#macOS
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2026-09-24
SewCabinSpout/cleanupper
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🧹 Free, open-source macOS disk cleanup CLI. Scan & safely remove caches, logs, Xcode DerivedData, npm/Homebrew/pip junk and stale node_modules from your terminal. Trash-first, zero telemetry the terminal-native CleanMyMac alternative.
2026-09-03
hebertporto/appstore-forge
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Turn raw app screenshots into store-ready App Store and Google Play assets. A local Mac app — no account, no upload, no server.
2026-09-02
Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
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I built slotstream, a way to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit on a low-memory mac starting from 16GB, a 125B parameter model that would need 100GB+ memory/RAM, thanks to expert-offloading/ssd-streaming. Easy to install/update, and mac-native using MLX and Swift. It ships with auto-mode, which makes a good tradeoff between memory usage and speed. I'll be implementing and porting the MTP module for speculative decoding next
2026-10-10
franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
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Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click-through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code and Codex. MIT.
2026-10-05
allenv0/SCM
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Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS
2026-10-08
ostiums/fixkit
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Long press any element of your iOS app in the simulator, say what is wrong, and the report lands in your Claude Code session
2026-10-09
Pama-Lee/MacMiniMode
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Keep a plugged-in MacBook awake with the lid closed: clamshell mode without an external display, auto-off on battery. 让 MacBook 合盖不休眠，当 Mac mini 用。
2026-10-13
Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p
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Hi HN! I'm Saarth. I'm in 9th grade, and I built Atticus. Atticus is a fast and cheap Mac assistant that can do tasks for you. You hold down Control-Option-Space, speak or type your task, be it complex or a simple browser search, and Atticus will get on it. The interesting part is that simple tasks, like opening apps, playing a Spotify playlist, or web queries, don't touch AI, and instead are processed locally and typically finish in under a second. For example, prompting Atticus to open apps takes around 0.08 seconds, sometimes even finishing before you finish your sentence, sort of like Jev. Any tasks that are more complicated will be sent to Claude via claude -p, meaning you never need an API key and Atticus will run on your existing Claude Pro or Max plan. By using this approach, costs are also cut down immensely, with, on average, tasks costing a fraction of a cent. To achieve Atticus' speed, it remembers shortcuts from each task it completes. When it does a task right for the first time, it saves its steps and replays them the next time without AI. For example, a workflow of creating a new meeting took about 30 seconds the first time around. Atticus then logs the exact steps to memory and takes 5-8 seconds on the next pass. To add to this, Atticus also learns about you as you use it more and from what's on your computer, including your name, your apps, and things you want it to remember, personalizing its answers to you. To combat the safety concerns over giving an AI unrestricted access to your device, Atticus has toggleable restrictions, so before anything is deleted, sent, bought, or written to a file, the user is prompted before that action. Some features I'm currently working on include a meeting copilot that capitalizes on Atticus' speed, allowing Atticus to listen in on meetings and answer questions in real time as they come in, personalized to the context of the meeting and what it knows about you. To run Atticus, macOS 26 or higher is required for its voice transcription features. The voice transcription is also done locally by macOS. Atticus is free, open source, and also very fresh, and I'm completely aware of its many rough edges, which is why I'd love to hear from everyone about what breaks and what you guys would like to see Atticus do!
2026-11-05
adrbn/bo2-mac
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II statically recompiled from 32-bit x86 Windows to native ARM64 macOS: Remill → LLVM IR, a hand-written Win32 runtime, Direct3D 11 drawn by Metal. No Wine, no game files.
2026-10-23
rolottr/bambu-bar
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Native macOS menu bar app for Bambu Lab 3D printers. Live progress, time left, temperatures, AMS spools and errors, print controls, several printers and desktop widgets. Local network, no account or cloud.
2026-10-13
lewispour/pulse-proxy-checker
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⚡ Fast local proxy checker for HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS4/SOCKS5 — live results with country, quality & risk, offline GeoIP, saved pools. Free & open-source (Tauri + Rust). macOS & Windows.
