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 language.
• - C++ language.
• - C# language.
• - Clojure language.
• - CoffeeScript language.
• - CSS language.
• - Go language.
• - Elm language.
• - Haskell language.
• - JavaScript language.
• - Lua language.
• - Objective-C language.
• - Python language.
• - Ruby language.
• - Rust language.
• - Swift language.
• - 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.
• 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.
• AutoMute - Automatically mute the sound when headphones disconnect / Mac awake from sleep.
• Background Music - Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
• BlackHole - BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
• CAM - macOS camera recording using ffmpeg
• Clementine - Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer for Windows, Linux and macOS.
• 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.
• LocalRadio - LocalRadio is software for listening to "Software-Defined Radio" on your Mac and mobile devices.
• Lyricism - macOS app to show you lyric what currently iTunes or Spotify is playing.
• LyricsX - Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox.
• Mous Player - Simple yet powerful audio player for BSD/Linux/macOS.
• Music Bar - Music Bar is macOS application that places music controls right in your menu bar.
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
• Scope - Audio Oscilloscope
• ShazamScrobbler - Scrobble vinyl, radios, movies to Last.fm.
• Sonora - Minimal, beautifully designed music player for macOS.
• SpotMenu - Spotify and iTunes in your menu bar.
• SpotSpot - Spotify mini-player for macOS.
• Suohai - Audio input/output source lock for macOS.
• Tickeys - Instant audio feedback for typing. macOS version.
• Tuner - Musical Instrument Tuner
• [Un]MuteMic - macOS app to mute & unmute the input volume of your microphone. Perfect for podcasters.
• eqMac2 - System-Wide Equalizer for the Mac.
• fre:ac - The fre:ac audio converter project.
• iTunes-Volume-Control - This app allows you to control the iTunes volume using volume up and volume down hotkeys.
• jmc - jmc is new macOS media organizer.
• shairport-sync - macOS/Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD Airplay audio receiver.
• waveSDR - macOS native desktop Software Defined Radio application using the RTL-SDR USB device.

Backup

• Mackup - Keep your application settings in sync (macOS/Linux).
• Syncalicious - Keeping multiple macOS preferences in sync can be painful, but it shouldn't be.
• UrBackup - UrBackup is Client/Server network backup for Windows, macOS and Linux.
• shallow-backup - Easily create lightweight documentation of installed applications, dotfiles, and more.

Browser

• Beaker Browser - Beaker is an experimental peer-to-peer Web browser.
• Brave Browser - Brave browser for Desktop and Laptop computers running Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Finicky - Always opens the right browser.
• Helium - Floating browser window for macOS.
• Kaktus Browser - Experimental web browser with minimalistic design. Running Windows, macOS and Linux.
• 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.
• Plash - Make any website your desktop wallpaper.
• browserosaurus - macOS tool that prompts you to choose a browser when opening a link.
• otter-browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.
• seb-mac - Safe Exam Browser for macOS and iOS.

Chat

• Beagle IM - Powerful XMPP client with support for file transfer, VoIP and end-to-end encryption.
• ChitChat - Native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web.
• Electronic WeChat - Better WeChat on macOS and Linux.
• Franz - Franz is messaging application for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more.
• Google Allo for Desktop - Native macOS & Windows desktop app for Google Allo.
• GroupMe - Unofficial GroupMe App.
• MessagesHistoryBrowser - macOS application to comfortably browse and search through your Messages.app history.
• Riot.im - Riot.im is a collaboration app (currently Electron) for the Matrix protocol.
• Seaglass - A truly native Matrix client for macOS.
• Signal Desktop - Electron app that links with your Signal Android or Signal iOS app.
• Telegram - Source code of Telegram for macOS on Swift.
• Telegram Desktop - Telegram Desktop messaging app.
• Textual - Textual is an IRC client for macOS.
• Torchat-Mac - TorChat for Mac is a macOS native and unofficial port of torchat.
• WhatsAppBar - Send WhatsApp message from menu bar.
• Wire Desktop - Standalone Electron app for the chatapp Wire.

