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signalapp/Signal-Desktop

A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Stack

TypeScript Electron React Tailwind CSS Vite npm pnpm

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-10
History: 12 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 877 open

16,474

stars

Forks: 3,093
Commits: 13,441 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ianyh/Amethyst

Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#mac #macos #window-manager #xmonad

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-14
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 287 open

16,214

stars

Forks: 527
Commits: 1,373 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Windows alt-tab on macOS

AI dev

Stack

Swift npm Pipenv

GitHub topics

#alt-tab #alttab #expose #macos #mission-control #task-switcher

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-27
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 71 open

16,162

stars

Forks: 823
Commits: 1,921 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Stack

Objective-C CocoaPods pip

GitHub topics

#automation #hammerspoon #irc #lua #macos #mjolnir

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-02
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 679 open

15,912

stars

Forks: 708
Commits: 6,938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

getlantern/lantern

Open-source VPN for speed, privacy, and censorship circumvention. Free to download on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Stack

Dart Android Flutter gRPC Go Shelf CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#accelerator #censorship #circumvention #gfw #lantern #router

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-02
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 46 open

15,865

stars

Forks: 11,063
Commits: 1,331 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cryptomator/cryptomator

Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#cloud-storage #crypto #cryptography #cryptomator #encryption #java

Updated: 2026-08-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-02
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 283 open

15,859

stars

Forks: 1,523
Commits: 6,505 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mobile-dev-inc/Maestro

Painless E2E Automation for Mobile and Web

AI dev

Stack

Kotlin Android Flutter React Tailwind CSS CocoaPods Dart Pub Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #blackbox-testing #ios #ui-automation

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-04-01
History: 88 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 497 open

15,412

stars

Forks: 928
Commits: 1,727 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +55 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +3 +0.2%

Website GitHub

transmission/transmission

Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Qt CMake Gradle npm

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2006-01-12
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 847 open

15,098

stars

Forks: 1,429
Commits: 16,902 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

keycastr/keycastr

KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer

Stack

Objective-C

Updated: 2026-05-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-02-19
History: 12 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 96 open

15,022

stars

Forks: 575
Commits: 354 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zotero/zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript React npm

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-02-21
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,591 open

14,972

stars

Forks: 1,091
Commits: 16,697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

musescore/MuseScore

MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake npm PDM

GitHub topics

#cpp #musescore #music-notation #musicxml #qt #sfz

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-05-24
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4,092 open

14,963

stars

Forks: 3,258
Commits: 48,674 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mltframework/shotcut

cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #gplv3 #mlt #shotcut #video-editor

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-22
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 54 open

14,888

stars

Forks: 1,466
Commits: 7,286 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

electerm/electerm

📻Terminal/ssh/sftp/ftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice client(Linux, Mac, Windows, Android)

Stack

JavaScript Electron Express React Vite npm

GitHub topics

#ai #android #electerm #electron #file-manager #ftp

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-07
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 321 open

14,656

stars

Forks: 1,174
Commits: 3,562 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

textmate/textmate

TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later

Stack

Objective-C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cocoa #macos #objective-c-plus-plus #texteditor #textmate

Updated: 2024-05-18
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-09
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

14,576

stars

Forks: 1,758
Commits: 5,757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dwarvesf/hidden

An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#macos #swift #utilities

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-12
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 99 open

14,535

stars

Forks: 448
Commits: 115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hrydgard/ppsspp

A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulators #ppsspp #psp

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-24
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,365 open

14,258

stars

Forks: 2,584
Commits: 47,052 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alienator88/Pearcleaner

A free, source-available and fair-code licensed mac app cleaner

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-11-13
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 80 open

14,257

stars

Forks: 361
Commits: 1,007 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tisfeng/Easydict

一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用，支持离线 OCR 识别，支持有道词典，🍎 苹果系统词典，🍎 苹果系统翻译，OpenAI，Gemini，DeepL，Google，Bing，腾讯，百度，阿里，小牛，彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text.

AI dev

Stack

Swift Bundler CocoaPods npm

GitHub topics

#app #baidu #bing #deepl #dictionary #gemini

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-10-30
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 169 open

14,220

stars

Forks: 719
Commits: 4,103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui

Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed.

Stack

JavaScript Electron Vue npm pip

GitHub topics

#electron-app #macos #stable-diffusion

Updated: 2024-10-30
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-09-06
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 402 open

13,582

stars

Forks: 727
Commits: 277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

qemu/qemu

Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

Stack

C pytest Cargo Meson pip

GitHub topics

#emulation #qemu #virtualization

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

13,579

stars

Forks: 7,081
Commits: 131,961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Zettlr/Zettlr

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

Stack

TypeScript Electron Vue Yarn

GitHub topics

#desktop #docx #electron #html #languages #libreoffice

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-26
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 509 open

13,385

stars

Forks: 827
Commits: 9,268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

objective-see/LuLu

LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall

Stack

Objective-C

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-09-10
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 524 open

13,035

stars

Forks: 590
Commits: 605 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

keeweb/keeweb

Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass

Stack

HTML Electron npm

GitHub topics

#electron #javascript #keepass #keeweb #password #password-manager

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-17
History: 13 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 441 open

12,978

stars

Forks: 1,155
Commits: 3,925 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

darktable-org/darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

Stack

C CMake npm

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-07
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 623 open

12,910

stars

Forks: 1,399
Commits: 46,790 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vnotex/vnote

A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#editor #markdown #mathjax #note #note-taking #uml

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 8 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 535 open

12,895

stars

Forks: 1,297
Commits: 3,215 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

codexu/note-gen

Capture first. Organize later. A local-first Markdown app that turns scattered records into clear notes with AI.

Stack

TypeScript Android Axum Next.js React Cargo Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#agent #ai-notes #knowledge-base #knowledge-management #llm #local-first

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2024-08-06
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 121 open

12,651

stars

Forks: 949
Commits: 1,717 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

marp-team/marp

The entrance repository of Markdown presentation ecosystem

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tailwind CSS npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#deck #markdown #marp #presentation #slides

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-25
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

12,336

stars

Forks: 292
Commits: 510 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

illacloud/illa-builder

Low-code platform allows you to build business apps, enables you to quickly create internal tools such as dashboard, crud app, admin panel, crm, cms, etc. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, Supabase, GraphQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, Rest API, Hugging Face, Redis, etc. Automate workflows with schedule or webhook. Open source Retool.

Stack

TypeScript React Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#aiagent #app-builder #crud-application #developer-tool #developer-tools #gui

Updated: 2026-05-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-04-18
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 43 open

12,311

stars

Forks: 1,205
Commits: 10,580 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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FelixKratz/SketchyBar

A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement

Stack

GitHub topics

#bar #customization #darwin #macos #ricing #shell-scripts

Updated: 2026-06-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-29
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 73 open

12,190

stars

Forks: 175
Commits: 1,099 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hluk/CopyQ

Clipboard manager with advanced features

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#clipboard #clipboard-manager #copyq #cross-platform #scripting #tray

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-10-21
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 404 open

12,107

stars

Forks: 583
Commits: 6,886 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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