2026-10-11
nikgrbn/finder-menu
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Right-click menu for macOS Finder: New File, Open Terminal Here, Copy Path, Go to Parent Folder
2026-08-30
semihtalii/brink
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Know when you're on the brink — Claude Code, Codex & Cursor usage limits on the edge of your Mac or Windows screen
2026-08-28
jprx/darwin-vm
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Run iOS/ macOS in Qemu. Virtual iPhone 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12 and M5-M1 Apple Si Macs supported.
2026-11-04
tmcleroy/soulcalibur2-recomp
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Soulcalibur II (Xbox) as a native port for macOS, Linux/Steam Deck and Windows, with Link and Heihachi from your own discs
2026-11-03
Awis13/liberty-pro-max
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GTA IV (PC 1.0.8.0) statically recompiled for Apple silicon Macs: Metal renderer, TAA, Game Mode, ~100 FusionFix/ZolikaPatch fixes. Build it from your own copy; no game data included.
2026-10-28
onurozcan/omux
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Native macOS terminal for running multiple Claude Code sessions side by side. AI coding agent manager with projects, live agent status, resumable conversations and file previews. Built with SwiftUI.
2026-10-15
R44VC0RP/isocast
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OBS-style recorder for macOS: scenes, per-source ISO recording, streaming, and full control from a CLI and MCP.
2026-10-10
zeusinsight/FinderSearch
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A native macOS file browser with fast fuzzy filename search, powered by fsearch.
2026-09-07
alchaincyf/huashu-mac-use
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让任何 agent 操控 Mac 上没有 API 的原生 app，读后台、写不打扰、每步留取证 · Agent Skill for macOS computer use
2026-09-07
xzf-thu/BreezeTTS2_Mac_Streaming
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Real-time Breeze-TTS-2 streaming on Apple Silicon — RTF from ~4 down to ~1. mlx-audio 0.5.1's depth decoder recomputes each frame's existing acoustic codes instead of reusing its KV cache. Adds intra-frame KV reuse, one CPU read-back per frame, an optional compiled whole-frame path, and RTF/underflow stats.
2026-11-09
fich-l/headroom
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Use the full brightness of your MacBook Pro's XDR display, everywhere. Free, open-source alternative to Vivid.
2026-11-09
kunchenguid/headless
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Agent skill that sets up a headless Mac, Linux or Windows machine over SSH, step by step, without ever seeing the admin password.
2026-09-30
alpcanaydin/tusk
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A fast, native, keyboard-driven database client for macOS. 20 databases, an AI assistant that shows its work, free and open source.
2026-09-23
FluidInference/FluidUse
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Local computer use on Apple silicon: on-device typed decisions with laya and form filling with CUA-S1-FORMS, driven through the macOS Accessibility API
2026-11-02
rejig-app/rejig
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Mac app for arranging your iPhone Home Screen over Wi-Fi or USB, with a change list, backups and readback.
2026-10-28
kanapitsas/portal2-recomp
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Portal 2 statically recompiled from its Linux x86 binaries to native ARM64: playable on macOS and iPhone. Bring your own copy of the game.
2026-10-24
Snapintosh/Snapintosh
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EL2 hypervisor and toolchain that boots macOS on the ASUS A16 (Snapdragon X2 Elite), with an Adreno Metal/IOGPU stack
2026-10-23
dancik/limitbar
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AI coding limits in the macOS menu bar — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini (Antigravity), Grok. Never touches your credentials.
2026-10-16
midagedev/mwoyeo
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Live, in-place screen translation for macOS — a lens that rewrites the text under it in your language, on-device.
