macOS OpenSource Apps
Media:
macOS app to mute & unmute the input volume of your microphone. Perfect for podcasters.
Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed by a group of volunteers as open source.
Aural Player is an audio player application for the macOS platform, that was inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows.
Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.
Ex-Apple Engineers turn your iPad into an extra display.
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems.
The modern video player for macOS.
An open-source screen recorder built with web technology.
a powerful, open-source screenshot utility for macOS.
Media Converter is a plugin based video and audio converter. It uses ffmpeg as it's engine, which allows it to convert to a lot of formats.
odio is a free radio streaming software with more than 20,000 radio stations from around the world for Windows, MacOs and Linux.
VLC is a popular libre and open source media player and multimedia engine.
Keep your audio balance from drifting!.
HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Video editor.
A macOS app for capturing, annotating and sharing screenshots.
Security:
Open source password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations.
Tor protects your privacy on the internet by hiding the connection between your Internet address and the services you use.
Disk encryption with strong security based on TrueCry◊pt.
Cross-platform, free and open-source password manager based on NodeJS.
Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use by all running applications.
Developer:
GitHub Desktop is an open source Electron-based GitHub app. It is written in TypeScript and uses React.
Next generation markdown editor.
VS Code is a type of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. It provides comprehensive editing and debugging support, an extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.
My Phoenix setup. Powerful, easy to customize, tuned for web development, adds a space switcher.
Term2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.
Gitter is a community for software developers. This project is the main monolith web application.
GitHub contribution streak & stat tracking menu bar app.
Desktop:
Tiling window manager for macOS along the lines of xmonad.
LICEcap simple animated screen capture tool for Windows and OS X.
Spectacle allows you to organize your windows without using a mouse.
Office & Notes:
LibreOffice is an integrated office suite based on copyleft licenses and compatible with most document formats and standards.
A desktop application for creating invoices with beautiful and customizable templates.
The markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
A simple and private notes app. Mac, PC, & Linux app.
Next generation markdown editor, running on platforms of MacOS Windows and Linux.
MenuBar:
BitBar lets you put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar.
KeepingYouAwake is a small menu bar utility for macOS (Version 10.10 and newer) that can prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode for a predefined duration or as long as it is activated.
This a utility that runs in the OS X menubar that allows for quick access to the system-wide color panel.
Numi is a handy calculator app for macOS. It allows to describe tasks the natural way and instantly get an accurate answer.
Use the Touch Bar on any Mac.
System:
Dozer lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.
A small macOS app that acts as a system cleaner.
FiScript is an open source application for MacOS, released under the MIT License. FiScript lets you execute custom scripts on your files/folders from the context menu in Finder.
Simple network activity monitor for OS X.
Mac cache cleaner.
The macOS file archiver.
Simple shortcut manager for OS X 10.8 or higher.
Chat:
Telegram Desktop messaging app.
Mac app wrapper around Google's stand-alone Android Messenger.
Mac app wrapping Facebook's Messenger for desktop.
RSS:
Feeds lives in your Mac's menu bar and lets you quickly view the content of new posts on your favorite web services without ever opening a browser window.
Vienna is a free and open-source RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS
Torrent:
qBittorrent BitTorrent client
Backup:
The mega.nz web client
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