Cryptocurrency

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

Database

• DB Browser for SQLite - SQLite database management GUI.
• DBeaver - Universal database tool and SQL client.
• Medis - 💻 Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use Mac database management application for Redis.
• MongoHub - Add another lightweight Mac Native MongoDB client.
• Postbird - PostgreSQL GUI client for macOS.
• Postgres.app - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac.
• Redis.app - The easiest way to get started with Redis on the Mac.
• Robo 3T - Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) is the free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.
• Sequel Pro - MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS.
• mongoDB.app - The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac.

Development

• Apache Netbeans - Apache NetBeans is an IDE, Tooling Platform and Application Framework suitable for development in Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more.

Git

• Cashew - Cashew macOS Github Issue Tracker.
• GPM - macOS application for easily operating GitHub Projects.
• Git Interactive Rebase Tool - Full feature terminal based sequence editor for interactive rebase.
• GitHub Desktop - Simple collaboration from your desktop.
• GitSync - Minimalistic Git client for Mac.
• GitUp - The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.
• GitX - Graphical client for the git version control system.
• Gitee - Gitee, macOS status bar application for Github.
• Github contributions - GitHub contributions app, for iOS, WatchOS, and macOS.
• GithubListener - Simple app that will notify about new commits to watched repositories.
• GithubNotify - Simple macOS app to alert you when you have unread GitHub notifications.
• Gitify - Your GitHub notifications on your menu bar.
• Streaker - GitHub contribution streak tracking menubar app.
• TeamStatus-for-GitHub - macOS status bar application for tracking code review process within the team.
• Trailer - Managing Pull Requests and Issues For GitHub & GitHub Enterprise.
• Xit - Xit is a graphical tool for working with git repositories.

JSON Parsing

• JSON Mapper - Simple macOS app to generate Swift Object Mapper classes from JSON.
• JSON to Model class - Template based highly customizable macOS app to generate classes from JSON string, supports many languages.
• 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.
• j2s - macOS app to convert JSON objects into Swift structs (currently targets Swift 4 and Codable).

Other Development

• ChefInspector - Node and Attribute viewer for Chef
• MQTTX - An elegant Cross-platform MQTT 5.0 desktop client.
• macho-browser - Browser for macOS Mach-O binaries.
• vegvisir - Browser based GUI for LLDB Debugger.

