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1Password

AgileBits Inc. (1Password) · Secrets management

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Password and secrets manager for individuals, families and businesses with end-to-end encrypted vaults, passkeys, an SSH agent and a developer CLI

ProprietaryPaidEnterpriseLocalNov 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

Claude Code

Anthropic · Coding agents & AI IDEs

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Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads a codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app, the web and CI, with MCP, hooks, skills and subagents

ProprietaryPaidUsage-basedLocalNov 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

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

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

Obsidian

Dynalist Inc. (Obsidian) · Personal knowledge management

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Local-first Markdown note-taking app with bidirectional links, graph view and a large community plugin ecosystem; optional paid Sync and Publish

ProprietaryFreePaidLocalBroken

Raycast

Raycast Technologies Ltd · macOS system utilities

Extensible launcher for macOS (with Windows and iOS versions) combining app search, clipboard history, snippets, window management and a store of community extensions

MixedFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

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

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

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

Tailscale

Tailscale Inc. · Tunneling & remote access

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WireGuard-based mesh overlay network with a hosted coordination service, identity-provider login, access policies, MagicDNS and features such as Tailscale SSH, Serve and Funnel

BSD-3-ClauseFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

Things

Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG · Productivity suites & task management

Personal task manager for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro from Cultured Code, sold as one-time purchases with free Things Cloud sync

ProprietaryPaidLocalNov 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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