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Awesome open-source Swift macOS Apps

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This list curates open-source macOS applications built with Swift, spanning a wide range of categories from productivity to utilities. For macOS developers, these projects showcase practical Swift implementations and offer high-quality code samples and best practices to help you master core macOS skills such as UI design, performance optimization, and menu bar integration.

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Contents

• Audio
• Backup
• Browser
• Chat
• Local LLM
• AI
  • AI Usage/Status
  • AI Agent Monitoring
• Cryptocurrency
• Database
• Development
  • Git
  • JSON Parsing
  • Other Development
  • Web Development
  • iOS / macOS
• Downloader
• Editors
  • Markdown
  • Text
• Extensions
• Finance
• Finder
• Games
• Hardware
• Virtual Machines
• Graphics
• Screenshot / Screen Recording
• IDE
• Images
• Keyboard
• Mail
• Menubar
• Notch App
• Compression tool
• Color Picker
• Music
• News
• Notes
• Other
• Player
• Podcast
• Launchpad
• Task Manager
• Productivity
• Reading
• Screensaver
• Security
• Sharing Files
• Social Networking
• Streaming
• Cleanup & Uninstall
• System
• Clipboard
• Terminal
• Touch Bar
• Utilities
• Network
• VPN & Proxy
• Video
• Wallpaper
• Window Management

