Awesome macOS open source applications

List of awesome open source applications for macOS. This list contains a lot of native, and cross-platform apps. The main goal of this repository is to find free open source apps and start contributing. Feel free to contribute to the list, any suggestions are welcome!

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Languages

You can see in which language an app is written. Currently there are following languages:

• ![c_icon] - C language.
• ![cpp_icon] - C++ language.
• ![c_sharp_icon] - C# language.
• ![clojure_icon] - Clojure language.
• ![coffee_script_icon] - CoffeeScript language.
• ![css_icon] - CSS language.
• ![go_icon] - Go language.
• ![elm_icon] - Elm language.
• ![haskell_icon] - Haskell language.
• ![javascript_icon] - JavaScript language.
• ![lua_icon] - Lua language.
• ![objective_c_icon] - Objective-C language.
• ![python_icon] - Python language.
• ![ruby_icon] - Ruby language.
• ![rust_icon] - Rust language.
• ![shell_icon] - Shell language.
• ![swift_icon] - Swift language.
• ![typescript_icon] - TypeScript language.

Contents

• Audio
• Backup
• Browser
• Chat
• Cryptocurrency
• Database
• Development
• Git
• iOS / macOS
• JSON Parsing
• Web development
• Other development
• Downloader
• Editors
• CSV
• JSON
• Markdown
• TeX
• Text
• Extensions
• Finder
• Games
• Graphics
• IDE
• Images
• Keyboard
• Mail
• Menubar
• Music
• News
• Notes
• Other
• Podcast
• Productivity
• Screensaver
• Security
• Sharing Files
• Social Networking
• Streaming
• System
• Terminal
• Touch Bar
• Utilities
• VPN & Proxy
• Video
• Wallpaper
• Window Management

Applications

Audio

• AUHost - Application which hosts AudioUnits v3 using AVFoundation API. ![swift_icon]
• Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software ![c_icon]
• Aural Player - 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. ![swift_icon]
• AutoMute - Automatically mute the sound when headphones disconnect / Mac awake from sleep. ![objective_c_icon]
• Background Music - Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio. ![cpp_icon]
• BlackHole - BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency. ![c_icon]
• CAM - macOS camera recording using ffmpeg ![javascript_icon]
• Clementine - Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer for Windows, Linux and macOS. ![cpp_icon]
• Cog - 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]
• Karaoke Forever - Host awesome karaoke parties where everyone can queue songs from their phone's browser. Plays MP3+G and MP4 with WebGL visualizations. ![javascript_icon]
• LocalRadio - LocalRadio is software for listening to "Software-Defined Radio" on your Mac and mobile devices. ![objective_c_icon]
• LosslessCut - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing without re-encoding. ![javascript_icon]
• Lyricism - macOS app to show you lyric what currently iTunes or Spotify is playing. ![objective_c_icon] ![swift_icon]
• LyricsX - Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox. ![swift_icon]
• MPV - Lightweight, highly configurable media player. ![c_icon]
• MonitorControl - Control your external monitor brightness, contrast or volume directly from a menulet or with keyboard native keys. ![swift_icon] ![objective_c_icon]
• Mous Player - Simple yet powerful audio player for BSD/Linux/macOS. ![cpp_icon]
• NoiseBuddy - Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar. ![swift_icon]
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar. ![swift_icon]
• Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine. ![swift_icon]
• Scope - Audio Oscilloscope ![swift_icon]
• ShazamScrobbler - Scrobble vinyl, radios, movies to Last.fm. ![objective_c_icon]
• Sonora - Minimal, beautifully designed music player for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• SpotMenu - Spotify and iTunes in your menu bar. ![objective_c_icon] ![swift_icon]
• SpotSpot - Spotify mini-player for macOS. ![javascript_icon]
• Spotify4BigSur - Spotify widget for Notification Center. ![swift_icon]
• Suohai - Audio input/output source lock for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• Tickeys - Instant audio feedback for typing. macOS version. ![rust_icon]
• Tuner - Musical Instrument Tuner ![swift_icon]
• [Un]MuteMic - macOS app to mute & unmute the input volume of your microphone. Perfect for podcasters. ![objective_c_icon] ![c_icon]
• eqMac2 - System-Wide Equalizer for the Mac. ![cpp_icon]
• fre:ac - The fre:ac audio converter project. ![cpp_icon]
• iTunes-Volume-Control - This app allows you to control the iTunes volume using volume up and volume down hotkeys. ![objective_c_icon]
• jmc - jmc is new macOS media organizer. ![swift_icon]
• shairport-sync - macOS/Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD Airplay audio receiver. ![c_icon] ![cpp_icon]
• waveSDR - macOS native desktop Software Defined Radio application using the RTL-SDR USB device. ![swift_icon]

Backup

• BorgBase/Vorta - Simple and Secure Offsite Backups ![python_icon]
• Mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (macOS/Linux). ![python_icon]
• Syncalicious - Keeping multiple macOS preferences in sync can be painful, but it shouldn't be. ![swift_icon]
• UrBackup - UrBackup is Client/Server network backup for Windows, macOS and Linux. ![cpp_icon] ![c_icon]
• shallow-backup - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more. ![python_icon]