Web Development

• CoreOS VM - CoreOS VM is macOS status bar app which allows in an easy way to control CoreOS VM on your Mac.
• 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.
• HTTP Toolkit - HTTP Toolkit is a cross-platform tool to intercept, debug & mock HTTP.
• Insomnia - Insomnia is a cross-platform REST client, built on top of Electron.
• KubeMonitor - KubeMonitor is a macOS app that displays information about your active Kubernetes cluster in your menu bar.
• KubeSwitch - KubeSwitch lists the available kubernetes cluster contexts on the mac, in Mac's Menu bar.
• Lantern - Dedicated Mac app for website auditing and crawling.
• LocalSites - Simple Menu Bar (Status Bar) App for macOS listing local Bonjour websites (as Safari 11 no longer has Bonjour Bookmarks).
• Mockup Generator - 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.
• Now Desktop - Create deployments right from the tray menu.
• aws-s3-uploader - Simple macOS app for uploading files to Amazon Web Services.
• iTunesConnect - macOS app to let you access iTunesConnect.
• ndm - Npm desktop GUI.
• nodeScratchpad - Evaluate Nodejs/JS code snippets from Menubar.
• stts - 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 - Tool for iOS developers to build and deploy Development, Ad-Hoc and In-house (Enterprise) applications directly to the devices from your Dropbox account.
• AppIcons - Tool for generating icons in all sizes as required by macOS and iOS apps.
• AppStoreReviewTimes - Gives you indication about the average iOS / macOS app stores review times.
• AppleTrace - Trace tool for iOS/macOS.
• Asset Catalog Tinkerer - App that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images.
• Assets - Assets is a macOS app that manages assets for your development projects (Xcode, web, etc).
• Attabench - Attabench is a microbenchmarking app for macOS, designed to measure and visualize the performance of Swift code.
• Board For GitHub - Small application to monitor your GitHub project web page in a native macOS app :octocat:!
• Brisk - macOS app for submitting radars.
• Cleaner for Xcode - Cleaner for Xcode.app built with react-native-macOS.
• CocoaRestClient - Native Apple macOS app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints.
• Corona Tracker - Coronavirus tracker app for iOS & macOS with maps & charts.
• FilterShop - macOS App to explore CoreImage Filters.
• IconGenerator - macOS app to generate app icons.
• Iconizer - Create Xcode image catalogs (xcassets) on the fly.
• Icons.app - App for macOS which is designed to generate consistent sized icons of an existing application in various states, jiggling (shaking) etc.
• InjectionIII - overdue Swift rewrite of Injection.
• Knuff - The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs).
• LayerX - Intuitive app to display transparent images on screen.
• Localizable.strings - Mac app to localize your iOS and macOS projects.
• Localization Editor - Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side.
• Localizations - Localizations is an macOS app that manages your Xcode project localization files (.strings).
• Menubar Colors - macOS app for convenient access to the system color panel.
• Notarize - Notarization status monitoring tool for macOS, supporting multiple developer accounts
• PodsUpdater - macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile.
• ProfilesManager - Apple iOS/macOS Provisioning Profiles management,.provisionprofile, .mobileprovision files manager tool for mac.
• PushNotifications - macOS app to test push notifications on iOS and Android.
• 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.
• Resizr - MacOS application for creating AppIcon for iOS and Android apps.
• SmartPush - iOS Push Notification Debug App.
• TransporterPad - iOS/Android app deployment tool for macOS.
• WWDC - Unofficial WWDC app for macOS.
• WWDC.srt - Powerful app for downloading subtitle for each WWDC session video since 2013 in (srt) format.
• calabash-launcher - iOS Calabash Launcher is a macOS app that helps you run and manage Calabash tests on your Mac.
• iOS Images Extractor - iOS Images Extractor is a Mac app to normalize, decode, and extract images from iOS apps.
• iSimulator - iSimulator is a GUI utility to control the Simulator and manage the app installed on the simulator.
• xib2Storyboard - Tool to convert Xcode .xib to .storyboard files.

Downloader

• App Downloader - Easily search and download macOS apps from the huge homebrew cask app catalog.
• Get It - Native macOS video/audio downloader. Think of it as a youtube downloader that works on many sites.
• Motrix - A full-featured download manager.
• Pillager - macOS Video Downloader written in Swift and Objective-C.
• 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.
• udemy-downloader-gui - desktop application for downloading Udemy Courses.

Editors

CSV

• TableTool - simple CSV editor for the macOS.

JSON

• JSON-Splora - GUI for editing, visualizing, and manipulating JSON data.

Markdown

• Gingko - Tree-structured markdown editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• MacDown - Markdown editor for macOS.
• Mark Text - Realtime preview markdown editor for macOS Windows and Linux.
• Pine - A modern MacOS markdown editor.
• QOwnNotes - Plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration.

TeX

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

Text

• CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS.
• MacVim - Text editor for macOS.
• Noto - Plain text editor for macOS with customizable themes.
• SubEthaEdit - General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.
• TextMate - TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS.
• VimR - Refined Neovim experience for macOS.

Extensions

• BetterPiP - Use native picture-in-picture with browsers such as Google Chrome for HTML5 videos.
• Middleclick - Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse
• PageExtender - Extend pages with your own CSS and JS files.
• PiPTool - Add the Picture-in-Picture Functionality to YouTube, Netflix, Plex and other video broadcasting services in macOS.
• PiPifier - PiPifier is a native macOS 10.12 Safari extension that lets you use every HTML5 video in Picture in Picture mode.
• Sessions - Safari extension to save your working sessions
• Ultra TabSaver - Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari
• nef - This Xcode extension enables you to make a code selection and export it to a snippets. Available on Mac AppStore.

