See every localhost server on your Mac and whether it actually answers. Open, stop or start any of them in one click.
- Developer tools
- Open source · MIT
- Free
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25 apps
Open a folder full of .md files as a table, a link map or Finder-style folders, and read any file in a clean reader.
- Productivity
- Developer tools
- Open source
- Free
A menu bar bell for Claude Code and Codex. When your agent is waiting for you, you hear it and see a big banner.
- Developer tools
- Menu bar
- Free
Paste a few tasks and get a checklist on the edge of your screen. Tick them off without leaving what you are doing.
- Productivity
- Free
Clean caches, uninstall apps with their leftovers, map your disk and watch live stats, all from one terminal command.
- Developer tools
- System & monitoring
- Open source · GPL-3.0
- ★ 69.5k
A modern video player built for macOS, with picture-in-picture, trackpad gestures and online subtitles.
- Audio & video
- Open source · GPL-3.0
- ★ 46.7k
CPU, GPU, memory, disk, network, battery and sensors, right in your menu bar.
- Menu bar
- System & monitoring
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 42.3k
Run Windows, Linux and other macOS versions in virtual machines on your Mac, built on QEMU.
- Developer tools
- System & monitoring
- Open source · Apache-2.0
- ★ 35.8k
Control the brightness and volume of external displays with your keyboard keys and the native on-screen display.
- Menu bar
- System & monitoring
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 34.4k
Move and resize windows with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas.
- Window management
- Open source
- ★ 30k
Hide, show and rearrange menu bar icons, so the notch stops eating your apps.
- Menu bar
- Open source · GPL-3.0
- ★ 29.8k
An i3-like tiling window manager for macOS, set up from one plain text config file.
- Window management
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 23.4k
A native, lightweight code editor written for macOS. Still in development, free to test-drive.
- Developer tools
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 23.1k
A powerful key remapper: turn Caps Lock into anything, build hyper keys and per-device layouts.
- Keyboard & mouse
- Open source · Unlicense
- ★ 22.9k
A lightweight clipboard history you open and search from the keyboard.
- Productivity
- Menu bar
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 21.8k
A virtual audio driver that passes sound from one app to another with zero added latency.
- Audio & video
- Open source
- ★ 19.9k
An open-source screen recorder that lives in your menu bar and exports GIF, MP4 and more.
- Menu bar
- Audio & video
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 19.4k
Per-app volume, auto-pause for your music when another sound plays, and system audio recording.
- Menu bar
- Audio & video
- Open source · GPL-2.0
- ★ 19.3k
Windows-style alt-tab on the Mac, with a preview of every open window.
- Window management
- Keyboard & mouse
- Open source · GPL-3.0
- ★ 16.4k
Automatic tiling window manager: windows arrange themselves as you open them.
- Window management
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 16.3k
Automate your Mac with Lua scripts: windows, hotkeys, Wi-Fi, USB, audio and much more.
- Productivity
- Keyboard & mouse
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 16.2k
Shows the keys you press on screen, made for demos, screencasts and teaching.
- Audio & video
- Keyboard & mouse
- Open source · BSD-3-Clause
- ★ 15.1k
Window management with a radial menu: hold a key, point, and the window snaps.
- Window management
- Open source · GPL-3.0
- ★ 11.7k
Fix mouse and trackpad scrolling, speed and buttons, per device.
- Keyboard & mouse
- Open source · MIT
- ★ 7k
Open-source picks are made by other developers. We do not make them and are not paid to list them. Stars from GitHub on 2026-10-07.
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