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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

78.2%

Avg Review Latency

27.1h

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30 repositories tagged #apple-silicon

S TierSwift 2.0k

didriksg/Crisp

Every display control macOS hides, in one menu bar app: sharp HiDPI/Retina scaling (no more blurry or tiny text), DDC brightness and volume, Extra Brightness past 100%, presets, virtual displays. Free and open source, a no-cost alternative to BetterDisplay and Lunar.

73.8%
Merge Rate
3h
First Review
83%
1st-Timers
5
Maintainers
S TierRust 215

timtoole02/Camelid

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

85.7%
Merge Rate
24h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
3
Maintainers
S TierPython 552 2 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).

83.4%
Merge Rate
5d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
6
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.

88.0%
Merge Rate
10h
First Review
67%
1st-Timers
13
Maintainers
S TierSwift 1.8k 1 GFIs

TypeWhisper/typewhisper-mac

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

88.9%
Merge Rate
2d
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
16
Maintainers
S TierSwift 1.5k

gauthierpiarrette/highball

Run Windows games on Apple Silicon — free, open source, with an open compatibility database that tells you what actually works.

76.2%
Merge Rate
4h
First Review
67%
1st-Timers
14
Maintainers
S TierSwift 700

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.

89.1%
Merge Rate
22h
First Review
64%
1st-Timers
12
Maintainers
A TierC++ 3.4k 2 GFIs

0xShug0/audio.cpp

An all-in-one, pure C++ inference engine for audio models, powered by ggml. Supports TTS, STT, VAD, voice conversion, music generation, and more, with highly optimized performance. No Python dependency.

71.2%
Merge Rate
7h
First Review
77%
1st-Timers
61
Maintainers
A TierPython 4.0k

raullenchai/Rapid-MLX

Rapid-MLX is an open-source (Apache 2.0) OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, built on MLX, focused on reliable tool calling for coding agents. Up to 4× faster than Apple's MLX (mlx-lm) on the same weights.

84.1%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
14
Maintainers
A 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
67%
1st-Timers
3
Maintainers
A TierSwift 899

frankea/Whisky

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

92.0%
Merge Rate
5d
First Review
67%
1st-Timers
12
Maintainers
A TierSwift 1.6k

Augani/dory

Dory is the complete local development system for Apple Silicon: Docker, Compose, Kubernetes, virtual machines, and policy-bound agent sandboxes.

76.2%
Merge Rate
6h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
5
Maintainers
A TierSwift 566 1 GFIs

tornikegomareli/Talkify

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

72.0%
Merge Rate
3h
First Review
67%
1st-Timers
11
Maintainers
A TierPython 2.5k

mflux-community/mflux

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

63.2%
Merge Rate
6h
First Review
83%
1st-Timers
20
Maintainers
A TierSwift 288

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
73%
1st-Timers
10
Maintainers
A TierSwift 914

Zesty0wl/mac-performance-monitor

A diagnostic performance logging utility for macOS: logs CPU, memory, GPU, network, and battery from the menu bar to help detect and diagnose performance issues. Free, open source, no telemetry.

87.9%
Merge Rate
16h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
A TierSwift 178

saurabhav88/EnviousWispr

Free, sub-second on-device AI dictation for macOS. Dual engines (Whisper + Parakeet) on Apple Silicon. Optional AI polish on your Mac with EG-1 or S1-mini by Superwhisper, Apple Intelligence (macOS 26), Ollama, or your own OpenAI/Gemini/Claude key. Snippets, custom words, no account, no subscription, audio never leaves your Mac.

91.5%
Merge Rate
1d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
A TierNINix 153 3 GFIs

utensils/comfyui-nix

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

95.2%
Merge Rate
6h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
1
Maintainers
A TierSwift 2.6k

omacom/try-omarchy

Run Omarchy on MacOS without any setup.

71.3%
Merge Rate
4h
First Review
58%
1st-Timers
34
Maintainers
A TierSwift 8.9k 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

79.2%
Merge Rate
2d
First Review
44%
1st-Timers
8
Maintainers
A TierPython 1.8k

vllm-project/vllm-metal

Community maintained hardware plugin for vLLM on Apple Silicon

66.0%
Merge Rate
-
First Review
45%
1st-Timers
40
Maintainers
A TierTypeScript 1.7k

AtomicBot-ai/Atomic-Chat

Local AI app and inference engine for agents. Run open-weight LLMs locally — private, 100% offline on your computer. Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/8wGSsvmg4V

74.1%
Merge Rate
21h
First Review
44%
1st-Timers
15
Maintainers
A TierZig 1.8k 2 GFIs

ddalcu/mlx-serve

Native LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. OpenAI + Anthropic API compatible. No Python. Zig backend, Swift frontend macOS app with chat, music, voice, video generation.

51.4%
Merge Rate
5h
First Review
29%
1st-Timers
60
Maintainers
A TierGo 373 1 GFIs

saiyam1814/kiac

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

79.2%
Merge Rate
1h
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
A TierJUJulia 467

JuliaGPU/Metal.jl

Metal programming in Julia

81.1%
Merge Rate
15h
First Review
50%
1st-Timers
6
Maintainers
A TierRust 1.6k

RunanywhereAI/wally

Get up and running with GLM-5.3-flash, DeepSeek, Gemma and other open source frontier models.

64.5%
Merge Rate
1d
First Review
20%
1st-Timers
5
Maintainers
A TierPython 5.6k

Blaizzy/mlx-vlm

MLX-VLM is a package for inference and fine-tuning of Vision Language Models (VLMs) on your Mac using MLX.

62.0%
Merge Rate
11h
First Review
41%
1st-Timers
57
Maintainers
A TierSwift 393

MrRockySL/Muro

Live wallpapers for your Mac, with low CPU and RAM usage. Native, free, no paywall. The wallpaper library updates itself.

78.9%
Merge Rate
6h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
A TierSwift 320

Acerola-1/hagimi-monitor

macOS 菜单栏极简性能监测工具

87.5%
Merge Rate
10d
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
2
Maintainers
B TierC++ 224 1 GFIs

tillahoffmann/jax-mps

A JAX backend for Apple Metal Performance Shaders (MPS), enabling GPU-accelerated JAX computations on Apple Silicon.

71.4%
Merge Rate
<1h
First Review
100%
1st-Timers
3
Maintainers