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Docker

Docker, Inc. · Containers & virtualization

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Container platform combining the Docker Engine runtime, the Compose and Build tooling, Docker Desktop for macOS and Windows, and the Docker Hub registry

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreemiumLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

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

Homebrew

Homebrew maintainers · macOS system utilities

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

BSD-2-ClauseOpen 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

launchd

Apple Inc. · macOS automation

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

ProprietaryFreeLocalBroken

LM Studio

Element Labs, Inc. · Local LLM inference & serving

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Proprietary desktop app for discovering, downloading and running local LLMs with llama.cpp and MLX engines, a chat UI, an OpenAI-compatible server, CLI, SDKs and a headless daemon

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalBroken

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

MLX

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

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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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

MLX LM

Apple Inc. · Apple Silicon ML & MLX

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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 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

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

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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

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

PM2

Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning

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Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts

AGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

restic

restic project (Alexander Neumann and contributors) · Backup & recovery

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Encrypted, deduplicating backup program written in Go that stores snapshots in local, SFTP, S3-compatible and many cloud backends

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

RStudio IDE

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

Stata

StataCorp LLC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Commercial statistical software from StataCorp widely used in economics and social science, with editions BE/SE/MP, a command language, Mata and comprehensive PDF manuals

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 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

Tableau

Salesforce · BI & dashboards

Salesforce's visual analytics platform: Tableau Desktop authoring (now with a free edition), Tableau Cloud and Server for sharing, and Tableau Next for CRM analytics

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

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