Open-source apple-ecosystem software
485 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged apple-ecosystem, ranked by how closely apple-ecosystem is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
485 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| ravenac95/sudolikeaboss sudolikeaboss is a macOS command-line tool that lets users retrieve passwords from the 1Password desktop app directly in iTerm2, e.g. to fi… | 10 | 1503 | abandoned |
| kennytm/iphone-private-frameworks A collection of C headers for private frameworks and undocumented interfaces of iPhoneOS 3.x and earlier, used for jailbroken iOS tweak dev… | 10 | 1460 | abandoned |
| PopcornTimeTV/PopcornTimeTV Popcorn Time client for Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad that streams movies and TV shows via torrents. Written in Swift, it was maintained by a … | 10 | 1400 | abandoned |
| supermarin/YosemiteSanFranciscoFont A small installer (Ruby script plus font files) that replaces the Helvetica Neue system font on OS X 10.10 Yosemite with Apple's San Franci… | 10 | 1312 | abandoned |
| insidegui/PodcastMenu A macOS menu bar app that wraps the Overcast podcast service so you can listen to podcasts from your Mac's menu bar. It supports media-key … | 32 | 1265 | abandoned |
| Boot2Docker A macOS installer package (Docker.pkg) for Boot2Docker, the legacy tool for running Docker on Mac OS X via a lightweight Linux VM. The proj… | 10 | 1236 | abandoned |
| gekitz/UIDevice-with-UniqueIdentifier-for-iOS-5 An Objective-C category on UIDevice that restores unique device identifier support on iOS 5 by hashing the device MAC address (optionally c… | 32 | 1228 | abandoned |
| Lin Lin is an Xcode plugin that provides auto-completion for NSLocalizedString and related localization functions in Objective-C and Swift. It … | 10 | 1219 | abandoned |
| Nyx0uf/qlImageSize A pair of macOS plugins (QuickLook and Spotlight) that display image dimensions, DPI, and file size in the Finder preview title bar, and ad… | 55 | 1198 | abandoned |
| insidegui/AnimojiStudio A standalone iOS app that records Animoji videos of unlimited duration using Apple's private AvatarKit framework and ReplayKit screen recor… | 10 | 1167 | abandoned |
| github/Rebel Rebel is an Objective-C Cocoa framework that improves AppKit on macOS by adding categories to fix bugs and make APIs nicer, plus new classe… | 10 | 1118 | abandoned |
| yulingtianxia/FishChat FishChat is an Objective-C hooking project that injects a dylib into a decrypted WeChat.app binary to modify its behavior on non-jailbroken… | 10 | 1102 | abandoned |
| jefferyleo/f.lux An Xcode project that lets users sideload the f.lux screen color temperature app onto iOS devices without jailbreaking. It works by splicin… | 23 | 1082 | abandoned |
| artemgordinskiy/Spotifree Spotifree is a free macOS application that automatically detects and mutes audio ads on Spotify by polling the Spotify client. It is discon… | 10 | 1049 | abandoned |
| webfrogs/xcode_shell A collection of shell scripts for automating iOS Xcode project builds, packaging .ipa files, and publishing them to fir.im or a self-hosted… | 32 | 1032 | abandoned |
| Animoji Toolkit An iOS app that records Animoji videos up to 60 seconds long using Apple's private AvatarKit framework, the same framework behind Messages.… | 32 | 1008 | abandoned |
| TheBoredTeam/boring.notch Boring Notch is a macOS menubar-style app that turns the MacBook notch into a dynamic music control center with a visualizer, plus calendar… | 73 | 10941 | active |
| farzaa/clicky Clicky is an open-source macOS app that acts as an AI teacher living next to your cursor — it can see your screen, talk with you via voice,… | 47 | 7707 | active |
| glushchenko/fsnotes FSNotes is a fast, native open-source note-taking app for macOS and iOS built around plain Markdown and plaintext files stored in user-cont… | 99 | 7529 | active |
| Beingpax/VoiceInk VoiceInk is a native macOS voice-to-text dictation app that transcribes speech to text almost instantly using local AI models (Parakeet, Wh… | 84 | 6693 | active |
