Discover the best native macOS apps: fast, lightweight Mac apps for productivity, developer tools, and everyday utilities. Free and paid options. No Electron.
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Discover the best native macOS apps: fast, lightweight Mac apps for productivity, developer tools, and everyday utilities. Free and paid options. No Electron.
The Mac apps I keep coming back to — mostly open source — handy for designers, developers, and anyone running a small team.
Discover and track updates for Mac apps outside the App Store.
Clip Paste is a small utility app for Finder on macOS. It allows to paste images and text as images/text files in finder.
A powerful, interactive macOS backup and restore CLI
Free & paid launch platforms, subreddits, awesome lists, and newsletters for shipping a macOS app — with real pricing and submission notes.
A lightweight macOS utility that instantly translates hovered words or selected sentences using a trackpad Force Click.
⚡ Tony Stark's JARVIS for macOS // Autonomous Neural Assistant with Holographic Web HUD, Aerolite Obsidian MenuBar, AppleScript Automation & Remote Mobile Gateway
🖥 Auto-Up — Mac App Auto-Updater. Keep your Mac apps fresh & secure without lifting a finger. Beautiful menu bar utility with AI summaries, silent updates, and Tahoe compatibility.
Homebrew casks for Khaos Studios apps
best-macos-open-source-apps Curated list of the best open-source macOS apps for productivity, development, media, and privacy, all linked to their official repos. Maintained by Devexis India.
A curated list of exceptional macOS developer tools, CLI utilities, window managers, reverse-engineering tools, and Swift power-ups
Free Mac utilities: CompressBox, ImageRenamer, and CloudBridge
Free, open-source Mac apps that each do one thing, say exactly what they touch, and never phone home.
Nightly compatibility lab for Parallex: fresh instances of 35 popular Mac apps, opened on a clean Mac and checked for data leaks between copies
CueNow releases and user feedback
⚡ Lightweight, native macOS window manager with smart workspaces, custom snap areas, trackpad gestures, and more. One-time purchase, zero data collection.
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