Favourite open-source apps?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/macapps

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  • Rectangle

    Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

  • Rectangle - app for window management

  • Godot

    Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

  • Godot game engine. An absolute pleasure to study game dev with!

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • numi

    Beautiful calculator app for macOS

  • Numi - calculator with a lot of functionality

  • espanso

    Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

  • espanso - text expander

  • alt-tab-macos

    Windows alt-tab on macOS

  • AltTab - Windows-like app switcher

  • tiny-wifi-analyzer

    An open-source tiny Wi-Fi analyzer for macOS

  • Most of my favorites are being mentioned by others, so I’ll just point out Tiny Wi-Fi Analyzer. Apple annoyingly doesn’t allow WiFi analyzers in the iOS App Store, so when my last working Android device died, I went looking for a Mac version. This was exactly what I wanted.

  • lossless-cut

    The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

  • LosslessCut - media cutter.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • got-your-back

    Got Your Back (GYB) is a command line tool for backing up your Gmail messages to your computer using Gmail's API over HTTPS.

  • GYB - gmail backup tool (I use the linux version, but it does have a version for mac).

  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  • Syncthing - file synchronizer.

  • squirrel

    【鼠鬚管】Rime for macOS (by rime)

  • RIME/Squirrel - super flexible input engine for Chinese typing.

  • Kodi Home Theater Software

    Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

  • Kodi - media platform.

  • iina

    The modern video player for macOS.

  • IINA - media player.

  • calibre

    The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager

  • Calibre - best ebook library app, now with the best reader, too.

  • Telik

    macOS app to track YouTube channels and playlists

  • Telik (track YouTube channels and playlists)

  • open-source-mac-os-apps

    🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps

  • There is a github repo with a list of Open source mac os apps

  • MiddleClick-BigSur

    Discontinued  "Wheel click" with three-finger click/tap for Trackpad and Magic Mouse. [Moved to: https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick-Ventura]

  • MiddleClick - middle click with 3-fingers click/tap.

  • Itsycal

    Itsycal is a tiny calendar for your Mac's menu bar. http://www.mowglii.com/itsycal

  • Yes: https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal

  • SaaSHub

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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