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kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-utility #cpp #macos #objective-c

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-19
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 539 open

19,227

stars

Forks: 775
Commits: 461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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OpenEmu/OpenEmu

🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #macos #objective-c #openemu #retrogaming

Updated: 2025-10-22
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2009-01-14
History: 14 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 422 open

17,726

stars

Forks: 1,354
Commits: 7,411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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

organicmaps/organicmaps

🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for more than 6M travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #app #cpp #cyclists #hacktoberfest #hikers

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-12-05
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,457 open

15,197

stars

Forks: 1,551
Commits: 44,755 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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CocoaPods/CocoaPods

The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

Stack

Ruby Bundler CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#cocoapods #dependency-manager #ios #mac #objective-c #package-manager

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-12
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 835 open

14,832

stars

Forks: 2,686
Commits: 10,449 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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halfrost/Halfrost-Field

✍🏻 Source Code Deep Dives, System Design & Engineering Blogs | Halfrost-Field 冰霜之地：源码解析、系统设计与工程实践笔记

Stack

Go CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#algorithms #blog #cryptography #go #golang #http2

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-02
History: 1 history point
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 0 open

13,229

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Forks: 1,875
Commits: 1,067 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MacDownApp/macdown

Open source Markdown editor for macOS.

Stack

Rich Text Format Bundler CocoaPods npm

GitHub topics

#cocoa #macos #markdown #markdown-converter #markdown-convertor #markdown-editor

Updated: 2023-07-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-06-08
History: 12 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 571 open

9,813

stars

Forks: 1,164
Commits: 1,111 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sequelpro/sequelpro

MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#macos #mysql #objective-c #sequelpro

Updated: 2023-02-25
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-04
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 530 open

9,197

stars

Forks: 837
Commits: 4,683 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sveinbjornt/Sloth

Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#directories #domain-sockets #filter #gui #ip-sockets #lsof

Updated: 2026-05-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-03-28
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 3 open

8,930

stars

Forks: 174
Commits: 399 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace

MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS

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Stack

Objective-C Bundler Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #macos #mariadb #mysql #objective-c #sequel

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-04
History: 13 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 180 open

7,533

stars

Forks: 336
Commits: 10,435 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

qvacua/vimr

VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift

Stack

Swift pip Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#cocoa #macos #neovim #neovim-clients #neovim-experience #neovim-guis

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-06-03
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 314 open

6,980

stars

Forks: 232
Commits: 4,906 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MacPass/MacPass

A native macOS KeePass client

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#autotype #kdbx #keepass #macos #macpass #objective-c

Updated: 2025-05-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-07-19
History: 13 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 293 open

6,853

stars

Forks: 470
Commits: 2,669 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

Prevents your Mac from going to sleep.

Stack

Objective-C Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#caffeine #macos #menubar #objective-c #utility

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-19
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

6,829

stars

Forks: 263
Commits: 703 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Provenance-Emu/Provenance

iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |

AI dev

Stack

C Bundler Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#atari #catalyst #emulation #emulator #game #gameboy

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 247 open

6,364

stars

Forks: 704
Commits: 10,084 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mapbox/mapbox-gl-native

Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL

Archived

Stack

C++ Android Express CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #geojson #ios #java #macos

Updated: 2023-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 312 open

4,453

stars

Forks: 1,322
Commits: 15,978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

syncthing/syncthing-macos

Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle

Stack

Objective-C Go modules Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#apple #backup #cloud-sync #file-sharing #file-sync #frugal

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-12
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

3,880

stars

Forks: 200
Commits: 325 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sveinbjornt/Platypus

Create native macOS applications from command line scripts.

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#application #cocoa #command-line-app #gui-application #macos #macos-app

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-28
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 34 open

3,438

stars

Forks: 197
Commits: 1,346 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

insidegui/AssetCatalogTinkerer

An app that lets you open .car files and browse/extract their images.

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#asset-catalog #developer-tools #ios #macos #objective-c #quicklook

Updated: 2026-04-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-04
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: Disabled

2,862

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 125 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mmattozzi/cocoa-rest-client

A free, native Apple macOS app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints

Stack

Objective-C CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#cocoa #macos #objective-c #osx #rest

Updated: 2024-10-14
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-03-02
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 44 open

2,368

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 403 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Alinto/sogo

SOGo is a very fast and scalable modern collaboration suite (groupware). It offers calendaring, address book management, and a full-featured Webmail client along with resource sharing and permission handling. It also makes use of documented standards (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, etc.) and thereby provides native connectivity (without plugins) to many clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, the iPhone, Mozilla Lightning, and a plethora of mobile devices.

Stack

Objective-C npm

GitHub topics

#angularjs-material #groupware #objective-c #sogo

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-15
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,141

stars

Forks: 313
Commits: 17,602 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ChristianKienle/Core-Data-Editor

Core Data Editor lets you easily view, edit and analyze applications‘ data. Core Data Editor is compatible with Mac and iOS applications and supports XML, SQLite and binary stores, visualizes all relationships and is able to edit the data and generate Objective-C code for the data model.

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#coredata #objective-c #objective-c-library

Updated: 2021-08-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-30
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 9 open

2,131

stars

Forks: 180
Commits: 162 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cossacklabs/themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.

Stack

C Android Express React React Native Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#asymmetric-cryptography #authentication #cryptography #cryptography-library #encryption #golang

Updated: 2026-04-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-13
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,973

stars

Forks: 159
Commits: 1,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef

DeaDBeeF Player

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #cross-platform #customizable-ui #linux-app #mac-app

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-07-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 378 open

1,962

stars

Forks: 208
Commits: 12,100 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

toggl-open-source/toggldesktop

Toggl Desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux

Archived

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#desktop #linux #macos #objective-c #poco #qt

Updated: 2023-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-06
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: Disabled

1,870

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 10,714 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

niw/HapticKey

A simple utility application to trigger haptic feedback when tapping Touch Bar.

Stack

Objective-C Bundler

GitHub topics

#macos #objective-c #touchbar

Updated: 2025-06-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-04
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

1,671

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

strongbox-password-safe/Strongbox

A KeePass/Password Safe Client for iOS and OS X

Stack

Objective-C Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#cocoa #cryptography #ios #objective-c #osx #password

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-07-16
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 227 open

1,451

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 435 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

subethaedit/SubEthaEdit

General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#appkit #cocoa #code #collaboration #collaborative-editing #creative-writing

Updated: 2025-11-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2003-09-16
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 92 open

1,430

stars

Forks: 115
Commits: 5,832 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Eun/DisableMonitor

Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac.

Archived

GitHub topics

#monitor #objective-c #osx #resolution #screen

Updated: 2018-01-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-12
History: 10 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 55 open

1,368

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 4 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AuroraEditor/AuroraEditor

Aurora Editor is a IDE built by the community, for the community, and written in Swift for the best native performance and feel for macOS.

Archived

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#aeide #aurora #aurora-editor #auroraeditor #cocoa #code

Updated: 2025-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-10
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

1,335

stars

Forks: 97
Commits: 3,366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dsward2/macSVG

macSVG - An open-source macOS app for designing HTML5 SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) art and animation with a WebKit web view ➤➤➤

Stack

Objective-C CocoaPods Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#animation #arkansas #bezier #editor #graphics #html5

Updated: 2022-07-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-09-15
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 22 open

1,290

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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