Apple Notes
Apple Inc. · Personal knowledge management
Apple's built-in notes app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and iCloud.com with folders, tags, attachments, handwriting, shared notes and on-device search
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Apple Inc. · Personal knowledge management
Apple's built-in notes app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and iCloud.com with folders, tags, attachments, handwriting, shared notes and on-device search
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
Bruno Software · API development & tooling
Open-source, offline-first API client that stores collections as plain-text .bru files in a Git repository, with a CLI for running requests in CI
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
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
Ghostty project (Mitchell Hashimoto) · Terminals & shells
Native, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux written in Zig, with platform-native UI and a cross-platform core library
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
gretl developers (Allin Cottrell, Riccardo Lucchetti) · Econometrics & causal inference
Free, GPL-licensed cross-platform econometrics program with a GUI, the hansl scripting language and estimators for time series, panels and limited dependent variables
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
George Nachman (iTerm2 project) · Terminals & shells
Feature-rich terminal emulator for macOS with split panes, profiles, triggers, search, tmux integration and a Python scripting API
JabRef e.V. and contributors · Citation management
Open-source, BibTeX/biblatex-native reference manager for LaTeX users with online fetchers, groups, file linking and editor integration
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
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
Port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition models to MLX, offering a CLI and Python API for local transcription on Apple Silicon
OpenBSD Project · Tunneling & remote access
Reference implementation of the SSH protocol from the OpenBSD project: remote shell, file transfer, port forwarding, key agent and certificate authority tooling
Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing
Posit's multi-language data-science IDE built on Code OSS, with first-class R and Python consoles, variables and plots panes, under the Elastic License 2.0
Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing
Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate
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
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
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
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