Curated open source apps, developer tools and self-hosted projects.
CotEditor is a lightweight, macOS-native plain text editor written in Swift. It emphasizes native UI conventions, broad text encoding support, localization, and simplicity for both casual and advanced users. Requires macOS Tahoe 26 or later; Apache-2.0 licensed.
Beekeeper Studio is a cross-platform SQL editor and database manager for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It offers a free Community Edition with many features and paid editions, supporting databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server, and more.
ImageOptim is a Mac GUI for lossless image compression, integrating tools like Zopfli, OxiPNG, JPEGOptim, and SVGO. It offers a simple drag-and-drop interface to reduce file sizes without quality loss.
A macOS menu bar app that tells you in plain English what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do, including charging speed bottlenecks, data speed limits, cable specs, and connected device details.
