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Table of Contents
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Go to top
Agent
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| AgentGPT |
🤖 Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser. |
Cross |
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| gptme |
Your agent in your terminal, equipped with local tools: writes code, uses the terminal, browses the web, vision. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Open Intepreter |
A natural language interface for computers |
Cross |
 |
| screenpipe 💥 |
AI app store powered by 24/7 desktop history. open source - 100% local - dev friendly - 24/7 screen, mic recording |
MacOS Windows |
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| Telegraf |
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
AI Image GUI
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| InvokeAI |
Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products. |
Cross |
 |
AI Utilities
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Netron |
Visualizer for neural network, deep learning and machine learning models |
Cross |
 |
All In One
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| AIChat |
All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Lobe Chat |
🤯 Lobe Chat - an open-source, modern-design AI chat framework. Supports Multi AI Providers( OpenAI / Claude 3 / Gemini / Ollama / Azure / DeepSeek), Knowledge Base (file upload / knowledge management / RAG ), Multi-Modals (Vision/TTS) and plugin system. One-click FREE deployment of your private ChatGPT/ Claude application. |
Cross |
 |
Assistant
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Information Processing
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Code2prompt |
A CLI tool to convert your codebase into a single LLM prompt with source tree, prompt templating, and token counting. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Docling |
Get your documents ready for gen AI |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Repomix |
📦 Repomix (formerly Repopack) is a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Perfect for when you need to feed your codebase to Large Language Models (LLMs) or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Gemini, Gemma, Llama, Grok, and more. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Unstract |
No-code LLM Platform to launch APIs and ETL Pipelines to structure unstructured documents |
MacOS Linux SelfHost |
 |
LLM GUI
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Chatbox |
User-friendly Desktop Client App for AI Models/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama...) |
Cross |
 |
| Cherry Studio |
🍒 Cherry Studio is a desktop client that supports for multiple LLM providers. Support deepseek-r1 |
Cross |
 |
| GPT4ALL |
GPT4All: Run Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use. |
Cross |
 |
| Jan |
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer. Multiple engine support (llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM) |
Cross |
 |
| NextChat |
✨ Light and Fast AI Assistant. Support: Web - iOS - MacOS - Android - Linux - Windows |
Cross CLI+ Web |
 |
Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Ollama 🌍 |
Get up and running with Llama 3.3, DeepSeek-R1, Phi-4, Gemma 2, and other large language models. |
Cross CLI SelfHost |
 |
| StabilityMatrix |
Multi-Platform Package Manager for Stable Diffusion |
Cross |
 |
Model Tools
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Agno |
Build Multimodal AI Agents with memory, knowledge and tools. Simple, fast and model-agnostic. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Kiln |
The easiest tool for fine-tuning LLM models, synthetic data generation, and collaborating on datasets. |
Cross |
 |
| LLaMa-Factory |
Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024) |
Cross CLI+ |
 |
| PyTorch Lightning |
Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on multiple GPUs, TPUs with zero code changes. |
Cross CLI |
 |
RAG
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| AnythingLLM |
The all-in-one Desktop & Docker AI application with built-in RAG, AI agents, and more. |
Cross |
 |
| DocsGPT |
DocsGPT is an open-source genAI tool that helps users get reliable answers from knowledge source, while avoiding hallucinations. It enables private and reliable information retrieval, with tooling and agentic system capability built in. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| PaperQA2 |
High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations |
Cross CLI |
 |
| R2R |
The most advanced AI retrieval system. Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a RESTful API. |
Cross CLI |
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Research
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| DeepSearcher |
Open Source Deep Research Alternative to Reason and Search on Private Data. Written in Python. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| GPT Researcher |
LLM based autonomous agent that conducts deep local and web research on any topic and generates a long report with citations. |
Cross CLI+ SelfHost |
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Chat
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Signal |
A private messenger. |
Cross |
|
| SimpleX |
SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱! |
Cross CLI CLI+ |
 |
| Telegram Desktop |
Telegram Desktop messaging app |
Cross |
 |
Collaboration
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Mail
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Mailspring |
💌 A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux. |
Cross |
 |
| Thunderbird |
Meet Thunderbird, the email and productivity app that maximizes your freedoms. |
Cross |
|
Video Conference
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Backup
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Backrest |
Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Borg |
Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Duplicacy |
A new generation cloud backup tool |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Duplicati |
Store securely encrypted backups in the cloud! |
Cross |
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| Kopia |
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included. |
Cross CLI |
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| Rclone |
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files |
Cross CLI |
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| Restic |
Fast, secure, efficient backup program |
Cross CLI |
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Storage
