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CategoryAll apps447
Productivity and AI87
Notes and Writing22Transcription13AI Assistants34Automation8Focus10
Utilities171
Audio and Music13
Games29
Creative Tools20
Photo and Video24
Developer Tools71
Business32
PriceAny priceFreeFreemiumFree trialPaid
PlatformAll platformsMacWindows

Productivity and AI

Notes and writing, AI assistants, transcription, automation and focus.

78 apps · 49–72

  • Productivity and AI
  • Mac
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  • Muesli
    Muesli

    Muesli: agent-native local meeting transcription + dictation for macOS (Granola + WisprFlow alternative)

    Open sourceTranscription
    Mac1.4K1,419 GitHub starsFree
  • Markpad
sftwr.dev

The Notepad equivalent for Markdown

Open sourceNotes and Writing
Mac1.3K1,250 GitHub starsFree
  • FlowDown
    Lakr

    Native AI chat client for Mac that works with many AI model providers

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac1.2K1,219 GitHub starsFree
  • Ghostex
    Mohamad Yahia

    Native workspace for running AI coding agents side by side, built in Rust with GPUI

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac1.1K1,139 GitHub starsFree
  • Ping Island
    Dan

    A Dynamic Island-style command center for managing all your AI coding agents on macOS.

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac1.1K1,129 GitHub starsFree
  • Markright
    David

    Tauri powered markdown editor with live preview

    Open sourceNotes and Writing
    Mac916916 GitHub starsFree
  • DS4 Control
    Luke

    macOS menubar app for fast local DeepSeek V4.1, with 1M context.

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac915915 GitHub starsFree
  • Forel
    lab421

    File automation for macOS. The open source Hazel alternative for macOS.

    Open sourceAutomation
    Mac829829 GitHub starsFree
  • MacParakeet
    Daniel Moon

    Local-first voice app for Apple Silicon Macs covering dictation, transcription and meeting recording

    Open sourceTranscription
    Mac712712 GitHub starsFree
  • Openclip
    Ganesh M

    An open-source, privacy-first macOS text action popup for running custom scripts, AI-powered actions, and extensible workflows on selected text.

    Open sourceAutomation
    Mac683683 GitHub starsFree
  • Headroom Desktop
    gglucass

    Menu Bar App on MacOS and Windows that cuts Claude Code and Codex token costs by ~50%

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac600600 GitHub starsFree
  • Swama
    Trans-N.ai

    High-performance MLX-based LLM inference engine for macOS with native Swift implementation

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac593593 GitHub starsFree
  • Mater
    Jason Long

    A simple, native macOS menubar Pomodoro app

    Open sourceFocus
    Mac592592 GitHub starsFree
  • Scoot
    Michael Russo

    Keyboard-driven MacOS cursor actuator

    Open sourceAutomation
    Mac532532 GitHub starsFree
  • Astro Editor
    Danny Smith

    Astro Editor reads your Zod schemas and transforms frontmatter into smart forms. Get validation, proper field types, and MDX component insertion — all in a beau

    Open sourceNotes and Writing
    Mac500500 GitHub starsFree
  • Yap
    Frigade

    Free, open source voice dictation for macOS. On-device transcription with Apple's Speech framework. No cloud/no API keys/no account.

    Open sourceTranscription
    Mac455455 GitHub starsFree
  • Koe (声)
    Vincent Yang

    A background-first macOS voice input tool. Press a hotkey, speak, and the corrected text is pasted into whatever app you're using.

    Open sourceTranscription
    Mac444444 GitHub starsFree
  • Itsypad
    Nick Ustinov

    A tiny, fast scratchpad and clipboard manager for Mac

    Open sourceNotes and Writing
    Mac436436 GitHub starsFree
  • iCanHazShortcut
    Ivan Novohatski

    simple shortcut manager for macOS

    Open sourceAutomation
    Mac421421 GitHub starsFree
  • Furtherance
    Unobserved

    Track your time without being tracked

    Open sourceFocus
    Mac395395 GitHub starsFree
  • MCP Linker
    milisp

    MCP store. Discover, add & syncs configuration manager across clients like Claude code, Codex, Cursormcphub

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac342342 GitHub starsFree
  • MindRoom
    Mindroom AI

    AI agents that know you and your work, in a chat app anyone can use. Open source, any model, self-host or hosted.

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac336336 GitHub starsFree
  • Og
    Logseq

    Logseq note-taking app, original file-based version

    Open sourceNotes and Writing
    Mac329329 GitHub starsFree
  • Monet
    zeno

    Command center for AI coding agents: browse, search and run Claude Code and Codex sessions side by side

    Open sourceAI Assistants
    Mac282282 GitHub starsFree
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