Audio

• Cornetta - Call recorder combining microphone and system audio, with optional local transcription.
• AI Dictation - Voice-to-text tool with offline recognition on supported devices and optional cloud transcription and text cleanup.
• AUHost - Host AudioUnits v3 plugins.
• AudioMator - Audio metadata editor for inspecting tags, batch editing, managing artwork, and tagging releases with MusicBrainz.
• Audio Priority Bar - Menu bar app that automatically switches to your highest-priority connected headphones, speakers, and microphone.
• Audiout - Sync Mac audio across AirPlay speakers with per-room volume controls and saved groups.
• Aural Player - Winamp-style audio player.
• BalanceKeeper - Automatically restores your preferred left-right audio balance if macOS changes it.
• Biscotti - Private meeting recorder with speaker-labeled transcripts and summaries.
• Blurt - Hold a key to dictate polished text into any app with AssemblyAI.
• Cacophony - Routes system audio to multiple AirPlay 2 speakers in sync.
• CanYouHearMe - Lightweight tool for monitoring your own microphone input in real time.
• Cadenza - Local-first voice dictation that types speech at your cursor, with optional cloud recognition.
• Earshot - Live, on-device transcription of any app on your Mac, with speaker names.
• Evoo - Offline voice dictation that types clean text at your cursor.
• Fader - One-click audio output switching with Bluetooth connect and per-app volume control.
• FreeAudio - Per-app volume, output device, and EQ control via built-in process taps, no audio drivers needed.
• FreeAudio (hakanotal) - Free, open-source per-app volume and output control, including HDMI/DisplayPort monitor volume.
• FreeMic - One-click microphone input switching with Bluetooth headset and built-in mic support.
• Golosok - Local speech recognition powered by Sber GigaAM v3, with hotkey dictation and offline media file transcription.
• Fmusic - macOS music player with multi-format playback and lyrics display.
• FluidVoice - Voice-to-text app with AI enhancement.
• FreeFlow - Push-to-talk speech-to-text tool that inserts polished transcripts into any app.
• Freeflow - Local voice dictation that captures circled screen areas as AI context.
• HiFidelity - An offline audiophile music player built with the BASS audio library and TagLib.
• inlaut - Lightweight menu bar dictation with on-device speech recognition, focused on German.
• JackMate - Native menu bar app for managing the JACK audio server.
• Lavdeck - Menu bar control for DJI Mic Series Mobile RX status, mode, gain, and recording.
• LyricsX - Display lyrics for iTunes/Spotify.
• Lyrimuse - Floating lyrics overlay that shows word-synced lyrics for whatever is playing in Apple Music, QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, Kugou, or Spotify, with Last.fm scrobbling and translation.
• Local Transcriber - Offline transcription for meetings, calls, and dictation, with speaker recognition.
• MacMix - Menu bar audio mixer for system volume, devices, microphone, and per-app sound.
• Mesmer - Dictation and text-rewriting tool with a floating toolbar.
• Mouthy - Offline voice dictation that types wherever your cursor is, with no account or cloud.
• NativeVoice - Hotkey dictation focused on languages underserved by built-in Mac speech recognition.
• Mixio - Menu bar app for per-app volume, with per-tab browser volume and a 10-band equalizer.
• MonitorControl - Adjust external monitor settings.
• NoiseBuddy - Quickly toggle AirPods modes.
• MicKeeper - Prevents AirPods and iPhones from taking over your Mac's microphone and can lock its input level.
• NoMicSwitch - Pins the default input device to the built-in mic and locks the input volume, so AirPods can't hijack your microphone.
• OpenVoiceFlow - On-device voice dictation with local transcription and optional text cleanup.
• OpenWispr - Hotkey dictation that runs the speech model on-device and puts the text wherever your cursor is.
• Orbly - Hold a key, speak, let go, and the transcript lands at the cursor. Whisper runs on device, with no account and no cloud.
• OpenSpatial - 7.1 spatial audio, head tracking, and AI stereo upmix for any headphones, in every app.
• Petal - Fast, local-first audio transcription app with a clean, minimal interface.
• PairPods - Share audio across multiple Bluetooth devices with one click.
• SpatialAudio - System-wide Apple HRTFHQ spatial soundstage and speaker virtualization for any headphones in the menu bar.
• Tutti - Streams the same audio to multiple output devices at once.
• Presspeech - Push-to-talk dictation tool with fast on-device speech recognition and no cloud processing.
• parrot - Hold-to-talk on-device dictation: speak while holding fn, words stream at the cursor.
• PitchTap - System-wide pitch shifter that changes music keys without altering tempo.
• Purr - 100% local, on-device voice-to-text dictation — hold a key, speak, and your words type into any text field.
• Plainsay - Local voice dictation that turns a held keypress into text at your cursor or safely onto the clipboard.
• PlayStatus - Menu bar controller for Spotify and iTunes.
• Plug - Hype Machine music player.
• Quant Voice - Fully offline, on-device voice dictation — press a hotkey, speak, and text appears under the cursor with no audio leaving the device.
• Quill - Fast, system-wide voice typing that places polished text wherever you are writing.
• quill (humanitas-labs) - Local meeting recorder that captures mic and call audio as separate tracks and writes a timestamped transcript.
• Digisensus Recorder - Bot-free call recorder for Zoom, Meet, Teams, and FaceTime, with speaker transcripts and AI notes.
• R128x - EBUR128 loudness measurement toolkit for batch processing of audio files.
• Radiola - Lightweight internet radio player.
• Reprise - Automatic call recorder for Zoom, Meet, Teams, and FaceTime that captures audio and screen.
• Scope - Audio oscilloscope tool.
• ShengJi - Local transcription and subtitle editor for microphone, media files, and system audio.
• SmartPause - Routes the play/pause media key to whichever app is actually playing sound.
• Sonexis - System audio processor with visual EQ, compression, reverb, and AU plug-in chains, no virtual driver.
• Sound Guard - One-way output-volume guard that mutes the system after long inactivity and never restores it without a click.
• Spotify4BigSur - Spotify widget for Notification Center.
• CoreEQ - System-wide equalizer that applies to whatever app is playing — no virtual audio driver, nothing left behind when it's not running.
• EqLume - System-wide equalizer that listens to current playback and automatically applies the best-matching EQ curve.
• eqMac - System-wide audio equalizer and volume mixer.
• Lurar - Menu bar 10-band parametric EQ for headphone listening, capturing system audio via Core Audio Process Tap without any virtual loopback driver.
• SystemEQ - System-wide parametric equalizer with 10/31-band EQ, AutoEQ headphone presets, hearing calibration, and a real-time visualizer.
• Suohai - Audio device lock for macOS.
• sbtfix - Menu bar control for Sony headphones: noise cancelling, ambient sound, Speak-to-Chat, battery.
• Vocula - Hold-to-talk dictation in up to 100 languages, fully on-device with no account.
• Tuner - Instrument tuner.
• OwlWhisper - Fully offline voice input tool with hotkey-to-speak workflow and local transcription.
• Codex Voice - Hold Control-M to speak and insert the transcript into the focused app.
• Cursor Voice - Push-to-talk voice assistant that can see your screen, control apps, and respond in real time.
• EnviousWispr - Sub-second on-device AI dictation with dual speech engines and optional AI polish via local or cloud models.
• SpeakType - Offline voice-to-text tool that lets you speak and paste text anywhere with a hotkey.
• Speech Wingman - Fully offline speech companion that nudges you when your words match rules you set.
• Spit - Free, open-source, fully on-device voice dictation.
• Sonor - Privacy-first, on-device voice-to-text transcription with whisper.cpp and local LLM processing.
• Steno - Hold a key, speak, and the text is pasted at the cursor, transcribed on device with Whisper. Also writes timestamped meeting notes from the microphone and the Mac's sound.
• Tagara - Offline voice dictation for macOS that types text at the cursor.
• Typester - Enables speech-to-text dictation using Soniox or Deepgram.
• TypeNo - Local voice input tool that transcribes speech and pastes the result into your current app.
• jmc - macOS media organizer.
• waveSDR - Software-defined radio app.
• VoiceInput - Real-time speech-to-text tool that types transcribed text into the focused app.
• VoiceInk - Real-time speech-to-text app.
• Voicely - On-device dictation into any app, call recording with speaker labels, and audio/video file transcription, with a local MCP server for AI coding agents.
• VolEq - Automatic voice-volume leveling that boosts quiet speakers and keeps loud ones controlled, all processed locally.
• VoxFlow - Voice input workbench with local and cloud speech recognition, OCR, history, and coding-agent workflows.
• OpenQuack - Transcribes a 5-minute clip in 2.8 s — local WhisperKit dictation, noise-robust, lives in your menu bar.
• WhisperDrop 2 - Offline transcription and dictation for audio, video, YouTube, and meetings.
• OpenWispr - Free, fully on-device voice dictation that types directly at the cursor.
• Yap - Fast, private voice dictation that works in any text field, entirely on-device.
• yap - On-device push-to-talk dictation and meeting transcription that inserts text at the cursor.
• YapToText - Free, open-source dictation that runs entirely on-device, combining Whisper transcription with local AI cleanup and typing wherever your cursor is.
• BetterWispr - Open-source Wispr Flow alternative: on-device dictation with Whisper, Parakeet, and Apple speech.
• Reed Dictation - Free, fully local push-to-talk dictation with on-device Parakeet recognition and automatic cleanup.
• Utter - Voice dictation for Mac that runs on-device: hold a key, speak, words appear at the cursor.

