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#apple-silicon (30 Repositories)

Ranked open-source repositories tagged with #apple-silicon, scored by pull request acceptance likelihood and maintainer engagement velocity.

Topic Avg Merge Rate

87.9%

Avg Review Latency

40.4h

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30 repositories tagged #apple-silicon

B TierRust 221

michaelwilhelmsen/humla

Open-source AI meeting notes for Mac. Records mic + system audio with no bot, transcribes on-device or via OpenAI / Deepgram / Groq, identifies speakers offline, and writes summaries that fuse your notes with the transcript. Ask your notes and get cited answers. Tauri 2 + Rust + Swift.

96.6%
Merge Rate
1h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
0
Maintainers
B TierNINix 153

utensils/comfyui-nix

A slightly opinionated Nix flake for ComfyUI with curated custom nodes. Supports macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux with CUDA.

100.0%
Merge Rate
6h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
S TierPython 1.3k 3 GFIs

stenolabs/stenoai

Steno is the highly secure privacy-first AI notepad & notetaker for all your confidential conversations. On Windows & MacOS. For government and defence sectors.

91.5%
Merge Rate
10h
First Review
80%
1st-Timers
12
Maintainers
S TierPython 675

rtunazzz/hidemyemail-generator

Bulk-generate iCloud Hide My Email addresses. Native macOS app and cross-platform CLI with batch generation, scheduling, a local inbox with code extraction, as well as iCloud China support.

91.3%
Merge Rate
4h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
3
Maintainers
S TierSwift 1.1k

didriksg/Crisp

Free, open-source external monitor control for macOS: a lightweight menu bar app with sharp HiDPI/Retina scaling (no more blurry or tiny text), DDC brightness, presets, and virtual displays. A free alternative to BetterDisplay and Lunar, including features they charge for.

87.5%
Merge Rate
2h
First Review
80%
1st-Timers
3
Maintainers
B TierSwift 59

saurabhav88/EnviousWispr

Free, sub-second on-device AI dictation for macOS. Dual engines (Whisper + Parakeet) on Apple Silicon. Optional AI polish with our own on-device model (EG-1), Apple Intelligence (macOS 26), Ollama, or your own OpenAI/Gemini key. No account, no subscription, audio never leaves your Mac.

96.1%
Merge Rate
2d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
S TierGo 322

saiyam1814/kiac

Local Kubernetes on Apple's container framework - every node is its own lightweight VM. Metrics, storage, and LoadBalancer included.

86.4%
Merge Rate
<1h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
B TierSwift 549

oomol-lab/LockIME

A native macOS menu-bar app that keeps your keyboard input source locked — global, per-app, and per-URL.

97.7%
Merge Rate
14h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
0
Maintainers
S TierSwift 159

arcboxlabs/arcbox-desktop

Native macOS GUI for ArcBox — containers, VMs, and sandboxes at your fingertips. Open Source alternative to OrbStack.

90.5%
Merge Rate
19h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
S TierRust 191

timtoole02/Camelid

Camelid: a Rust-native local inference backend with evidence-gated model compatibility.

86.7%
Merge Rate
23h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
3
Maintainers
B TierSwift 748

tdeverx/contained-app

A native macOS app for Apple's Container CLI

96.9%
Merge Rate
3d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
0
Maintainers
B TierRust 68

drakulavich/kesha-voice-kit

Give your tools a voice — speech to text and back, 25 languages, up to ~19× faster than Whisper. On your machine.

95.6%
Merge Rate
1d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
0
Maintainers
A TierSwift 585

moona3k/macparakeet

Fast, private, local-first voice app for Apple Silicon Macs — dictation, file/media transcription, meeting recording, Transforms, and a public automation CLI. Free and open-source.

93.4%
Merge Rate
1d
First Review
80%
1st-Timers
10
Maintainers
B TierSwift 357 2 GFIs

PowerBeef/Vocello

Vocello: a local, private voice studio for Apple Silicon. Write a script, pick or describe a voice, and generate speech on-device, faster than realtime on an 8 GB M2 Mac mini. Native Swift + MLX, no Python. Mac app out now, iPhone beta on TestFlight. (Formerly QwenVoice.)

