Developer Tools for MAC
81 free Mac apps in Developer Tools, including OrbStack, tmux, and QuotaBar. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
81 apps
OrbStackOrbStack is a fast, light and simple way to run Docker containers and Linux machines on your Mac. It is a drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop: your docker and docker compose commands keep working, and on first start OrbStack offers to copy over your existing Docker Desktop containers, images and volumes. It starts in seconds, uses less than 0.1% background CPU on Apple Silicon and returns unused memory to macOS. Besides containers it runs full Linux machines from 16 distributions, and a lightweight Kubernetes cluster for local development. OrbStack is made by Orbital Labs.Developer Tools- tmuxtmux is a free, open-source terminal multiplexer. It lets you run several programs in one terminal, split into windows and side-by-side panes, and switch between them with the keyboard. Its most useful trick is sessions: detach from a session and everything in it keeps running, even after you close the terminal or lose an SSH connection, and reattach later exactly where you left off. tmux is developed by Nicholas Marriott and contributors and released under the ISC license.Developer Tools
QuotaBarIf you use OpenAI Codex with a ChatGPT account, the usage limits reset on a 5-hour and a weekly window, and checking how much is left means opening Codex or ChatGPT. QuotaBar puts the remaining percentage in the Mac menu bar and refreshes it every 60 seconds. Click the icon for a detailed panel with every limit window and its reset countdown, or turn on a small floating HUD that stays on top of other windows.Developer Tools
Stargazer BarStargazer Bar is a small native menu bar app for Mac that keeps an eye on GitHub repositories for you. It puts a live star count in the menu bar, so you can see how a project is doing without keeping a browser tab open, and a click opens a dropdown with the details: star and fork trend charts, release download totals and a maintainer radar. Public repositories are measured by their stars. Private repositories, which have no stars, are measured by what needs your attention: a failing build, an unanswered issue or a new pull request.Developer Tools
Notch So GoodNotch So Good turns the notch of your MacBook into a small status display for AI coding agents. While Claude Code or the OpenAI Codex CLI works, a black pill extends the notch: a 3D character called Peek sits on the left, and a ring on the right shows how much of your 5-hour usage window is left. The more a session needs you, the further Peek climbs out. When a task finishes, fails or runs into a usage limit, the notch opens into a card that says what happened and in which project, and a click jumps to the exact terminal tab, tmux pane included.Developer Tools
Claude UsageClaude Usage is a small native app for people who use Claude Code. In the menu bar it shows your current five-hour session, your weekly usage for all models and for Sonnet, and your pay-as-you-go credits, each with a usage bar and its reset time, without opening Claude Code. It also adds a one-line readout under your Claude Code prompt with the model, how full the context window is and the tokens used, so you can compact a session before it runs out of room. Each terminal pane shows its own readout, also across tmux.Developer Tools
TintpadTintpad is a free, open-source launcher for developers who work with command-line coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex. Press Option-Command-Space anywhere and a black drop falls out of your Mac's notch, or hangs below the menu bar on Macs without one, with your repositories inside. Type a few letters, press Return, and your own terminal opens at that repository with the agent already running, in the mode you used there last.Developer Tools
VigilVigil is a free, open-source native Mac terminal for running coding agents as a team. Instead of copying messages between several agent windows yourself, you give a task to a root manager agent, which can start worker agents and sub-managers of its own. Detail flows down the tree and results roll back up to the manager as summaries, which keeps the manager's context lean. A live node tree shows the whole team at once, and every node keeps the agent's own terminal interface, so you can open any of them and take over directly.Developer Tools
DeploylightDeploylight is a free, open-source menu bar app that shows your deployment status in real time. It works with Vercel deployments and Cloudflare Workers Builds and merges both into one list. The menu bar icon shows whether the latest build is building, ready or has failed, and while a build runs it can also show the project name and a live build timer. Click any deployment in the menu to open it in Vercel or the Cloudflare dashboard.Developer Tools
DevProjexDevProjex is a free, open-source app that turns any folder or Git repository into clean context for AI. You tick the folders and files you need in a file tree, check a live preview with its token estimate, and then copy or export the result as ASCII, Markdown, JSON or XML, or as a clean copy of the project in a folder or ZIP. Detected secrets such as keys and passwords are masked before anything leaves the app, and you can also mask private data like emails, IP addresses and user paths.Developer Tools
ClaveClave is a free, open-source desktop app for running several coding-agent sessions at once. You can open as many Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity CLI and Pi sessions as you need, each in its own terminal, along with plain terminal tabs, and arrange them in split or grid layouts so you can switch between them instantly. Sessions can be organised into groups, and saved workspace files reopen a whole set of sessions together.Developer Tools