2026-10-12
glovebox-vr/glovebox
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Play your own copy of Half-Life: Alyx on Apple Vision Pro, built on your Mac
2026-10-09
finnvoor/PiDurableKit
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Durable AI agents for Apple platforms: pi-durable on JavaScriptCore with a Swift API
2026-10-09
opennookorg/betterwispr
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Free, open-source, local-first dictation app for macOS. Hold a shortcut, speak, and text is typed into any app. On-device speech-to-text with Whisper, Parakeet and Apple speech. Private, offline, open-source Wispr Flow alternative.
2026-10-04
Almosst-DEV/Navi48-MacOS
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Proof-of-concept native macOS support for the AMD RX 9070 XT (Navi 48): bring-up kext, RADV Darwin port, Metal-on-Vulkan bundle
2026-09-27
fr3on/portkill
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Native macOS menu bar app that lists local listening ports, shows which project owns them, and stops them in one click.
2026-09-15
jsawyerdev/knowledgec-privacy-audit
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See what macOS's hidden knowledgeC.db activity log has recorded about you, and clear it. Zero dependencies.
2026-09-15
Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band
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a couple hours ago i had astra take on a 10 month old repo of mine https://github.com/callbacked/neural-band-poc/ that involved finding a way to use the meta neural band independently from the glasses to read the sEMG data off of it. i really think it is a cool piece of technology that largely gets overlooked by the glasses, and always thought it was a shame it couldn't be used outside of its main application. after making quick work of that, i wanted to use it to control my mac using gesture controls and that's how kinesis was born. it has been very cool being able to swipe from desktops using my fingers, swiping up to open up mission control or controlling a virtual knob to adjust my volume. i definitely havent scratched the surface with the neural band but it has been a really fun endeavor thus far! i really hope others can find creative uses for their neural bands too :) note: i really hope this works on other bands because the sample size has just been me so far.
2026-10-30
johncassil/dontallow
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Auto-dismiss the macOS 'Allow X to find devices on local networks?' prompt. Presses Don't Allow for you, zero CPU idle, survives reboots.
2026-10-25
semsturgut/open-iphone-use
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Give AI agents a real iPhone through macOS Bluetooth HID, local screen sharing, and MCP.
2026-10-24
Xinge2333/codex-quota-bar
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macOS Codex quota menu bar with an optional desktop overlay. 中文 / English guides.
2026-10-23
Acelogic/Snapintosh
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EL2 hypervisor and toolchain that boots macOS on the ASUS A16 (Snapdragon X2 Elite), with an Adreno Metal/IOGPU stack
2026-10-09
noahdunnagan/fsearch
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Whole-disk file search for macOS: fuzzy names, typo tolerance, indexed content grep. ~1 ms over 8M files.
2026-10-08
nullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver
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Metal driver for NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards on macOS 15 Sequoia (Intel / OpenCore). Free, source included.
2026-10-02
Show HN: Breadcrumb, record everything on your mac + context manager for AI
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Hi HN, I'm Justin. Breadcrumb records everything you do on your Mac (screen + meetings + AI transcripts + what you and your AI decided) and turns it into memory your AI can search. It's local and encrypted. You can also teach it rules by talking to it and it makes sure the right rules turn up in the right context. Works with Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / opencode. All of this is exposed to your AI as 30+ MCP tools (here's the definitions): https://innerloop.works/breadcrumb/mcp I started it in June because I wanted to understand what was going on with my AI dev work. Then it just kept growing as I jammed on it 10 hours a day for 3 months. I started by recording every screen so I could jump back to a moment and see what I'd been doing with the AI. Then I added MCP so the AI could search it. Then time tracking. Then meetings with transcripts and timestamped screenshots. After that I started feeding the data back in. At first it was just a few relevant memories in the prompt. Then I started adding rules and rules modules. Then I started recording the AI transcripts and all the other stuff the AI did (subagents, tools etc). I wanted a complete record so I could go back and see what the AI did and why. I found the more data the AI had the more useful it became. One example. I got off a zoom call with the team at the day job and said: "Review the meeting I just had, find all the bugs we discussed, and create JIRA tickets with screenshots." It read the transcript. Found every bug we mentioned, pulled the screens from the screen timeline, spun up my local server, diagnosed each bug, reviewed the code, created 14 tickets in JIRA with diagnosis and likely fixes, attached 12 screenshots as evidence, and created a nice Slack message to send to my colleagues. I never built a workflow for any of that. Claude had the meeting record, Breadcrumb tools, and rules I'd accumulated. It basically chained the steps together itself. My favorite thing about the system is observability of my own work as an AI developer. I can trace a bug all the way back to the first thing I said (or the first thing the AI did) that caused it. Then I can add a rule so it doesn't happen again. Anyway, my working system is simply Claude Desktop + Breadcrumb + Markdown. I find I don't need anything else. It's local software for one person. Local models for transcription and diarization. Data encrypted with SQLCipher and a passphrase. You can exclude any apps, websites, words and phrases. Breadcrumb itself only makes one network call which is a daily update check. (but of course your AI will use it and that is local or cloud depending on what you use). It runs cool about 12% of one core on average (M series mac has 8+). You can set it to just save OCR text or to save screenshots. If just OCR it's about 12mb day (a lot of telemetry, indexing etc). If you record screenshots on meetings it's about 120mb/hour (1 every 2 secs). It can also record screenshots of everything that's heavy at about 160mb/day. It does local classification/naming with ollama with Gemma 3 4B (2.5 GB). It's 100% free. There's no account you can just download and start using it. I'll monetize it via E2EE cloud sync and team sync. It's open beta. Just one developer working on it. Requires 16GB+ M Series Mac. Thanks for reading! https://innerloop.works/breadcrumb (homepage) https://innerloop.works/breadcrumb/download (direct download) https://innerloop.works/breadcrumb/mcp (mcp definition)
2026-09-28
kalkman-code/beamer
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One keyboard and mouse for a Mac and a Windows PC over the local network, in either direction.
2026-09-28
pch/rawmakase
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Free Lightroom alternative for Linux and macOS (possibly Windows too - not tested)
2026-09-24
saragordic/rooms
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Switch between projects on your Mac. Every project is a room: its windows, laid out, one shortcut away.
2026-09-03
Show HN: I built a version of Omarchy that runs on Apple Silicon
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I wanted to try out Omarchy before doing a full install, but I only have an M series MacBook so I would have to find a laptop and there's no official M support yet. So I decided to create something that allows people to test and run Omarchy on their devices so they can understand how it feels. So I built an app that allows you to run Omarchy Quattro as a native, hardware-accelerated app on your Apple Silicon Mac! It uses QEMU and Apple's HVF, a custom built Omarchy ARM image, a swift app enclosing it, and custom patches on Omarchy, QEMU, Hyprland and more. I tried many things, and this approach achieved the best results. The native keyboard experience with Super shortcuts works very well, along with all the rest. It supports any resolution (fixed ratio), retina or non retina displays, audio input / output devices, shared clipboard, and many other features. Since it runs on top of macOS, native features like universal clipboard and AirPods work smoothly. It takes ~3min to install, works the same as any other standard macOS app. The whole project is open source, so feel free it check it out on GitHub, install, PRs, etc.
2026-11-01
JaceThings/DiaTweaks
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Unofficial tweaks for the Dia browser, kept in place across updates
2026-10-24
cpypwn/mac2jb
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Use your Apple Silicon Mac as a USB HID keyboard to transfer the ns2jb bootstrap and automate post-bootstrap commands on Nintendo Switch 2.
2026-09-28
linuxkid473/ppcosxkvm
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PowerPC Mac OS X Tiger on Apple Silicon with an emulated ATI Radeon 9700 PRO: Quartz Extreme, Core Image and OpenGL via Metal
2026-09-13
xnoah222/Airport_RTW88
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Native AirPort Wi-Fi driver for Realtek RTL88xx wireless adapters on macOS.
