Apple Silicon GitHub Repositories (2026) · Open Source Tools

Native YouTube & YouTube Music player for Mac (macOS). Lightweight client with 4K VideoToolbox acceleration, SponsorBlock, synced lyrics, local audio & trackpad edge volume.

A collection of reverse engineered Apple things, as well as a machine-readable database of Apple hardware

Personal AI agents / grok bot alternative / muse alternative / dots alternative / duet alternative

GTA IV (PC 1.0.8.0) statically recompiled to run natively on Apple silicon Macs and iPads (Apple TV experimental): Metal renderer, the episodes, ~100 fixes, saves through iCloud. Build it from your own copy with the Builder app; no game data included.

Run a 105 GB AI model on a Mac that can't hold it. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit, streamed from SSD on 16–64 GB Apple Silicon Macs. Fully native Swift, MLX and Metal. Offline, no Python. CLI, Swift library, and Ollama/OpenAI/Anthropic APIs. Works with Claude Code and Codex.

Local-first AI photo culling for professional photographers — 6-axis rubric, XMP/IPTC export, Lightroom & Capture One ready.

Blazing fast Apple Silicon inference engine optimized for Qwen & Nemotron. OpenAI + Anthropic API compatible. Built by folks from nace.ai

'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

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

Your personal context engine for macOS, with Windows and Linux in alpha: on-device meeting notes, screen recall, dictation, and autocomplete that you and your AI agents can search. Free and open source (GPLv3).

chad: a coding agent for your macbook pro

Call of Duty: Black Ops II statically recompiled from 32-bit x86 Windows to native ARM64 macOS: Remill → LLVM IR, a hand-written Win32 runtime, Direct3D 11 drawn by Metal. No Wine, no game files.

Native macOS IPTV/VOD player for Apple Silicon with Xtream, M3U/XMLTV, selected TVBox/CatVod/CatPaw-style providers, and libmpv playback.

Kubernetes operator for self-hosted LLM inference across a heterogeneous GPU fleet: NVIDIA CUDA, AMD Vulkan, and Apple Silicon Metal. Runtimes: llama.cpp, vLLM, TGI, mlx-server. Multi-GPU sharding, model caching, OpenAI-compatible endpoints. Apache-2.0, run across homelab and on-prem fleets, actively developed.

Bloodborne on Apple Silicon Macs: the PS4 game's own code under Rosetta 2, rendered natively with Metal (MetalFX, FSR 3.1). Work in progress.

Keep Python on your laptop. Run PyTorch operations and hold tensors on a remote GPU, including from a Mac with no CUDA installation.

A small, quiet system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs: one floating glass panel that works at any size.

Your iPhone helps your Mac run a 27B model: faster prompt reading and more context over a USB-C cable

The free AI already on your Mac. CLI tool, OpenAI-compatible server, and interactive chat — all on-device via Apple Intelligence. No API keys, no cloud, no downloads.

Muesli: agent-native local meeting transcription + dictation for macOS (Granola + WisprFlow + Littlebird alternative)