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

• iina

  26 36,241 8.7 Swift

  The modern video player for macOS.

  

  IINA: Media player alternative to VLC

• MonitorControl

  17 26,005 7.0 Swift

  🖥 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: Control External monitor brightness from the menu bar

• InfluxDB

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• LuLu

  7 9,102 7.3 Objective-C

  LuLu is the free macOS firewall

  Lulu - Alternative to Little Snitch, minus some features, but the core functionality is there.

• stats

  29 21,829 9.3 Swift

  macOS system monitor in your menu bar

  Stats , monitoring system statistics (and also fans controller)

• yt-dlp

  0 99 9.9 Python

  Discontinued MOVE TO NIGHTLY BUILDS FROM YT-DLP. DO NOT USE (by ytdl-patched)

  

  yt-dlp, youtube and video dowloader (based from inactive youtube-dl)

• ytdl-patched

  0 20 9.9 Python

  Discontinued Possibly missing fixes on youtube-dl. brew install nao20010128nao/my/ytdl-patched [GET https://api.github.com/repositories/287858674: 403 - Repository access blocked] (by nao20010128nao)

  

  yt-dlp, youtube and video dowloader (based from inactive youtube-dl)

• snapdrop

  25 17,303 0.6 JavaScript

  A Progressive Web App for local file sharing

  Snapdrop, fast file sharing between different devices (macOS --> windows)

• WorkOS

  workos.com

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• numi

  13 5,236 5.2 JavaScript

  Beautiful calculator app for macOS

  Numi beautiful calculator app

• Keka

  6 4,392 9.2 PHP

  The macOS & iOS file archiver

  Keka, file archiver/compressor

• Transmission

  18 11,328 9.7 C++

  Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

  

  Transmission, torrent client

• PostgresApp

  8 7,098 9.2 Makefile

  The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac

  

  Postgres.app - The best way to run Postgres databases on a Mac.

• iTerm2

  23 14,513 9.7 Objective-C

  iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

  iTerm2 - Terminal.app replacement.

• HomeBrew

  150 39,227 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

  Homebrew - Mac package manager / software finder.

• Sonarr

  29 9,932 9.9 C#

  Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.

  

  Sonarr

• ohmyzsh

  50 168,268 9.5 Shell

  🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  

  If you do a lot of work in the terminal, you'll want to grab OhMyZsh. It's been a lifesaver.

• vscodium

  56 23,562 9.5 Shell

  binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  

  VSCode VSCodium, the actually opensource version of VSCode

• MeetingBar

  3 4,238 8.9 Swift

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

  MeetingBar: Menu Bar app to quickly see and join upcoming meetings

• NetNewsWire

  5 7,842 9.3 Swift

  RSS reader for macOS and iOS.

  

  NetNewsWire: RSS Reader

• Boop

  2 3,621 1.4 JavaScript

  A scriptable scratchpad for developers. In slow yet steady progress.

  Boop: Collection of utilities/extensions for developers

• ImageOptim

  14 8,907 7.9 HTML

  GUI image optimizer for Mac

  

  ImageOptim: GUI tool to optimize image sizes

• SwiftBar

  4 2,664 6.9 Swift

  Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool

  

  SwiftBar: App to quickly create custom menu bar apps using any language you prefer

• keycastr

  0 11,819 7.0 Objective-C

  KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer

  

  KeyCastr: App to Visualize keystrokes

• notenik-swift

  0 81 8.3 Swift

  Notenik ported to Swift

  Thanks for asking! My own app, Notenik, is certainly one I can't live without -- that's why I wrote it! More info available at Notenik.app. Source code at github/hbowie/notenik-swift.

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