2026-10-05
noahdunnagan/mcopt
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mcopt, a Minecraft mod: a native Metal renderer for Minecraft: Java Edition on Apple Silicon Macs (alpha)
2026-09-25
demirfirat/ipadScreen
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Use an old jailbroken iPad (iOS 6+, tested on iPad 2) as a real extended display for your Mac, over USB or Wi-Fi. Native iOS 6 app with libjpeg-turbo NEON, ~35 fps.
2026-09-23
AyaseEli-Bing/Mac-Arch-Installer
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Mac 虚拟机安装 Arch Linux 懒人包｜在 Apple Silicon + Parallels Desktop 上自动安装 Arch Linux ARM（官方 ISO 仅 x86_64，无法直接启动）
2026-09-11
joshuaswarren/omarchy-apple-dev
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Build and deploy iOS SwiftUI apps from Omarchy Linux on Apple Silicon, no Xcode required
2026-09-06
vinzdg/codenotch
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A macOS app that pins usage limits from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Antigravity to a screen edge.
2026-10-11
DaneelOlivaw1/macos-wechat-export
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macOS 微信 4.x 本地聊天记录导出：临时重签副本取钥 + SQLCipher 只读（Apple Silicon）
2026-10-10
lnenad/lipwise
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Private voice dictation for Windows, macOS and Linux. Hold a shortcut, talk, and Lipwise types what you meant into any app: speech recognition runs on your computer, and an AI editor understands "scratch that", lists and rewrites. Works with local AI, Claude or OpenAI.
2026-10-10
mstcvk/MacRAR
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WinRAR-style archive manager for macOS: native AppKit app around RARLAB rar/unrar and 7-Zip 7zz. RAR, 7z, ZIP, TAR and 30+ formats, encrypted and multi-volume archives, Finder Quick Actions.
2026-10-02
flaviocopes/factorylog
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See what your coding agents did for you: a timeline of each day and week on your Mac, and where your time went, project by project
2026-10-01
linuxkid473/maclator
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Run arm64 macOS apps on Intel Macs: a reverse-Rosetta emulator (interpreter + x86-64 JIT + AOT cache) with a Metal bridge to the host GPU
2026-09-16
yay/awdl-toggle
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A native macOS Control Center toggle that persistently enables or suppresses AWDL.
2026-09-15
mpociot/claude-siri-ai
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Experimental macOS 27 App Intents model delegation provider backed by Claude Code
2026-09-10
eperez28/sonar.cool
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Control your Mac with hand gestures using its speakers and microphone. Experimental, camera-free scrolling, swiping, and zooming.
2026-09-07
Jarvis322/macos-sysdata
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See what is really inside macOS System Data and delete it, item by item, from the menu bar.
2026-09-02
mehtiumit/Volumix
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Native macOS menu bar app for per-application volume control, mute, and output routing — no kernel extension, no virtual driver.
2026-10-27
trafalger1801/HermesOBD
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Live OBD-II monitor for macOS (SwiftUI): ELM327 over BLE/serial/Wi-Fi, CSV logging, trouble codes, simulator, optional Hermes analysis
2026-10-25
clashman/caffeinate-plus
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Small macOS command-line utility to keep your MacBook awake after you close the lid.
2026-10-13
GaelQuinta/minecraft-metal-shaders
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Native Metal shaders for Minecraft Java on Apple Silicon Macs: shadows, volumetric clouds, god rays, reflective water, HDR. A fork of mcopt.
2026-10-09
HorrorPills/tf2mt
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Team Fortress 2 tuned for Apple Silicon: Wine + DXVK + MoltenVK with measured fixes (smooth 120 Hz mouse, no menu stalls) and a native macOS launcher
2026-10-09
sopitz/MirrorAct
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Mirror, frame and record your iPhone or iPad on your Mac – via USB or AirPlay. Device frames, backgrounds, screenshots, recordings, presentation mode. Open source (GPL-3.0).