Backup

• Arco - An incremental backup tool designed with simplicity in mind.
• Configgy - Back up and restore app settings to your existing cloud folder, without logins or keys.
• Keelhaven - A restic-based backup tool that silently runs scheduled backups of chosen folders to local drives, NAS/SFTP, or S3, producing standard restic repositories.
• Syncalicious - Sync macOS preferences.
• TimeMachineTrimmer - Lightweight utility to trim old Time Machine backups and reclaim disk space.

Browser

• browbro - Choose which browser opens each web link.
• Browserly - Routes URLs to the right browser based on custom rules.
• Browseroute - Acts as the default browser and sends each link to a chosen browser using host and path rules.
• BrowSync - Multi-browser traffic splitting and synchronization hub.
• browserdaddy - Local-first browsing intelligence: cross-browser history archive, attention tracking, link routing.
• Finicky - Always opens the right browser.
• Lilo - A lightweight, privacy-focused web browser for macOS.
• Ora Browser - Less noise, more browsing.
• Plash - Make any website your desktop wallpaper.
• Privacy Redirect for Safari - Redirect to privacy-friendly alternatives.
• Profiley - Routes links to saved browser profiles or prompts you to choose.
• QuickBrowser - A lightweight link router that lets you pick a browser or auto-route URLs by pattern.
• Search - Small, fast, quiet WebKit browser.
• TabFlick - Adds recently-used tab switching with a switcher overlay to Google Chrome.
• Web - A tiny AI-powered browser built with SwiftUI, fast, private, and Apple Silicon only.

Chat

• Beagle IM - Powerful XMPP client with support for file transfer, VoIP and end-to-end encryption.
• CopilotForXcode - Xcode extension for GitHub Copilot
• MessagesHistoryBrowser - Browse and search Messages.app history.
• HuggingChat - Native chat interface for open-source language models.
• LlamaChat - Chat with your favourite LLaMA models
• Mocolamma - A cross-platform app for managing Ollama servers and models.
• Onit - An AI chat sidebar that can dock to any app on your Mac!
• Seaglass - A truly native Matrix client for macOS.
• Swiftcord - A fully native Discord client for macOS built 100% in Swift!
• Telegram - Source code of Telegram for macOS on Swift.
• WardenApp - A Fully Native AI Chat App For macOS
• WeChatBridge - Forwards WeChat chat history into AI agents and local knowledge bases, fully local.
• WhatsAppBar - Send WhatsApp message from menu bar.
• JoeBro - AI workspace for chat and document editing with local models via Ollama or any API, memory, MCP tools and deep research.

