is list features a curated selection of open-source macOS applications developed with Swift, covering a wide range of tools from productivity to utilities. For macOS developers, these applications demonstrate various Swift implementations and provide high-quality code samples and best practices, helping you master macOS-specific skills like UI design, performance optimization, and menu bar integration. It’s a valuable resource for enhancing development skills.
- AUHost
- Application which hosts AudioUnits v3 using AVFoundation API.
- Aural Player
- Aural Player is a audio player application for the macOS platform. Inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows, it is designed to be to-the-point and easy to use.
- LyricsX
- Lyrics for iTunes, Spotify and Vox.
- MonitorControl
- Control your external monitor brightness, contrast or volume directly from a menulet or with keyboard native keys.
- NoiseBuddy
- Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
- PlayStatus
- PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
- Plug
- Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.
- Scope
- Audio Oscilloscope
- Spotify4BigSur
- Spotify widget for Notification Center.
- Suohai
- Audio input/output source lock for macOS.
- Tuner
- Musical Instrument Tuner
- jmc
- jmc is new macOS media organizer.
- waveSDR
- macOS native desktop Software Defined Radio application using the RTL-SDR USB device.
- Syncalicious
- Keeping multiple macOS preferences in sync can be painful, but it shouldn't be.
- Finicky
- Always opens the right browser.
- Plash
- Make any website your desktop wallpaper.
- Privacy Redirect for Safari
- Redirect Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Translate to privacy friendly alternatives.
- Beagle IM
- Powerful XMPP client with support for file transfer, VoIP and end-to-end encryption.
- MessagesHistoryBrowser
- macOS application to comfortably browse and search through your Messages.app history.
- HuggingChat
- A native chat interface that leverages the powerful capabilities of open-source language models.
- Seaglass
- A truly native Matrix client for macOS.
- Swiftcord
- A fully native Discord client for macOS built 100% in Swift!
- Telegram
- Source code of Telegram for macOS on Swift.
- WhatsAppBar
- Send WhatsApp message from menu bar.
- Balance Open
- App for all the world’s currencies.
- CoinBar
- macOS menu bar application for tracking crypto coin prices.
- Float coin
- Native menu bar app with floating window and support for many Exchanges.
- Postgres.app
- The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac.
- Redis.app
- The easiest way to get started with Redis on the Mac.
- mongoDB.app
- The easiest way to get started with mongoDB on the Mac.
- redis-pro
- Redis management with SwiftUI.
- Layout Designer for UICollectionView
- A simple but powerful tool that helps you make complex layouts for UICollectionView.
- Pasteboard Viewer
- Inspect the system pasteboards.
- Stringz
- A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications.
- GPM
- macOS application for easily operating GitHub Projects.
- GitBlamePR
- Mac app that shows pull request last modified each line of a file
- GitSync
- Minimalistic Git client for Mac.
- Github contributions
- GitHub contributions app, for iOS, WatchOS, and macOS.
- GithubListener
- Simple app that will notify about new commits to watched repositories.
- GithubNotify
- Simple macOS app to alert you when you have unread GitHub notifications.
- TeamStatus-for-GitHub
- macOS status bar application for tracking code review process within the team.
- Trailer
- Managing Pull Requests and Issues For GitHub & GitHub Enterprise.
- Xit
- Xit is a graphical tool for working with git repositories.
- JSON Mapper
- Simple macOS app to generate Swift Object Mapper classes from JSON.
- JSON to Model class
- Template based highly customizable macOS app to generate classes from JSON string, supports many languages.
- JSONExport
- Desktop application for macOS which enables you to export JSON objects as model classes with their associated constructors, utility methods, setters and getters in your favorite language.
- j2s
- macOS app to convert JSON objects into Swift structs (currently targets Swift 4 and Codable).
- ChefInspector
- Node and Attribute viewer for Chef
- KubeMonitor
- KubeMonitor is a macOS app that displays information about your active Kubernetes cluster in your menu bar.
- KubeSwitch
- KubeSwitch lists the available kubernetes cluster contexts on the mac, in Mac's Menu bar.
- Lantern
- Dedicated Mac app for website auditing and crawling.
- LocalSites
- Simple Menu Bar (Status Bar) App for macOS listing local Bonjour websites (as Safari 11 no longer has Bonjour Bookmarks).
- SimpleLocalize CLI
- Open source tool for managing i18n keys in software projects.