2026-10-08
Da7-Tech/storage-rescue
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Agent Skill that frees up storage on a Mac without losing data: verified offload to an external drive, or safe cleanup with no drive. Asks before every deletion. Plain text, no runtime.
2026-09-29
B0yko/taskdistill
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Distil an expensive LLM API call on a narrow task into a small local model: capture traffic, curate, LoRA fine-tune with MLX on Apple Silicon, evaluate against the teacher, and serve an OpenAI-compatible cascade that escalates low-confidence requests.
2026-09-24
mgriesslehner/SafariKeePassXC
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Safari Web Extension that connects to KeePassXC via its browser integration protocol
2026-09-17
awlevin/typesafe-computer-use
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Computer use for about $0.0002 a step: OCR the screen, classify the next action with TypeSafe, click. macOS.
2026-09-16
kapishdima/dmgly
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Visual DMG editor with animated GIF backgrounds, custom text, and export for Electron, Tauri, and native macOS apps
2026-09-15
Cogria-AI/HeadOrbit
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Your AirPods know where you're looking. macOS menu bar app: look-away blur and posture reminder from AirPods head tracking.
2026-09-05
dahlia/coffer
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Native Linux client for passwords and other credentials stored in Apple Passwords (formerly iCloud Keychain)
2026-09-04
masonasons/vocalwriter
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VocalWriter 2.0's own PowerPC synthesis code, running again -- a user-mode PPC interpreter, its file formats decoded, and an accessible multi-track singing editor built on top.
2026-09-02
nixfred/blip
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iMessage in the Omarchy bar. Read, send, groups, blue dots — your Mac is the gateway, Linux is the client.
2026-11-05
IGOLz/ImmichGallery
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Independent open-source macOS photo gallery client for Immich. Early development.
2026-11-05
joeseesun/qiaomu-jot
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按一下快捷键，把想法、选中内容、截图和文件收进 Obsidian 或任意 Markdown 文件夹 | Capture thoughts, selections, screenshots and files into Obsidian or any Markdown folder with one shortcut (macOS).
2026-10-29
oxnw/ai-phone
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A SIP phone daemon with local speech and language models on Apple Silicon.
2026-10-24
haplollc/Vesalius
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A map of your codebase for Claude Code: an on-device code graph with an MCP server, a CLI, a Mac app and a VS Code extension.
2026-10-14
youngxkk/transnap-oss
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A free, local-first macOS menu bar translator built with Apple Translation and SwiftUI.
2026-10-12
dio7153/AquaType
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適用於 Mac 的注音輸入法，按錯鍵也能列出正確的字詞。A Zhuyin input method for Mac that suggests the right words even when you press the wrong keys.
2026-10-02
zoolapp/aime
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艾么输入法 · An open-source Chinese input method for macOS, built on RIME. Local first, optional AI.
2026-09-26
Xuanwo/cida
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辞达：用你选择的大模型，在 Mac 的任何地方翻译和润色文字。Translate and polish text anywhere on your Mac.
2026-09-18
bnsd55/jevmlx
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Jev-style parallel constrained decisions for any MLX model on Apple Silicon. Typed, schema-valid JSON in one forward pass.
2026-09-16
missuo/wisp
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Wisp: computer use for agents on macOS (accessibility tree + synthesized input + DevTools), with a CLI and MCP server
2026-09-04
Rydersel/Candela
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Candela protects your displays from OLED burn-in and wear: panel health history, a checkup for defects, and the controls macOS leaves out for external monitors (brightness, volume, contrast, custom resolutions, HiDPI scaling). Free and open source.
2026-10-26
andrisgauracs/who-said-what
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macOS app: drop a podcast or video, get a transcript with every line assigned to a speaker. On-device, built on Desert Ant Labs' Who + Apple's speech transcriber.
2026-10-14
drealdeal/ipad-vertical
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Use an iPad as a vertical (portrait) second screen on macOS over Sidecar. Tiny open-source menu bar app.
