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Alfred

Running with Crayons Ltd · macOS system utilities

macOS launcher and productivity app whose paid Powerpack adds workflows, clipboard history, snippets and custom searches

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

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

Foundation Models (Apple)

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

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Keyboard Maestro

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

ProprietaryPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

launchd

Apple Inc. · macOS automation

In-depth entry

macOS's built-in service manager that starts, supervises and schedules daemons and per-user agents from property-list job definitions

ProprietaryFreeLocalBroken

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving

In-depth entry

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

Metal

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

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

OrbStack

OrbStack (Orbital Labs) · Containers & virtualization

macOS application that runs Docker containers, Linux machines and a local Kubernetes cluster as a lighter replacement for Docker Desktop

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 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

SwiftUI

Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development

Apple's declarative UI framework for building interfaces in Swift that run across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

TestFlight

Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development

Apple's beta distribution service for sharing pre-release iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS builds with internal and external testers through App Store Connect

ProprietaryFreeNov 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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