macOS OpenSource Apps

Media:

• [Un]MuteMic

  macOS app to mute & unmute the input volume of your microphone. Perfect for podcasters.

• Audacity

  Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source.

• Aural

  Aural Player is an audio player application for the macOS platform, that was inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows.

• Background Music

  Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

• duetdisplay

  Ex-Apple Engineers turn your iPad into an extra display.

• freac

  fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.

• GIMP

  GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems.

• IINA

  The modern video player for macOS.

• Kap

  An open-source screen recorder built with web technology.

• Katana

  a powerful, open-source screenshot utility for macOS.

• Media Converter

  Media Converter is a plugin based video and audio converter. It uses ffmpeg as it's engine, which allows it to convert to a lot of formats.

• VLC

  VLC is a popular libre and open source media player and multimedia engine.

• ballast

  Keep your audio balance from drifting!.

• HandBrake

  HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

• Shotcut

  Video editor.

• ScreenTray

  A macOS app for capturing, annotating and sharing screenshots.

• OBS Studio

  Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording.

• Pennywise

  Cross-platform application to open any website or media in a floating window.

• OpenShot

  OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and is dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.

• Streamlabs OBS

  Simple, powerful, and efficient live streaming software built on Electron and OBS.

• LosslessCut

  The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing.

Security:

• Bit Warden

  Open source password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations.

• Tor Browser

  Tor protects your privacy on the internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use.

• VeraCrypt

  Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCry◊pt.

• Buttercup

  Cross-platform, free and open-source password manager based on NodeJS.

• Sloth

  Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use by all running applications.

• AES Crypt

  AES Crypt is a file encryption software available on several operating systems that uses the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to easily and securely encrypt files.

Developer:

• Visual Studio Code

  VS Code is a type of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. It provides comprehensive editing and debugging support, an extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.

• hub

  hub is an extension to command-line git that helps you do everyday GitHub tasks without ever leaving the terminal.

• GitHub Desktop

  GitHub Desktop is an open source Electron-based GitHub app. It is written in TypeScript and uses React.

• Mark Text

  Next generation markdown editor.

• Phoenix

  My Phoenix setup. Powerful, easy to customize, tuned for web development, adds a space switcher.

• iTerm2

  Term2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

• Streaker

  GitHub contribution streak & stat tracking menu bar app.

• Finder Go

  Open terminal quickly from Finder.

• GitUp

  The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.

• RunJS

  A JavaScript playground that auto-evaluates as you type.

• Hyper

  A terminal built on web technologies.

Desktop:

• Amethyst

  Tiling window manager for macOS along the lines of xmonad.

• LICEcap

  LICEcap simple animated screen capture tool for Windows and OS X.

• Spectacle

  Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.

• Station

  The one app to rule them all.

Office & Notes:

• LibreOffice

  LibreOffice is an integrated office suite based on copyleft licenses and compatible with most document formats and standards.

• Manta

  A desktop application for creating invoices with beautiful and customizable templates.

• Notable

  The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.

• Standard Notes

  A simple and private notes app. Mac, PC, & Linux app.

• Mark Text

  Next generation markdown editor, running on platforms of MacOS Windows and Linux.

• Boostnote

  A markdown editor for developers on Mac, Windows and Linux.

• Brave Browser

  Next generation Brave browser for macOS, Windows, Linux, and eventually Android.

• FreeMind

  FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java.

MenuBar:

• Getbitbar

  BitBar lets you put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar.

• KeepingYouAwake

  KeepingYouAwake is a small menu bar utility for macOS (Version 10.10 and newer) that can prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated.

• Menubar Colors

  This a utility that runs in the OS X menubar that allows for quick access to the system-wide color panel.

• Numi

  Numi is a handy calculator app for macOS. It allows to describe tasks the natural way and instantly get an accurate answer.

• Touch Bar Simulator

  Use the Touch Bar on any Mac.

• Maccy

  Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS.

• uPic

  uPic is a native, powerful, beautiful and simple picture and file upload tool for macOS.

• Spectacle

  Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.

• MeetingBar

  MeetingBar is a menu bar app for your calendar meetings (macOS 10.15+).

• MonitorControl

  Control your external monitor brightness, contrast or volume directly from a menulet or with keyboard native keys.

System:

• Dozer

  Dozer lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.

• Hidden Bar

  A ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons.

• Clean Me

  A small macOS app that acts as a system cleaner.

• FiScript

  FiScript is an open source application for MacOS, released under the MIT License. FiScript lets you execute custom scripts on your files/folders from the context menu in Finder.

• Loading

  Simple network activity monitor for OS X.

• MacCacheCleaner

  Mac cache cleaner.

• Keka

  The macOS file archiver.

• iCanHazShortcut

  Simple shortcut manager for OS X 10.8 or higher.

• AppTrap

  Moving an application to the trash is simple and easy. Shouldn't true uninstallation on the Mac be the same way?.

• Lunar

  Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external display.

• Proxyman

  A modern and intuitive HTTP Debugging Proxy app.

• Green Tunnel

  GreenTunnel, Deep Packet Inspection blocker that defeats censorship and DPI against large nation-state regimes!

• Apple Juice

  An advanced battery gauge for macOS, that displays the remaining battery time and more.

• NitroShare

  Network file transfer application for Windows, OS X, & Linux.

• Etcher

  Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

• DatWeatherDoe

  Simple menu bar weather app for macOS.

• Lulu

  LuLu is the free macOS firewall.

• Meteorologist

  Meteorologist is a free weather program for OS X. It allows users total control over their weather viewing, including simultaneous interlaced weather reports from multiple weather servers, multiple weather locations, weather alerts and much more.

• Grayscale Mode

  A macOS menu bar app that gives you more control over Grayscale Mode.

• Cloaker

  Simple password-based file encryption.

• Stats

  Simple macOS system monitor in your menu bar.

• Nocturnal

  Have more control over your screen at night.

Chat:

• Telegram

  Telegram Desktop messaging app.

RSS:

• ViennaRSS

  Vienna is a free and open-source RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS.

Dowload:

• qbittorrent

  qBittorrent BitTorrent client.

• Motrix

  A full-featured download manager.

• Video Downloader

  A video and channel downloader that supports 110 websites, powered by Electron and youtube-dl.

Backup:

• Mega

  The mega.nz web client.

VPN:

• Mullvad VPN

  In a society increasingly determined to erode that right, a fast, trustworthy and easy-to-use VPN is a good first step toward reclaiming it.