Browser

• Beaker Browser - Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser. ![javascript_icon]
• Brave Browser - Brave browser for Desktop and Laptop computers running Windows, macOS, and Linux. ![javascript_icon]
• Chromium - Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. ![javascript_icon] ![cpp_icon] ![c_icon]
• Finicky - Always opens the right browser. ![swift_icon]
• Firefox - Fast, privacy aware browser from a non-profit. Runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. ![javascript_icon] ![rust_icon] ![cpp_icon]
• Helium - Floating browser window for macOS. ![objective_c_icon] ![swift_icon]
• Min Browser - A fast and efficient minimal web browser. ![javascript_icon]
• Pennywise - 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. ![javascript_icon]
• Plash - Make any website your desktop wallpaper. ![swift_icon]
• Privacy Redirect for Safari - Redirect Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Translate to privacy friendly alternatives. ![swift_icon]
• browserosaurus - macOS tool that prompts you to choose a browser when opening a link. ![javascript_icon]
• otter-browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. ![cpp_icon]
• seb-mac - Safe Exam Browser for macOS and iOS. ![c_icon]

Chat

• Adium - Instant messaging application that can connect to XMPP (Jabber), IRC and more. ![c_icon]
• Beagle IM - Powerful XMPP client with support for file transfer, VoIP and end-to-end encryption. ![swift_icon]
• ChitChat - Native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web. ![objective_c_icon]
• Electronic WeChat - Better WeChat on macOS and Linux. ![javascript_icon]
• Element - Element is a collaboration app (currently Electron) for the Matrix protocol. ![javascript_icon]
• Franz - Franz is messaging application for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more. ![javascript_icon]
• Google Allo for Desktop - Native macOS & Windows desktop app for Google Allo. ![javascript_icon]
• GroupMe - Unofficial GroupMe App. ![javascript_icon] ![css_icon]
• MessagesHistoryBrowser - macOS application to comfortably browse and search through your Messages.app history. ![swift_icon]
• RocketChat - Free open source chat system for teams. An alternative to Slack that can also be self hosted. ![javascript_icon]
• Seaglass - A truly native Matrix client for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• Signal Desktop - Electron app that links with your Signal Android or Signal iOS app. ![javascript_icon]
• Telegram - Source code of Telegram for macOS on Swift. ![swift_icon]
• Telegram Desktop - Telegram Desktop messaging app. ![cpp_icon]
• Textual - Textual is an IRC client for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• Thunderbird - Backed by Mozilla, Thunderbird is an extensible email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client. ![cpp_icon] ![javascript_icon] ![rust_icon]
• Torchat-Mac - TorChat for Mac is a macOS native and unofficial port of torchat. ![objective_c_icon]
• WhatsAppBar - Send WhatsApp message from menu bar. ![swift_icon]
• Wire Desktop - Standalone Electron app for the chatapp Wire. ![javascript_icon]

Cryptocurrency

• Balance Open - App for all the world’s currencies. ![swift_icon]
• CoinBar - macOS menu bar application for tracking crypto coin prices. ![swift_icon]
• Copay - A secure bitcoin wallet platform for both desktop and mobile devices. ![typescript_icon]
• Crypto Bar - macOS menu bar application built with Electron. ![javascript_icon]
• Float coin - Native menu bar app with floating window and support for many Exchanges. ![swift_icon]

Database

• Bdash - Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis. ![javascript_icon]
• Beekeeper Studio - SQL editor and manager with support for SQLite, MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, CockroachDB, SQL Server, and Amazon Redshift. ![javascript_icon]
• DB Browser for SQLite - SQLite database management GUI. ![cpp_icon]
• DBeaver - Universal database tool and SQL client. ![java_icon]
• DbGate - Database manager for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, SQLite and others. Runs under Windows, Linux, Mac or as web application. ![javascript_icon] ![typescript_icon]
• Medis - 💻 Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use Mac database management application for Redis. ![javascript_icon]
• MongoHub - Add another lightweight Mac Native MongoDB client. ![objective_c_icon] ![c_icon]
• Postbird - PostgreSQL GUI client for macOS. ![javascript_icon]
• Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac. ![swift_icon]
• Redis Desktop Manager - Cross-platform open source database management tool for Redis ® ![cpp_icon]
• Redis.app - The easiest way to get started with Redis on the Mac. ![swift_icon]
• Robo 3T - Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) is the free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts. ![cpp_icon]
• Sequel Ace - Sequel Ace is a fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL & MariaDB databases. ![objective_c_icon]
• Sequel Pro - MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac. ![swift_icon]
• redis-pro - Redis management with SwiftUI. ![swift_icon]
• reventlou - Personal database as an information management system. ![typescript_icon] ![swift_icon]
• sqlectron - A simple and lightweight SQL client desktop/terminal with cross database and platform support. ![typescript_icon]

