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Top 23 Swift macos-app Projects
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MonitorControl
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
Project mention: Show HN: OS layer for running multiple Codex agents in parallel | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-19I recommend adding an installable executable. It seems like you are expecting people to clone your repo and then run it locally?
Take a look at Monitor Control how they structured their GitHub Readme and release page to download a dmg https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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I have been using Loop(https://github.com/MrKai77/Loop) after trying some of the alternatives listed here and wanted to post that as it was not mentioned. It is something that solves what I was looking for in window management on macos and just putting it out here :).
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- Project mention: Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-24
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Stream
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- Project mention: VoiceInk: iOS App – AI Dictation Free During Beta OSS | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-29
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DevHub
A feature-rich offline application, is meticulously crafted to support developers in their daily tasks while ensuring the utmost security of their data (by jaywcjlove)
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iOSLocalizationEditor
Simple macOS editor app to help you manage iOS and macOS app localizations by allowing you to edit all the translations side by side
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I solved it by putting a "How to install.rtf" file alongside the program.
Another alternative would be to bundle this app: https://github.com/alienator88/Sentinel
It allows to easily unlock it by drag'n'drop.
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There's also the Petrichor player, under development:
https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor
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Mythic
An open-source macOS game launcher with the ability to play Windows games through a custom implementation of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit — supporting multiple platforms. (by MythicApp)
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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VoiceInk
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Index
What are some of the best open-source macos-app projects in Swift? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | MonitorControl | 31,916 |
| 2 | Ice | 24,800 |
| 3 | Loop | 9,693 |
| 4 | Gifski | 8,249 |
| 5 | CotEditor | 7,416 |
| 6 | Applite | 6,032 |
| 7 | LyricsX | 5,074 |
| 8 | Cork | 3,939 |
| 9 | Plash | 3,897 |
| 10 | uPic | 3,675 |
| 11 | Actions | 2,920 |
| 12 | VoiceInk | 2,856 |
| 13 | KeyboardCowboy | 1,984 |
| 14 | DevHub | 1,960 |
| 15 | iOSLocalizationEditor | 1,487 |
| 16 | System-Color-Picker | 1,375 |
| 17 | iina-plus | 1,302 |
| 18 | Sentinel | 1,296 |
| 19 | Petrichor | 1,147 |
| 20 | Mythic | 1,064 |
| 21 | Pasteboard-Viewer | 803 |
| 22 | Harbour | 707 |
| 23 | ChatGPTSwiftUI | 683 |