Good open-source alternatives to essential paid Mac apps

• open-source-mac-os-apps

  38 39,454 5.3 Swift

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

I sometimes search in this or this list.

• Rectangle

  723 24,403 8.2 Swift

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

Rectangle (https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle) is a thriving open-source alternative to Magnet. Purpose: Window management utility. Allows you to quickly tile, resize and organize your windows through custom hotkeys etc.

• 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.

  

• awesome-mac

  27 71,258 8.8 JavaScript

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

I sometimes search in this or this list.

• Tenacity

  136 7,243 5.6 C++

  Discontinued Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems. Project currently on an indefinite hiatus.

  

Audacity seems to be universally hated as of now. https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity seems like the community’s version.

• Transmission

  254 11,383 9.7 C++

  Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

  

The certificate issue was not just for Transmission but for huge swathes of apps and the internet but it absolutely affected Transmission. Here's a logged issue about it: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/1876

• hidden

  47 10,124 0.0 Swift

  An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons

  

Hidden Bar (MIT) - hide menu bar status icons.

• Mos

  188 13,561 3.1 Swift

  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

Mos (CC BY-NC 4.0) - smooth scrolling / reverse scroll direction on non Apple mice.

• 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.

  

• eul

  43 8,985 0.0 Swift

  🖥️ macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.

eul (MIT) - System monitor for status bar / widgets (No Apple Silicon support yet!)

• UTM

  242 24,116 9.5 Swift

  Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

  

UTM (Apache-2.0) - Virtual machines for Intel/Apple Silicon.

• CotEditor

  47 6,090 9.9 Swift

  Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS

  

Coteditor is a lightweight text/code editor with support for "50 pre-installed major languages like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby or Markdown".

• finicky

  31 3,519 6.0 Swift

  A macOS app for customizing which browser to start

I found Finicky to be a good (foss) alternative to Choosy if you don't mind writing a bit of json over using a nice GUI.

• espanso

  231 9,141 8.5 Rust

  Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

  

Espanso is a nice text expander that let's you write sentences and whatnot with just a few characters. Worth checking it out.

• pock

  36 10,064 0.0 Swift

  Widgets manager for MacBook Touch Bar

  

Pock is a good app for customising the menu bar without too much hassle. I can’t remember if it’s free though !

• stats

  192 22,032 9.4 Swift

  macOS system monitor in your menu bar

• mpv

  830 25,960 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

I was worried as someone who would never ever pay for stuff like this (especially not subscriptions) that the situation was gonna be a lot worse than what it is on macOS, but I've been able to find free and open source versions of everything I've tried to find so far, which is nice. Shoutouts to https://iina.io, really good video player based on mpv

• iina

  228 36,293 8.7 Swift

  The modern video player for macOS.

  

I was worried as someone who would never ever pay for stuff like this (especially not subscriptions) that the situation was gonna be a lot worse than what it is on macOS, but I've been able to find free and open source versions of everything I've tried to find so far, which is nice. Shoutouts to https://iina.io, really good video player based on mpv

• planify

  31 2,978 9.2 Vala

  Task manager with Todoist and Nextcloud support designed for GNU/Linux 🚀

This guy made an amazing open source alternative for Things, but unfortunately only for the Elementary Os distro: https://github.com/alainm23/planner

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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