Development

• Apache Netbeans - Apache NetBeans is an IDE, Tooling Platform and Application Framework suitable for development in Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more. ![java_icon]
• Brackets - Modern open-source code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that's built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. ![javascript_icon]
• ColorSet - ColorSet is a macOS utility and framework allowing developers to manage custom interface colors with ease. ![swift_icon] ![c_sharp_icon] ![objective_c_icon]
• GitAhead - A graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. ![cpp_icon] ![c_icon]
• KiCad - A software suite for electronic design automation. ![cpp_icon] ![c_icon]
• Layout Designer for UICollectionView - A simple but powerful tool that helps you make complex layouts for UICollectionView. ![swift_icon]
• Pasteboard Viewer - Inspect the system pasteboards. ![swift_icon]
• Stringz - A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications. ![swift_icon]
• utmapp - Virtualization for other operating systems. ![swift_icon] ![objective_c_icon]

Git

• Cashew - Cashew macOS Github Issue Tracker. ![objective_c_icon] ![c_icon]
• GPM - macOS application for easily operating GitHub Projects. ![swift_icon]
• Git Interactive Rebase Tool - Full feature terminal based sequence editor for interactive rebase. ![rust_icon]
• GitAhead - A graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. ![cpp_icon] ![c_icon]
• GitBlamePR - Mac app that shows pull request last modified each line of a file ![swift_icon]
• GitHub Desktop - Simple collaboration from your desktop. ![typescript_icon]
• GitSync - Minimalistic Git client for Mac. ![swift_icon]
• GitUp - The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived. ![objective_c_icon]
• GitX - Graphical client for the git version control system. ![objective_c_icon]
• Gitee - Gitee, macOS status bar application for Github. ![objective_c_icon] ![swift_icon]
• Github contributions - GitHub contributions app, for iOS, WatchOS, and macOS. ![swift_icon]
• GithubListener - Simple app that will notify about new commits to watched repositories. ![swift_icon]
• GithubNotify - Simple macOS app to alert you when you have unread GitHub notifications. ![swift_icon]
• Gitify - Your GitHub notifications on your menu bar. ![javascript_icon]
• Streaker - GitHub contribution streak tracking menubar app. ![javascript_icon]
• TeamStatus-for-GitHub - macOS status bar application for tracking code review process within the team. ![swift_icon]
• Trailer - Managing Pull Requests and Issues For GitHub & GitHub Enterprise. ![swift_icon]
• Xit - Xit is a graphical tool for working with git repositories. ![swift_icon]
• osagitfilter - Filter to put OSA languages (AppleScript, JavaScript) into git, as if they where plain text-files. ![shell_icon] ![applescript_icon]

JSON Parsing

• JSON Mapper - Simple macOS app to generate Swift Object Mapper classes from JSON. ![swift_icon]
• JSON to Model class - Template based highly customizable macOS app to generate classes from JSON string, supports many languages. ![swift_icon]
• JSONExport - Desktop application for macOS which enables you to export JSON objects as model classes with their associated constructors, utility methods, setters and getters in your favorite language. ![swift_icon]
• j2s - macOS app to convert JSON objects into Swift structs (currently targets Swift 4 and Codable). ![swift_icon]

Other Development

• Boop - A scriptable scratchpad for developers. ![swift_icon] ![javascript_icon]
• ChefInspector - Node and Attribute viewer for Chef ![swift_icon]
• MQTTX - An elegant Cross-platform MQTT 5.0 desktop client. ![javascript_icon] ![typescript_icon]
• macho-browser - Browser for macOS Mach-O binaries. ![objective_c_icon]
• vegvisir - Browser based GUI for LLDB Debugger. ![javascript_icon]

Web Development

• CoreOS VM - CoreOS VM is macOS status bar app which allows in an easy way to control CoreOS VM on your Mac. ![objective_c_icon]
• Corectl App for macOS - 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. ![swift_icon]
• HTTP Toolkit - HTTP Toolkit is a cross-platform tool to intercept, debug & mock HTTP. ![typescript_icon]
• Insomnia - Insomnia is a cross-platform REST client, built on top of Electron. ![javascript_icon]
• KubeMonitor - KubeMonitor is a macOS app that displays information about your active Kubernetes cluster in your menu bar. ![swift_icon]
• KubeSwitch - KubeSwitch lists the available kubernetes cluster contexts on the mac, in Mac's Menu bar. ![swift_icon]
• Lantern - Dedicated Mac app for website auditing and crawling. ![swift_icon]
• LocalSites - Simple Menu Bar (Status Bar) App for macOS listing local Bonjour websites (as Safari 11 no longer has Bonjour Bookmarks). ![swift_icon]
• SimpleLocalize CLI - Open source tool for managing i18n keys in software projects. ![swift_icon]
• aws-s3-uploader - Simple macOS app for uploading files to Amazon Web Services. ![javascript_icon]
• iTunesConnect - macOS app to let you access iTunesConnect. ![swift_icon]
• ndm - Npm desktop GUI. ![javascript_icon]
• nodeScratchpad - Evaluate Nodejs/JS code snippets from Menubar. ![swift_icon]
• stts - macOS app for monitoring the status of cloud services. ![swift_icon]