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Nextcloud |
☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Seafile |
High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features. |
Cross CLI+ SelfHost |
 |
Sync
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Rsync |
An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Syncthing |
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization |
Cross CLI+ |
 |
| syncthing-macos |
Official frugal and native macOS Syncthing application bundle |
MacOS CLI+ |
 |
Code Assistant
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Aider |
aider is AI pair programming in your terminal |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Goose |
an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM |
Cross CLI+ |
 |
| GPT Pilot |
The first real AI developer |
Cross CLI |
 |
| OpenHands |
🙌 OpenHands: Code Less, Make More |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Plandex |
Open source AI coding agent. Designed for large projects and real world tasks. |
Cross CLI |
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Code Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| CodeEdit |
CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever. |
MacOS |
 |
| Helix |
A post-modern modal text editor. |
Cross CLI |
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| Lapce |
Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust |
Cross |
 |
| LazyVim |
Neovim config for the lazy |
Cross CLI |
 |
| neovim |
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability |
Cross CLI |
 |
| NvChad |
Blazing fast Neovim config providing solid defaults and a beautiful UI, enhancing your neovim experience. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| SpaceVim |
A modular Vim/Neovim configuration |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Vim 🌍 |
The official Vim repository |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Void |
Void is the open-source Cursor alternative. |
Windows MacOS |
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| VS Code |
Visual Studio Code |
Cross |
 |
| VSCodium |
binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing |
Cross |
 |
| Zed 🟥 |
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. |
MacOS Linux |
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Dev Tools
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| bat |
A cat(1) clone with wings. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| DevToys |
A Swiss Army knife for developers. |
Cross |
 |
| massCode |
A free and open source code snippets manager for developers |
Cross |
 |
| Watchexec |
Executes commands in response to file modifications |
Cross CLI |
 |
Game Engine
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| GDevelop |
🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone. |
Cross |
 |
| Godot |
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine |
Cross |
 |
Git GUI
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| GitHub Desktop |
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git. |
Cross |
 |
IDE
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| IntelliJ IDEA |
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform |
Cross |
 |
Language Package Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Bun |
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one |
Cross CLI |
 |
| PNPM |
Fast, disk space efficient package manager |
Cross CLI |
 |
| uv |
An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Yarn |
Yarn is a modern package manager split into various packages. Its novel architecture allows to do things currently impossible with existing solutions |
Cross CLI |
 |
Game Launcher
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Heroic Games Launcher |
A games launcher for GOG, Amazon and Epic Games for Linux, Windows and macOS. |
Cross |
 |
Games
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Cataclysm DDA |
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. |
Cross |
 |
| Endless Sky |
Space exploration, trading, and combat game. |
Cross |
 |
| OpenRA |
Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X. |
Cross |
 |
| Unciv |
Open-source Android/Desktop remake of Civ V |
Cross Android |
 |
| Veloren |
An open world, open source voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Cube World. This repository is a mirror. Please submit all PRs and issues on our GitLab page. |
Cross |
 |
| Wesnoth |
An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. |
Cross |
 |
Browser Extensions
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
EMACS Packages
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Neovim Extensions
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Browser
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Brave |
Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows. |
Cross |
 |
| Floorp |
All of source code of version 10 or later of Floorp Browser, the most Advanced and Fastest Firefox derivative 🦊 |
Cross |
 |
| Min |
A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy |
Cross |
 |
| Noi |
🚀 Power Your World with AI - Explore, Extend, Empower. |
Cross |
 |
| Zen |
🌀 Experience tranquillity while browsing the web without people tracking you! |
Cross |
 |
Download Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| AB |
A Download Manager that speeds up your downloads |
Cross |
 |
| GoPeed |
A modern download manager that supports all platforms. Built with Golang and Flutter. |
Cross |
 |
| Persepolis |
Persepolis is a download manager written in Python. |
Cross |
 |
Search Engine
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Audio Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Audacity |
Audio Editor |
Cross |
 |
| OpenUtau |
Open singing synthesis platform / Open source UTAU successor |
Cross |
 |
Audio Player
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Feishin |
A modern self-hosted music player. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Navidrome |
🎧☁️ Your Personal Streaming Service |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Spotube |
🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile! |
Cross |
 |
| Supersonic |
A lightweight cross-platform desktop client for self-hosted music servers. |
Cross |
 |
Graphics
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Blender |
Official mirror of Blender |
Cross |
 |
| CadQuery |
A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT |
Cross |
 |
| darktable |
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer |
Cross |
 |
| FreeCAD |
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. |
Cross |
 |
| Gaphor |
Gaphor is the simple modeling tool |