Finder

• Clipy - Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS.
• CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features
• FiScript - Execute custom scripts from the MacOS context menu (CTRL+click) in Finder.
• Finder Go - macOS app and Finder Sync Extension to open Terminal, iTerm, Hyper from Finder.
• OpenInCode - Finder toolbar app to open current folder in Visual Studio Code.
• OpenInTerminal - ✨ Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm or Hyper.
• Quick Look plugins - List of useful Quick Look plugins for developers.
• cd to... - Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal

Games

• Battle for Wesnoth - Turn-based tactical strategy game, featuring both single-player and online multiplayer combat.
• Boxer - The DOS game emulator that’s fit for your Mac.
• Dolphin - Powerful emulator for Nintendo GameCube and Wii games.
• OpenEmu - Retro video game emulation for macOS.
• OpenRCT2 - Re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2.
• Screentendo - Turn your screen into a playable level of Mario.
• Stockfish - Beautiful, powerful chess application.

Graphics

• Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux).
• CaptuocrToy - Tool to capture screenshot and recognize text by online ocr apis.
• GifCapture - Gif capture app for macOS.
• Gifcurry - Video to GIF maker with a graphical interface capable of cropping, adding text, seeking, and trimming.
• Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs.
• InfiniteCanvas - Proof of concept Mac drawing application.
• Material Colors Native - Choose your Material colours and copy the hex code.
• 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.
• ScreenToLayers for macOS - ScreenToLayers is a macOS application to easily capture your screen as a layered PSD file.
• macSVG - macOS application for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view.

IDE

• Apache Netbeans - Apache NetBeans is an IDE, Tooling Platform and Application Framework suitable for development in Java, JavaScript, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and more.
• Atom - The hackable text editor.
• LiveCode - Cross-platform development IDE.
• Oni - Oni is a modern take on modal editing code editor focused on developer productivity.
• Visual Studio Code - Code editor developed by Microsoft.
• 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.

Images

• APNGb - macOS app which assembles and disassembles animated png files.
• Crunch - Insane(ly slow but wicked good) PNG image optimization.
• ExifCleaner - Remove image metadata with drag and drop, multi-core batch processing, and dark mode.
• Freehand - macOS Status Bar App for quick sketch.
• Gimp - Gimp is GNU Image Manipulation Program.
• Iconology - Edit Icons and then Export to Xcode, Icns, Ico, Favicon, Mac Iconset, or a Custom List of Sizes.
• ImageAlpha - Mac GUI for pngquant, pngnq and posterizer.
• Imagine - Imagine is a desktop app for compression of PNG and JPEG, with a modern and friendly UI.
• InVesalius - 3D medical imaging reconstruction software
• Katana - Katana is a simple screenshot utility for macOS that lives in your menubar.
• PhotoMiner - macOS app for finding and lost forgotten photos on your disks.
• Screenbar - macOS menubar app for automating screenshots.
• WebPonize - WebPonize is a macOS App for converting PNG, JPEG, animated (or not) GIF images into WebP.

Keyboard

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

Mail

• Correo - Menubar/taskbar Gmail App for Windows and macOS.
• ElectronMail - Unofficial desktop app for ProtonMail and Tutanota end-to-end encrypted email providers.
• Mailspring - 💌 A beautiful, fast and maintained fork of @nylas Mail by one of the original authors
• Rambox - Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
• SimpleLogin - Email Alias solution: protect your real email address.
• dejalu - Fast and Simple Email Client.

Medical

• InVesalius - 3D medical imaging reconstruction software

Menubar

• Airpass - Status bar Mac application to overcome time constrained WiFi networks.
• AnyBar - macOS menubar status indicator.
• BitBar - Put the output from any script or program in your macOS Menu Bar.
• CloudyTabs - Simple menu bar macOS application for displaying lists of your iCloud Tabs and Reading List.
• DatWeatherDoe - Simple menu bar weather app for macOS written in Swift.
• DisplayMenu - Simple (bare-bones) macOS menubar extra to apply display presets.
• Dozer - Hide MacOS menubar items.
• Grayscale Mode - Manage grayscale mode from menu bar.
• KubeContext - import, manage and switch between your Kubernetes contexts on Mac.
• MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings
• MenuMeters - CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for macOS.
• Menubar Brightness - macOS app to change the screen brightness on the menubar.
• Music Bar - Music Bar is macOS application that places music controls right in your menu bar.
• 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.
• Nocturnal - Menu bar app featuring darker than dark dimming, Night Shift fine tuning, and the ability to turn off TouchBar on MacBook Pro.
• PSIBar - Quickly hacked up PSI macOS status bar app.
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
• Quickeys - A mac menu bar app that provides note taking functionality though a quick dropdown menu.
• SensibleSideButtons - Small menu bar utility that lets you use your third-party mouse's side buttons for navigation across a variety of apps.
• Shifty - macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift.
• SlimHUD - Cyanocitta - Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
• gSwitch - macOS status bar app that allows control over the gpu on dual gpu macbooks.
• iGlance - macOS System Monitor (cpu, memory, network, fan and battery) for the Status Bar.