iOS / macOS

• AVXCAssets Generator - Takes path for your assets images and creates appiconset and imageset for you in just one click. ![swift_icon]
• AppBox - Tool for iOS developers to build and deploy Development, Ad-Hoc and In-house (Enterprise) applications directly to the devices from your Dropbox account. ![objective_c_icon]
• AppIcons - Tool for generating icons in all sizes as required by macOS and iOS apps. ![swift_icon]
• AppStoreReviewTimes - Gives you indication about the average iOS / macOS app stores review times. ![swift_icon]
• AppleTrace - Trace tool for iOS/macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• Asset Catalog Tinkerer - App that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images. ![objective_c_icon] ![swift_icon]
• Assets - Assets is a macOS app that manages assets for your development projects (Xcode, web, etc). ![swift_icon]
• Attabench - Attabench is a microbenchmarking app for macOS, designed to measure and visualize the performance of Swift code. ![swift_icon]
• Board For GitHub - Small application to monitor your GitHub project web page in a native macOS app :octocat:! ![objective_c_icon]
• Brisk - macOS app for submitting radars. ![swift_icon]
• Cleaner for Xcode - Cleaner for Xcode.app built with react-native-macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• CocoaRestClient - Native Apple macOS app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints. ![objective_c_icon]
• Corona Tracker - Coronavirus tracker app for iOS & macOS with maps & charts. ![swift_icon]
• FilterShop - macOS App to explore CoreImage Filters. ![swift_icon]
• IconGenerator - macOS app to generate app icons. ![javascript_icon]
• Iconizer - Create Xcode image catalogs (xcassets) on the fly. ![swift_icon]
• Iconology - Edit icons and then export to Xcode, icns, ico, favicon, macOS iconset, or a custom collection. ![swift_icon]
• Icons.app - App for macOS which is designed to generate consistent sized icons of an existing application in various states, jiggling (shaking) etc. ![objective_c_icon]
• InjectionIII - overdue Swift rewrite of Injection. ![objective_c_icon] ![swift_icon]
• Knuff - The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs). ![objective_c_icon]
• LayerX - Intuitive app to display transparent images on screen. ![swift_icon]
• Localizable.strings - Mac app to localize your iOS and macOS projects. ![swift_icon]
• Localization Editor - Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side. ![swift_icon]
• Localizations - Localizations is an macOS app that manages your Xcode project localization files (.strings). ![swift_icon]
• Menubar Colors - macOS app for convenient access to the system color panel. ![swift_icon]
• Notarize - Notarization status monitoring tool for macOS, supporting multiple developer accounts ![swift_icon]
• PodsUpdater - macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile. ![swift_icon]
• ProfilesManager - Apple iOS/macOS Provisioning Profiles management,.provisionprofile, .mobileprovision files manager tool for mac. ![objective_c_icon]
• PushNotifications - macOS app to test push notifications on iOS and Android. ![javascript_icon]
• ResignTool - 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. ![objective_c_icon]
• Resizr - MacOS application for creating AppIcon for iOS and Android apps. ![swift_icon]
• SmartPush - iOS Push Notification Debug App. ![objective_c_icon]
• Stringz - A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications. ![swift_icon]
• TransporterPad - iOS/Android app deployment tool for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• WWDC - Unofficial WWDC app for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• WWDC.srt - Powerful app for downloading subtitle for each WWDC session video since 2013 in (srt) format. ![swift_icon]
• Xcodes.app - The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode. ![swift_icon]
• calabash-launcher - iOS Calabash Launcher is a macOS app that helps you run and manage Calabash tests on your Mac. ![swift_icon]
• iOS Images Extractor - iOS Images Extractor is a Mac app to normalize, decode, and extract images from iOS apps. ![objective_c_icon]
• iSimulator - iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator and manage the app installed on the simulator. ![objective_c_icon]
• xib2Storyboard - Tool to convert Xcode .xib to .storyboard files. ![objective_c_icon]

Downloader

• App Downloader - Easily search and download macOS apps from the huge homebrew cask app catalog. ![swift_icon]
• Extream Download Manager - a powerful tool to increase download speeds up to 500% ![java_icon]
• Get It - Native macOS video/audio downloader. Think of it as a youtube downloader that works on many sites. ![swift_icon]
• Motrix - A full-featured download manager. ![javascript_icon]
• Pillager - macOS Video Downloader written in Swift and Objective-C. ![objective_c_icon] ![swift_icon]
• YouTube Downloader for macOS - Simple menu bar app to download YouTube movies on your Mac. I wrote this as a test project to learn more about app development on macOS. ![swift_icon]
• udemy-downloader-gui - desktop application for downloading Udemy Courses. ![javascript_icon]

