Appkit Open Source Projects

Browse 62 Appkit open source projects, ranked by GitHub stars. Find the most popular Appkit tools and libraries.

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6,523 stars

siteline/swiftui-introspect

Introspect underlying UIKit/AppKit components from SwiftUI

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Stars6,523
5,434 stars

progrium/macdriver

Native Mac APIs for Go. Soon to be renamed DarwinKit!

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Stars5,434
4,494 stars

TechUnRestricted/windiskwriter

🖥 Windows Bootable USB creator for macOS. 🛠 Patches Windows 11 to bypass TPM and Secure Boot requirements. 👾 UEFI & Legacy Support

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Stars4,494
3,065 stars

Schlaubischlump/LocationSimulator

MacOS application to spoof / fake / mock your iOS / iPadOS or iPhoneSimulator device location. WatchOS and TvOS are partially supported.

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Stars3,065
2,550 stars

SDWebImage/SDWebImageSwiftUI

SwiftUI Image loading and Animation framework powered by SDWebImage

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Stars2,550
2,375 stars

jtrivedi/Wave

Wave is a spring-based animation engine for iOS and macOS that makes it easy to create fluid, interruptible animations that feel great.

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Stars2,375
2,072 stars

ryanmcgrath/cacao

Rust bindings for AppKit (macOS) and UIKit (iOS/tvOS). Experimental, but working!

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Stars2,072
2,028 stars

rlxone/Equinox

🌇 🌃 Create dynamic wallpapers for macOS.

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Stars2,028
1,622 stars

migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm

Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift

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Stars1,622
1,565 stars

krzyzanowskim/STTextView

Performant and reusable text view component (TextKit 2), with line numbers and more. UITextView / NSTextView replacement.

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Stars1,565
1,428 stars

subethaedit/SubEthaEdit

General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.

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Stars1,428
1,268 stars

danielsaidi/RichTextKit

View and edit rich text in SwiftUI.

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Stars1,268
1,130 stars

mergesort/Boutique

✨ A magical persistence library (and so much more) for state-driven iOS and Mac apps ✨

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Stars1,130
1,118 stars

github/Rebel

Cocoa framework for improving AppKit

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1,077 stars

soffes/HotKey

Simple global shortcuts in macOS

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997 stars

FabrizioBrancati/BFKit-Swift

BFKit-Swift is a collection of useful classes, structs and extensions to develop Apps faster.

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985 stars

madsmtm/objc2

Bindings to Apple frameworks in Rust

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Stars985
973 stars

microsoft/fluentui-apple

UIKit and AppKit controls for building native Microsoft experiences

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Stars973
761 stars

kyle-n/HighlightedTextEditor

A SwiftUI view for dynamically highlighting user input

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Stars761
714 stars

twostraws/Sourceful

A syntax highlighting source editor for iOS and macOS using UITextView and NSTextView.

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713 stars

dagronf/QRCode

A quick and beautiful macOS/iOS/tvOS/watchOS QR Code generator/detector library for SwiftUI, Swift and Objective-C.

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Stars713
610 stars

turbobabr/Sketch-Plugins-Cookbook

A collection of recipes for Sketch App plugins developers

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Stars610
455 stars

douglashill/KeyboardKit

The easiest way to add comprehensive hardware keyboard control to an iPad, iPhone, or Mac Catalyst app.

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Stars455
442 stars

goranmoomin/HackerNews

macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit.

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Stars442
429 stars

lexrus/SwiftyMenu

The missing Finder menu for your daily ease

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Stars429
400 stars

ButterKit/Butter

A big shot of epicness for AppKit. It's time to put a jetpack on your tricycle.

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Stars400
393 stars

ryanmcgrath/alchemy

An experimental GUI framework for Rust, backed by per-platform native widgets. React, AppKit/UIKit inspired. EXPERIMENTAL, runs on Cocoa right now. ;P

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Stars393
325 stars

indragiek/SNRHUDKit

Code drawn AppKit HUD interface elements

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Stars325
283 stars

martinlexow/SwiftUIWindowStyles

Showcase of window and toolbar style combinations possible with SwiftUI on macOS.