Claude StatisticsClaude Statistics is a free, open-source menu bar app for people who use AI coding assistants in the terminal. It reads the session files that Claude Code, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI already keep on your Mac and turns them into a searchable list of sessions with token counts, estimated cost, model and context usage, plus a full transcript viewer with search. A statistics view adds daily, weekly and monthly totals with charts and a per-model cost breakdown.Developer Tools
UnicodeCheckerUnicodeChecker is a free Mac app for exploring and converting Unicode. For every code point it shows the Unicode number and its UTF encodings, related code points and decomposition. You can browse by plane, code point number or character block, find code points by name or by their Unihan definition, and even find them through Spotlight. For many Asian code points it shows Unihan data such as definitions, variants, pronunciations and older encodings.Developer Tools
Cocoa Packet AnalyzerCocoa Packet Analyzer is a native Mac network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer. It captures traffic on Ethernet and Wi-Fi, dissects each packet as it arrives and shows it field by field, with more than 50 protocol analyzers. It can record which app sent or received each packet, so you see Safari or your own app rather than an anonymous connection, and an Applications window adds up packets and bytes per app while the capture runs. It reads and writes pcap and pcapng files, so you can also open traces made with other tools.Developer Tools
LoadoutLoadout is a Mac app for people who use AI coding assistants. It shows in one window everything those assistants load, including personal and project skills, slash commands, subagents, plugins and MCP servers, with Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity items side by side and each marked with its owner. It also shows how many times each item fired, when it last did and in how many projects, read from the assistants' own session logs. If a history format cannot prove an activation, Loadout marks it unsupported rather than showing a zero that looks like disuse.Developer Tools
RilmazafoneRilmazafone is a Mac app for developers who ship their apps as disk images. You arrange the installer on a canvas that matches the Finder window: drag in your app, get an Applications shortcut and an arrow, add extra files, and place everything with guides. Backgrounds can be images, gradients or solid colors, with color adjustments, vignette, bloom, variable blur, styled text, SF Symbols and frosted panels behind icons. One click then builds the .dmg, with a choice of compression format and of APFS or HFS+, signed with an identity from your keychain.Developer Tools
SwitchShuttleSwitchShuttle is a menu bar app for Mac that keeps your most-used terminal commands one click or one keyboard shortcut away. You organize commands into nested submenus, give each one a global hotkey and an emoji icon, and run it from anywhere without first opening a terminal and typing it. It works with iTerm, Terminal, Warp, Alacritty, Hyper and other terminals, and each command can run in the current window, a new tab or a new window.Developer Tools
LiteEditLiteEdit is a native Mac code editor under 1 MB, built with Swift and AppKit, for opening, reading and quickly editing code alongside your main IDE. It has syntax highlighting for more than 20 languages, tabs, a sidebar file tree, Find & Replace with regex and a Quick Open command for switching files. When you relaunch it, it brings back your folder, files, cursor positions and window state.Developer Tools
StreakerStreaker is a menu bar app that tracks your GitHub contribution streak. Enter your GitHub username in its preferences, and the menu bar shows your best, current and previous streak, along with your contributions today, your most in a day and your total for the year.Developer Tools
TracexyTracexy is a native macOS packet analyzer for live network traffic and saved PCAP or PCAPNG files. Instead of starting from a long list of packets, it groups traffic into sessions and connects them to the Mac app that made them when macOS provides that information, so you can see which process contacted which host, which protocols appeared and how much data moved. Decoded fields and raw bytes stay one click away. Missing evidence is shown as unknown rather than guessed.Developer Tools
ClaudoscopeClaudoscope is a native macOS menu bar app for exploring and analyzing your Claude Code and Cowork sessions. It reads the session files already on your Mac, in ~/.claude/projects/, and shows them in a compact menu bar widget and a full dashboard window. You can follow live agents, study past sessions, see where tokens went and get alerts while something is still going wrong.Developer Tools
BlueJBlueJ is a development environment for writing Java programs, designed for beginners and for teaching. Its interface is deliberately smaller and simpler than professional environments such as NetBeans or Eclipse, so new programmers can start quickly without being overwhelmed. It is built around interaction: you can create objects, inspect their values and call their methods directly, and type Java expressions without compiling them first.Developer Tools
Valentina StudioValentina Studio is a database management and development tool for data architects, developers, database administrators, teachers and students. It works with DuckDB, MySQL and MariaDB, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite and the developer's own ValentinaDB, and it covers both SQL and NoSQL work. From one window you can design a database as a diagram, change its schema, browse and edit records, write SQL or build a query visually, and administer a server.Developer Tools
usageusage keeps your AI coding quota in the Mac menu bar. It shows the 5-hour and weekly limits of Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Muse Code with reset countdowns, plus Grok CLI's weekly credit, and turns a quota red as it nears its limit. Click the icon for the full session, weekly and per-project breakdown. Most token and cost figures come from local logs already on your Mac.Developer Tools