Editors

• AuroraEditor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• Chime - An editor for macOS ![swift_icon]
• CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever. ![swift_icon]
• Geany - Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. ![c_icon] ![c++_icon]

CSV

• TableTool - simple CSV editor for the macOS. ![objective_c_icon]

JSON

• JSON Editor - Dead simple JSON editor using josdejong/jsoneditor ![typescript_icon]
• JSON-Splora - GUI for editing, visualizing, and manipulating JSON data. ![javascript_icon]

Markdown

• Gingko - Tree-structured markdown editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux. ![elm_icon]
• MacDown - Markdown editor for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• Mark Text - Realtime preview markdown editor for macOS Windows and Linux. ![javascript_icon]
• MarkEdit - MarkEdit is a free and open-source Markdown editor, for macOS. It's just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown. ![swift_icon] ![typescript_icon]
• Notenik - Note-taking app with many organizational options. ![swift_icon]
• Obsidian plugins & themes - Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian. ![javascript_icon]
• Pine - A modern MacOS markdown editor. ![swift_icon]
• QOwnNotes - Plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration. ![cpp_icon]
• Zettlr - A Markdown Editor for the 21st century. ![javascript_icon] ![typescript_icon]
• linked - 🧾 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. ![javascript_icon] ![vue_icon] ![css_icon]

TeX

• Qilin Editor - Text editor for exact sciences with built-in KaTeX/AsciiMath support. ![javascript_icon]

Text

• AuroraEditor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• Geany - Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. ![c_icon] ![c++_icon]
• MacVim - Text editor for macOS. ![c_icon]
• Noto - Plain text editor for macOS with customizable themes. ![swift_icon]
• SubEthaEdit - General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature. ![objective_c_icon]
• TextMate - TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• Tincta - One-window text editor with syntax highlighting. ![objective_c_icon]
• VimR - Refined Neovim experience for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• micro - A terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the capabilities of modern terminals. ![go_icon]
• reventlou - Personal database as an information management system. ![typescript_icon] ![swift_icon]

Extensions

• AdGuard for Safari - The most advanced ad blocking extension for Safari ![javascript_icon]
• BetterPiP - Use native picture-in-picture with browsers such as Google Chrome for HTML5 videos. ![swift_icon]
• Is It Private? - A Safari Extension providing a toolbar icon that changes its visual appearance if Private Browsing is enabled. ![swift_icon]
• Middleclick - Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse ![c_icon]
• PageExtender - Extend pages with your own CSS and JS files. ![swift_icon] ![javascript_icon]
• PiPTool - Add the Picture-in-Picture Functionality to YouTube, Netflix, Plex and other video broadcasting services in macOS. ![javascript_icon]
• PiPifier - PiPifier is a native macOS 10.12 Safari extension that lets you use every HTML5 video in Picture in Picture mode. ![swift_icon]
• Privacy Redirect for Safari - Redirect Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Translate to privacy friendly alternatives. ![swift_icon]
• Sessions - Safari extension to save your working sessions ![swift_icon]
• Swimat - Swimat is an Xcode plug-in to format your Swift code. ![swift_icon]
• ThenGenerator - Xcode Source Editor Extension for 'Then' ![swift_icon]
• Ultra TabSaver - Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari ![swift_icon]
• nef - This Xcode extension enables you to make a code selection and export it to a snippets. Available on Mac AppStore. ![swift_icon]

Finder

• Clipy - Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features ![cpp_icon]
• Duplicate Finder - It's a useful tool that would help you to find all duplicate files which have the same names in the specific folder. ![swift_icon]
• FiScript - Execute custom scripts from the MacOS context menu (CTRL+click) in Finder. ![swift_icon]
• Finder Go - macOS app and Finder Sync Extension to open Terminal, iTerm, Hyper from Finder. ![swift_icon]
• OpenInCode - Finder toolbar app to open current folder in Visual Studio Code. ![objective_c_icon]
• OpenInTerminal - Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty. ![swift_icon]
• Quick Look plugins - List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers. ![objective_c_icon] ![c_icon]
• cd to... - Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal ![objective_c_icon]
• dupeGuru - dupeGuru is a tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan using file names and file contents. ![objective_c_icon]
• zoxide - zoxide is a smarter cd command for your terminal. ![rust_icon]

Games

• 0 A.D. - Real-time strategy game of ancient warfare ![cpp_icon]
• Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based tactical strategy game, featuring both single-player and online multiplayer combat. ![cpp_icon]
• Boxer - The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac. ![cpp_icon] ![objective_c_icon]
• Chess - The chess app that comes with macOS. ![objective-c_icon]
• Dolphin - Powerful emulator for Nintendo GameCube and Wii games. ![cpp_icon]
• Dynamic Dark Mode - Dynamic Dark Mode is the app you are looking for to power up Dark Mode on macOS Mojave and beyond. ![swift_icon]
• OpenEmu - Retro video game emulation for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• OpenRCT2 - Re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2. ![cpp_icon]
• Screentendo - Turn your screen into a playable level of Mario. ![objective_c_icon]
• Stockfish - Beautiful, powerful chess application. ![cpp_icon] ![objective_c_icon]
• Widelands - 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. ![c++_icon] ![python_icon] ![lua_icon] ![javascript_icon]