Local LLM

• apfel - CLI and OpenAI-compatible local server for Apple's on-device foundation model.
• OpenMac - Local HTTP server exposing native OCR, translation, TTS, and more via free system APIs.
• LlamaBarn - A menu bar app to easily install, run, and access local LLMs on your Mac.
• LokalBot - Local LLM workhorse that records meetings, turns conversations into searchable memory, and helps recall, dictate, write, and automate.
• ModelStatus - Monitor local AI model servers across Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp, MLX, and other OpenAI-compatible APIs.
• Osaurus - Local LLM server and AI infrastructure with menu bar, CLI, and shared tools.
• Nativ - Local AI workspace for running MLX models — chat, serve, monitor, and connect all from one polished interface.
• Rapid-MLX - Local MLX model runner with a chat app and OpenAI-compatible server for coding agents.
• Quail - Menu bar local LLM server for GGUF and MLX models with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs.
• Sero - Private local AI workspace for chatting with documents, research files, developer knowledge, and structured data using local models.
• Sidekick - Chat with a local LLM on macOS using your files — no extra setup.
• TurboFieldfare - Run Gemma 4 26B inference in ~2 GB of RAM via a custom Swift + Metal runtime.
• M1K3 - Private on-device AI: LLM, voice, RAG knowledge graph, encrypted transcription, agent, MCP server.

