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Homebrew

Homebrew maintainers · macOS system utilities

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Community-maintained package manager for macOS and Linux that installs command-line tools (formulae) and desktop apps (casks) from the terminal

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MLX

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

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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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MLX LM

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

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Python package and CLI for running, serving, quantizing and fine-tuning large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

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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

PM2

Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning

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Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts

AGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

restic

restic project (Alexander Neumann and contributors) · Backup & recovery

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Encrypted, deduplicating backup program written in Go that stores snapshots in local, SFTP, S3-compatible and many cloud backends

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

SQLite

SQLite Consortium / Hipp, Wyrick & Company · Relational databases

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Public-domain embedded SQL database engine that stores a whole database in one file and ships inside most operating systems and browsers

Open sourceOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Swift

Apple Inc. · Swift & SwiftUI development

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Apple's compiled, memory-safe, multi-paradigm language for Apple platforms, Linux, Windows and embedded targets, developed in the open at swift.org

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

TeX Live

TeX Users Group (TUG) · LaTeX & typesetting

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The comprehensive free TeX distribution for Linux, macOS and Windows, released yearly with the tlmgr package manager and all major engines, packages and fonts

Open sourceFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

WireGuard

WireGuard project (Jason A. Donenfeld) · Tunneling & remote access

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Minimal, high-speed VPN protocol and implementation built on modern cryptography, included in the Linux kernel and available on macOS, iOS, Windows, Android and BSD

GPL-2.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Zotero

Corporation for Digital Scholarship · Citation management

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Free, open-source reference manager with browser connectors, word-processor plugins, a PDF reader, group libraries and optional paid file storage

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

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