Graphics

• Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux). ![cpp_icon] ![c_icon]
• Blender - Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline: modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and video editing. ![c_icon] ![cpp_icon] ![python_icon]
• CaptuocrToy - Tool to capture screenshot and recognize text by online ocr apis. ![swift_icon]
• ColorSet - ColorSet is a macOS utility and framework allowing developers to manage custom interface colors with ease. ![swift_icon] ![c_sharp_icon] ![objective_c_icon]
• FreeCAD - FreeCAD is an open-source 3D parametric modeler ![c++_icon] ![python_icon]
• Gaphor - Gaphor is the simple modeling tool for UML and SysML. ![python_icon]
• GifCapture - Gif capture app for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• Gifcurry - Video to GIF maker with a graphical interface capable of cropping, adding text, seeking, and trimming. ![haskell_icon]
• Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs. ![swift_icon]
• InfiniteCanvas - Proof of concept Mac drawing application. ![swift_icon]
• Krita - Krita is a cross-platform application for creating digital art files from scratch like illustrations, concept art, matte painting, textures, comics and animations. ![cpp_icon] ![python_icon] ![c_icon]
• Material Colors Native - Choose your Material colours and copy the hex code. ![objective_c_icon]
• Pencil2D Animation - Pencil2D is an animation/drawing software for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. ![cpp_icon]
• ScreenToLayers for macOS - ScreenToLayers is a macOS application to easily capture your screen as a layered PSD file. ![objective_c_icon] ![css_icon]
• macSVG - macOS application for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view. ![objective_c_icon]

IDE

• Apache Netbeans - Apache NetBeans is an IDE, Tooling Platform and Application Framework suitable for development in Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more. ![java_icon]
• Atom - The hackable text editor. ![javascript_icon]
• AuroraEditor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• Brackets - Modern open-source code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that's built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. ![javascript_icon]
• CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever. ![swift_icon]
• Geany - Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow. ![c_icon] ![c++_icon]
• IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition - IntelliJ IDEA is an integrated development environment written in Java for developing computer software ![java_icon]
• LiveCode - Cross-platform development IDE. ![c_icon]
• Oni - Oni is a modern take on modal editing code editor focused on developer productivity. ![javascript_icon] ![typescript_icon]
• Vim - ubiquitous text editor ![C_icon] ![Vim script_icon]
• Visual Studio Code - Code editor developed by Microsoft. ![typescript_icon]
• ZeroBraneStudio - ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight cross-platform Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, remote debugger, code analyzer, live coding, and debugging support for various Lua engines. ![lua_icon]

Images

• APNGb - macOS app which assembles and disassembles animated png files. ![swift_icon]
• Crunch - Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization. ![python_icon]
• ExifCleaner - Remove image metadata with drag and drop, multi-core batch processing, and dark mode. ![javascript_icon]
• Flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software. ![cpp_icon]
• Freehand - macOS Status Bar App for quick sketch. ![swift_icon]
• Gimp - Gimp is GNU Image Manipulation Program. ![c_icon]
• Iconology - Edit icons and then export to Xcode, icns, ico, favicon, macOS iconset, or a custom collection. ![swift_icon]
• ImageAlpha - Mac GUI for pngquant, pngnq and posterizer. ![objective_c_icon] ![python_icon]
• Imagine - Imagine is a desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI. ![typescript_icon]
• InVesalius - 3D medical imaging reconstruction software ![python_icon]
• Inkscape - Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor. ![c++_icon]
• Katana - Katana is a simple screenshot utility for macOS that lives in your menubar. ![javascript_icon] ![css_icon]
• Krita - Krita is a cross-platform application for creating digital art files from scratch like illustrations, concept art, matte painting, textures, comics and animations. ![cpp_icon] ![python_icon] ![c_icon]
• PhotoMiner - macOS app for finding and lost forgotten photos on your disks. ![swift_icon]
• Screenbar - macOS menubar app for automating screenshots. ![swift_icon]
• Seashore - Easy to use macOS image editing application for the rest of us. ![objective_c_icon]
• WebPonize - WebPonize is a macOS App for converting PNG, JPEG, animated (or not) GIF images into WebP. ![swift_icon] ![c_icon]

Keyboard

• AnnePro-mac - macOS application for controlling AnnePro keyboard over bluetooth. ![swift_icon]
• Fluor - Handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application. ![swift_icon]
• GokuRakuJoudo - Karabiner-Elements configuration manager, rescue to bloated karabiner.json ![clojure_icon]
• Karabiner - Karabiner (KeyRemap4MacBook) is a powerful utility for keyboard customization. ![cpp_icon] ![objective_c_icon]
• Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. ![cpp_icon] ![objective_c_icon]
• Kawa - Better input source switcher for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• Keycastr - Keystroke visualizer. ![Objective-C_icon]
• Thor - Switch the right application ASAP. ![swift_icon]
• Unshaky - A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard ![swift_icon]