- iTunesConnect
- macOS app to let you access iTunesConnect.
- nodeScratchpad
- Evaluate Nodejs/JS code snippets from Menubar.
- stts
- macOS app for monitoring the status of cloud services.
- AVXCAssets Generator
- Takes path for your assets images and creates appiconset and imageset for you in just one click.
- AppIcons
- Tool for generating icons in all sizes as required by macOS and iOS apps.
- AppStoreReviewTimes
- Gives you indication about the average iOS / macOS app stores review times.
- Assets
- Assets is a macOS app that manages assets for your development projects (Xcode, web, etc).
- Attabench
- Attabench is a microbenchmarking app for macOS, designed to measure and visualize the performance of Swift code.
- Brisk
- macOS app for submitting radars.
- Corona Tracker
- Coronavirus tracker app for iOS & macOS with maps & charts.
- FilterShop
- macOS App to explore CoreImage Filters.
- Iconizer
- Create Xcode image catalogs (xcassets) on the fly.
- Iconology
- Edit icons and then export to Xcode, icns, ico, favicon, macOS iconset, or a custom collection.
- LayerX
- Intuitive app to display transparent images on screen.
- Localizable.strings
- Mac app to localize your iOS and macOS projects.
- Localization Editor
- Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side.
- Localizations
- Localizations is an macOS app that manages your Xcode project localization files (.strings).
- Notarize
- Notarization status monitoring tool for macOS, supporting multiple developer accounts
- PodsUpdater
- macOS app which helps you manage dependency releases in your Podfile.
- Resizr
- MacOS application for creating AppIcon for iOS and Android apps.
- Stringz
- TransporterPad
- iOS/Android app deployment tool for macOS.
- WWDC
- Unofficial WWDC app for macOS.
- WWDC.srt
- Powerful app for downloading subtitle for each WWDC session video since 2013 in (srt) format.
- Xcodes.app
- The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.
- calabash-launcher
- iOS Calabash Launcher is a macOS app that helps you run and manage Calabash tests on your Mac.
- Applite
- User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks.
- App Downloader
- Easily search and download macOS apps from the huge
homebrew caskapp catalog. - Get It
- Native macOS video/audio downloader. Think of it as a youtube downloader that works on many sites.
- YouTube Downloader for macOS
- Simple menu bar app to download YouTube movies on your Mac. I wrote this as a test project to learn more about app development on macOS.
- AuroraEditor
- Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS.
- Chime
- An editor for macOS
- CodeEdit
- CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.
- CommitEdit
- A native macOS commit message editor
- CSVEditor
- Used to open and edit CSV files.
- Nimble
- A lightweight local macOS editor, based on our favorite editors and integrated development environments.
- AuroraEditor
- CotEditor
- Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS.
- Noto
- Plain text editor for macOS with customizable themes.
- VimR
- Refined Neovim experience for macOS.
- BetterPiP
- Use native picture-in-picture with browsers such as Google Chrome for HTML5 videos.
- Is It Private?
- A Safari Extension providing a toolbar icon that changes its visual appearance if Private Browsing is enabled.
- PiPifier
- PiPifier is a native macOS 10.12 Safari extension that lets you use every HTML5 video in Picture in Picture mode.
- Privacy Redirect for Safari
- Sessions
- Safari extension to save your working sessions
- Swimat
- Swimat is an Xcode plug-in to format your Swift code.
- ThenGenerator
- Xcode Source Editor Extension for 'Then'
- Ultra TabSaver
- Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari
- nef
- This Xcode extension enables you to make a code selection and export it to a snippets. Available on Mac AppStore.
- Clipy
- Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS.
- RClick
- Config you MacOS ContextMenu items, useing Latest Swift and SwiftUI.
- Duplicate Finder
- It's a useful tool that would help you to find all duplicate files which have the same names in the specific folder.
- FiScript
- Execute custom scripts from the MacOS context menu (CTRL+click) in Finder.
- Finder Go
- macOS app and Finder Sync Extension to open Terminal, iTerm, Hyper from Finder.
- OpenInTerminal
- Finder Toolbar app for macOS to open the current directory in Terminal, iTerm, Hyper or Alacritty.
- Quick Symlink
- A Finder extension which provides a contextual menu item for the symbolic links (and other links) creation on macOS.