2026-10-14
ryanshahine/glideshot
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Screen recordings, shot like film. A free Mac screen recorder with a virtual camera that tilts, zooms and follows your cursor.
2026-10-01
Roylyl/MacPlay
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让Apple Silicon Mac通过USB或共用Wi-Fi接收iPhone CarPlay画面的原生macOS应用，支持分辨率与高帧率配置。
2026-09-25
itsmbaqer/agents-dont-sleep
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Close the lid, let your agents cook. A tiny tray app that keeps your laptop awake (lid shut, in your bag) only while Claude Code, Codex & friends are working, then lets it sleep. macOS · Windows · Linux.
2026-09-23
kendalpercimoney/imac-second-display
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Low-latency screen streaming from Apple Silicon to a 2010 iMac on OS X 10.9. Hardware H.264 over RTP/UDP, virtual display, zero-copy OpenGL rendering.
2026-09-07
dHakZz/let-go-macos
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A lightweight, privacy-first macOS utility that shows what is holding a file, folder, or drive open.
2026-09-06
Yash-Singh1/lego-mac-compat
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Port of TT Games’ 32-bit-only LEGO Mac games to Apple Silicon
2026-09-03
piyushxt43/sayszz
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Your voice, at your cursor, in milliseconds. Free, open-source, 100% on-device dictation for macOS — Metal-accelerated Whisper, one-key hotkey, local history with stats. A Wispr Flow alternative that never phones home.
2026-11-03
justrach/nanolight
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A ⌘Space launcher for the Mac, drawn by nanoui: apps, math, Google suggestions with results in the panel, Grok and X
2026-10-30
dufu1991/foldgit
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A native, lightweight Git client for macOS. Manage repositories and worktrees, review diffs, and commit changes in one window.
2026-10-29
R44VC0RP/query
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Let coding agents ask you for secrets in a floating macOS prompt instead of in chat
2026-10-23
Manan-Santoki/OpenShelf
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Free, open-source Mac utility: start dragging any file, tap a key, and drop it on a wheel to convert, edit, AirDrop or shelve it. Runs fully offline.
2026-10-20
nfzerox/VirtualIntelMacOnAppleSilicon
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Run Intel versions of macOS Mojave, macOS Catalina, and macOS Big Sur on Apple silicon with Metal and OpenGL acceleration. This marks an exciting new milestone in the preservation of the history of Mac.
2026-10-14
Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine
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Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account. The ledger and your questions stay on the machine, and the app sends no analytics or crash logs. I felt there are not enough consumer apps that run locally with no calls to the outside world that help us manage sensitive corners of our lives. This app in its local variant only downloads a couple of models and occasional updates, it does not send any analytics nor data. Features-wise, Pulse local is a complete budgeting app that offers an assistant built on top of a fine-tuned model and thousands of rules embedded in the code itself. I'm sharing it for free with options to help me continue experimenting with fine-tuning and expanding along this direction. How it works: you import a CSV from any bank, in any currency. When you ask a question, a tuned Qwen3 0.6B model reads it into a structured query, and code, not the model, does the money math against the ledger. A 4B checker model double-checks each money answer; when the two readings disagree, the app says it is not sure instead of guessing. That change took wrong answers from about one in five to 5 in 494 questions across our last three tests. The write-up covers how we test, the designs that failed, and the limits of the claim: https://pulseos.finance/pulse-local/writing/agree-or-not-sur... The tuned weights are on Hugging Face (PulseOS/pulse-local-qwen3-0.6b). Limitations: the first start downloads about 2.9 GB of models. With the checker on, a money answer takes 12 to 14 seconds (you can turn the checker off). Small models can still misread an open-ended question. The app answers in English. Mac only for now; Windows is next. The app is free. An optional Connected mode (Sync Pass, $29/year) syncs US banks through Plaid; transactions pass through our server's memory and are not stored. Feedback welcome, especially on wrong answers and on questions it should handle but does not.
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