Mail

• Correo - Menubar/taskbar Gmail App for Windows and macOS. ![javascript_icon]
• ElectronMail - Unofficial desktop app for ProtonMail and Tutanota end-to-end encrypted email providers. ![typescript_icon]
• Mailspring - 💌 A beautiful, fast and maintained fork of @nylas Mail by one of the original authors ![javascript_icon]
• Rambox - Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one. ![javascript_icon] ![css_icon]
• SimpleLogin - Email Alias solution: protect your real email address. ![swift_icon]
• Thunderbird - Backed by Mozilla, Thunderbird is an extensible email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client. ![cpp_icon] ![javascript_icon] ![rust_icon]
• dejalu - Fast and Simple Email Client. ![cpp_icon] ![objective_c_icon]

Medical

• InVesalius - 3D medical imaging reconstruction software ![python_icon]

Menubar

• Airpass - Status bar Mac application to overcome time constrained WiFi networks. ![javascript_icon]
• Akku - The missing macOS bluetooth headset battery indicator app. ![swift_icon] ![python_icon] ![ruby_icon]
• AnyBar - macOS menubar status indicator. ![objective_c_icon]
• BarTranslate - A handy menu bar translator app that supports DeepL and Google Translate. ![typescript_icon]
• CloudyTabs - Simple menu bar macOS application for displaying lists of your iCloud Tabs and Reading List. ![objective_c_icon]
• DatWeatherDoe - Simple menu bar weather app for macOS written in Swift. ![swift_icon]
• DisplayMenu - Simple (bare-bones) macOS menubar extra to apply display presets. ![swift_icon]
• Dozer - Hide MacOS menubar items. ![swift_icon]
• Grayscale Mode - Manage grayscale mode from menu bar. ![swift_icon]
• Hidden Bar - An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons ![swift_icon]
• Itsycal - A tiny calendar for that lives in the Mac menu bar. ![objective_c_icon]
• KubeContext - import, manage and switch between your Kubernetes contexts on Mac. ![swift_icon]
• LinkLiar - Keep your MAC address random for privacy (intuitive GUI for ifconfig) ![swift_icon]
• Market Bar - Tiny stocks watcher for the menu bar. ![swift_icon]
• MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings ![swift_icon]
• MenuMeters - CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• Menubar Brightness - macOS app to change the screen brightness on the menubar. ![javascript_icon]
• MiniSim - MacOS menu bar app for launching iOS  and Android 🤖 emulators. ![swift_icon]
• Monitor Bar - Monitor Bar app supports three modes, compact, normal, extra. It monitors battery, Disk, Memory, CPU, Network bandwidth, Wi-Fi. ![Swift_icon]
• Night Shift Control - 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. ![swift_icon]
• Nocturnal - Menu bar app featuring darker than dark dimming, Night Shift fine tuning, and the ability to turn off TouchBar on MacBook Pro. ![swift_icon]
• NoiseBuddy - Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar. ![swift_icon]
• PSIBar - Quickly hacked up PSI macOS status bar app. ![swift_icon]
• Pareto Security - A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene. ![swift_icon]
• Pi Stats - macOS app to visualize Pi-hole information. ![swift_icon] ![objective_c_icon]
• Pika - Is an easy to use, open-source, native colour picker for macOS. ![swift_icon] ![metal_icon]
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar. ![swift_icon]
• Quickeys - A mac menu bar app that provides note taking functionality though a quick dropdown menu. ![swift_icon]
• SensibleSideButtons - Small menu bar utility that lets you use your third-party mouse's side buttons for navigation across a variety of apps. ![objective_c_icon] ![c_icon]
• Shifty - macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift. ![swift_icon]
• SlimHUD - Cyanocitta - Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs. ![swift_icon]
• Stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar ![swift_icon]
• SwiftBar - Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool. ![swift_icon]
• baRSS – Menu Bar RSS Reader - RSS & Atom feed reader that lives in the system status bar. ![objective_c_icon]
• eul - macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI. ![swift_icon]
• gSwitch - macOS status bar app that allows control over the gpu on dual gpu macbooks. ![swift_icon]
• iGlance - macOS System Monitor (cpu, memory, network, fan and battery) for the Status Bar. ![swift_icon]
• xbar - Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar. ![objective_c_icon]

