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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
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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
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
Shiny Frog Ltd. · Personal knowledge management
Markdown note-taking app for Mac, iPhone and iPad from Shiny Frog with nested tags, note links and iCloud sync, free with a Pro subscription
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
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
Craft Docs Ltd. · Personal knowledge management
Block-based document and notes app with native Apple, Windows and web clients, structured pages, collections and shareable published documents
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
Anysphere · Coding agents & AI IDEs
AI-native code editor from Anysphere, forked from VS Code, with inline edits, codebase-aware chat and agent mode that can run multi-step changes
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
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
MathWorks · Mathematical & statistical computing
MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online
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
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
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
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