Top 23 Swift MacOS Projects
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Project mention: I need to create an exception to a website... | reddit.com/r/shadowsocks | 2021-03-31
Customize your rules for PAC with a similar client. I can provide you an access too :)
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open-source-mac-os-apps
🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps
Project mention: Awesome list of free and open source apps for macOS. | reddit.com/r/FreeMacApps | 2021-11-19 -
Appwrite
Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support. Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!
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Project mention: Text with Apple support: Me: “Is the Pegasus API on all iPhones?” Apple: “Not that I know of.” Does anyone have the answer? I can’t find the answer on Apple’s developer site either. | reddit.com/r/applehelp | 2021-10-26
Was literally looking at reddit app files and found reference to "kingfisher" library, which is a swift library for downloading images from the internet.
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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.
Project mention: PSA: Controlling screen brightness on non-Apple displays | reddit.com/r/finalcutpro | 2021-12-09MonitorControl is a free handy menubar gizmo that allows the standard keyboard keys that change screen brightness on Apple monitors to work with any monitor. One nice feature for people with dual monitor setups is the ability to slave the keys to control both monitors simultaneously if desired.
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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: For the love of God, get good monitors | reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions | 2021-12-08
Try Amethyst if you're on macOS
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I love the app: https://pock.app
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Project mention: A curated list of Open Source example iOS apps developed in Swift | dev.to | 2021-12-06
AudioKit - Audio synthesis, processing, and analysis platform for iOS.
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Project mention: When I press to UPDATE Xcode nothing happens. The icon lights up it plays a broken animation and then goes back to being normal. | reddit.com/r/applehelp | 2021-11-06
In my case I already had brew installed, so I used it to install mas (the Mac App Store command line interface), and then ran:
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Project mention: Where did the 2020 platforms state of the union video go? | reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming | 2021-07-12
It's still there on site as it's accessible through the unofficial WWDC app https://wwdc.io/
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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
For the external mouse you can use a software called Mos https://mos.caldis.me/ It making scrolling smooth with the mouse
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Project mention: External WebCam stuttering on Macbook Pro M1 Pro 14" | reddit.com/r/macbookpro | 2021-12-01
Interesting fact – the stuttering gets worse if I play a YouTube video in the background or run the Stats app in my menu bar. Which makes me think that the GPU cores are just overwhelmed or there is some kind of system call that interrupts the video stream.
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Looking at https://gitignore.io - there is plenty of empty space and nothing, even subtle and small like "I would appreciate donations" with link/button.
I also see nothing in https://github.com/toptal/gitignore.io and GitHub sponsoring seems to be not enabled.
(just mentioning in case you would make it more clear that you would be happy about donations)
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Project mention: Monterey M1: My menu bar icons are randomly spreading out | reddit.com/r/mac | 2021-11-21
https://github.com/gao-sun/eul, though temp sensors are not working on m1 yet.
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SwiftyStoreKit
Lightweight In App Purchases Swift framework for iOS 8.0+, tvOS 9.0+ and macOS 10.10+ ⛺
I can recommend this: https://github.com/bizz84/SwiftyStoreKit
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Project mention: What are you fine folks using for screen recording? | reddit.com/r/macapps | 2021-06-06
I love the simplicity, the developer, its ability to share my files with external services quickly via plugins (I routinely share my recordings with his other app Gifski[3]), the fact that it's open-source, and the fact that it's free. IMO it's well worth checking out.
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Project mention: Less known macOS apps you will legitimately want to use every day | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-10-01
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Clipy - I map this to option + command + v to access clipboard history, text emoticons, frequently shared URLs, etc.
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Not quite sure what you're after, but maybe check out VimR.
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Project mention: Swift Utilities for writing to and reading from the device log | dev.to | 2021-12-03
SwiftyBeaver 🐧 - Multi-platform logging during development & release.
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Project mention: A curated list of Open Source example iOS apps developed in Swift | dev.to | 2021-12-06
NetNewsWire - RSS reader for macOS and iOS.
Swift MacOS related posts
- PSA: Controlling screen brightness on non-Apple displays
- Must have Apps on M1
- For the love of God, get good monitors
- Is there any shortcut to arrange the finder folders tidy like this?
- Floating Terminal Vim Note-Taking: How To Replicate Arch Setup in MacOS?
- A curated list of Open Source example iOS apps developed in Swift
- This is why your external monitor looks awful on an M1 Mac - A User wrote an open source solution
Index
What are some of the best open-source MacOS projects in Swift? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ShadowsocksX-NG | 29,998 |
| 2 | open-source-mac-os-apps | 28,854 |
| 3 | iina | 28,562 |
| 4 | Kingfisher | 19,463 |
| 5 | MonitorControl | 11,912 |
| 6 | SwifterSwift | 10,679 |
| 7 | Amethyst | 9,953 |
| 8 | pock | 9,582 |
| 9 | AudioKit | 8,799 |
| 10 | mas | 8,577 |
| 11 | WWDC | 8,129 |
| 12 | Mos | 7,706 |
| 13 | stats | 6,974 |
| 14 | gitignore.io | 6,692 |
| 15 | eul | 6,660 |
| 16 | SwiftyStoreKit | 5,784 |
| 17 | Gifski | 5,681 |
| 18 | Dozer | 5,597 |
| 19 | Clipy | 5,547 |
| 20 | vimr | 5,499 |
| 21 | SwiftyBeaver | 5,383 |
| 22 | hidden | 5,079 |
| 23 | NetNewsWire | 5,073 |
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