- SwiftyMenu
- The missing Finder menu for your daily ease
- Dynamic Dark Mode
- Dynamic Dark Mode is the app you are looking for to power up Dark Mode on macOS Mojave and beyond.
- OpenEmu
- Retro video game emulation for macOS
- PlayCover
- Run iOS apps and games on Apple Silicon Macs with mouse, keyboard and controller support.
- VirtualBuddy
- Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon. VirtualBuddy is a virtual machine GUI for macOS, supporting M1, M2, and M3 chips.
- CaptuocrToy
- Tool to capture screenshot and recognize text by online ocr apis.
- GifCapture
- Gif capture app for macOS.
- Gifski
- Convert videos to high-quality GIFs.
- InfiniteCanvas
- Proof of concept Mac drawing application.
- AuroraEditor
- CodeEdit
- APNGb
- macOS app which assembles and disassembles animated png files.
- Freehand
- macOS Status Bar App for quick sketch.
- Iconology
- PhotoMiner
- macOS app for finding and lost forgotten photos on your disks.
- Screenbar
- macOS menubar app for automating screenshots.
- AnnePro-mac
- macOS application for controlling AnnePro keyboard over bluetooth.
- Fluor
- Handy tool for macOS allowing you to switch Fn keys' mode based on active application.
- Kawa
- Better input source switcher for macOS.
- Thor
- Switch the right application ASAP.
- Unshaky
- A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard
- SimpleLogin
- Email Alias solution: protect your real email address.
- app-menu
- The missing Applications Menu for macOS
- DatWeatherDoe
- Simple menu bar weather app for macOS written in Swift.
- DisplayMenu
- Simple (bare-bones) macOS menubar extra to apply display presets.
- Dozer
- Hide MacOS menubar items.
- eul
- macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.
- Grayscale Mode
- Manage grayscale mode from menu bar.
- gSwitch
- macOS status bar app that allows control over the gpu on dual gpu macbooks.
- Hidden Bar
- An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons
- iGlance
- macOS System Monitor (cpu, memory, network, fan and battery) for the Status Bar.
- Ice
- Powerful menu bar manager for macOS
- KubeContext
- import, manage and switch between your Kubernetes contexts on Mac.
- LinkLiar
- Keep your MAC address random for privacy (intuitive GUI for ifconfig)
- Market Bar
- Tiny stocks watcher for the menu bar.
- MeetingBar
- Menu bar app for your calendar meetings
- MiniSim
- MacOS menu bar app for launching iOS and Android 🤖 emulators.
- Monitor Bar
- Monitor Bar app supports three modes, compact, normal, extra. It monitors battery, Disk, Memory, CPU, Network bandwidth, Wi-Fi.
- Night Shift Control
- Night Shift Control is a simple macOS menubar app for controlling Night Shift. It's aim is to bring features from f.lux which are missing from Night Shift such as disabling Night Shift for certain apps.
- Nocturnal
- Menu bar app featuring darker than dark dimming, Night Shift fine tuning, and the ability to turn off TouchBar on MacBook Pro.
- NoiseBuddy
- PSIBar
- Quickly hacked up PSI macOS status bar app.
- Pareto Security
- A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
- PlayStatus
- Pomosh
- Pomosh is your next awesome Pomodoro Technique assistant on macOS.
- Quickeys
- A mac menu bar app that provides note taking functionality though a quick dropdown menu.
- Shifty
- macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Night Shift.
- SlimHUD - Cyanocitta
- Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
- Stats
- macOS system monitor in your menu bar
- SwiftBar
- Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool.
- BarTranslate
- BarTranslate, a handy menu bar translator widget for macOS.
- Menubar Colors
- macOS app for convenient access to the system color panel.
- System Color Picker
- The macOS color picker as an app with more features.
- ChordDetector
- Tiny menu bar app that listens iTunes and Spotify to detect chords of songs!
- NoiseBuddy
- PlayStatus
- Plug
- YouTube-Music
- macOS wrapper for music.youtube.com.
- iTunes Graphs
- macOS app to visualise your iTunes library as graphs.
- lyricsify
- Simple Spotify lyrics viewer menu bar app for macOS in Swift.
- Diurna
- Basic/Classic Hacker News app, used as a Cocoa & Swift learning platform.
- NetNewsWire
- Feed reader for macOS.
- FSNotes
- Notes manager for macOS/iOS: modern notational velocity (nvALT) on steroids.
