Apple Silicon GitHub Repositories (2026) · Open Source Tools

Play your own Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild natively on Apple silicon Mac, iPhone and iPad. Not an emulator: the game's ARM64 code runs directly, NVN rebuilt on Metal. Bring your own game.

Valve's official ARM64 SteamOS in a lightweight VM on Apple Silicon: libkrun + Venus + MoltenVK, controllers, CoreAudio sound

AssetFurnace: the most complete open-source image-to-3D pipeline (Oct 2026). Prompt or picture → textured, rigged, animated game character, locally on Apple Silicon or NVIDIA. Pixal3D, TRELLIS.2, Hunyuan3D, SF3D, auto-rig and 21 moves. For indie game devs and 3D artists. Free, Apache-2.0.

Mac.apk: Run Android apps natively on Apple Silicon Macs

Run models larger than your RAM or VRAM by streaming MoE experts from SSD. Built on llama.cpp.

A local inference engine for Apple silicon, built around the model.

Native MLX runtime for Laya typed decision models — 7–14 ms short decisions on M3 Max. No text generation, PyTorch, or cloud API.

A native macOS system toolkit: honest memory optimization, deep cleanup that finds the real space hogs, fan control, keep-awake, disk analyzer.

Wallpaper Engine wallpapers on your Mac. A free, open-source app that plays scene, video and web wallpapers from the Steam Workshop. Apple silicon, macOS 15+.

Community maintained hardware plugin for vLLM on Apple Silicon

Run Omarchy on MacOS without any setup.

Local computer use on Apple silicon: on-device typed decisions with laya and form filling with CUA-S1-FORMS, driven through the macOS Accessibility API

A diagnostic performance logging utility for macOS: logs CPU, memory, GPU, network, and battery from the menu bar to help detect and diagnose performance issues. Free, open source, no telemetry.

Every display control macOS hides, in one menu bar app: sharp HiDPI/Retina scaling (no more blurry or tiny text), DDC brightness and volume, Extra Brightness past 100%, presets, virtual displays. Free and open source, a no-cost alternative to BetterDisplay and Lunar.

Native open-source system monitor for macOS — Apple Silicon, SMC sensors, processes, disks, network and system health.

Hit your Claude Code usage limit? Keep going free and offline on a local model: Qwen 3.8, Gemma 4, and Qwen 4 the day it ships. Runs on Apple Silicon Macs (MLX), Linux and Windows (llama.cpp) with no API key. Your code stays home.

Control Xiaomi Mijia from your Mac menu bar or Windows tray. Home Assistant supported on macOS.

Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook

Active community fork of the archived whisky-app/whisky — a modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI

MLX-VLM is a package for inference and fine-tuning of Vision Language Models (VLMs) on your Mac using MLX.