Topic
Open-source startups tagged #mac
8 open-source startups in this directory carry the GitHub topic #mac. 4 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 1 has been quiet for 31–120 days, 3 have not pushed in over 120 days. Topics are set by each repository’s own maintainers, so this is what those projects chose to call themselves rather than a category we assigned.
4 of 8 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →
The list
All 8, most-starred first.
The last column is the most recent push GitHub reported to us on 2026-09-22. It counts a push to any branch, by a person or a bot — it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one.
| Project | What it does | Stars | Ship status | Last verified push |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| waydabber/BetterDisplay | Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more! | 33.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| th-ch/youtube-music | Pear 🍐 is extension for music player | 33.6K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| Zackriya-Solutions/meetily | Privacy first, AI meeting assistant with 4x faster Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization built on Rust. 100% local processing. no cloud required. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker for macOS & Windows. Understand How to write meeting minutes | 31K | Still shipping | Sep 15, 2026 |
| notable/notable | The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck. | 23.5K | Gone silent | Jun 21, 2024 |
| CodeEditApp/CodeEdit | 📝 CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever. | 23K | Slowed | Aug 18, 2026 |
| CapSoftware/Cap | Open source Loom alternative. Beautiful, shareable screen recordings. | 22.6K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Whisky-App/Whisky | A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI | 15.1K | Gone silent | May 11, 2025 |
| luin/medis | 💻 Medis is a beautiful, easy-to-use Mac database management application for Redis. | 11.7K | Gone silent | Feb 21, 2024 |
Related collections
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The 8 largest other topics in the directory, then the other ways to slice it. Every count is as of the snapshot of 2026-09-22.
Snapshot of 2026-09-22 · 721 repos in the directory · every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. What this measurement cannot tell you →