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.
The best open-source alternative to Superwhisper & Wispr Flow. Voice-to-text app for macOS with no subscription
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters. It highlights your script in real-time as you speak, displayed in a beautiful Dynamic Island overlay. With extensible features.
🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
Muesli: agent-native local meeting transcription + dictation for macOS (Granola + WisprFlow alternative)
A vlog editor built for Apple silicon Macs — free, no watermark, fully on-device, open source. 为 Apple 芯片 Mac 打造的 vlog 剪辑软件。
Open-source RDP server for macOS. Use your Mac mini or Mac Studio from a MacBook, Windows, iPad or Linux with stock Windows App, mstsc or FreeRDP. Hardware H.264, virtual displays at the client's resolution, audio and clipboard. LAN-only by default, no cloud. Rust (IronRDP) and Swift.
Free, open-source, local-first dictation app for macOS. Hold a shortcut, speak, and text is typed into any app. On-device speech-to-text with Whisper, Parakeet and Apple speech. Private, offline, open-source Wispr Flow alternative.
Free & fast alternative to Wispr Flow
macOS dictation app
改善 Mac 版 UU远程 的使用体验,远程开始时自动提供与您的设备同分辨率的虚拟屏幕,告别上下大黑边。可选自动关闭其他屏幕,告别远程时Dock栏和窗口跑不见
Local speech-to-text for macOS on-device AI, fully private, optional cloud
On-device Speech AI for Apple Silicon
"The missing ProcMon for macOS": Mac Monitor records Endpoint Security events and displays them for analysis.
Give AI agents their own macOS displays. Keep your screen, cursor, and focus.
Free open-source iOS 12 iPad/iPhone second monitor for Mac. OpenDisplay-compatible client over USB/Lightning & Wi-Fi. Sidecar/Duet alternative for old devices.
Display markdown content with SwiftUI.
Гига Писарь: бесплатная локальная русская диктовка для macOS на GigaAM v3. Зажал правый ⌘, сказал, отпустил. Giga Pisar: offline Russian dictation for Mac
Local-first dictation for macOS. Hold a key, speak, and type with on-device Whisper and MLX.
📱 Capacitor plugin for foldable phones: 📖 fold state, posture, hinge angle, size classes, rear display and dual screen on Android, plus a polyfill for the Device Posture and Viewport Segments web APIs.
Takes for Mac (gettakes.app): a free, open-source Mac app for talking-head videos. A teleprompter that follows your voice, camera and screen recording, and your agent (Claude Code, Codex or pi) writes the script, cuts the edit and drafts the posts through the takes MCP server. Apple silicon, macOS 15+. Shared as is.
MacOS application to spoof / fake / mock your iOS / iPadOS or iPhoneSimulator device location. WatchOS and TvOS are partially supported.
Unlock the full brightness of the XDR display of your MacBook Pro
Free, open source voice dictation for macOS. On-device transcription with Apple's Speech framework. No cloud/no API keys/no account.
說話,不要打字。全本地 macOS 語音聽寫:Whisper large-v3 + Qwen (Ollama),錄音與文字都不離開你的電腦。
Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
The elegant yet functional dropdown menu, written in Swift, appears underneath the navigation bar to display a list of defined items when a user clicks on the navigation title.
Reads an audio file and displays the waveform
An iOS customizable view that displays a popover view.
Keep a plugged-in MacBook awake with the lid closed: clamshell mode without an external display, auto-off on battery. 让 MacBook 合盖不休眠,当 Mac mini 用。
macOS menu bar app that turns MacBook lid movement into a screen animation, driven by the lid angle sensor at display rate.
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Turn your MacBook's internal display off while an external monitor is connected
How long does dictation make you wait? Latency benchmark for macOS speech-to-text engines: Talkify, superwhisper, VoiceInk, Wispr Flow, MacWhisper
Turn off your Mac's built-in display while an external monitor stays on — menu bar app + CLI
Low-latency screen streaming from Apple Silicon to a 2010 iMac on OS X 10.9. Hardware H.264 over RTP/UDP, virtual display, zero-copy OpenGL rendering.
Use an old jailbroken iPad (iOS 6+, tested on iPad 2) as a real extended display for your Mac, over USB or Wi-Fi. Native iOS 6 app with libjpeg-turbo NEON, ~35 fps.
Candela protects your displays from OLED burn-in and wear: panel health history, a checkup for defects, and the controls macOS leaves out for external monitors (brightness, volume, contrast, custom resolutions, HiDPI scaling). Free and open source.
Menu bar dictation for macOS. It's always on, works in the background and keeps transcribing whatever you say into the focused text field, locally and in multiple languages.
A native macOS assistant that reads the current screen and browser context when you need it.
Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac