Handy utility applications for macOS

• WineskinServer

  165 2,256 8.3

  Wineskin

Other WINE implementations besides Porting Kit & Crossover are PlayOnMac and this Wineskin Winery fork.

• cyberduck

  105 2,953 9.9 Java

  Cyberduck is a libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive and OpenStack Swift file transfer client for Mac and Windows.

  

I've been using Cyberduck for years and have been quite happy with it.

• 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.

  

• KeepingYouAwake

  30 5,454 7.2 Objective-C

  Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.

This is basically the new version of Caffeine: https://keepingyouawake.app

• openmtp

  60 3,052 5.1 JavaScript

  OpenMTP - Advanced Android File Transfer Application for macOS

You can use OpenMTP as someone suggested to be a better alternative to AFT.

• Keka

  29 4,414 9.1 PHP

  The macOS & iOS file archiver

For archive managing I personally settled on Keka, which I find the most unobstrusive.

• BarTranslate

  9 145 4.9 Swift

  🚀 BarTranslate, a handy menu bar translator widget for macOS.

• Dozer

  38 7,840 0.0 Swift

  Hide menu bar icons on macOS

Dozer: Free and open-source alternative to Bartender, but currently does not restore the position of the menu bar items on system restart. Still helpful to hide unneeded icons.

• 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: Open-source status monitoring menu bar app. You can see CPU and memory usage, network usage, battery life remaining, etc.

• MonitorControl

  191 26,066 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.

  

I suggest MonitorControl as an alternative to Lunar. It’s fully open source without any paid features and looks pretty native (eg. status bar menu, volume/brightness overlays). Can be installed as a homebrew cask as well: brew install --cask monitorcontrol

• stats

  192 22,032 9.4 Swift

  macOS system monitor in your menu bar

Stats : free stats in menu bar, I like seeing my network up/down bandwidth, overall CPU %, and temps of average CPU and average GPU.

• tailscale

  1,005 16,437 9.9 Go

  The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

  

Tailscale : free tier is good, I have it installed on my home router (also often put on NAS) which lets me very easily VPN into my home network when I'm away from home, both on my iPhone or macbook.

• Bitwarden

  1,055 14,318 9.8 C#

  The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  

BitWarden : free password manager, I was a paying customer with LastPass until they jacked up their prices. This is a good replacement.

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