Ask HN: What are some good open-source Mac apps you can't live without?

• VideoLAN Client (VLC)

  379 12,932 2.3 C

  VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

  

• Maccy

  30 10,356 9.0 Swift

  Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• yabai

  218 21,195 9.1 C

  A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

yabai - Tiling window manager https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

I use the basic feature set so it works well on my work laptop (no need to disable SIP).

• hammerspoon

  114 11,459 7.5 Objective-C

  Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

  

some of my top picks

- Hammerspoon: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

• MeetingBar

  32 4,238 8.9 Swift

  🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar

• stats

  192 21,919 9.3 Swift

  macOS system monitor in your menu bar

• syncthing-macos

  11 2,507 6.7 Objective-C

  Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• awesome-mac

  27 71,080 8.8 JavaScript

   Now we have become very big, Different from the original idea. Collect premium software in various categories.

• HandBrake

  981 15,486 9.8 C

  HandBrake's main development repository

  

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