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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

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

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Bear

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Bruno

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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Core ML

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

BSD-3-ClauseFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Craft

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 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

Cursor

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalNov 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

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

Ghostty

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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

GNU Parallel

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

GPL-3.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

gretl

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

GPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 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

iTerm2

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

GPL-2.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

JabRef

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

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 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

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

MATLAB

MathWorks · Mathematical & statistical computing

MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

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

MLX Whisper

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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

OpenSSH

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

SSH-OpenSSHOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

Positron

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

Elastic-2.0FreeLocalNov 2, 2026

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