# wouterdebie/davit

A native macOS UI for Apple's platform

Repository: https://github.com/wouterdebie/davit
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/davit
Language: Swift
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T00:01:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 4
- inputs: {"age_days": 60, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 25}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1307, forks 26 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:18.936258+00:00)

## What it is
Davit is a native SwiftUI macOS application providing a graphical interface for Apple's container platform (Linux containers as lightweight VMs on Apple silicon). It communicates directly with container-apiserver over XPC to manage containers, images, volumes, and networks without shelling out to the CLI.

## Use cases
- manage apple containers with a gui instead of the cli
- docker desktop alternative for apple silicon macs
- view live cpu and memory stats of running containers
- stream container logs on macos
- browse and manage container images, volumes, and networks visually
- open an interactive shell into a container from a mac app

## When to choose
- you use Apple's container platform on Apple silicon and want a native GUI
- you prefer a lightweight SwiftUI app over Electron-based Docker Desktop alternatives
- you need live stats, log streaming, and file browsing for containers in one app

## When to avoid
- you need Docker or Kubernetes compatibility rather than Apple's container runtime
- you run on Linux or Windows
- you only need a CLI workflow and don't want a GUI

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, container-runtime, developer-tools, monitoring, logging
- domain: developer-tools, operating-systems, self-hosted
- platform: -
- tags: swiftui, apple-container, docker-desktop-alternative, container-management, xpc, apple-silicon, orbstack-alternative, containers, macos, swift, desktop

## Member repositories
- wouterdebie/davit (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:18.936258+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:50:17.335790+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wouterdebie/davit (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:18.936258+00:00, sha 454b22ceaea2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.