Music

• Carol - A minimal and beautiful lyrics app that stays in the menu bar of macOS. ![c_sharp_icon]
• ChordDetector - Tiny menu bar app that listens iTunes and Spotify to detect chords of songs! ![swift_icon]
• DeezPlayer - Deezer Desktop app for Windows, Linux and macOS. ![coffee_script_icon]
• Karaoke Forever - Host awesome karaoke parties where everyone can queue songs from their phone's browser. Plays MP3+G and MP4 with WebGL visualizations. ![javascript_icon]
• Lilypond UI - Create beautiful musical scores with LilyPond. ![javascript_icon]
• MPV - Lightweight, highly configurable media player. ![c_icon]
• NoiseBuddy - Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar. ![swift_icon]
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar. ![swift_icon]
• Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine. ![swift_icon]
• SoundCleod - SoundCloud for macOS and Windows. ![javascript_icon]
• Spotify-Cli-Mac - Control Spotify without leaving your terminal. :notes: ![javascript_icon]
• YouTube-Music - macOS wrapper for music.youtube.com. ![swift_icon]
• iTunes Graphs - macOS app to visualise your iTunes library as graphs. ![swift_icon]
• lyricsify - Simple Spotify lyrics viewer menu bar app for macOS in Swift. ![swift_icon]
• spicetify-cli - Command-line tool to customize the official Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS and Linux. ![javascript_icon]

News

• Diurna - Basic/Classic Hacker News app, used as a Cocoa & Swift learning platform. ![swift_icon]
• NetNewsWire - Feed reader for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• Vienna - Vienna is a RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• Winds - A Beautiful Open Source RSS & Podcast App Powered by Getstream.io ![javascript_icon]
• baRSS – Menu Bar RSS Reader - RSS & Atom feed reader that lives in the system status bar. ![objective_c_icon]
• hacker-menu - Hacker News Delivered to Desktop. ![javascript_icon]

Notes

• Boostnote - Note-taking application made for programmers just like you. ![javascript_icon]
• Dnote - A simple command line notebook with multi-device sync and web interface. ![go_icon] ![typescript_icon]
• FSNotes - Notes manager for macOS/iOS: modern notational velocity (nvALT) on steroids. ![swift_icon]
• FromScratch - Little app that you can use as a quick note taking or todo app. ![javascript_icon] ![css_icon]
• Jupyter Notebook Viewer - Notebook viewer for macOS. ![swift_icon]
• NoteTaker - Simple note taking app for macOS and iOS which uses Realm and CloudKit for syncing. ![swift_icon]
• Notenik - Note-taking app with many organizational options. ![swift_icon]
• Notes - Notes is a macOS application built to create notes, using text amongst other formats: images, videos, contacts, and etc. ![swift_icon]
• QOwnNotes - Plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration. ![cpp_icon]
• Simplenote - Simplest way to keep notes. ![objective_c_icon]
• Standard Notes - Safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work. ![javascript_icon] ![css_icon]
• Tusk - Unofficial, third-party, community driven Evernote app with a handful of useful features. ![javascript_icon] ![css_icon]
• joplin - Note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. ![javascript_icon]
• linked - 🧾 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. ![javascript_icon] ![vue_icon] ![css_icon]
• notable - Simple note taking application. ![javascript_icon]
• tmpNote - Very simple macOS app to make temporary notes. ![swift_icon]

Other

• Betaflight Configurator - Cross platform configuration tool for the Betaflight firmware. ![javascript_icon]
• Cakebrew - Manage your Homebrew formulas with style using Cakebrew. ![objective_c_icon]
• ChipMunk - Log analysis tool. ![typescript_icon] ![rust_icon]
• DevDocs for macOS - An unofficial DevDocs API documentation viewer. ![swift_icon]
• Gas Mask - Hosts file manager for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• Hosts - Cocoa GUI for /etc/hosts. ![objective_c_icon]
• ImageOptim - GUI image optimizer for Mac. ![objective_c_icon]
• Keyframes Player - Simple macOS app to preview animations created with Facebook's keyframes framework. ![swift_icon]
• Lepton - Democratizing Code Snippets Management (macOS/Win/Linux). ![javascript_icon]
• Letters - Teach your kids the alphabet and how to type. ![swift_icon]
• Platypus - Mac developer tool that creates application bundles from command line scripts. ![objective_c_icon]
• QorumLogs - Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs. ![swift_icon]
• React Native Debugger - Desktop app for inspecting your React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows. ![javascript_icon]
• Reactotron - Desktop app for inspecting your React JS and React Native projects. macOS, Linux, and Windows. ![javascript_icon]
• RktMachine - Menu bar macOS app for running rkt in a macOS hypervisor CoreOS VM. ![swift_icon]
• Ruby.app - macOS app that contains a full Ruby installation (for use with Ruby/Gosu). ![ruby_icon]
• Shuttle - Simple SSH shortcut menu for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• SwiftyBeaver - Convenient logging during development & release in Swift. ![swift_icon]
• Unused - Mac app for checking Xcode projects for unused resources. ![objective_c_icon]
• Vagrant Manager - Manage your vagrant machines in one place with Vagrant Manager for macOS. ![objective_c_icon]
• macGist - Simple app to send pasteboard items to GitHub's Gist. ![swift_icon]
• syncthing-macosx - Frugal nativemacOS macOS Syncthing applicatio