93.3%
Merge Rate
4d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
0
Maintainers
A TierSwift 1.7k 1 GFIs

TypeWhisper/typewhisper-mac

Local speech-to-text for macOS on-device AI, fully private, optional cloud

92.7%
Merge Rate
3d
First Review
53%
1st-Timers
18
Maintainers
A TierSwift 470

frankea/Whisky

Active community fork of the archived whisky-app/whisky — a modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI

94.7%
Merge Rate
6d
First Review
33%
1st-Timers
11
Maintainers
A TierPython 3.5k 1 GFIs

raullenchai/Rapid-MLX

The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.

88.8%
Merge Rate
3d
First Review
53%
1st-Timers
15
Maintainers
A TierPython 495 3 GFIs

jaylfc/taOS

Self-hosted AI agent OS. Your memory, chat, agents, and files stay on hardware you own, offline by default, cloud by choice. Offline AI memory (taOSmd), self-hosted multi-framework group chat, a full web desktop + app store, and auto-clustering across the consumer hardware you already have (Orange/Raspberry Pi, Mac mini, gaming PC).

87.7%
Merge Rate
6d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
6
Maintainers
A TierSwift 1.2k

Augani/dory

A free, open-source native macOS app for Docker & Linux containers, an alternative to OrbStack and Docker Desktop. Universal for Intel and Apple silicon.

80.0%
Merge Rate
6h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
5
Maintainers
A TierSwift 490 1 GFIs

tornikegomareli/Talkify

Lightning-fast, free, local first voice dictation for macOS with on-device transcription

73.5%
Merge Rate
3h
First Review
67%
1st-Timers
10
Maintainers
A TierSwift 1.1k

soniqo/speech-swift

AI speech toolkit for Apple Silicon — ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech, VAD, and diarization powered by MLX and CoreML

93.7%
Merge Rate
2d
First Review
67%
1st-Timers
10
Maintainers
A TierJUJulia 462

JuliaGPU/Metal.jl

Metal programming in Julia

84.2%
Merge Rate
14h
First Review
67%
1st-Timers
12
Maintainers
A TierPython 2.3k

mflux-community/mflux

Apple MLX native implementations of state-of-the-art generative image & video models

75.0%
Merge Rate
5h
First Review
83%
1st-Timers
13
Maintainers
A TierSwift 8.5k 1 GFIs

darrylmorley/whatcable

macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do

80.3%
Merge Rate
1d
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
9
Maintainers
A TierSwift 334

scouzi1966/maclocal-api

'afm' command cli: macOS server and single prompt mode that exposes Apple's Foundation and MLX Models and other APIs running on your Mac through a single aggregated OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. Supports Apple Vision and single command (non-server) inference with piping as well . Now with Web Browser and local AI API aggregator

82.6%
Merge Rate
15h
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
4
Maintainers
A TierSwift 205

swellweb/targetBridge

Use your Intel iMac as an external display for Apple Silicon Macs — free, open source, via Thunderbolt Bridge

70.7%
Merge Rate
6h
First Review
64%
1st-Timers
9
Maintainers
A TierZig 762

ddalcu/mlx-serve

Native LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. OpenAI + Anthropic API compatible. No Python. Includes MLX Core macOS app with chat, agent mode, and tool calling.

70.1%
Merge Rate
7h
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
29
Maintainers
B TierSwift 2.6k

Kruszoneq/macUSB

The all-in-one bootable USB creator for Mac

93.8%
Merge Rate
11d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
A TierSwift 162 11 GFIs

bitwize-ai/Logue

Privacy-first AI meeting notes & writing assistant for Mac — on-device transcription, smart minutes, action items & 60+ writing modes, running entirely on Apple Silicon

66.7%
Merge Rate
11h
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
5
Maintainers
B TierSwift 711

angristan/MacThrottle

Menu bar app to know when your Mac is thermal throttling

100.0%
Merge Rate
4d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
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