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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's English-like scripting language that drives scriptable macOS applications through Apple events, run from Script Editor, osascript or other automation tools

Apple's long-standing drag-and-drop workflow builder for macOS that produces apps, Quick Actions, folder actions and calendar-triggered automations

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

Small open-source macOS command-line tool that emulates mouse clicks, drags, movements, key presses and typing for scripted GUI control

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'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

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'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

Native, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux written in Zig, with platform-native UI and a cross-platform core library

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

Free, GPL-licensed cross-platform econometrics program with a GUI, the hansl scripting language and estimators for time series, panels and limited dependent variables

Open-source macOS automation app that exposes system APIs to a Lua configuration file for hotkeys, window management and event-driven scripts

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

Feature-rich terminal emulator for macOS with split panes, profiles, triggers, search, tmux integration and a Python scripting API

Open-source, BibTeX/biblatex-native reference manager for LaTeX users with online fetchers, groups, file linking and editor integration

Free, public-domain keyboard customizer for macOS that remaps keys and defines complex modifications through JSON rules at the driver level

macOS's built-in service manager that starts, supervises and schedules daemons and per-user agents from property-list job definitions

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's open-source array framework for machine learning on Apple Silicon, with NumPy-like Python, C++ and Swift APIs and unified CPU/GPU memory

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

Port of OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition models to MLX, offering a CLI and Python API for local transcription on Apple Silicon

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

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