Music

• Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software
• Carol - A minimal and beautiful lyrics app that stays in the menu bar of macOS.
• ChordDetector - Tiny menu bar app that listens iTunes and Spotify to detect chords of songs!
• DeezPlayer - Deezer Desktop app for Windows, Linux and macOS.
• Lilypond UI - Create beautiful musical scores with LilyPond.
• Music Bar - Music Bar is macOS application that places music controls right in your menu bar.
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
• SoundCleod - SoundCloud for macOS and Windows.
• Spotify-Cli-Mac - Control Spotify without leaving your terminal. 🎶
• YouTube-Music - macOS wrapper for music.youtube.com.
• iTunes Graphs - macOS app to visualise your iTunes library as graphs.
• lyricsify - Simple Spotify lyrics viewer menu bar app for macOS in Swift.

News

• Diurna - Basic/Classic Hacker News app, used as a Cocoa & Swift learning platform.
• NetNewsWire - Feed reader for macOS.
• Vienna - Vienna is a RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS.
• hacker-menu - Hacker News Delivered to Desktop.

Notes

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

Other

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

Player

• IINA - The modern video player for macOS.
• MPlayerX - Media player on macOS.
• MacMorpheus - 3D 180/360 video player for macOS for PSVR with head tracking.
• Movie Monad - Desktop video player built with Haskell that uses GStreamer and GTK+.
• mpv - Video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2.

Podcast

• Cumulonimbus - Simple, beautiful podcast app.
• Doughnut - Podcast player and library for mac
• PodcastMenu - PodcastMenu is a simple app which puts Overcast on your Mac's menu bar so you can listen to your favorite podcasts while you work.
• Podlive for macOS - macOS client to listen to live streaming podcasts (only). It currently supports all livestreams broadcasting via Ultraschall with Studio Link On Air.
• mkchromecast - Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices.

Productivity

• Ao - Elegant Microsoft To-Do desktop app.
• Calculeta - Calculator for macOS which working on statusbar.
• Cerebro - Cross-platform launcher app.
• ClipMenu - Clipboard manager for macOS.
• Clocker - macOS app to plan and organize through timezones.
• ControlPlane - Automate running tasks based on where you are or what you do.
• Flycut - Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers.
• KeyHolder - Record shortcuts in macOS, like Alfred.app.
• Kiwix - Kiwix for iOS and macOS, build on Swift.
• Linked Ideas - macOS application to write down and connect ideas.
• Mac Screenshot Tracker - An open source, free and hackable screenshot tracker. Re-watch what you've been working on!
• Maccy - Lightweight search-as-you-type clipboard manager.
• Manta - Flexible invoicing desktop app with beautiful & customizable templates.
• MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings
• Middleclick - Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse
• PDF Archiver - Nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks.
• Paperless Desktop - Desktop app that uses the paperless API to manage your document scans.
• 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.
• Pomodoro Cycle - Pomodoro Cycle for macOS
• QOwnNotes - Plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration.
• Quicksilver - Quicksilver is a fast macOS productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly.
• Quickwords - Write anything in a matter of seconds. Create snippets that can substitute text, execute tedious tasks and more.
• SelfControl - macOS app to block your own access to distracting websites etc for a predetermined period of time. It can not be undone by the app or by a restart – you must wait for the timer to run out.
• Sessions - Safari extension to save your working sessions
• Speed Reader - Read faster with the power of silencing vocalization with SpeedReader.
• StickyNotes - A Windows 10-esque Sticky Notes app implemented in AppKit.
• Strategr - No-fuss time management.
• Super Productivity - Free to do list & time tracker for programmers & designers with Jira integration.
• Thyme - The task timer for OS X.
• Timer - Simple Timer app for Mac.
• Toggl Desktop - Toggl Desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux.
• TomatoBar - Pomodoro Technique Timer for macOS with Touch Bar support.
• TrelloApp - Unofficial wrapper application for Trello.com written in Swift. This is almost a "Hello World" for a site specific browser.
• Ultra TabSaver - Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari
• Watson - A CLI application for time tracking.
• Whale - Unofficial Trello app.
• Yomu - Manga reader app for macOS.
• espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander, a powerful replacement for Alfred Snippets
• macOrganizer - macOS app for organizing files or removing unnecessary files.
• status-bar-todo - Simple macOS app to keep TODO-list in status bar.
• stretchly - Cross-platform electron app that reminds you to take breaks when working with computer.

