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touchbar/Touch-Bar-Preview

:computer: Touch Bar Preview is a small app to display your designs on the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar.

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#application #design #design-tools #free-software #macbook #macos

Updated: 2019-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-03
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 43 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

xiaohk/FaceData

A macOS app to parse face landmarks from a video for training GANs

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#annotator #gans #macos #swift #vision

Updated: 2021-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-24
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 13 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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lyc2345/Lyricism

macOS app to show you lyric what currently iTunes or Spotify is playing.

Stack

Swift CocoaPods

Updated: 2017-05-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-16
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 57 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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LumingYin/StickyNotes

A Windows 10-esque Sticky Notes app implemented in AppKit.

Archived

Stack

Swift

Updated: 2018-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-05
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 24 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

remirobert/Github-contributions

:cat: GitHub contributions app, for iOS, WatchOS, and OSX

Stack

Swift CocoaPods

Updated: 2019-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-08
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 12 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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simplelocalize/simplelocalize-cli

SimpleLocalize CLI is a developer-friendly command-line tool for uploading and downloading translation files

Stack

Java Maven

GitHub topics

#cli #i18n #localization #simplelocalize

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-28
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 671 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

friedrichweise/wechsel

use your keyboard to manage bluetooth connections on macOS

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#airpods #bluetooth #bluetooth-connection #keyboard #macos #osx-application

Updated: 2022-05-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-13
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 5 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 87 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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JustinFincher/BoardForGitHub

A small application to monitor your GitHub project web page in a webview-based native macOS app

Stack

Objective-C CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#board #github-pages #macos #project #trello

Updated: 2017-06-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-28
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 44 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lucasbento/menubar-brightness

MacOS app to change the screen brightness on the menubar.

Stack

JavaScript Electron npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#brightness #brightness-control #electron #electron-app #macos #menubar

Updated: 2017-11-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-24
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 33 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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LumingYin/QuickCaption

Transcribe and generate caption files (SRT and FCPXML) without manually entering time codes.

Archived

Stack

Swift

Updated: 2019-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-30
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 282 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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tidiemme/monitorbar

System resource monitor for macOS menubar

Stack

Swift

Updated: 2023-12-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-09
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 24 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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alexrosenfeld10/Quickeys

A mac menu bar app that provides note taking functionality though a quick dropdown menu.

Stack

Swift CocoaPods Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#apple #mac #menubar #notes #osx #statusbar

Updated: 2020-11-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-10
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 96 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

App-Fair/App

Open-source browser and installer for Homebrew casks and macOS/iOS apps

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#appfair-utilities

Updated: 2024-03-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-09-27
History: 11 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 975 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bsdelf/mous

Lightweight audio player & converter for FreeBSD/Linux/macOS

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #converter #ncurses #player #qt

Updated: 2023-01-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-01-27
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 5 open

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 952 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hcmhcs/screenTranslate

Screen translation app for macOS — select any area, get instant translation. On-device by default with Apple Vision OCR + Apple Translation.

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#apple-translation #macos #menu-bar-app #ocr #screen-capture #swift

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2026-03-02
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MemeMaker/Meme-Maker-Mac

Meme Maker open source macOS app made in Swift.

Stack

Swift CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#app #apple #macos #meme-maker #memes #osx

Updated: 2016-10-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-05-20
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 43 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

vishaltelangre/Kyapchar

Simple screen and microphone audio recorder for Mac

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#mac-toolbar-app #macos-app #microphone-audio-recorder #recorder #screen-recorder #screencast

Updated: 2018-07-11
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 13 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

insidegui/KeyframesPlayer

A simple macOS app to preview animations created with Facebook's keyframes framework

Stack

Swift Bundler CocoaPods

Updated: 2017-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-12
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 24 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

fand/json-editor-app

Dead simple JSON editor using josdejong/jsoneditor

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express npm

Updated: 2021-06-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-28
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 4 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 50 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

instance01/mac-screenshot-tracker

Screenshot Tracker for Mac - Rewatch what you've worked on.

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#productivity #screenshot-tracker

Updated: 2020-03-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-03
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

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

GitHub

3j14/bitwarden-menubar

Bitwarden in the macOS menu bar

Archived

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#bitwarden #macos #macos-menubar #password-manager #swift #swiftui

Updated: 2022-03-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-17
History: 11 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 17 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

davidcelis/Sunscreen

:sunrise: A macOS app that sets your wallpaper based on sunrise and sunset.

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#afternoon #flux #macos #morning #night #sunrise

Updated: 2016-03-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-13
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 40 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

billthefarmer/ctuner

Musical instrument strobe tuner

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#tuner

Updated: 2023-03-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-02-18
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 437 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

iseebi/TransporterPad

iOS/Android app deployment tool for macOS

Stack

Swift CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #apk #ios #ipa

Updated: 2021-01-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-09
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 138 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nsriram/KubeSwitch

MacOS Status Bar App to switch between kubernetes contexts

Stack

Swift CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#kubernetes #kubernetes-cluster-context #kubernetes-context #macos-menubar

Updated: 2019-05-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-01
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 4
Commits: 23 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hanayik/CAM

macOS camera recording using ffmpeg

Stack

JavaScript Electron npm

GitHub topics

#cam #camera #electron-app #ffmpeg #macos #minimal

Updated: 2018-10-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-27
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 35 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

isaiasmatewos/night-shift-control

Night Shift Control is a simple macOS menubar app for controlling Night Shift. It's aim is to bring features from f.lux which are missing from Night Shift such as disabling Night Shift for certain apps.

Archived

Stack

Swift

Updated: 2017-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-08
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 6 open

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 16 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

1000ch/quail

Unofficial but officially accepted esa app :bird:

Stack

TypeScript Electron npm

GitHub topics

#electron #esa-io #homebrew-cask #linux #macos #windows

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-11-22
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 16 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 166 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ilyalesik/touch-emoji

😀 Touch Emoji — emoji picker for MacBook Pro Touch Bar

Stack

Swift CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#emoji #emoji-keyboard #emoji-picker #mac #macos #macosx

Updated: 2019-06-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2017-07-08
History: 14 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 54 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

simple-login/mac-app

macOS client with Safari extension for SimpleLogin

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

Updated: 2024-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-29
History: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 11
Commits: 181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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