for /etc/hosts
GUI image optimizer for Mac
A simple macOS app to preview animations created with Facebook's keyframes framework
💻 Democratizing Snippet Management (macOS/Win/Linux)
Mac app to learn typing and the alphabet
Create native Mac applications from command line scripts.
Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs
The standalone app based on official debugger of React Native, and includes React Inspector / Redux DevTools
A desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Menu bar macOS app for running rkt in a macOS hypervisor CoreOS VM.
macOS app that contains a full Ruby installation (for use with Ruby/Gosu)
A simple shortcut menu for macOS
Convenient & secure logging during development & release in Swift 3, 4 & 5
A Mac app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources
Manage your vagrant machines in one place with Vagrant Manager for OS X
Simple app to send pasteboard items to GitHub's Gist
Frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle
Player
The modern video player for macOS.
media player on Mac OS X
3D 180/360 video player for macOS and PSVR
A free and simple to use video player made with Haskell.
🎥 Command line video player
Podcast
A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Podcast client (podcatcher) for Mac
Put Overcast on your Mac's menu bar
Never miss a live streaming podcast!
Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
Productivity
Elegant Microsoft To-Do desktop app
Calculator for macOS which working on status bar
Open-source productivity booster with a brain
A clipboard manager for Mac OS X
⏲ macOS app to plan and organize through timezones.
ControlPlane - context-sensitive computing for OS X