Awesome open-source Swift macOS Apps

A curated collection of open-source macOS applications built with Swift

✦ My macOS/iOS application ✦

Audio

• 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.

Backup

• Syncalicious - Keeping multiple macOS preferences in sync can be painful, but it shouldn't be.

Browser

• 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.

Chat

• 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.

Cryptocurrency

• 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.

Database

• 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.

Development

• 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.

Git

• 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 Parsing

• 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).

Other Development

• ChefInspector - Node and Attribute viewer for Chef

Web Development

• 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.

iOS / macOS

• 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 - A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications.
• 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.

Downloader

• Applite - User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks.
• App Downloader - Easily search and download macOS apps from the huge homebrew cask app 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.

Editors

• 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.
• Nimble - A lightweight local macOS editor, based on our favorite editors and integrated development environments.

Markdown

• Notenik - Note-taking app with many organizational options.
• Pine - A modern MacOS markdown editor.

Text

• AuroraEditor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS.
• CotEditor - Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS.
• Noto - Plain text editor for macOS with customizable themes.
• VimR - Refined Neovim experience for macOS.

Extensions

• 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 - Redirect Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Translate to privacy friendly alternatives.
• 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.

Finder

• Clipy - Clipy is a Clipboard extension app for macOS.
• 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

Games

• 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.

Graphics

• 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.

IDE

• AuroraEditor - Lightweight Code Editor (IDE) for macOS.
• CodeEdit - CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.

Images

• APNGb - macOS app which assembles and disassembles animated png files.
• Freehand - macOS Status Bar App for quick sketch.
• Iconology - Edit icons and then export to Xcode, icns, ico, favicon, macOS iconset, or a custom collection.
• PhotoMiner - macOS app for finding and lost forgotten photos on your disks.
• Screenbar - macOS menubar app for automating screenshots.

Keyboard

• 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

Mail

• SimpleLogin - Email Alias solution: protect your real email address.

Menubar

• 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 - Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
• PSIBar - Quickly hacked up PSI macOS status bar app.
• Pareto Security - A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
• 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.

Color Picker

• 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.

Music

• ChordDetector - Tiny menu bar app that listens iTunes and Spotify to detect chords of songs!
• 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.
• 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.

News

• Diurna - Basic/Classic Hacker News app, used as a Cocoa & Swift learning platform.
• NetNewsWire - Feed reader for macOS.

Notes

• 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.

Other

• 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.

Player

• IINA - The modern video player for macOS.
• Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.

Podcast

• 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.

Productivity

• Calculeta - Calculator for macOS which working on statusbar.
• KeyHolder - Record shortcuts in macOS, like Alfred.app.
• Kiwix - Kiwix for iOS and macOS, build on Swift.
• Layout Designer for UICollectionView - A simple but powerful tool that helps you make complex layouts for UICollectionView.
• Linked Ideas - macOS application to write down and connect ideas.
• Maccy - Lightweight search-as-you-type clipboard manager.
• MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings
• PDF Archiver - Nice tool for tagging and archiving tasks.
• Sessions - Safari extension to save your working sessions
• Speed Reader - Read faster with the power of silencing vocalization with SpeedReader.
• StickyNotes - A Windows 10-esque Sticky Notes app implemented in AppKit.
• ThenGenerator - Xcode Source Editor Extension for 'Then'
• 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 - Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari
• Yomu - Manga reader app for macOS.
• macOrganizer - macOS app for organizing files or removing unnecessary files.
• status-bar-todo - Simple macOS app to keep TODO-list in status bar.

Screensaver

• 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

Security

• Pareto Security - A MenuBar app to automatically audit your Mac for basic security hygiene.
• Privacy Redirect for Safari - Redirect Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, Google Maps, Google Search, and Google Translate to privacy friendly alternatives.

Sharing Files

• 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.

Social Networking

• 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.

Streaming

• Plug - Discover and listen to music from Hype Machine.

System

• 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 - Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
• Stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar
• VerticalBar - macOS application to add a vertical bar to Dock.
• eul - macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.

Terminal

• Console - macOS console application.
• 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.
• 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.

Touch Bar

• 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.

Utilities

• Android tool for Mac - One-click screenshots, video recordings, app installation for iOS and Android
• ArchiveMounter - Mounts archives like disk images.
• Calculeta - Calculator for macOS which working on statusbar.
• 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 - It's a useful tool that would help you to find all duplicate files which have the same names in the specific folder.
• 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 - Manage grayscale mode from menu bar.
• 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 - A simple but powerful tool that helps you make complex layouts for UICollectionView.
• Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external displays.
• Maria - macOS native app/widget for aria2 download tool.
• MeetingBar - Menu bar app for your calendar meetings
• 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 - Menu bar app featuring darker than dark dimming, Night Shift fine tuning, and the ability to turn off TouchBar on MacBook Pro.
• NoiseBuddy - Control the listening mode on your AirPods Pro in the Touch Bar or Menu Bar.
• Noti - Receive Android notifications on your mac (with PushBullet).
• PercentCalculator - A menu bar application that calculates percents.
• Plain Pasta - Plaintextify your clipboard
• PlayStatus - PlayStatus is a macOS app that allows the control of Spotify and iTunes music playback from the menu bar.
• Quick Recorder - A lightweight and high-performance screen recorder for macOS
• Rugby - 🏈 Cache CocoaPods for faster rebuild and indexing Xcode project.
• SlimHUD - Cyanocitta - Replacement for MacOS' volume, brightness and keyboard backlight HUDs.
• Stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar
• Stringz - A lightweight and powerful editor for localizing iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS applications.
• ThenGenerator - Xcode Source Editor Extension for 'Then'
• ToTheTop - Small macOS application to help you scroll to the top.
• Ultra TabSaver - Ultra TabSaver is an open-source Tab Manager for Safari
• eul - macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.
• mac-sound-fix - Mac Sound Re-Enabler.
• wechsel - manage bluetooth connections with your keyboard.

VPN & Proxy

• 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.

Video

• 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.

Wallpaper

• 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 - Make any website your desktop wallpaper.
• 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

Window Management

• 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.

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