GitHub gems: open-source software from small creators1,155 projects

Free, open-source AI lecture recorder and note-taker for students on Mac and Windows. Records and transcribes lectures on your computer (Whisper, Parakeet) and writes study notes with diagrams using Claude, ChatGPT,…

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Self-hosted iOS & Android simulator streaming for the whole team.

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E-ink dashboard companion. Compose dashboards in a browser, render server-side, and push to e-ink panels over REST or MQTT.

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Tiny native macOS menu-bar screen recorder and screenshot tool. MP4, WebM, GIF, annotations. Local only, open source.

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A native Mac password manager for Vaultwarden and Bitwarden — Swift/SwiftUI, AutoFill with passkeys and one-time codes, Touch ID, command palette, SSH agent.

uiptv is a media centre program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android: playlists.

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A mildly annoying macOS break app that uses local Apple Vision to verify you actually moved.

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Free, local-first, on-device dictation for macOS (Apple Silicon). Hold a key, speak, and Velora types polished text in any app — with agentic actions and fully offline. Superwhisper/Wispr Flow alternative.

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A small Jellyfin client with a VHS player interface.

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A native macOS launcher for apps, notes, and agent workflows. MIT licensed.

Push-to-talk voice typing for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. On-device or cloud speech recognition, AI polish with presets, a dictionary, rules and scenes, long recordings with subtitles; the phone works on its own…

⚡ Power tools for your Linux desktop: screen OCR, QR codes, color picker, screen ruler, image & video compressor, text expander, Smart Paste, Keep Awake, hosts & environment editor, what's-using-this finder, app…

A modular all-stack network scanner for next-generation internet surveys!

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An extensible, keyboard-first clipboard history for macOS that opens right under your text caret.

Self-hosted, privacy-first AI home companion with voice, touch and long-term memory.

Portable AI music generator — full songs with vocals, covers, music videos. One-click install, 100% offline, NVIDIA GPU.

A modern, multi-protocol file manager and FTP client with integrated AI, cloud sync, and military-grade encryption.

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Native media player for macOS and iOS/iPadOS on AetherEngine (FFmpeg). Plays almost any video or audio file, disc image or stream URL, with Dolby Vision and HDR, lossless height channels from TrueHD and DTS:X, Dolby…

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ArchiveKeep is a bootable USB program, available on Linux and Android.

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Control your self-hosted media stack from one app.

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Turn workouts into quests, boss fights and a village built by your training.

Firmware for the BlueBuzzah gloves (v2 and v3 boards).

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A reading browser: the web without JavaScript, set in your own type.

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Open-source S3 client for Windows, macOS and Linux: a Tauri desktop app and the bb CLI on one Rust core.

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Create and manage network tunnels.

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Private, local AI desktop app — run open LLMs fully offline with a coding agent, knowledge base and voice.

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Cine is a media player, available on Linux.

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Ciyue is a dictionary, available on Windows, Linux and Android: themes and dark mode.

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Open-source clipboard and file sharing for Windows, Android and Apple devices. iPhone Control Center and Share Sheet via Shortcuts; Docker or Windows host on your LAN/VPN.

A desktop-class multimedia file manager for Android optimized for DeX, tablets, phones and mouse/keyboard productivity. Now with integrated Game Manager, PDF reader and text editor!

Cosmos Music Player is a premium player build for ios using iCloud iDrive and Local Storage.

Desktop SSH client for Windows, macOS, and Linux: saved hosts with colored folders and encrypted passwords, multi-tab terminal with find-in-output, SFTP file tree, syntax-highlighted editor, SQL Browse for SQLite/SQL,…

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💫 CyberViewer is a full-featured image viewer and editor with integrated video and audio player ⋅ Free and open-source.

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DDNet is a platform game, available on Windows, macOS and Linux: co-op play and tournaments.

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Daily You is a journaling mobile app, available on Android.

Cue-based media playback and show control for live video.

A modern dual-pane terminal file manager inspired by DOS Navigator, built in Rust with classic styling, keyboard shortcuts, and mouse support.

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Turn a GOG offline installer into a real game disc: the game's own icon and title in This PC, a menu when you double-click it, printed cover art, and burning with every file checked afterwards.

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Clean, ad-free, open-source music streaming player with 32-band Web Audio DSP, real-time cross-device sync, lyrics, and offline playback.

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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…