Cross |
 |
| Krita |
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks. |
Cross |
 |
| OpenSCAD |
OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller |
Cross |
 |
| RawTherapee |
A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program |
Cross |
 |
Image Processing
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| chaiNNer |
A node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks easy and customizable. Born as an AI upscaling application, chaiNNer has grown into an extremely flexible and powerful programmatic image processing application. |
Cross |
 |
| Upscayl |
🆙 Upscayl - #1 Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows. |
Cross |
 |
Media Downloader
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| YoutubeDownloader |
Downloads videos and playlists from YouTube |
Cross |
 |
| yt-dlp |
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader |
Cross CLI |
 |
Screen Recording
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Cap |
Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings. |
Cross |
 |
| Flameshot |
Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software 🖥️ 📸 |
Cross |
 |
| OBS Studio |
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording |
Cross |
 |
Video Editing
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Kdenlive |
Free and open source video editor, based on MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks |
Cross |
 |
| LossletCut |
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing |
Cross |
 |
| Natron |
Open-source video compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry. |
Cross |
 |
| Olive |
Free open-source non-linear video editor |
Cross |
 |
| Shotcut |
cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor |
Cross |
 |
Video Player
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| IINA |
The modern video player for macOS. |
MacOS |
 |
| mpv |
🎥 Command line video player |
Cross |
 |
| VLC |
VLC is a libre and open source media player and multimedia engine, focused on playing everything, and running everywhere. |
Cross |
 |
Video Transcoder
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| HandBrake |
HandBrake's main development repository |
Cross |
 |
Operating System - Go to top
Windows
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Bookmark Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| buku |
🔖 Personal mini-web in text |
Cross CLI+ |
 |
Document Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Calendar
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Document Modifier
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| OCRmyPDF |
OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Stirling PDF |
#1 Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files |
MacOS Windows SelfHost |
 |
Finance
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Actual |
A local-first personal finance app |
SelfHost Cross |
 |
Knowledge Base
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Affine |
There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use. |
Cross |
 |
| Anytype |
Official Anytype client for MacOS, Linux, and Windows |
Cross |
 |
| AppFlowy 🟥 |
Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is an AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The best open source alternative to Notion. |
Cross |
 |
| FastGPT |
FastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letting you easily develop and deploy complex question-answering systems without the need for extensive setup or configuration. |
Cross |
 |
| Logseq |
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. |
Cross |
 |
| Outline |
The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible. |
Cross |
 |
| Siyuan |
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang. |
Cross |
 |
Project Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Focalboard |
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
Task Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Super Productivity |
Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, Gitlab, GitHub and Open Project. |
Cross |
 |
Time Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| ActivityWatch |
The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused. |
Cross Android |
 |
Security/Privacy - Go to top
AD Blocker
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Antivirus
Authentication
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Firewall
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Password Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Bitwarden |
Open source security solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations. Explore Password Manager, Secrets Manager, and passkey innovations. |
Cross |
|
| KeePass |
KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”. |
Cross |
 |
| LessPass |
🔑 stateless open source password manager |
Cross CLI CLI+ Chromium Firefox |
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| Passbolt |
Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams! |
Cross CLI+ SelfHost CLI+ Chromium Firefox |
 |
VPN
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Amnezia |
Amnezia VPN Client (Desktop+Mobile) |
Cross CLI+ |
 |
| NetBird |
Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. |
Cross |
 |
| ProtonVPN |
Experience true freedom online. Gain unrestricted access to global content, block annoying ads, and safeguard your privacy with a fast and secure VPN. |
Cross CLI+ |
|
Arr
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| autobrr |
Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Bazarr |
Bazarr is a companion application to Sonarr and Radarr. It manages and downloads subtitles based on your requirements. You define your preferences by TV show or movie and Bazarr takes care of everything for you. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| Lidarr |
Looks and smells like Sonarr but made for music. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Prowlarr |
Prowlarr is an indexer manager/proxy built on the popular *arr .net/reactjs base stack to integrate with your various PVR apps, supporting management of both Torrent Trackers and Usenet Indexers. |
Cross SelfHost |
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| Radarr |
Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Readarr |
Book Manager and Automation (Sonarr for Ebooks) |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
| Sonarr |
Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
Dashboard
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Home Automation
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Home Assistant |
🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
Home Server
