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Free, open-source, and ranked live by GitHub stars. Star the ones you use, and sponsor the maintainers keeping them alive.
Handpicked from GitHub by our team or submitted by the maintainers themselves, and filtered to weed out abandoned projects — apps with a stale GitHub release (over 60 days old) are dropped from the list.

A GPU-accelerated code editor from the team behind Atom — it opens instantly, stays at your display's refresh rate, and has collaboration built in.

A lightweight, open-source clipboard manager for macOS — search your clipboard history from a keystroke, with no account and no background bloat.

The reference example of a truly native Mac app — a fast, free, open-source RSS reader with no account, no tracking, and no clutter between you and your feeds.

A native C++ command palette — app launcher, clipboard history, calculator, emoji picker, and window management — that runs Raycast extensions without Electron.

Converts video to high-quality GIF on the Mac using a per-frame palette encoder that keeps gradients smooth at surprisingly small file sizes.
A tiny, fully native macOS launcher — fuzzy app search, clipboard history, an inline calculator, snippets, and window management, with no Electron and no telemetry.

An open-source colour picker for macOS — pick any on-screen colour in Hex, RGB, HSB, HSL, LAB, or OKLCH, with full keyboard control.

A native Markdown editor for Mac, iPhone, and iPad — with live Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, and GFM tables, no cloud required.

A native menu bar app for tracking and planning across timezones.

A fast, native Markdown viewer that opens .md files instantly without launching an editor.

A native GUI for browsing, installing, and managing Homebrew Casks.