Free and open-source macOS menu bar toolkit.
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Write an app once. It runs natively on the web, macOS, iOS, and Linux, and an AI agent can build it, run it, see it, and test it on every one of them.
A menu bar system monitor for macOS. CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk, battery and thermals at 0.046% CPU.
Strata Files: a fast, native, keyboard-first file manager and Finder alternative for macOS. Instant search, live folder sizes, disk usage map, dual pane.
Free, open-source menu bar toolkit for macOS. Eighteen tools in one panel: Pomodoro timer, time tracker, keep-awake, system monitor, clipboard history, file converter, window manager, torrents, archives, OCR, screenshots, draw on screen, color picker, VPN switcher, app launcher, uninstaller, keyboard lock, speed test. SwiftUI, no telemetry, MIT.
Status Trio — a native macOS app that combines Wi-Fi, battery, and volume into one compact, configurable status icon for the menu bar, the Dock, or both, inspired by the iPhone Duo combined status bar.
Blazingly fast, native macOS file search powered by Rust and AppKit — like Everything for Mac
The open-source Arc replacement for macOS. Spaces, pinned tabs, split view, Little Windows and Arc's shortcuts on Chromium, with your Arc sidebar imported in one go.
Mac Sai: the open-source Mac cleaner, optimizer, and malware scanner. A free, Apple-notarized alternative to CleanMyMac, built with Swift 6 and SwiftUI.
🌇 🌃 Create dynamic wallpapers for macOS.
Caelestia-inspired desktop shell for macOS 26 Tahoe: sidebar with its own dock, launcher, dashboard, quick actions and a settings app. Native Swift, English and German.
Native YouTube & YouTube Music player for Mac (macOS). Lightweight client with 4K VideoToolbox acceleration, SponsorBlock, synced lyrics, local audio & trackpad edge volume.
Lightning-fast native macOS Markdown viewer. Opens .md files instantly: live preview with your editor, GitHub alerts, LaTeX math, Mermaid diagrams, themes and fonts, reading mode, vector PDF export, per-window zoom. SwiftUI + AppKit, zero dependencies. Free on the Mac App Store and Homebrew.
The MacBook notch as a working tool — media controls, file shelf, clipboard history, snippets, calendar, offline translation and a teleprompter. Native SwiftUI, zero dependencies, no permissions. Free and open source.
Feels great. Weighs nothing. The lightweight browser for Mac.
Clipboard history, screenshot-to-clipboard, screen OCR, window snapping and trackpad volume — the Windows features macOS never shipped. A dependency-free Swift menu-bar app for Windows-to-Mac switchers.
Archive manager and 7zip replacement for macOS. Preview (nested) archives without extracting them. Extract single files.
A native Swift editor for Code and Markdown across macOS, iPadOS, iOS, and visionOS.
Native Markdown reader for macOS. Keep it open while you write and it follows every save. Comment on a phrase and the note is saved into the .md file itself. Your coding agent can open a plan here and wait while you mark it up.
A lightweight, private system monitor that lives in your macOS menu bar. CPU, memory, battery, network, disk, GPU, temperature, fans. Zero telemetry.