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Linux
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
MacOS
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| AltTab |
Windows alt-tab on macOS |
MacOS |
 |
| AppLite |
User-friendly GUI macOS application for Homebrew Casks |
Cross |
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| Cork |
A fast GUI for Homebrew written in SwiftUI |
MacOS |
 |
| Ice |
Powerful menu bar manager for macOS |
MacOS |
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| KeepingYouAwake |
Prevents your Mac from going to sleep. |
MacOS |
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| LinearMouse |
The mouse and trackpad utility for Mac. |
MacOS |
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| Lunar |
Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors |
MacOS |
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| MeetingBar |
🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar |
MacOS |
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| OnlySwitch |
⚙️ All-in-One menu bar app, hide 💻MacBook Pro's notch, dark mode, AirPods, Shortcuts |
MacOS |
 |
| Reminders MenuBar |
Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source. |
MacOS |
 |
| SketchyBar |
A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement |
MacOS |
 |
| SwiftBar |
Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool |
MacOS |
 |
| TheBoringNotch |
TheBoringNotch: Not so boring notch That Rocks 🎸🎶 |
MacOS |
 |
Media Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Kodi |
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows. |
Cross SelfHost |
 |
Operating System
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Surveillance
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Shell
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| fish |
The user-friendly command line shell. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Nushell |
A new type of shell |
Cross CLI |
 |
| xonsh |
🐚 Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform. |
Cross CLI |
 |
Terminal Emulator
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Alacritty |
A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. |
Cross |
 |
| kitty |
Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal |
Cross |
 |
| Rio |
A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run in desktops and browsers. |
Cross |
 |
| Tabby |
A terminal for a more modern age |
Cross |
 |
| Waveterm |
An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows |
Cross |
 |
| WezTerm |
A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust |
Cross |
 |
Terminal Multiplexer
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| tmux |
tmux source code |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Zellij |
A terminal workspace with batteries included |
Cross CLI |
 |
Terminal Utilities
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Atuin |
✨ Magical shell history |
Cross CLI |
 |
| McFly |
Fly through your shell history. Great Scott! |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Oh My Zsh |
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,400+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| ShellGPT |
A command-line productivity tool powered by AI large language models like GPT-4, will help you accomplish your tasks faster and more efficiently. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| zoxide |
A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| zsh-autosuggestions |
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh |
Cross CLI |
 |
Document Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Markdown Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Zettlr |
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench |
Cross |
 |
Note Taking
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Joplin |
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. |
Cross |
 |
| jrnl |
Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| nb |
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Notesnook |
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote. |
Cross |
 |
| Reor |
Private & local AI personal knowledge management app for high entropy people. |
Cross |
 |
| Rnote |
Sketch and take handwritten notes. |
Cross |
 |
| SilverBullet |
The knowledge tinkerer's notebook |
Cross |
 |
| Simplenote |
Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux |
Cross IOS Android |
 |
| Standard Notes |
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. |
Cross IOS Android |
 |
| VNote |
A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++. |
Cross |
 |
Office Suite
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| LibreOffice |
No description provided. |
Cross |
|
| OnlyOffice |
An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents |
Cross |
 |
Proofreading
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| WritingTools |
The world's smartest system-wide grammar assistant; a better version of the Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. Works on Windows, Linux, & macOS, with the free Gemini API, local LLMs, & more. |
Cross |
 |
Spreadsheet
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Text Editor
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| CotEditor |
Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS |
MacOS |
 |
| Emacs |
An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more. |
Cross |
 |
| Kakoune |
mawww's experiment for a better code editor |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Lite XL |
A lightweight text editor written in Lua |
Cross |
 |
| Micro |
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor |
Cross CLI |
 |
| NotepadNext |
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++ |
Cross |
 |
Wiki
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Automation
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Ansible |
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. |
Cross CLI+ |
 |
| Cronicle |
A simple, distributed task scheduler and runner with a web based UI. |
Cross CLI+ SelfHost |
 |
| Hammerspoon |
Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua |
MacOS |
 |
| Script Kit |
Script Kit. Automate Anything. |
Cross |
 |
| Semaphore |
Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform, OpenTofu, PowerShell and other DevOps tools. |
Cross |
 |
Cleaner
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Pearcleaner |
A free, source-available and fair-code licensed mac app cleaner |
MacOS |
 |
Clipboard Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Clipboard |
😎🏖️🐬 Your new, 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙠𝙪𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 smart clipboard manager |