| apfel apfel is a Swift CLI tool that exposes Apple's built-in on-device Foundation Models LLM on Apple Silicon Macs as a UNIX-friendly command, a… | 77 | 6453 | active |
| github/CopilotForXcode GitHub Copilot for Xcode is an AI coding assistant plugin for Xcode providing code completions, chat, agent mode, and code review for Swift… | 86 | 6338 | active |
| TableProApp/TablePro TablePro is a free, open-source, native macOS (and iOS/iPadOS) database client supporting 29 SQL and NoSQL engines through native drivers, … | 80 | 6283 | active |
| gluonfield/enchanted Enchanted is an open-source iOS/macOS/visionOS chat app that connects to a self-hosted Ollama server to chat with private local language mo… | 69 | 6008 | active |
| AidLux (AidLearning) AidLux (originally AidLearning) is an AIoT development platform that runs a native Ubuntu Linux environment with GUI, deep learning tooling… | 63 | 5812 | active |
| Telegram for macOS The official open-source Telegram messaging client for macOS, written in Swift. It provides the full Telegram experience—chats, calls, chan… | 48 | 5768 | active |
| Sikarugir-App/Sikarugir Sikarugir is a macOS application that wraps Windows software in user-friendly Wine-based ports, serving as the successor to Wineskin. It bu… | 67 | 3737 | active |
| Lessica/TrollFools TrollFools is an iOS application for TrollStore that performs in-place tweak injection into installed apps using insert_dylib and ChOma. It… | 91 | 3656 | active |
| Yue-Yang/ChatGPT-Siri A set of Apple Shortcuts that connect Siri to the ChatGPT API, turning Siri into an AI chat assistant on iPhone, iPad, Mac, HomePod, and Ca… | 69 | 3650 | active |
| Tunnelblick/Tunnelblick Tunnelblick is a free, open-source graphical user interface for OpenVPN on macOS, managing both client and server connections. It is a nati… | 95 | 3287 | active |
| matthartman/ghost-pepper A free, open-source macOS menu bar app providing fully on-device speech-to-text dictation and meeting transcription using local Whisper, Pa… | 72 | 3186 | active |
| kmikiy/SpotMenu SpotMenu is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that shows the currently playing track from Spotify or Apple Music with hover playback c… | 74 | 3141 | active |
| gdbinit/MachOView A macOS GUI application for viewing and exploring Mach-O binary files, revived as a maintained fork with a universal x86_64/arm64 build. It… | 32 | 2869 | active |
| apple/turicreate Turi Create is a Python library from Apple that simplifies building custom machine learning models for tasks like image classification, obj… | 10 | 11155 | maintenance |
| pluk-inc/markdown-preview A fast, native macOS application for reading and previewing Markdown files with a document outline, edit mode, Mermaid diagram rendering, a… | 78 | 2563 | active |
| NodePassProject/Anywhere Anywhere is a native proxy client for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS built entirely in Swift with no external proxy-core bridges. It implemen… | 67 | 2441 | active |
| Fullmoon fullmoon is a free, open-source iOS/iPadOS/macOS/visionOS app for chatting with local large language models, built on Apple's MLX Swift fra… | 30 | 2268 | active |
| Core AI Apple's repository of model export recipes, Python primitives, and Swift runtime utilities for building on-device AI with the Core AI frame… | 70 | 2198 | active |
| leetal/ios-cmake A CMake toolchain file enabling cross-compilation of C, C++, Objective-C/C++ and Swift projects to Apple platforms including iOS, iPadOS, t… | 93 | 2183 | active |
| macosui/macos_ui A Flutter package providing widgets and themes that implement the current macOS design language. It lets developers build apps with native-… | 65 | 2134 | active |
| 520coding/confuse A Mac application that performs source-to-source obfuscation of iOS projects, simulating human-style renaming with context awareness includ… | 83 | 2090 | active |
| Cenmrev/V2RayX V2RayX is a macOS GUI application that wraps v2ray-core, generating its config file and managing the core process via launchd. It lets user… | 10 | 7618 | maintenance |
