Tool Open source · AGPL-3.0
BrewUI is Homebrew's official macOS graphical interface for discovering, installing, updating, and managing Homebrew packages without requiring Terminal use. It uses a native SwiftUI interface while exposing the underlying Homebrew operations, with data from the brew CLI and Homebrew JSON API. The application is built with Swift 6.0, Swift Package Manager, and strict concurrency, supports macOS Tahoe 26 and later, and is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license.
Highball is a native macOS app and CLI for running Windows games on Apple Silicon. It assembles Wine engines from pinned upstream builds, sets up bottles, and supports renderer overlays for WineD3D, DXMT, D3DMetal, and DXVK; it can install Steam, connect an Epic library through Legendary, and switch renderers per bottle or launch. Its compatibility database records verified runs, per-game renderer verdicts, community reports, machine-derived predictions, provenance, and kernel-anti-cheat blocklist entries. Declarative JSON recipes describe installer, registry, Winetricks, synchronization, renderer, version-pinning, and note steps applied to bottles, while the CLI can submit game results to the open database. Highball requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later. The app and CLI are licensed under GPL-3.0, while the recipes and compatibility database are CC0; D3DMetal is downloaded separately after acceptance of Apple's Game Porting Toolkit license. The project documents limitations with several Chromium-based launchers, Rockstar, Ubisoft Connect, GOG Galaxy, Battle.net, and the EA app.
Herdr GPUI is a native Rust/GPUI desktop client for a separately installed Herdr daemon. It displays the daemon's terminal sessions, split panes, workspaces, Git worktrees, and agent activity without running another terminal emulator or wrapping the TUI. The daemon owns terminal processes and session state. Herdr GPUI connects to its local or saved remote daemon through the Herdr client socket, receives binary protocol frames and surface patches, renders the terminal surfaces, and sends semantic input back; closing the GUI leaves the daemon and its sessions running. The project is distributed from the repository as a signed, notarized macOS app through Homebrew, with additional Linux packages, experimental Windows builds, Nix support, and source-build instructions. The daemon must be installed separately. It is licensed under Apache-2.0.
Vorssaint is a free, open-source Swift/SwiftUI macOS menu bar toolkit that combines utilities including per-application volume and audio controls, output and microphone switching, system monitoring, network statistics, app and window switching, window snapping, Dock previews, clipboard history, text snippets, file staging, screen capture, display and energy controls, media tools, cleaning, and app removal. It is modular: users can install or remove complete features, with removed features stopping loading while retaining their settings for later reinstallation. The toolkit also provides configurable shortcuts, panels, a command bar, and optional bundles for common setups. Vorssaint runs locally without an account, analytics, tracking, subscription, or required network service; its volume mixer requires no audio driver or setup, and selected features request only the relevant macOS permissions, including accessibility, screen recording, audio recording, microphone, camera, calendars, notifications, and disk access.
Window Sweaters is a macOS menu-bar app that decorates windows with knitted borders. Its menu-bar controls provide style, pattern, border-width, stitch-size, pause, and quit options; the By App mode assigns hand-picked colourways and custom patterns to supported applications, while Zigzag uses a matching pattern with each app's colour. Applications without a custom sweater receive a consistent colour selected from their name. The app supports macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, is distributed through Homebrew, GitHub releases, or a local build, and requires Accessibility permission to track the focused window. It uses private macOS window APIs, is not yet notarized by Apple, and is released under GPL-3.0.
Cider is a community-run software company and cross-platform Apple Music application. The project describes the app as a customizable desktop client built with Quasar, Vue, Socket.io, Electron, and .NET for Windows builds, with native backends for each supported operating system. It provides integrations with services including Discord, Last.fm, and Spotify, audio spatialization and equalizers, remote control through Cider Remote, and a plugin system. The video describes Cider as handling Apple Music streaming for the Spun music player.