14 Free and Open-source Macos Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
1- Amethyst
Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
Amethyst is a free open-source app that enables macOS control their app windows sizes, locations, layouts, and spaces. It has dozens of pre-build shortcuts, and several different layouts.
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2- appgrid
macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys
macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys
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3- Assembl
An effortless window manager for macOS
Assembl is a free and open-source app that quickly helps you organize and resize your app windows.
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4- itlwm
Intel Wi-Fi Drivers for macOS
Intel Wi-Fi Drivers for macOS
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5- HandBreak
Multimedia video converter
HandBeak is a video converter and transcode engine for macOS, Windows and Linux. It's free and open source. I have used it several times for my videos it's really easy to use has built-in preset library, supports multiple input sources and dozens of formats and quality options.
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6- Lynis
System Auditing Software
Lynis is a battle-tested security tool for systems running Linux, macOS, or Unix-based operating system. It performs an extensive health scan of your systems to support system hardening and compliance testing. The project is open source software with the GPL license and available since 2007.
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7- Maccy
Clipboard manager for macOS
Maccy is an advanced, lightweight, open-source clipboard manager for macOS. It comes with unique features to boost your productivity and the most prominent one is its shortcuts and unique hotkeys.
Maccy is a native macOS solution, written in Swift programming language by Alex Rodionov.
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8- OnyX
macOS maintenance apps
OnyX is an up-to-date macOS system maintenance app. It contains many system functions like file cleaning, removing old temporary files, cleaning caches and rebuilding database indexes.
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9- PaperWM.spoon
Tiled scrollable window manager for MacOS. Inspired by PaperWM.
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10- Rectangle WM
Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
Rectangle is a window management app written in Swift, based on Spectacle. It enables users to customize dozens of actions, such as screen layouts and window positions, and all shortcuts associated with them.
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11- stats
System monitor from the Menubar
Stats is a free, open-source native menubar macOS application that display all of your system stats in real-time.
It is the right open-source alternative to a dozen of proprietary programs.
Stats app is still in active development, however it gains momentum as thousands of macOS users started to use it right away.
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12- Tiles
Free Tiling Window Manager for macOS
Tiles is a free Tiling Window Manager for macOS.
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13- VLC
Multimedia player for all platforms
VLC is a libre and open source media player and multimedia engine, focused on playing everything, and running everywhere.
VLC can play most multimedia files, discs, streams, devices and is also able to convert, encode, stream and manipulate streams into numerous formats.
VLC is used by many over the world, on numerous platforms, for very different use cases.
The engine of VLC can be embedded into 3rd party applications, and is called libVLC.
VLC is part of the VideoLAN project and is developed and supported by a community of volunteers.
The VideoLAN project was started at the university École Centrale Paris who relicensed VLC under the GPLv2 license in February 2001. Since then, VLC has been downloaded billions of times.
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14- yabai
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
yabai is a window management utility that is designed to work as an extension to the built-in window manager of macOS. yabai allows you to control your windows, spaces and displays freely using an intuitive command line interface and optionally set user-defined keyboard shortcuts using ↗ skhd and other third-party software.
The primary function of yabai is tiling window management; automatically modifying your window layout using a binary space partitioning algorithm to allow you to focus on the content of your windows without distractions. Additional features of yabai include focus-follows-mouse, disabling animations for switching spaces, creating spaces past the limit of 16 spaces, and much more.
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