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A curated collection of open-source macOS applications built with Swift

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What's inside

Wallpaper

  • 500-mac-wallpaper

    Wallpaper downloader that fetches photos from 500px.

  • Artify

    A macOS application for bringing dedicatedly 18th century Arts to everyone

  • BingPaper

    Use Bing daily photo as your wallpaper on macOS.

AI

  • AccountyCat

    AI focus companion that detects attention drift from your active context and gives brief nudges to get you back on task.

  • ADHD Focus Mate

    AI focus companion that gently nudges you back on task when distracted.

  • AgentBar

    Monitor all your AI coding sessions from a single menu bar item — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.

  • Agent Island

    Status companion for Claude Code and Codex with live session state, your-turn alerts, and local monitoring.

  • Aiassistant

    Lightweight one-click AI quick processing tool.

  • AI Memory Reader

    Browser and editor for AI agent memory files, with beautiful rendering and support for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and more.

Compression tool

  • Achico

    A minimal free macOS local file compressor app

Games

  • AdaEngine

    A cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine written in Swift.

AI Usage/Status

  • adrafinil

    Menu bar tool that prevents sleep only while AI coding agents have an active session.

  • Agent Beacon

    Tiny status lights for coding agents that show done, waiting, failed, or running tasks, with click-to-jump back to the source app.

  • AgentConfig

    Centralized config and API key manager for AI coding tools like Codex and Claude Code, with quick multi-profile switching.

  • AgentPet

    Tracks multiple coding agents in one glance by showing who is working, done, or waiting for your input, with a reactive desktop pet.

  • AIUsage

    Dashboard for tracking AI subscriptions, quotas, costs, and accounts.

  • CCBar

    At a Glance: Usage & Costs of Codex vs. Claude Code.

Screensaver

  • Aerial

    Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for macOS.

  • Brooklyn

    Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018.

Window Management

  • AeroSpace

    AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

  • Amethyst

    Automatic tiling window manager for macOS.

  • AnyDrag

    Drag any window by holding a modifier key and clicking anywhere — smooth as a native title bar.

  • AnyPiP

    Turns the frontmost window into an always-on-top picture-in-picture overlay from the menu bar.

  • BetterCmdTab

    Fast, native ⌘Tab replacement with liquid glass design and zero telemetry.

  • CloseUp

    Overlays window controls onto Mission Control, with full keyboard support.

Menubar

  • AirBattery

    Show all your devices’ battery levels in the Dock, menu bar, or widgets.

  • Alertivity

    Real-time system health status in the menu bar

  • app-menu

    The missing Applications Menu for macOS

  • App Monitor

    Local-first utility for understanding app usage, storage, cleanup, updates, and uninstall impact in one dashboard.

  • Aquarium

    Menu bar utility that keeps your Mac awake with the lid closed.

  • atst

    Tiny menu bar translator: press a hotkey to translate selected text, with built-in Google/Microsoft adapters and optional AI dictionary explanations.

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