AI

• AgentBar - Monitor all your AI coding sessions from a single menu bar item — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.
• Agent! - Native autonomous agent that codes, builds Xcode projects, drives Mac apps via Accessibility, and runs shell tasks with 23 LLM providers or on-device Apple Intelligence.
• 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.
• AI Memory Reader - Browser and editor for AI agent memory files, with beautiful rendering and support for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and more.
• Ayna - Multi-provider AI chat client with multi-model comparison, MCP support, and local model access.
• AppleAi - Access multiple AI assistants from your menu bar with one shortcut.
• Aiassistant - Lightweight one-click AI quick processing tool.
• Ask Key - Encrypted key manager for AI agents, with per-use approval and secrets hidden from the AI.
• brb - Offers a break while Claude Code runs a long task, then calls you back with a one-line summary and a button that returns you to the session.
• Chorus (AskChorus) - Ask multiple AIs at once and compare their answers side by side using your existing accounts.
• Claude-Usage - A tiny floating widget that shows your Claude.ai usage at a glance without opening the browser.
• ClaudeCodeNotify - Desktop notifications when Claude Code needs attention, with one keystroke to jump back to the terminal.
• MLX Node - Menu bar app that contributes spare Mac capacity to MLX Network for AI work and earns tokens.
• MultiClaude - Menu bar app for running multiple Claude Desktop accounts with separate profiles.
• ClawdHome - Tool for securely isolating and managing multiple OpenClaw gateway instances.
• Calyx - Run and supervise Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Hermes agents in parallel with a shared approval inbox, persistent sessions, command history, and inline diff review.
• Chorus - Ask multiple AI models at once in a native chat app using your existing accounts, with no API keys.
• Rovai AI - Collaborative workspace for coding agents with shared tasks, conversations, and memory.
• ClipAi - Send copied content to AI with one click and get tasks done efficiently.
• Clicky - AI teaching assistant that lives next to your cursor and can see your screen.
• 辞达 - Translate and polish text anywhere on your Mac.
• CodeVetter - Verifies AI-written software changes with local execution and replayable evidence.
• Codex Runway - Menu bar tool for tracking Codex usage quotas, costs, reset times, and local session status.
• Codex Skill Manager - Manage local Codex and Claude Code skills, render SKILL.md, and browse remote skills from Clawdhub.
• Codex Model Switcher - Add, edit, and switch Codex model provider configs from the menu bar.
• Deiko - Point, draw, and talk to share context with your coding agent across tasks, on a free local board.
• DS4 Control - Control panel for local ds4 servers that launches and monitors DeepSeek V4 (Pro/Flash, 1M context) and switches coding CLIs like Pi, Claude Code, or BYOC.
• DeepSeek Harness - An independent, unofficial native client for DSH (DeepSeek Harness).
• Feather - AI writing assistant that drafts replies based on what's on your screen.
• Poli - On-device AI writing assistant for proofreading, rewriting, summarizing, and translating in any app.
• Prism - SwiftUI menu bar app for switching Claude Code API providers with one click.
• Quotio - AI subscription manager with quota tracking and automatic failover.
• Ironsmith - Generate native SwiftUI mini-apps in one click by describing requirements via AI.
• JustSessions - Native workspace for finding, reading, and resuming Claude Code, Codex, and other coding-agent sessions in their original CLIs.
• kevMac - Paste a document, ask questions as simple forms, and get calibrated answers with probability bars.
• KeyType - Open-source, local LLM-powered tab autocomplete that offers inline ghost-text suggestions in any focused text field.
• Kujto Studio - Local memory layer that teaches AI coding agents codebase rules once and enforces them before touching any file.
• Shortcast - Turns long videos into ready-to-post TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts with automatic finding, cutting, captions, reframing, and scheduling.
• Skills Manager - Discover, browse, install, and tag skills for AI coding assistants from GitHub repositories or local folders.
• Skilly - An AI learning companion for creative software that watches your screen, talks you through tasks, and points at UI elements.
• SpotAsk - A menu-bar AI assistant summoned by hotkey to ask anything from anywhere, or translate, explain, summarize, and polish selected text with your own AI service (BYOK).
• HideMyData - Local AI-powered redaction tool for sensitive data in PDFs and images.
• Engram - A shared memory layer (MCP) that gives all your AI assistants one persistent, local-first memory.
• GrokBuild Desktop - Desktop AI development environment for the grok CLI with project-focused chat, persistent workspaces, and diff review.
• Grove - Gives each feature its own workspace of Git worktrees from several repositories for parallel Claude Code sessions, and moves sessions between Claude accounts.
• Human Eyes - Browse, search and map your Claude Code and Codex history: sessions, memory notes, skills and MCP servers, all kept on your Mac.
• KyttoMCP - Local control panel for MCP servers across your AI clients — manage and monitor in one place.
• lil agents - Tiny AI companions on your dock that open themed chat terminals for coding assistants.
• Logue - Privacy-first AI meeting notes and writing assistant with on-device transcription and 60+ writing modes.
• LingShu - Fully open-source, model-agnostic coding agent that ships verified software, presentations, documents, and workflows, with runtime and tools kept local.
• Loadout - Shows and manages the skills, slash commands, subagents, plugins, and MCP servers that coding assistants load, with usage counts read from session logs.
• Lumi - AI assistant that uses your screen context to find files and answer questions on your Mac.
• Mac Vision Tools - A macOS menu bar app for real-time machine learning detection.
• Meraline - Press a hotkey, ask any AI, and get streaming answers in a small floating glass window.
• Meeting Transcriber - Local-first meeting transcriber for Teams, Zoom, and Webex with on-device transcription, speaker separation, and Markdown protocol generation via your own LLM.
• LiveLingo - On-device English-class transcription, Chinese translation, and study notes.
• Mojito - Self-hosted personal AI planner that rewrites itself — chat what you want and a local agent ships the update.
• Mask This - Real-time clipboard privacy tool that uses on-device AI to detect and mask sensitive text.
• Mudroom - Runs coding agents in a Linux micro-VM on a copy-on-write clone of your project and lets you review and apply their changes like a pull request.
• Nogrammerly - On-device AI writing assistant that checks spelling, grammar, and tone in any app, with rewrites.
• Remodex - Local-first remote control tool for using Codex from your iPhone.
• Rocuronium - Gives AI agents a separate macOS desktop session, returning evidence of what changed.
• Scarf - Native client for the Hermes AI agent, with multi-window, multi-server, session management, and MCP support.
• Sesame - Search Claude Code and Codex chats for AI-generated content.
• Cove - Native macOS workspace for Claude Code and Codex with session sidebar, editor, and change review.
• Fazm - Voice-controlled AI agent built with accessibility and screen capture tools.
• flowcode - Give Claude Code a voice — hear replies spoken aloud and talk back, with on-device TTS and STT.
• Personal Ops Manual - A local-first macOS setup manual for machines, services, and agents, shared with AI agents via MCP.
• Porter - Menu bar app for managing multiple Claude Desktop accounts and moving sessions between them.
• Prowl - A command center for running AI coding agents in parallel.
• SuperIsland - Interactive notch island with live widgets for media, battery, weather, calendar, and notifications.
• TabType - On-device AI autocomplete that predicts your next words as you type in any app, no cloud required.
• VibeProxy - Menu bar app to use existing Claude, ChatGPT, and other subscriptions with AI coding tools without API keys.
• Warden - Multi-provider AI chat client with local model support and built-in web search.
• Writing Tools - System-wide AI writing assistant for grammar and style improvements.
• Everest - Rewrite selected text in place with a local model via one hotkey.
• OnePagent - A browser-native AI agent workbench that lives in a single HTML file.
• Grux - AI agent that runs terminal sessions it can undo and reaches local mail, calendar, notes, and files, using your own API key or a local model.
• Pie - Focused desktop interface for the Pi coding agent, with projects, chats, and diffs.
• QDuo - Select text an