| Ollamac Ollamac is a native macOS application that provides a chat interface for interacting with local Ollama models. It supports all Ollama model… | 31 | 1910 | active |
| TypeWhisper/typewhisper-mac TypeWhisper is a macOS application for local, on-device speech-to-text dictation built on WhisperKit, with optional cloud transcription via… | 79 | 1856 | active |
| Coopydood/ultimate-macOS-KVM A Python-based automation toolkit and guide for creating macOS virtual machines on Linux using KVM/QEMU, with OpenCore bootstrapping and op… | 63 | 1711 | active |
| sickcodes/osx-serial-generator A shell-based tool that generates valid macOS serial numbers, UUIDs, and board serials for use with OpenCore, OSX-KVM, and Docker-OSX. It i… | 35 | 1678 | stable |
| outtable/confuse-9live A macOS GUI application (distributed as a DMG, not source code) that obfuscates iOS app binaries and resources to bypass App Store review i… | 77 | 1633 | active |
| andrew-waters/orchard Orchard is a native Swift macOS GUI for Apple's container tooling, serving as a Docker Desktop replacement for managing containers, Linux V… | 85 | 1627 | active |
| nohajc/anylinuxfs A Rust CLI utility for macOS that mounts any Linux-supported filesystem (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ZFS, NTFS, exFAT, etc.) with full read-write acc… | 84 | 1579 | active |
| VirgilClyne/GetSomeFries A collection of JavaScript rewrite and script modules for proxy clients (Loon, Surge, Stash, Shadowrocket, Quantumult X) that unlock full A… | 65 | 1526 | active |
| halo/LinkLiar LinkLiar is a free, open-source macOS status menu application written in Swift for spoofing the MAC addresses of Wi-Fi and Ethernet interfa… | 35 | 1491 | active |
| yuzeguitarist/Deck Deck is a native, privacy-first clipboard manager for macOS built with Swift and SwiftUI. It records clipboard history (text, images, files… | 64 | 1450 | active |
| WireGuard/wireguard-apple The official WireGuard VPN client application for iOS and macOS, written in Swift, including the WireGuardKit Swift package for integrating… | 32 | 1411 | active |
| kimsungwhee/apple-docs-mcp An MCP server that exposes Apple Developer Documentation to AI assistants like Claude and Cursor. It provides search and retrieval of iOS/m… | 38 | 1385 | active |
| xjbeta/iina-plus IINA+ is a small macOS application that adds danmaku (bullet comment) support and live-stream/video playback for Chinese platforms to the I… | 97 | 1384 | active |
| Passepartout Passepartout is an OpenVPN and WireGuard VPN client app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, built on the Partout tunnel framework. It offe… | 93 | 1368 | active |
| beeware/Python-Apple-support A meta-package that downloads, patches, and builds relocatable Python frameworks for embedding into macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS… | 98 | 1363 | active |
| tryzealot/zealot Zealot is a self-hosted web platform for distributing beta and internal builds of Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux applications, act… | 95 | 1359 | stable |
| ik190/macos-chatgpt-overlay-bar A lightweight macOS menubar application that provides instant overlay access to ChatGPT from anywhere on the desktop. It acts as an indepen… | 56 | 1323 | active |
| kellyvv/PhoneClaw PhoneClaw is a mobile-native local AI agent framework that turns phones into on-device agent runtimes, running Gemma models via LiteRT and … | 71 | 1279 | active |
| lexrus/VPNOn VPNOn is an open-source iOS app that adds a Today Widget to Notification Center, letting users toggle IPSec IKEv1/IKEv2 VPN connections in … | 10 | 4507 | maintenance |
| aiaf/Stillcolor Stillcolor is a lightweight macOS menu bar application that disables GPU/DCP-generated temporal dithering (FRC) on Apple silicon Macs (M1/M… | 16 | 1222 | active |
| lattegou/airtiz AirTiz is a lightweight, native macOS VPN/proxy client built in Swift on top of the open-source mihomo (Clash Meta) kernel. It offers tray-… | 61 | 1201 | active |
| Speech An open-source Swift toolkit for on-device speech AI on Apple Silicon, providing ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, VAD, and speaker diarization v… | 81 | 1200 | active |