Screensaver

• Aerial - Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for macOS.
• Image-As-Wallpaper - Utility application helps with selection of images for using as desktop wallpaper or in screensaver on Mac computers.
• Irvue - Screensaver for macOS.
• Life Saver - An abstract screensaver based on Conway's Game of Life implemented with SpriteKit
• MusaicFM - iTunes Screensaver Clone for Spotify and Last.fm
• Predator - A predator-inspired clock screensaver for macOS
• The GitHub Matrix Screensaver - The GitHub Matrix Screensaver for macOS.

Security

• Cloaker - simple drag-and-drop, password-based file encryption.
• Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud.
• LuLu - LuLu is macOS firewall application that aims to block unauthorized (outgoing) network traffic.
• Swifty - Free and offline password manager.
• stronghold - Easily configure macOS security settings from the terminal.

Sharing Files

• Deluge - Lightweight cross-platform BitTorrent client.
• NitroShare - Transferring files from one device to another
• Rhea - macOS status bar app for quickly sharing files and URLs.
• Transmission - Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository.
• Tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery.
• mac2imgur - Simple Mac app designed to make uploading images and screenshots to Imgur quick and effortless.
• qBittorrent - BitTorrent client in Qt.

Social Networking

• Caprine - Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app.
• Goofy - Unofficial Facebook Messenger client.
• Leviathan - Leviathan is a iOS and macOS client application for the Mastodon social network.
• Messenger - macOS app wrapping Facebook's Messenger for desktop.
• Product Hunt - share and discover your favorite new products and applications.
• Quail - Unofficial esa app.
• Ramme - Unofficial Instagram Desktop App.
• Simpo - macOS menubar app to post status quickly.
• appear.in - Unofficial appear.in app.

Streaming

• Galeri - Perpetual artwork streaming app.
• OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording.

System

• AppPolice - App for macOS with a minimalistic UI which lets you quickly throttle down the CPU usage of any running process.
• Apple Juice - Advanced battery gauge for macOS.
• Clean-Me - Small macOS app that acts as a system cleaner (logs, cache, ...).
• Diagnostics - Diagnostics is an application displaying the diagnostic reports from applications on macOS.
• DisableMonitor - Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac.
• EtreCheck - EtreCheck is an easy-to-use macOS app to display important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard.
• Fanny - Monitor your Mac's fan speed and CPU temperature from your Notification Center.
• HoRNDIS - Android USB tethering driver for macOS.
• Juice - Make your battery information a bit more interesting.
• KeepingYouAwake - Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.
• Latest - Small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use.
• Loading - Simple network activity monitor for macOS.
• Overkill - Stop iTunes from opening when you connect your iPhone.
• ProfileCreator - macOS Application to create standard or customized configuration profiles.
• SlimHUD - Cyanocitta - Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
• Sloth - Sloth is an macOS application that displays a list of all open files and sockets in use by all running applications on your system.
• Turbo Boost Switcher - Turbo Boost Switcher is a little application for Mac computers that allows to enable and/or disable the Turbo Boost feature.
• VerticalBar - macOS application to add a vertical bar to Dock.
• macOSLucidaGrande - A small utility to set Lucida Grande as your Mac's system UI font.