- Jupyter Notebook Viewer
- Notebook viewer for macOS.
- NoteTaker
- Simple note taking app for macOS and iOS which uses Realm and CloudKit for syncing.
- Notenik
- Note-taking app with many organizational options.
- Notes
- Notes is a macOS application built to create notes, using text amongst other formats: images, videos, contacts, and etc.
- tmpNote
- Very simple macOS app to make temporary notes.
- DevDocs for macOS
- An unofficial DevDocs API documentation viewer.
- Keyframes Player
- Simple macOS app to preview animations created with Facebook's keyframes framework.
- Letters
- Teach your kids the alphabet and how to type.
- QorumLogs
- Swift Logging Utility for Xcode & Google Docs.
- RktMachine
- Menu bar macOS app for running rkt in a macOS hypervisor CoreOS VM.
- SwiftyBeaver
- Convenient logging during development & release in Swift.
- macGist
- Simple app to send pasteboard items to GitHub's Gist.
- Doughnut
- Podcast player and library for mac
- PodcastMenu
- PodcastMenu is a simple app which puts Overcast on your Mac's menu bar so you can listen to your favorite podcasts while you work.
- Calculeta
- Calculator for macOS which working on statusbar.
- Impulso
- Yet another macOS Task Management App.
- KeyHolder
- Record shortcuts in macOS, like Alfred.app.
- Kiwix
- Kiwix for iOS and macOS, build on Swift.
- Layout Designer for UICollectionView
- Linked Ideas
- macOS application to write down and connect ideas.
- Maccy
- Lightweight search-as-you-type clipboard manager.
- MeetingBar
- PDF Archiver
- Nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks.
- Sessions
- Speed Reader
- Read faster with the power of silencing vocalization with SpeedReader.
- StickyNotes
- A Windows 10-esque Sticky Notes app implemented in AppKit.
- status-bar-todo
- Simple macOS app to keep TODO-list in status bar.
- ThenGenerator
- Timer
- Simple Timer app for Mac.
- TomatoBar
- Pomodoro Technique Timer for macOS with Touch Bar support.
- TrelloApp
- Unofficial wrapper application for Trello.com written in Swift. This is almost a "Hello World" for a site specific browser.
- Ultra TabSaver
- Yomu
- Manga reader app for macOS.
- macOrganizer
- macOS app for organizing files or removing unnecessary files.
- Aerial
- Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for macOS.
- Brooklyn
- Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018.
- Image-As-Wallpaper
- Utility application helps with selection of images for using as desktop wallpaper or in screensaver on Mac computers.
- Life Saver
- An abstract screensaver based on Conway's Game of Life implemented with SpriteKit
- MinimalClock
- Simple and elegant screensaver that displays the time.
- Predator
- A predator-inspired clock screensaver for macOS
- Pareto Security
- A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
- Privacy Redirect for Safari
- mac2imgur
- Simple Mac app designed to make uploading images and screenshots to Imgur quick and effortless.
- uPic
- A native, powerful, beautiful, and simple image and file upload tool for macOS.
- NearDrop
- An unofficial Google Nearby Share/Quick Share app for macOS.
- Leviathan
- Leviathan is a iOS and macOS client application for the Mastodon social network.
- Product Hunt
- share and discover your favorite new products and applications.
- RedditOS
- A SwiftUI Reddit client for macOS.
- Simpo
- macOS menubar app to post status quickly.
- Plug
- Apple Juice
- Advanced battery gauge for macOS.
- Clean-Me
- Small macOS app that acts as a system cleaner (logs, cache, ...).
- Americano
- Simple caffeinate wrapper stay at menu bar.
- Diagnostics
- Diagnostics is an application displaying the diagnostic reports from applications on macOS.
- Juice
- Make your battery information a bit more interesting.
- Latest
- Small utility app for macOS that makes sure you know about all the latest updates to the apps you use.
- Overkill
- Stop iTunes from opening when you connect your iPhone.
- SlimHUD - Cyanocitta
- Stats
- VerticalBar
- macOS application to add a vertical bar to Dock.
- eul
- Console
- macOS console application.
- Finder Go
- OpenInTerminal
- OpenTerminal
- App for macOS that opens a new Finder window and changes the current directory to the folder launched by the app.
- wallpapper
- wallpapper is a console application for creating dynamic wallpapers for Mojave.
- Muse
- Spotify controller with TouchBar support.