| Foundation Models Framework A native iOS and macOS workbench app for learning, testing, and evaluating Apple's Foundation Models framework. It provides editable recipe… | 79 | 1185 | active |
| Dadoum/Sideloader Sideloader is an open-source, cross-platform tool for signing and installing third-party applications onto iOS devices, written in D. It pr… | 63 | 1036 | active |
| nabla-c0d3/ssl-kill-switch2 SSL Kill Switch 2 is a blackbox Cydia Substrate tweak that disables SSL/TLS certificate validation, including certificate pinning, in iOS a… | 23 | 3317 | maintenance |
| rsms/fb-mac-messenger An unofficial native macOS app that wraps Facebook's Messenger web client in a desktop application. It provides a standalone Messenger expe… | 49 | 2835 | maintenance |
| seemoo-lab/openhaystack OpenHaystack is a framework and macOS application for creating custom Bluetooth tracking tags that leverage Apple's Find My (offline findin… | 63 | 13695 | experimental |
| mmattozzi/cocoa-rest-client CocoaRestClient is a free, native macOS application for testing and debugging HTTP/REST endpoints, built in Objective-C. It offers a lightw… | 23 | 2369 | maintenance |
| twostraws/Unwrap Unwrap is a free iOS app by Paul Hudson that teaches the Swift programming language through nearly 100 video lessons, interactive reviews, … | 70 | 2332 | maintenance |
| bustoutsolutions/siesta Siesta is a Swift library for building REST API clients on iOS, macOS, and tvOS. It provides an app-wide, observable, resource-centric cach… | 23 | 2178 | maintenance |
| scrod/nv Notational Velocity is a modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application where searching and creating notes share a single incremental… | 100 | 2103 | maintenance |
| duckduckgo/iOS The DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS, an open-source mobile web browser with built-in private search, third-party tracker blocking, ad bl… | 10 | 1951 | maintenance |
| gdbinit A feature-rich .gdbinit configuration script that enhances GDB with custom commands, macros, and a reverse-engineering-oriented interface f… | 32 | 1798 | maintenance |
| specialunderwear/Hosts.prefpane A macOS System Preferences pane providing a Cocoa GUI for editing /etc/hosts, with input validation and per-entry enable/disable toggles. I… | 23 | 1631 | maintenance |
| orta/cocoapods-keys A CocoaPods plugin that stores per-developer environment and application keys securely in the macOS keychain instead of source code. On pod… | 32 | 1547 | maintenance |
| maderix/ANE A research project demonstrating backpropagation and neural network training directly on Apple's Neural Engine using reverse-engineered pri… | 44 | 7275 | experimental |
| graceavery/tamagotchiTemp Touchbar Pet is a macOS application that displays a virtual pet (tamagotchi-style) living in the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar. The pet walks aro… | 32 | 1174 | maintenance |
| vas3k/btt-touchbar-presets A community collection of BetterTouchTool presets for customizing the MacBook Pro Touch Bar, including widgets for media playback, weather,… | 10 | 1820 | abandoned |
| chaitin/passionfruit Passionfruit is a web-based GUI tool for blackbox assessment of iOS apps, built on the Frida instrumentation framework and Vue.js. It lets … | 10 | 1668 | abandoned |
| graphsketcher/GraphSketcher GraphSketcher is a fast, simple graph drawing and data plotting application for Mac OS X and iPad, originally developed by Robin Stewart an… | 23 | 1623 | abandoned |
| hollance/Forge Forge is a Swift library that wraps Apple's MPSCNN (Metal Performance Shaders CNN) framework to make it easier to build and run deep neural… | 32 | 1265 | abandoned |
| DeepLearningKit/DeepLearningKit DeepLearningKit is an open-source deep learning framework for Apple's iOS, OS X and tvOS, written in Swift and using Metal for GPU-accelera… | 32 | 1059 | abandoned |
| FancyPixel/gulps Gulps is an open-source iOS and Apple Watch app for tracking daily water consumption, letting users set goals and log intake via the app or… | 10 | 1059 | abandoned |
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