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Top 23 Apple Open-Source Projects
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awesome-mac
Now we have become very big, Different from the original idea. Collect premium software in various categories.
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MonitorControl
🖥 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
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Project mention: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-19
In case others were similarly confused, I thought that UTM was commercial but it is Apache 2 https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/blob/v4.6.5/LICENSE
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CodeEdit
📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
Project mention: CodeEditApp/CodeEdit: CodeEdit App for macOS – open-source, free forever | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-12 -
awesome-macOS
A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and shiny things for macOS.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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openhaystack
Build your own 'AirTags' 🏷 today! Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
Project mention: Turning a Bluetooth Device into an Apple AirTag Without Root Privileges | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-27 -
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Project mention: Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-28
For something like AirDrop this will need to be sorted out, but already work occurred to reverse engineer this: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
Would be cool if an open standard on auth forms on top of this.
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About-SwiftUI
Gathering all info published, both by Apple and by others, about new framework SwiftUI.
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ipatool
Command-line tool that allows searching and downloading app packages (known as ipa files) from the iOS App Store
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SwiftyStoreKit
Lightweight In App Purchases Swift framework for iOS 8.0+, tvOS 9.0+ and macOS 10.10+ ⛺
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Yes, it should be possible: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/709453
Lumier does not expose the capability but the underlying Lume CLI does.
lume run --recovery-mode true: https://github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lume#usage
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Lyricify-App
Lyricify (/lɪ'rɪsəfaɪ/), a fantastic app to provide scroll lyrics for Spotify and other apps. 一款为 Spotify 等各种应用提供滚动歌词的软件。
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Project mention: Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-09
I use MeetingBar for the menubar calendar... open source. https://github.com/leits/MeetingBar
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Apple discussion
Apple related posts
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Coding Without a Laptop – Two Weeks with AR Glasses and Linux on Android
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ArchLinux Setup Guide For Intel MacBook Pro
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The Mira Pro Color is Boox's first color E Ink monitor
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Launch HN: C/Ua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents
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Show HN: C/Ua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents
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Show HN: Attune – Build and publish APT repositories in seconds
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I built an open source Computer-use framework that uses Local LLMs with Ollama
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 21 May 2025
Index
What are some of the best open-source Apple projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | awesome-mac | 82,991 |
| 2 | open-source-ios-apps | 44,979 |
| 3 | MonitorControl | 29,931 |
| 4 | UTM | 29,473 |
| 5 | macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide | 21,772 |
| 6 | CodeEdit | 21,735 |
| 7 | awesome-macOS | 16,732 |
| 8 | SVProgressHUD | 12,455 |
| 9 | openhaystack | 11,476 |
| 10 | nvtop | 9,101 |
| 11 | opendrop | 9,003 |
| 12 | WWDC | 8,683 |
| 13 | MochiDiffusion | 7,702 |
| 14 | About-SwiftUI | 7,058 |
| 15 | ipatool | 6,896 |
| 16 | SwiftyStoreKit | 6,649 |
| 17 | CoreML-Models | 6,628 |
| 18 | cua | 7,236 |
| 19 | periphery | 5,710 |
| 20 | Brooklyn | 5,609 |
| 21 | Lyricify-App | 5,517 |
| 22 | darwinkit | 5,231 |
| 23 | MeetingBar | 4,794 |
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