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Stars283
277 stars

marioaguzman/toolbar

Programmatically constructing an NSToolbar

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Stars277
276 stars

soffes/X

Easier cross platform Mac & iOS development with Swift

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Stars276
250 stars

ZeeZide/5GUIs

A tiny macOS app that can detect the GUI technologies used in other apps.

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Stars250
249 stars

SwiftyTesseract/SwiftyTesseract

A Swift wrapper around Tesseract for use in iOS, macOS, and Linux applications

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Stars249
246 stars

cameron-goddard/Minesweeper-Desktop

A modern Minesweeper app for the Mac

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Stars246
244 stars

DigiDNA/ColorSet

ColorSet is a macOS utility and framework allowing developers to manage custom interface colors with ease.

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Stars244
238 stars

DavyJonesLocker/ember-appkit-rails

Ember Appkit for Rails

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Stars238
231 stars

jnjosh/JJAFAcceleratedDownloadRequestOperation

A delightful extension to the delightful AFNetworking to provide accelerated and resumable downloads

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Stars231
222 stars

eonil/CocoaProgrammaticHowtoCollection

A collection of programmatic how-to code examples for each cases to write a Cocoa GUI (AppKit) app and some non GUI stuffs.

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196 stars

xriley/AppKit-Landing-Theme

FREE Bootstrap 5 Landing Page Template for Developers and Startups

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Stars196
195 stars

DerLobi/XcoatOfPaint

Replace your Xcode icon with colorful variants

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Stars195
193 stars

uncatcrea/wp-appkit

WP-AppKit WordPress plugin (create mobile apps connected to WordPress)

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189 stars

NattyNarwhal/Submariner

A Subsonic client for macOS

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Stars189
182 stars

nvzqz/fruity

Rusty bindings for Apple libraries

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Stars182
167 stars

mattgallagher/CwlViews

Wrappers around AppKit and UIKit, turning them into declarative, reactive-driven frameworks.

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Stars167
163 stars

dagronf/DSFSparkline

A lightweight sparkline component for macOS, iOS and tvOS

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Stars163
145 stars

mynameiskenlee/flutter_macos_menubar_example

starter template for building macOS menubar app with flutter and AppKit

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Stars145
137 stars

MichaelBuckley/MAIKit

A framework for sharing code between iOS and OS X

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Stars137
136 stars

steventroughtonsmith/airqualitymonitor

Catalyst-based HomeKit menu bar air quality monitor for macOS 11

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Stars136
135 stars

mrmekon/fruitbasket

Rust framework for running in a Mac "app bundle" environment

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Stars135
131 stars

Timing-GmbH/DateRangePicker

The best (?) date range picker control for OS X.

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Stars131
121 stars

gnustep/libs-quartzcore

GNUstep QuartzCore, an implementation of the Core Animation APIs intended for use with GNUstep

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116 stars

dsawardekar/ember.vim

Vim plugin for the Emberjs frontend framework

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Stars116
113 stars

dropbox/pilot

Cross-platform MVVM in Swift

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Stars113
109 stars

ChimeHQ/TextStory

Happier, more flexible NSTextStorage

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Stars109
109 stars

HsiangHo/XUIKit

📦 XUIKIt is a UI framework for macOS, it extends a lot of methods similar to UIKit.

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Stars109
107 stars

noahsark769/CatalystPlayground

An example project demonstrating Mac Catalyst features

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Stars107
107 stars

mmackh/Catalyst-Helpers

Unlock missing UIKit functionality with these AppKit helpers

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Stars107
106 stars

ngquerol/Diurna

Basic/Classic Hacker News app, used as a Cocoa & Swift learning platform

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Stars106
106 stars

gammasoft71/Examples_Cocoa

Shows how to use macOS AppKit Cocoa controls without StoryBoard only by programming code (objective-c)

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Stars106
106 stars

cocoabits/OutlineViewDiffableDataSource

Stop looking for NSOutlineViewDiffableDataSource, it’s here 👌

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Stars106
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