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Madeira is an open-source research project for running x86-64 Windows PC games on non-jailbroken iPhones. It combines ARM64EC Wine, FEX-Emu for x86-64-to-ARM64 translation, and DXMT for translating D3D11 to Metal, packaging them with wineserver as a thread inside a single Mach process on iOS. The project is sideloaded because it requires JIT with a debugger attached. It uses an Apple ID for signing; free-account provisioning profiles expire after seven days, requiring the app to be rebuilt and reinstalled, while the app container preserves prefixes and save data. The repository reports playable results for Thumper and ULTRAKILL, with other titles reaching gameplay with limitations, and describes the project as subject to rough edges, title-specific issues, and breaking changes. Madeira is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later, with separate licensing terms for upstream components and project forks. It is built from several chains covering Wine, ARM64EC modules, FEX, DXMT, and the iOS application.

SimRun is a macOS tool that runs iOS Simulator builds directly in ordinary Mac windows without booting a simulated iPhone. It launches the unchanged app built for the iOS Simulator, maps Mac mouse, trackpad, keyboard, clipboard, and motion input to iPhone interactions, and provides a launcher for managing apps, profiles, data containers, keychain items, logs, and runtime or device choices. Its command-line tool can launch, list, quit, screenshot, inspect, and stream logs from apps, run them headlessly with separate profiles, feed microphone input, and experimentally drive interfaces through a JavaScript API. It can also convert some development or ad hoc device builds for Simulator execution. SimRun requires an Apple-silicon Mac, Xcode with an iOS Simulator runtime, and disabled System Integrity Protection; it is an experimental project and does not replace testing in the Simulator or on a physical device. It is distributed under the MIT License.

omarchy-apple-dev is an open-source toolchain for building and deploying iOS apps from Omarchy Linux on x86_64 or Apple Silicon PCs, without macOS or an installed copy of Xcode. It supports Swift, SwiftUI, and Flutter projects, using Swift, xtool, pymobiledevice3, Linux replacements for selected Xcode tools, and an iOS SDK extracted from Apple's Xcode distribution. Apps can be built and installed on a physical iPhone over USB; free Apple IDs are sufficient for device installs, while TestFlight and App Store distribution require a paid Apple Developer account and App Store Connect credentials. The repository includes scripts for installing the toolchain, pairing and launching apps with LLDB, adapting Xcode projects for xtool, signing and packaging applications as IPAs, validating bundles offline, and uploading builds to App Store Connect. Flutter support is limited to release builds, with no debug, hot reload, or simulator support. It is licensed under the MIT license.

Kakehashi is a userspace macOS ARM64-to-Linux aarch64 translation layer for running Darwin Mach-O command-line binaries on ARM64 Linux without a virtual machine, JIT compiler, or instruction emulator. It loads Mach-O files, maps a freestanding libSystem environment, and translates BSD system calls at the guest–host boundary while handling guest threads and faults. The CLI provides live execution through `kh run` on Linux aarch64, plus a dry-load mode available on other hosts. It requires a manually assembled macOS guest filesystem, called a bottle, at the fixed path `~/.local/share/kakehashi/bottle/`; the project documents copying core directories from macOS and installing Apple Xcode Command Line Tools into the bottle. The repository states that the project is no longer maintained.

Rungic is an AgentOS product that runs alongside Android on compatible phones, providing a Linux desktop with KDE Plasma and desktop applications such as Firefox, Blender, Krita and VS Code. The Linux environment runs in an LXC container on Android's kernel rather than in a virtual machine or emulator, while an Android app connects its display, touch input, sound and camera to the phone, a floating window or a TV. Users can install software through apt, Flatpak or Discover and use the phone as a touchpad and keyboard when casting. Rungic includes a bundled assistant whose reference integration uses a realtime voice model for conversation and Codex for background tasks. The assistant plans tasks, opens applications, clicks, types and returns created files in the conversation; its work can run in a separate desktop workspace so the user can continue using the phone. The system supports multiple agent workspaces, shared project folders, desktop control, phone controls and proactive system-care suggestions that record evidence, investigation results, repair plans and user decisions. Rungic exposes these capabilities through two MCP servers, command-line tools, D-Bus services and standard Linux interfaces, allowing other agents to be adapted to it. Rungic is under active development and in private preview. Its device adaptation currently requires a compatible, unlockable Android phone with an appropriate GKI kernel, ARM64 support and a Snapdragon processor with an Adreno GPU; the repository documents tested Motorola devices and separate preparation, Linux image-building and installation stages. Device preparation or bootloader unlocking can erase user data, and the repository advises backing up the phone and checking manufacturer and application restrictions.