Alfred
Running with Crayons Ltd · macOS system utilities
macOS launcher and productivity app whose paid Powerpack adds workflows, clipboard history, snippets and custom searches
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Running with Crayons Ltd · macOS system utilities
macOS launcher and productivity app whose paid Powerpack adds workflows, clipboard history, snippets and custom searches
Apache Software Foundation · Analytical engines & OLAP
Distributed data processing engine with DataFrame and SQL APIs in Python, Scala, Java and R, plus structured streaming and MLlib
Apple Inc. · macOS automation
Apple's English-like scripting language that drives scriptable macOS applications through Apple events, run from Script Editor, osascript or other automation tools
Apple Inc. · macOS automation
Apple's long-standing drag-and-drop workflow builder for macOS that produces apps, Quick Actions, folder actions and calendar-triggered automations
Carsten Blüm (BlueM) · macOS automation
Small open-source macOS command-line tool that emulates mouse clicks, drags, movements, key presses and typing for scripted GUI control
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Apple's on-device machine-learning runtime for iOS and macOS apps, with the open-source coremltools package for converting PyTorch and other models to its format
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Apple's app and Swift framework for training image, text, sound, tabular and activity models on a Mac without writing training code, exporting directly to Core ML
Dask developers (open-source community) · Distributed & parallel computing
Python library for parallel and distributed computing that scales pandas, NumPy and custom task graphs from a laptop to a cluster
Exo Labs · Distributed & parallel computing
Open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs (and Linux hosts) into one local inference cluster, sharding large models across devices with MLX
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Apple's Swift framework giving apps access to the on-device Apple Intelligence language model with guided generation, tool calling and sessions, on OS 26 and later
GNU Project (Ole Tange) · Distributed & parallel computing
Shell tool that runs commands in parallel over input lines on one or several machines, as a drop-in alternative to xargs and shell loops
Hammerspoon contributors · macOS automation
Open-source macOS automation app that exposes system APIs to a Lua configuration file for hotkeys, window management and event-driven scripts
Homebrew maintainers · macOS system utilities
Community-maintained package manager for macOS and Linux that installs command-line tools (formulae) and desktop apps (casks) from the terminal
pqrs.org (Takayama Fumihiko) · macOS system utilities
Free, public-domain keyboard customizer for macOS that remaps keys and defines complex modifications through JSON rules at the driver level
Stairways Software Pty Ltd · macOS automation
Commercial macOS macro application that runs sequences of actions from hotkeys, typed strings, application, time, device and system triggers
Apple Inc. · macOS automation
macOS's built-in service manager that starts, supervises and schedules daemons and per-user agents from property-list job definitions
ggml-org (Georgi Gerganov and contributors) · Local LLM inference & serving
C/C++ inference engine for LLMs and vision-language models with GGUF quantized weights, Metal, CUDA, Vulkan and other backends, a CLI and an OpenAI-compatible server
Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving
Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Apple's low-level GPU programming framework for graphics and parallel compute on iOS, macOS and visionOS, the layer beneath MLX, Core ML and most Apple Silicon ML runtimes
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Apple's open-source array framework for machine learning on Apple Silicon, with NumPy-like Python, C++ and Swift APIs and unified CPU/GPU memory
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Python package and CLI for running, serving, quantizing and fine-tuning large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX
Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX
Port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition models to MLX, offering a CLI and Python API for local transcription on Apple Silicon
Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving
Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models
Open MPI consortium · Distributed & parallel computing
Open-source implementation of the MPI message-passing standard used to run tightly coupled parallel programs across the nodes of a cluster
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