Platypus VS blueutil

Compare Platypus vs blueutil and see what are their differences.

blueutil

CLI for bluetooth on OSX: power, discoverable state, list, inquire devices, connect, info, … (by toy)
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Platypus blueutil
6 3
2,706 930
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7.1 0.0
3 days ago 9 days ago
Objective-C Objective-C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Platypus

Posts with mentions or reviews of Platypus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-23.
  • Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024
    Something for which I wish there was a windows variant...

    Embedding a script into a small tray icon/menubar app can be extremely powerfull even with its low complexity.

    [1]: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus

  • Sveinbjornt/Platypus: Create native Mac applications from command line scripts
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2023
  • Application-Specific Terminals
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023
    > Which apps do you use actually it for?

    neovim, mutt, tig, weechat

    > That's what aliases are for (or you could rename the binary?)!

    Unfortunately, it's not that simple on macOS for app bundles. The human readable name of the app bundle really doesn't matter that much to the operating system -- it's the contents of Info.plist that matter. In order to have a separate app that can be Cmd+Tab'd to, you have to have a separate app bundle, separate app bundle identifier, etc. There's really not a way around it on macOS that I've seen.

    (And to be clear, aliases do work on the command line. I'm talking specifically about GUI apps - which is my primary method of separating my different activities. Terminal emulator tabs are not good enough.)

    This also doesn't solve the performance problems with any of the various GUI applications, nor does it solve my problem for other applications that I want to run.

    > By the way, do you know the app https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus that can generate app bundles on a Mac?

    I do! I tried this route first, but it falls apart when you start a GUI application from the script that you supply to platypus. If your script is e.g. `wezterm start`, it'll just start up another instance of a wezterm-branded GUI app in addition to the wrapper app that Platypus spits out.

  • The Icelandic Saga Database
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2023
    Random fact; this website is created and maintained by Sveinbjörn Þórðarson who also made Platypus (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus) and Sloth (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Sloth) — software that Mac nerds might be familiar with.

    Sveinbjörn is a ball of energy that just radiates positives for human society.

  • How to easily share a small CLI script with non-technical coworkers?
    3 projects | /r/commandline | 14 May 2021
    Not sure if I understood the question properly but I found this program for Macs the other day: Platypus. It will create a .app out of any scrap of code.

blueutil

Posts with mentions or reviews of blueutil. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Platypus and blueutil you can also consider the following projects:

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

syncthing-macos - Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle

Sloth - Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.

Strongbox - A KeePass/Password Safe Client for iOS and OS X

spaces-renamer - 💻 Ability to rename desktop spaces on macOS 10.10+ (NOT CURRENTLY WORKING ON 14.4)

mySIMBL - :package: Plugin manager for macOS

BabyBluetooth - :baby: The easiest way to use Bluetooth (BLE )in ios/os ,even bady can use . 一个非常容易使用的蓝牙库,适用于ios和os

SubEthaEdit - General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.

yubiswitch - OSX status bar application to enable/disable Yubikey Nano