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AppleScript

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

ProprietaryFreeLocalMaintenanceNov 2, 2026

Automator

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

ProprietaryFreeLocalMaintenanceNov 2, 2026

Create ML

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

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

exo

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

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Hammerspoon

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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Karabiner-Elements

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

UnlicenseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

In-depth entry

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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Shortcuts

Apple Inc. · macOS automation

Apple's built-in visual automation app for macOS, iOS and iPadOS that chains app actions, scripts and system functions into runnable shortcuts

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Xcode

Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development

In-depth entry

Apple's integrated development environment and toolchain for building, debugging, testing and submitting apps for iOS, macOS and other Apple platforms

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

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