Cross |
 |
| CopyQ |
Clipboard manager with advanced features |
Cross |
 |
| Maccy |
Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS |
MacOS |
 |
Containers
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Colima |
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Dockge |
A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager |
Cross |
 |
Dotfiles Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| chezmoi |
Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely. |
Cross |
 |
| yadm |
Yet Another Dotfiles Manager |
Cross CLI |
 |
File Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Electerm |
📻Terminal/ssh/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/sftp client(linux, mac, win) |
Cross |
 |
| If |
Terminal file manager |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Ranger |
A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Spacedrive |
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust. |
Cross |
 |
| Superfile |
Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager |
Cross |
 |
| xplr |
A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Yazi |
💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. |
Cross CLI |
 |
File Sharing
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| LocalSend |
An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop |
Cross CLI+ |
 |
| OnionShare |
Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network |
Cross |
 |
Keyboard Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Kanata |
Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization |
Cross |
 |
| Karabiner-Elements |
Karabiner-Elements is a powerful tool for customizing keyboards on macOS |
MacOS |
 |
| Kmonad |
An advanced keyboard manager |
Cross |
 |
Launcher
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Albert |
A fast and flexible keyboard launcher |
Cross |
 |
| Kando |
🌸 Do things with utmost efficiency. |
Cross |
 |
| Sol |
MacOS launcher & command palette |
MacOS |
 |
| Ueli |
Cross-Platform Keystroke Launcher |
Cross |
 |
| Wox |
A cross-platform launcher that simply works |
Cross |
 |
Package Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Homebrew |
macOS system monitor in your menu bar |
MacOS Linux CLI |
 |
| Nix |
Nix, the purely functional package manager |
Cross |
 |
| Spack |
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers. |
Cross |
 |
Remote Desktop
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| RustDesk |
An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. |
Cross |
 |
System
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Background Music |
Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio. |
MacOS |
 |
System Monitoring
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| bottom |
Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor. |
Cross CLI |
 |
| Stats |
macOS system monitor in your menu bar |
MacOS |
 |
Tools
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| balenaEtcher |
Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily. |
Cross |
 |
| fd |
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' |
Cross CLI |
 |
| inshellisense |
IDE style command line auto complete |
Cross CLI |
 |
| MonitorControl |
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs. |
MacOS |
 |
| OpenRGB |
Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software. |
Cross |
 |
| rga |
rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. |
Cross CLI |
 |
Version Manager
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| asdf |
Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more |
Cross CLI |
 |
| mise |
dev tools, env vars, task runner |
Cross CLI |
 |
| nvm |
Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions |
Cross CLI |
 |
| pyenv |
Simple Python version management |
Cross CLI |
 |
| rbenv |
Manage your app's Ruby environment |
Cross CLI |
 |
| vfox |
A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Flutter, .Net & more |
Cross CLI |
 |
| XcodesApp |
The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode - with a mouse click. |
MacOS |
 |
Virtual Machine
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Lima |
Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers |
MacOS Linux |
 |
| Quickemu |
Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines |
MacOS Linux |
 |
| UTM |
Virtual machines for iOS and macOS |
MacOS |
 |
| VirtualBuddy |
Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, VirtualBuddy is a virtual machine GUI for macOS M1, M2, M3 |
MacOS |
 |
Window Management
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| AeroSpace |
AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS |
MacOS |
 |
| Amethyst |
Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad. |
MacOS |
 |
| Loop |
Window management made elegant. |
MacOS |
 |
| Rectangle |
Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas |
MacOS |
 |
Other
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
Uncategorized
| Name |
Description |
Platform |
Stars |
| Whisky |
A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI |
MacOS |
 |
| XPipe |
Your entire server infrastructure at your fingertips |
Cross |
 |
Honorable Mentions of Closed-Source Software
Some proprietary software just deserve recognition.
- Davinci Resolve - Professional Editing, Color, Effects and Audio Post!
- Obsidian - The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
- LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs
- JetBrains - A rich suite of tools that provide an exceptional developer experience
- Raycast - A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher.
Removed Projects
Projects that were once on this list but removed - usually due to abandonement or going closed source.
Archive
FAQ
Will there ever be a definitive-opensource website?
A website is definitely on the roadmap. It would provide much requested features like tag based filtering and, on the backend, automate much of what we currently have to do manually. However, for the foreseeable future, the list will remain as a markdown file for one reason: to keep things simple. The current system lets me focus solely on the projects within. The complexities of web development seem unnecessary and an added pain for a task that can suffice, for now, as a markdown file.
The current system could also be considered a stepping stone to guage the community's needs prior to building a website, which would inherently be far more complex.
License
This project is released under the MIT license, hereby granting anyone to use, distribute, or modify this project for, but not limited to, commercial purposes. See the license tab for further information.