Terminal

• Alacritty - Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
• Bifrost - A tiny terminal emulator for serial port communication (macOS/Linux).
• Console - macOS console application.
• Finder Go - macOS app and Finder Sync Extension to open Terminal, iTerm, Hyper from Finder.
• Hyper - Terminal built on web technologies.
• Kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature full, GPU based terminal emulator.
• OpenInTerminal - ✨ Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm or Hyper.
• OpenTerminal - App for macOS that opens a new Finder window and changes the current directory to the folder launched by the app.
• cd to... - Finder Toolbar app to open the current directory in the Terminal
• iTerm 2 - Terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
• wallpapper - wallpapper is a console application for creating dynamic wallpapers for Mojave.

Touch Bar

• Muse - Spotify controller with TouchBar support.
• MyTouchbarMyRules - App to customize your Touch Bar as you want.
• Pock - Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar.
• Touch Bar Preview - Small application to display your designs on the Touch Bar of the new MacBook Pro.
• Touch Bar Simulator - Use the Touch Bar on any Mac.
• Touch Emoji - Emoji picker for MacBook Pro Touch Bar.

Utilities

• Android tool for Mac - One-click screenshots, video recordings, app installation for iOS and Android
• ArchiveMounter - Mounts archives like disk images.
• BeardedSpice - Control web based media players with the media keys found on Mac keyboards.
• Bitwarden - Cross-platform password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations.
• Buttercup Desktop - Secure password manager for mac and other platforms.
• Calculeta - Calculator for macOS which working on statusbar.
• Catch - Catch: Broadcatching made easy.
• Clear Clipboard Text Format - Easily clear the format of your clipboard text with Clear Clipboard Text Format.
• CoreLocationCLI - Get the physical location of your device and prints it to standard output
• CornerCal - Simple, clean calendar and clock app for macOS.
• Crypter - Crypter is an innovative, convenient and secure cross-platform crypto app that simplifies secure password generation and management by requiring you to only remember one bit, the MasterPass.
• ECheck - Small tool to validate epub files for macOS.
• Flying Carpet - cross-platform file transfer over ad-hoc wifi, like AirDrop but for Mac/Windows/Linux.
• Funky - Easily toggle the function key on your Mac on a per app basis.
• Gray - Pick between the light appearance and the dark appearance on a per-app basis with the click of a button
• Grayscale Mode - Manage grayscale mode from menu bar.
• Kap - Screen recorder application built with web technology.
• KeePassXC - Cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application "Keepass Password Safe"
• KeeWeb - Cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass.
• Kyapchar - Simple screen and microphone audio recorder for macOS.
• Life-Calendar - Life Calendar.
• Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external displays.
• MQTTX - An elegant Cross-platform MQTT 5.0 desktop client.
• MacPass - Native macOS KeePass client.
• Maria - macOS native app/widget for aria2 download tool.
• MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings
• Meme Maker - Meme Maker macOS application for meme creation.
• Middleclick - Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse
• Monolingual - Remove unnecessary language resources from macOS
• Mos - Smooth your mouse's scrolling and reverse the mouse scroll direction
• Music Bar - Music Bar is macOS application that places music controls right in your menu bar.
• Nocturnal - Menu bar app featuring darker than dark dimming, Night Shift fine tuning, and the ability to turn off TouchBar on MacBook Pro.
• Noti - Receive Android notifications on your mac (with PushBullet).
• Numi - A handy calculator with natural language parsing.
• PB for Desktop - Receive native push notifications on macOS, Windows and Linux.
• Padlock - A minimal, open source password manager for macOS.
• PercentCalculator - A menu bar application that calculates parcents.
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
• PowerShell - PowerShell is a cross-platform automation and configuration tool/framework that works well with your existing tools.
• ScreenCat - ScreenCat is a screen sharing + remote collaboration application.
• SlimHUD - Cyanocitta - Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
• SlowQuitApps - Add a global delay to Command-Q to stop accidental app quits.
• Super Productivity - Free to do list & time tracker for programmers & designers with Jira integration.
• Telephone - SIP softphone for macOS.
• The Blockstack Browser - Blockstack is an internet for decentralized apps where users own their data. The Blockstack Browser allows you to explore the Blockstack internet.
• The Unarchiver - The Unarchiver is an Objective-C application for uncompressing archive files.
• ToTheTop - Small macOS application to help you scroll to the top.
• Ultra TabSaver - Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari
• calibre - cross platform e-book manager.
• fselect - Command-line tool to search files with SQL syntax.
• homebrew-cask - A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
• iOScanX - Cocoa application for semi-automated iOS app analysis and evaluation.
• mac-sound-fix - Mac Sound Re-Enabler.
• wechsel - manage bluetooth connections with your keyboard.
• Übersicht - Keep an eye on what's happening on your machine and in the world.

VPN & Proxy

• ShadowsocksX-NG - Next Generation of ShadowsocksX.
• Specht - Rule-based proxy app built with Network Extension for macOS.
• SpechtLite - Rule-based proxy app for macOS.
• Tunnelblick - Tunnelblick is a graphic user interface for OpenVPN on macOS.
• clashX - A rule based custom proxy with GUI for Mac base on clash.
• rvc-mac - Ribose VPN Client macOS Menu App.

Video

• Acid.Cam.v2.OSX - Acid Cam v2 for macOS distorts video to create art.
• AppleEvents - Unofficial Apple Events app for macOS.
• Conferences.digital - Best way to watch the latest and greatest videos from your favourite developer conferences for free on your Mac.
• Datamosh - Datamosh your videos on macOS.
• Face Data - macOS application used to auto-annotate landmarks from a video.
• GNU Gatekeeper - Video conferencing server for H.323 terminals.
• Gifted - Turn any short video into an animated GIF quickly and easily.
• HandBrake - HandBrake is a video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
• MenuTube - Catch YouTube into your macOS menu bar!
• OpenShot - Easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful video editor.
• Quick Caption - Transcribe and generate caption files (SRT, ASS and FCPXML) without manually entering time codes.
• QuickLook Video - This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.
• Subler - Subler is an macOS app created to mux and tag mp4 files.
• VLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player
• Vid Quiz Creator - macOS application to insert quizzes within video playback and play those videos to receiving devices using the LISNR API.
• WebTorrent Desktop - Streaming torrent app. For Mac, Windows, and Linux.
• Yoda - Nifty macOS application which enables you to browse and download videos from YouTube.

Wallpaper

• 500-mac-wallpaper - Simple macOS app for the status bar to automatically download photos from 500px.com to a local folder that can be set as a source of wallpapers.
• ArtWall - ArtStation set as wallpapers from artwork.rss.
• Artify - A macOS application for bringing dedicatedly 18th century Arts to everyone
• BingPaper - Use Bing daily photo as your wallpaper on macOS.
• Desktop Wallpaper Switcher - Win / Linux / macOS tool for managing and cycling desktop wallpapers.
• Muzei - Muzei wallpaper app for macOS.
• Plash - Make any website your desktop wallpaper.
• Satellite Eyes - macOS app to automatically set your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view overhead.
• Sunscreen - Sunscreen is a fun, lightweight application that changes your desktop wallpaper based on sunrise and sunset.
• WallpaperMenu - macOS menubar application for navigation through beautiful pictures on the web and set them up as your desktop image.
• earth-wallpapers - Simple macOS menubar app which fetches latest photos from a subreddit.
• pyDailyChanger - pyDailyChanger is a program that changes your wallpaper daily.

Window Management

• Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS.
• AppGrid - Grid-based keyboard window manager for macOS.
• Desktop Profiles - An innovative desktop/window manager for macOS
• Hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua.
• Phoenix - Lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript.
• Rectangle - Rectangle is a window manager heavily based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
• ShiftIt - Managing windows size and position.
• Slate - Window management application (replacement for Divvy/SizeUp/ShiftIt).
• Spectacle - Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.
• Yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning.

Contributors

Thanks to all the people who contribute: