Top APPLE-SILICON GitHub Repositories & Tools (2026)

The all-in-one bootable USB creator for Mac

Sudoless Apple Silicon system monitor (native SwiftUI GUI) with ANE / Media Engine / memory-bandwidth tracking

Vocello: a local, private voice studio for Apple Silicon. Write a script, pick or describe a voice, and generate speech on-device, faster than realtime on an 8 GB M2 Mac mini. Native Swift + MLX, no Python. Mac app out now, iPhone beta on TestFlight. (Formerly QwenVoice.)

'afm' command cli: macOS server and single prompt mode that exposes Apple's Foundation and MLX Models and other APIs running on your Mac through a single aggregated OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. Supports Apple Vision and single command (non-server) inference with piping as well . Now with Web Browser and local AI API aggregator

Open-source RDP, SSH, SFTP and port forwarding client for macOS

Free, sub-second on-device AI dictation for macOS. Dual engines (Whisper + Parakeet) on Apple Silicon. Optional AI polish on your Mac with EG-1 or S1-mini by Superwhisper, Apple Intelligence (macOS 26), Ollama, or your own OpenAI/Gemini/Claude key. Snippets, custom words, no account, no subscription, audio never leaves your Mac.

Local image or text → game-ready 3D on your own machine. Retopology, repaint, rigging and animation helpers, in a web viewer and a CLI. Runs Pixal3D, TRELLIS.2, Hunyuan3D and SF3D. Apple Silicon and NVIDIA. Every result carries its licence.

Synthetic Autonomic Mind - An AI assistant for everyone.

Open-source, offline voice-to-text for macOS. Hold a hotkey, speak, text appears. Private on-device dictation with multiple speech engines.

Binders for macOS: local-first dictation, meeting notes and memory, with an MCP server for your AI tools. Private by design, free, open source.

Free, open-source CleanMyMac alternative for macOS. Native SwiftUI disk cleaner for app caches, node_modules, Xcode DerivedData and Docker usage - nothing is ever really deleted: it all goes to the Trash and stays undoable. No telemetry, no daemon, no subscription.

Looks asleep. Isn't. — keeps your Mac awake with the lid shut while an AI coding agent is working, and lets it sleep the moment it's only waiting for you.

Mac Gaming Uncle — a permanently noncommercial project making Windows gaming on Mac as simple as SteamOS.

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

Local, private voice dictation for macOS

AI speech toolkit for Apple Silicon — ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, VAD, and diarization powered by MLX and CoreML

Local speech-to-text for macOS on-device AI, fully private, optional cloud