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rupa/z

z - jump around

Stack

Shell

Updated: 2024-06-19
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2009-06-19
History: 11 history points
License: WTFPL
Issues: 108 open

17,059

stars

Forks: 1,174
Commits: 217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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BoostIO/BoostNote-Legacy

This repository is outdated and new Boost Note app is available! We've launched a new Boost Note app which supports real-time collaborative writing. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App

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Stack

JavaScript Electron Express React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#electron #linux #macos #open-source #react #stylus

Updated: 2023-04-19
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-26
History: 15 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 528 open

16,888

stars

Forks: 1,446
Commits: 4,730 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

signalapp/Signal-Desktop

A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Stack

TypeScript Electron React Tailwind CSS Vite npm pnpm

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-10
History: 13 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 889 open

16,548

stars

Forks: 3,126
Commits: 13,601 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Windows alt-tab on macOS

AI dev

Stack

Swift npm Pipenv

GitHub topics

#alt-tab #alttab #expose #macos #mission-control #task-switcher

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-27
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 79 open

16,309

stars

Forks: 873
Commits: 2,014 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ianyh/Amethyst

Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#mac #macos #window-manager #xmonad

Updated: 2026-08-19
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-14
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 296 open

16,274

stars

Forks: 534
Commits: 1,375 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Stack

Objective-C CocoaPods pip

GitHub topics

#automation #hammerspoon #irc #lua #macos #mjolnir

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-12-02
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 694 open

16,177

stars

Forks: 720
Commits: 6,938 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cryptomator/cryptomator

Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#cloud-storage #crypto #cryptography #cryptomator #encryption #java

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-02
History: 14 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 285 open

16,172

stars

Forks: 1,543
Commits: 6,518 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mobile-dev-inc/Maestro

Painless E2E Automation for Mobile and Web

AI dev

Stack

Kotlin Android Flutter React Tailwind CSS CocoaPods Dart Pub Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #blackbox-testing #ios #ui-automation

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-04-01
History: 141 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 472 open

16,091

stars

Forks: 992
Commits: 1,772 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +85 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +9 +0.5%

Website GitHub

getlantern/lantern

Open-source VPN for speed, privacy, and censorship circumvention. Free to download on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Stack

Dart Android Flutter gRPC Go Shelf CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#accelerator #censorship #circumvention #gfw #lantern #router

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-02
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 38 open

16,032

stars

Forks: 11,044
Commits: 1,424 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zotero/zotero

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript React npm

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-02-21
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,606 open

15,402

stars

Forks: 1,133
Commits: 16,820 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mltframework/shotcut

cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #gplv3 #mlt #shotcut #video-editor

Updated: 2026-09-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-22
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 49 open

15,279

stars

Forks: 1,516
Commits: 7,374 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

transmission/transmission

Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Qt CMake Gradle npm

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2006-01-12
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 874 open

15,253

stars

Forks: 1,446
Commits: 16,915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

keycastr/keycastr

KeyCastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer

Stack

Objective-C

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-02-19
History: 13 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 90 open

15,129

stars

Forks: 578
Commits: 394 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

musescore/MuseScore

MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake npm PDM

GitHub topics

#cpp #musescore #music-notation #musicxml #qt #sfz

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-05-24
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4,245 open

15,129

stars

Forks: 3,300
Commits: 49,095 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

electerm/electerm

📻Free and open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/ftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice client(Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, HarmonyOS, iOS)

Stack

JavaScript Electron Express React Vite npm

GitHub topics

#ai #android #electerm #electron #ftp #harmonyos

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-10-07
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 339 open

15,124

stars

Forks: 1,220
Commits: 3,759 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dwarvesf/hidden

An ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#macos #swift #utilities

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-12
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 111 open

14,881

stars

Forks: 503
Commits: 128 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tisfeng/Easydict

一个简洁优雅的词典翻译 macOS App。开箱即用，支持离线 OCR 识别，支持有道词典，🍎 苹果系统词典，🍎 苹果系统翻译，OpenAI，Gemini，DeepL，Google，Bing，腾讯，百度，阿里，小牛，彩云和火山翻译。A concise and elegant Dictionary and Translator macOS App for looking up words and translating text.

AI dev

Stack

Swift Bundler CocoaPods npm

GitHub topics

#app #baidu #bing #deepl #dictionary #gemini

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-10-30
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 183 open

14,782

stars

Forks: 760
Commits: 4,376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

alienator88/Pearcleaner

A free, source-available and fair-code licensed mac app cleaner

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-11-13
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 85 open

14,692

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 1,007 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

textmate/textmate

TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later

Stack

Objective-C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cocoa #macos #objective-c-plus-plus #texteditor #textmate

Updated: 2024-05-18
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-09
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

14,578

stars

Forks: 1,757
Commits: 5,757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hrydgard/ppsspp

A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulators #ppsspp #psp

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-24
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,251 open

14,552

stars

Forks: 2,642
Commits: 48,144 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

qemu/qemu

Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

AI dev

Stack

C pytest Cargo Meson pip

GitHub topics

#emulation #qemu #virtualization

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

13,790

stars

Forks: 7,231
Commits: 133,545 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Zettlr/Zettlr

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

Stack

TypeScript Electron Vue Yarn

GitHub topics

#desktop #docx #electron #html #languages #libreoffice

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-26
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 543 open

13,593

stars

Forks: 846
Commits: 9,311 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui

Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed.

Stack

JavaScript Electron Vue npm pip

GitHub topics

#electron-app #macos #stable-diffusion

Updated: 2024-10-30
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-09-06
History: 10 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 402 open

13,590

stars

Forks: 728
Commits: 277 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

objective-see/LuLu

LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall

Stack

Objective-C

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-09-10
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 531 open

13,232

stars

Forks: 599
Commits: 605 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

darktable-org/darktable

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

AI dev

Stack

C CMake npm

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-07
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 672 open

13,111

stars

Forks: 1,436
Commits: 47,336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

keeweb/keeweb

Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass

Stack

HTML Electron npm

GitHub topics

#electron #javascript #keepass #keeweb #password #password-manager

Updated: 2026-05-08
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-10-17
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 441 open

12,998

stars

Forks: 1,160
Commits: 3,925 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vnotex/vnote

A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#editor #markdown #mathjax #note #note-taking #uml

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 9 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 176 open

12,986

stars

Forks: 1,296
Commits: 3,548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

codexu/note-gen

Capture first. Organize later. A local-first Markdown app that turns scattered records into clear notes with AI.

Stack

TypeScript Android Axum Next.js React Cargo Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#agent #ai-notes #knowledge-base #knowledge-management #llm #local-first

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2024-08-06
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 99 open

12,855

stars

Forks: 974
Commits: 1,836 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

marp-team/marp

The entrance repository of Markdown presentation ecosystem

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tailwind CSS npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#deck #markdown #marp #presentation #slides

Updated: 2026-07-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-25
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

12,552

stars

Forks: 299
Commits: 510 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

FelixKratz/SketchyBar

A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement

Stack

GitHub topics

#bar #customization #darwin #macos #ricing #shell-scripts

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-03-29
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 78 open

12,405

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 1,103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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