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Top 23 Swift MacOS Projects
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open-source-mac-os-apps
🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps
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2. Video Player: IINA
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MonitorControl
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
MonitorControl
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Project mention: Waiting for an OLED MacBook Air? It might get delayed again | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-08
> These sources also pointed to Apple’s new iPad Pro models, which feature OLED screens, as evidence that an OLED screen alone isn’t enough to guarantee more sales. Several analyst forecasts have downgraded new iPad Pro shipments from 10 million units to six or seven million units.
OLED M4 iPad Pro won't sell until Apple enables virtualization.
https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/748130
https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/3230
iPads do launch the kernel in EL2, but they don’t enable the hypervisor. -
Project mention: Stats macOS app phones home to developer's personal server | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-04
Discussion from 2021.
The logic seems to have later moved to https://github.com/exelban/stats/blob/master/Kit/plugins/Tel...
https://github.com/exelban/stats/issues/1310 has a newer 2023 discussion what requests are send are where. It's checking if a new version of the software exists, and what the IP address is and both features can be disabled.
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CodeEdit
📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
Project mention: CodeEditApp/CodeEdit: CodeEdit App for macOS – open-source, free forever | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-12 -
Project mention: Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-07
Tangentially related: if anybody is looking for a good way to organize a library of retro emulators and games on their MacOS laptops/desktop computers then I recommend OpenEmu. It is designed from the ground up to look and feel like a Mac app.
https://openemu.org/
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Apple locking down the OS even more by making Gatekeeper harder to bypass makes me want to skip this version for as long as possible.
The screen recording permission thing also doesn't help since I'm using Ice (https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice) because somehow Apple still can't Sherlock this feature.
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Mos
一个用于在 macOS 上平滑你的鼠标滚动效果或单独设置滚动方向的小工具, 让你的滚轮爽如触控板 | A lightweight tool used to smooth scrolling and set scroll direction independently for your mouse on macOS
Project mention: Silicon Valley Tea Party a.k.a. the great 1998 Linux revolt take II | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-17Only with hardware acceleration turned off. Which in my experience causes a stuttery and laggy experience which can hardly be described as "smooth".
If you really want to use MacOS's smooth scrolling, use MOS (https://mos.caldis.me) and get a beefy Mac because the base models will stutter like I mentioned.
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Project mention: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-09
I use Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst in my day to day. Slightly different management philosophy but one that works well for me.
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SwifterSwift
A handy collection of more than 500 native Swift extensions to boost your productivity.
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Project mention: Maccy – lightweight clipboard manager for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-09
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Project mention: Steam Deck hits 17,000 games playable and verified | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-01
Give Whisky a shot. Yeah, it’s a 20 year old game, but I was able to get Half-Life 2 running at 1080p with all settings maxed on my Mac Mini. The only slow down I experienced was when a bunch of barrels exploded at the same time.
https://getwhisky.app/
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Hi OP,
I'm the author of AltTab (https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/), a popular window switcher for macOS, imitating Windows famous alt+tab shortcut. I know for a fact how hard it is to implement what you did. It looks very nice, well done!
I see you ran into the issue of not being able to detect windows from other Spaces. Apple introduced it in macOS 12.2. If you're curious, you can see the vast efforts we've deployed trying to find a workaround: https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/1324
Thank you
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One cute trick I've found is that you can install mas[0] (mac app store cli) and then have mas install things from the app store for you[1].
also, at least some system prefs can be set via the defaults util[2].
[0]: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas
[1]: https://github.com/stephen/dotfiles/blob/master/install.sh#L...
[2]: https://github.com/stephen/dotfiles/blob/master/install.sh#L...
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I find the Touch Bar to be a brilliant idea, but the released execution didn't live up to the potential.
https://pock.app
https://community.folivora.ai/t/goldenchaos-btt-the-complete...
https://github.com/niw/HapticKey
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Has anyone tried Aerospace as a tiling manager for OSX? I mean this: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
Any feedback?
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openhaystack
Build your own 'AirTags' 🏷 today! Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source MacOS projects in Swift? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | open-source-mac-os-apps | 42,462 |
| 2 | iina | 39,031 |
| 3 | ShadowsocksX-NG | 32,565 |
| 4 | MonitorControl | 28,716 |
| 5 | UTM | 27,751 |
| 6 | stats | 27,303 |
| 7 | Kingfisher | 23,510 |
| 8 | CodeEdit | 21,325 |
| 9 | OpenEmu | 16,290 |
| 10 | Ice | 15,737 |
| 11 | Mos | 15,212 |
| 12 | Amethyst | 15,007 |
| 13 | SwifterSwift | 14,240 |
| 14 | Maccy | 13,703 |
| 15 | Whisky | 13,477 |
| 16 | alt-tab-macos | 11,460 |
| 17 | hidden | 11,421 |
| 18 | mas | 11,087 |
| 19 | AudioKit | 10,804 |
| 20 | pock | 10,103 |
| 21 | AeroSpace | 9,683 |
| 22 | eul | 9,363 |
| 23 | openhaystack | 9,357 |
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