hammerspoon
Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua (by Hammerspoon)
syncthing-macos
Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle (by syncthing)
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| hammerspoon | syncthing-macos | |
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| 114 | 11 | |
| 11,438 | 2,499 | |
| 1.1% | 1.4% | |
| 7.5 | 6.7 | |
| 7 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Objective-C | Objective-C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hammerspoon
Posts with mentions or reviews of hammerspoon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.
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Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)
Another option for hacking something like this together could be HammerSpoon. I’ve spent some time with it, but haven’t tried integrating with Apple Notes, I mostly did stuff at the file system level to keep it easy.
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Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2024
For basic window tiling, I stumbled across Hammerspoon and the MiroWindowsManager spoon.
- Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
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[Hammer Control] Hammerspoon + SelfControl = Scheduling SelfControl
I use hammerspoon a lot and it seemed like scheduling SelfControl could be done using it so I created Hammer Control. Check it out!
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A collection of useful Mac Apps
Hammerspoon - Price: Free Desktop automation tool for macOS that allows you to write Lua scripts to control your Mac.
- Ask HN: Scrolling Window Manager for macOS?
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Fastest way to open Messages?
Spark (not the email app). There are others like Hotkey and Hammerspoon.
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Window Management & Snapping
I have tried different tools for this including Rectangle, but I've finally settled with hammerspoon. It solves the problem of window-management but you can also use it to create custom keyboard shortcuts and much more.
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Looking for a way to alert me that my girlfriend in the next room is in a meeting (google meet)
https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues/1255 could be a start
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Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
I feel similarly about hammerspoon [1] on macOS. Not a GUI tool, but Lua is a very easy language to learn.
syncthing-macos
Posts with mentions or reviews of syncthing-macos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
- Looking for iOS and Android apps that easily let my wife (iPhone user) and me (Android user) share photos of our newborn daughter to a local network location
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Best cloud storage option for macOS in 2023
Why do you need the video cache in a cloud? You do realise that cloud=on the internet somewhere? Maybe you want a fine sync Utility like https://rsyncosx.netlify.app for one time sync or https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos for keeping directories/drives/machines synchronised continuously.
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Self-hosted file sync service like Google Drive/Dropbox that isn't Nextcloud
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-macos are you using this? Im not sure what other issues you are having with macos
- Ask HN: What are some good open-source Mac apps you can't live without?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hammerspoon and syncthing-macos you can also consider the following projects:
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS
blueutil - CLI for bluetooth on OSX: power, discoverable state, list, inquire devices, connect, info, …
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
ShockEmu - Keyboard support for Dualshock emulation for PS Remote Play (macOS)
Platypus - Create native Mac applications from command line scripts.
gestures
spaces-renamer - 💻 Ability to rename desktop spaces on macOS 10.10+ (NOT CURRENTLY WORKING ON 14.4)
podman-macos - 📦 Podman frontend for macOS
grsyncx - Brain-free rsync GUI – Native Mac GUI app for rsync inspired by grsync ♻️
hammerspoon vs AutoHotkey
hammerspoon vs yabai
hammerspoon vs skhd
syncthing-macos vs blueutil
hammerspoon vs Rectangle
hammerspoon vs alt-tab-macos
hammerspoon vs ShockEmu
hammerspoon vs Platypus
hammerspoon vs gestures
hammerspoon vs spaces-renamer
syncthing-macos vs podman-macos
syncthing-macos vs grsyncx