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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

Open-source node-based interface and inference engine for diffusion and other generative models (image, video, audio, 3D), runnable locally with desktop apps or as a hosted cloud

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

End-to-end and component testing framework that runs tests inside the browser with an interactive runner, paired with the commercial Cypress Cloud

Free diagramming editor (formerly diagrams.net) for flowcharts, network, UML and architecture diagrams, available as web app, desktop app and integrations

Open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs (and Linux hosts) into one local inference cluster, sharding large models across devices with MLX

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

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

Open-source API client that runs in the browser or as a desktop app, supports REST, GraphQL and realtime protocols, and can be self-hosted for teams

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

Open-source, outliner-based knowledge base storing notes as local Markdown or Org-mode files with block references, queries and a graph view

Free reference manager from Elsevier with a desktop and web app, PDF annotation, a Web Importer, groups and bundled cloud storage

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

Daemonless, rootless container engine with a Docker-compatible CLI, companion Buildah and Skopeo tools and a Podman Desktop GUI

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

Open-source desktop GIS for viewing, editing, analysing and publishing vector and raster geodata, extensible with Python plugins

Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate