MacOS

Top 23 MacOS Open-Source Projects

  • Flutter

    Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

    Project mention: Lançamento do App Edudu | dev.to | 2024-03-28
  • the-art-of-command-line

    Master the command line, in one page

    Project mention: The-art-of-command-line: Master the command line, in one page | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-19
  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • node

    Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

    Project mention: Rotating Images with Node.js Made Easy: Automate BoreStuffs | dev.to | 2024-03-27

    First things first, let's ensure you have Node.js installed on your machine. If not, head over to Node.js website and follow the installation instructions.

  • awesome-mac

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

    Project mention: The awesome-mac repo | /r/MacOS | 2023-09-23
  • Netdata

    Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time.

    Project mention: A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev | dev.to | 2024-02-05

    netdata.cloud — Netdata is an open-source tool to collect real-time metrics. It's a growing product and can also be found on GitHub!

  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

    Project mention: Terminal Latency | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-19

    It's opinionated, which comes with upsides and downsides. I won't blame the maintainer to keep things focused, feature creep (even for worthy features) can kill a FOSS project.

    Another example is sixel support, there's a fork where it all works but is not sufficiently "proven" (code quality just as well as sixel being the best fit for the problem)

    https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4763#issuecommen...

    It may be annoying but I get the reasoning, and there are other terminals.

  • sherlock

    🔎 Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks

    Project mention: Checking all accounts associated with my email address? | /r/PrivacySecurityOSINT | 2023-11-12

    In the interest of cleaning my digital life a bit I really want to delete all of my old accounts that I no longer use. The terminal application "Sherlock" on github can search for instances of a username you input and find associated websites. Sherlock

  • InfluxDB

    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.

  • ChatGPT

    🔮 ChatGPT Desktop Application (Mac, Windows and Linux)

    Project mention: What AI assistants are already bundled for Linux? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-01

    > I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a native Linux AI-assisted assistant.

    On Mac when I press Command + Space, it brings up Spotlight search

    That can't easily be added to be the equivalent of some kind of LLM prompt on GNOME/KDE/XFCE?

    I don't quite know what you'd ask it/do with it that would be of much value? Seems like a quicker way/a wrapper around either asking an LLM questions via CLI or basically Electron wrapping HTML (like this https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT)?

  • mkcert

    A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.

    Project mention: Mkcert: Simple tool to make locally trusted dev certificates names you'd like | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-15
  • marktext

    📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

    Project mention: Show HN: I've built open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-23
  • PowerShell

    PowerShell for every system!

    Project mention: PowerBI: déployer une passerelle sur AWS pour $0.12/j | dev.to | 2024-03-14

    msiexec.exe /package https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/download/v7.2.6/PowerShell-7.2.6-win-x64.msi /quiet ADD_EXPLORER_CONTEXT_MENU_OPENPOWERSHELL=1 ADD_FILE_CONTEXT_MENU_RUNPOWERSHELL=1 ENABLE_PSREMOTING=1 REGISTER_MANIFEST=1 USE_MU=1 ENABLE_MU=1 ADD_PATH=1

  • Motrix

    A full-featured download manager.

    Project mention: Motrix: A full-featured download manager | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24
  • hyperterm

    A terminal built on web technologies

    Project mention: Terminal commands I use as a frontend developer | dev.to | 2024-03-09

    I am using iTerm2 on my macOS. Other available options are Hyper and VS Code’s inbuilt terminal, which I sometimes use for quick tests. You can open a terminal in VS Code by using the keyboard shortcut CMD + J or CTRL + J on Windows, or View → Terminal.

  • open-source-mac-os-apps

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

    Project mention: Favourite open-source apps? | /r/macapps | 2023-06-04

    There is a github repo with a list of Open source mac os apps

  • HomeBrew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

    Project mention: Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers | dev.to | 2024-03-27

    Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix.

  • iina

    The modern video player for macOS.

    Project mention: Top Free Utility Mac Apps You Aren’t Using | dev.to | 2024-03-04

    9. IINA

  • Docker-OSX

    Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

    Project mention: GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-10

    Running macOS legally requires real mac servers and a bespoke storage solution: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/not-just-stac...

    A self-hosted macOS runner will be more economical in the long-run, if you have a spot you can hook it up at, or if you're fine doing things less than legally, you can use https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX.

  • ShadowsocksX-NG

    Next Generation of ShadowsocksX

    Project mention: Unable to install client from Mac App Store - Direct connect or mirror download? | /r/outlinevpn | 2023-06-22
  • dotfiles

    :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS

    Project mention: The first conformant M1 GPU driver | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-22

    You might be interested in this: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos

    I don't advise just running Mathias' config as is, but read through it and see if anything seems to be something you want in yours, make the changes, and save it somewhere for the next time you're setting up a Mac.

    There's some stuff in there about speeding up certain animations (look for `# Speed up Mission Control animations`), and about not reordering "spaces" (desktops, full-screen apps, search for `# Don’t automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use`) based on use which I think may also affect cmd+tab ordering? Not sure, but it's a setting I always change anyway because the default doesn't make sense for power users.

    About the trolling thing, sorry, I was genuinely not sure if you were arguing in good faith or just making stuff up, as most of the things you were saying were just plain incorrect or dishonest, from comparing desktop computer performance to low-powered laptops, to incorrect statements about features macOS truly excels at.

  • 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.

    Project mention: 18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't strain your eyes | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-27

    I use "Monitor Control" on my Mac Studio to control the brightness of my Dell monitor:

    https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

  • SDWebImage

    Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category

    Project mention: Is there anything inherently wrong with the way I am updating this array of custom objects? | /r/swift | 2023-08-24

    Add the SDWebImage package: https://github.com/SDWebImage/SDWebImage.git

  • N1

    :love_letter: An extensible desktop mail app built on the modern web. Forks welcome!

  • autocomplete

    IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal & shell

    Project mention: Fig Is Sunsetting | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-14
  • WorkOS

    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.

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). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-28.

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Index

What are some of the best open-source MacOS projects? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 Flutter 161,064
2 the-art-of-command-line 146,552
3 node 102,694
4 awesome-mac 70,239
5 Netdata 67,801
6 alacritty 52,104
7 sherlock 50,770
8 ChatGPT 46,546
9 mkcert 45,338
10 marktext 44,029
11 PowerShell 43,037
12 Motrix 42,649
13 hyperterm 42,499
14 open-source-mac-os-apps 39,191
15 HomeBrew 39,060
16 iina 36,038
17 Docker-OSX 34,857
18 ShadowsocksX-NG 32,126
19 dotfiles 29,736
20 MonitorControl 25,769
21 SDWebImage 24,891
22 N1 24,788
23 autocomplete 24,247
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The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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