- MyTouchbarMyRules
- App to customize your Touch Bar as you want.
- Pock
- Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar.
- Touch Bar Preview
- Small application to display your designs on the Touch Bar of the new MacBook Pro.
- Touch Bar Simulator
- Use the Touch Bar on any Mac.
- Touch Emoji
- Emoji picker for MacBook Pro Touch Bar.
- Android tool for Mac
- One-click screenshots, video recordings, app installation for iOS and Android
- ArchiveMounter
- Mounts archives like disk images.
- Achico
- A minimal free macOS local file compressor app
- BetterDisplay
- Unlock your Mac's display! Flexible HiDPI scaling, PIP/streaming, EDID overrides, and more!
- Calculeta
- Catch
- Catch: Broadcatching made easy.
- CoreLocationCLI
- Get the physical location of your device and prints it to standard output
- CornerCal
- Simple, clean calendar and clock app for macOS.
- Copi
- A Secure Alternative to macOS Clipboard.
- DevUtils.app
- Developer Utilities for macOS, helps you with your tiny daily tasks with just a single click! i.e., JSON Formatter, UUID Generator...
- Duplicate Finder
- ECheck
- Small tool to validate epub files for macOS.
- Gray
- Pick between the light appearance and the dark appearance on a per-app basis with the click of a button
- Grayscale Mode
- Keka
- Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be.
- Kyapchar
- Simple screen and microphone audio recorder for macOS.
- Layout Designer for UICollectionView
- Lunar
- Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external displays.
- Maria
- macOS native app/widget for aria2 download tool.
- MeetingBar
- Meme Maker
- Meme Maker macOS application for meme creation.
- Monolingual
- Remove unnecessary language resources from macOS
- Mos
- Smooth your mouse's scrolling and reverse the mouse scroll direction
- Nocturnal
- NoiseBuddy
- Noti
- Receive Android notifications on your mac (with PushBullet).
- PercentCalculator
- A menu bar application that calculates percents.
- Plain Pasta
- Plaintextify your clipboard
- PlayStatus
- Quick Recorder - A lightweight and high-performance screen recorder for macOS
- Rugby
- 🏈 Cache CocoaPods for faster rebuild and indexing Xcode project.
- SlimHUD - Cyanocitta
- Stats
- Stringz
- ThenGenerator
- ToTheTop
- Small macOS application to help you scroll to the top.
- Ultra TabSaver
- eul
- mac-sound-fix
- Mac Sound Re-Enabler.
- wechsel
- manage bluetooth connections with your keyboard.
- ShadowsocksX-NG
- Next Generation of ShadowsocksX.
- Specht
- Rule-based proxy app built with Network Extension for macOS.
- SpechtLite
- Rule-based proxy app for macOS.
- clashX
- A rule based custom proxy with GUI for Mac base on clash.
- rvc-mac
- Ribose VPN Client macOS Menu App.
- Conferences.digital
- Best way to watch the latest and greatest videos from your favourite developer conferences for free on your Mac.
- Datamosh
- Datamosh your videos on macOS.
- Face Data
- macOS application used to auto-annotate landmarks from a video.
- Quick Caption
- Transcribe and generate caption files (SRT, ASS and FCPXML) without manually entering time codes.
- Vid Quiz Creator
- macOS application to insert quizzes within video playback and play those videos to receiving devices using the LISNR API.
- MarkerData
- The avant-garde Marker extraction application crafted for Final Cut Pro
- 500-mac-wallpaper
- Simple macOS app for the status bar to automatically download photos from 500px.com to a local folder that can be set as a source of wallpapers.
- Artify
- A macOS application for bringing dedicatedly 18th century Arts to everyone
- BingPaper
- Use Bing daily photo as your wallpaper on macOS.
- Muzei
- Muzei wallpaper app for macOS.
- Plash
- Sunscreen
- Sunscreen is a fun, lightweight application that changes your desktop wallpaper based on sunrise and sunset.
- Open Wallpaper Engine
- A powerful open source live wallpaper app for mac
- AeroSpace
- AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
- Amethyst
- Automatic tiling window manager for macOS.
- Desktop Profiles
- An innovative desktop/window manager for macOS
- Loop
- Window management made elegant.
- Rectangle
- Rectangle is a window manager heavily based on Spectacle, written in Swift.
- SwiftShift
- Sweet window management for macOS
- Topit
- Pin any window to the top of your screen
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