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Top 23 Swift MacOS Projects
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awesome-mac
This project is dedicated to collecting high-quality macOS software and organizing them systematically by different categories for easy search and use.
Project mention: Awesome-mac: The GitHub Repo I Bookmark for Every Mac Setup (99.8K Stars) | dev.to | 2026-03-10Then you find awesome-mac — a GitHub repository with 99,800 stars, maintained by 460 developers, updated constantly, and every single app cross-checked by the community via pull requests.
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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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Project mention: Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-18
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Project mention: Ask HN: Is your Mac's menu bar throwing errors? | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-19
https://github.com/exelban/stats/issues/2829
The log seems to be thrown from somewhere deep inside MacOS' windowserver. Crack open your console app and see if you also see it anywhere in the logs if you have an app that has a menu bar icon on macos.
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why not just use https://getutm.app/ ?
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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: Show HN: OS layer for running multiple Codex agents in parallel | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-19I recommend adding an installable executable. It seems like you are expecting people to clone your repo and then run it locally?
Take a look at Monitor Control how they structured their GitHub Readme and release page to download a dmg https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl
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Ice is an open source app solves this problem through an overflow menu:
https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
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CodeEdit
📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
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Project mention: Supercharge your macOS workspace management with Aerospace - A guide for busy people | dev.to | 2026-06-06
You can view the default config to get a general idea and to also learn what other shortcuts are available to you. If you want to dig deeper, have a look at the official documentation, or this excellent YouTube Guide by Josean Martinez. You can also have a look at my config for a minimal example.
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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
You could use Mos, which also has the advantage that smooth scrolling works the same in every app (speed, acceleration etc)
https://mos.caldis.me/
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Project mention: Sklad alternatives - Maccy, keepassxc, and desktop | libhunt.com/r/sklad | 2026-01-31
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Project mention: From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-19
https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
But I get basically everything I need with Magnet.
So TLDR I used to be a huge Linux head (I still am…) but I’m practical now and tired and macOS is a small price to pay for such amazing hardware.
More on why I left Linux as my main platform: https://gigatexal.blog/pages/no-perfect-workstation/no-perfe...
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Project mention: AltTab.app makes free features paid, drops old releases | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-26
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SwifterSwift
A handy collection of more than 500 native Swift extensions to boost your productivity.
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Easydict
一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用，支持离线 OCR 识别，支持有道词典，🍎 苹果系统词典，🍎 苹果系统翻译，OpenAI，Gemini，DeepL，Google，Bing，腾讯，百度，阿里，小牛，彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text.
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openhaystack
Build your own 'AirTags' 🏷 today! Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
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I always thought Mac App Store apps couldn't be automated. Turns out, there's a tool called mas (Mac App Store CLI) that allows you to automate installation of Mac App Store apps.
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I have been using Loop(https://github.com/MrKai77/Loop) after trying some of the alternatives listed here and wanted to post that as it was not mentioned. It is something that solves what I was looking for in window management on macos and just putting it out here :).
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).
Swift MacOS discussion
Swift MacOS related posts
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Stop the Apple Music app from launching
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Show HN: MimicScribe – transcriber with ~97% accurate on-device speaker IDing
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AeroSpace: An i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
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Jeff Geerling: The Framework 12 is dead. Apple killed it [video]
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DynamicNotch
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Turn an Intel iMac into a 5K Display
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CotEditor: Plain-Text Editor for macOS
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Index
What are some of the best open-source MacOS projects in Swift? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | awesome-mac | 105,178 |
| 2 | open-source-mac-os-apps | 48,947 |
| 3 | iina | 45,095 |
| 4 | stats | 39,365 |
| 5 | UTM | 34,274 |
| 6 | MonitorControl | 33,022 |
| 7 | ShadowsocksX-NG | 32,890 |
| 8 | Ice | 28,291 |
| 9 | Kingfisher | 24,342 |
| 10 | CodeEdit | 22,881 |
| 11 | AeroSpace | 21,078 |
| 12 | Mos | 20,359 |
| 13 | Maccy | 20,146 |
| 14 | OpenEmu | 17,589 |
| 15 | Amethyst | 16,144 |
| 16 | alt-tab-macos | 15,801 |
| 17 | SwifterSwift | 15,088 |
| 18 | hidden | 14,096 |
| 19 | Easydict | 13,415 |
| 20 | openhaystack | 12,833 |
| 21 | mas | 12,218 |
| 22 | AudioKit | 11,374 |
| 23 | Loop | 10,882 |
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