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View 27 business solutionsBrowse free open source Design software and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Design software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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MicroG RE
GmsCore fork for ReVanced with Material You, features and improvements
GmsCore fork designed for ReVanced with Material You design, along with some improvements and features. -
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FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app to control volume for each app
FineTune is a macOS menu bar application that gives users fine-grained control over system audio by allowing them to adjust volume levels for individual applications independently, route audio streams to different output devices, and apply personalized equalizer settings. It fills a gap in macOS audio control by providing more advanced routing and audio shaping capabilities than the default system controls, making it useful for power users, audio professionals, and anyone needing precise management of their sound environment. Through a clean, minimal interface accessible from the menu bar, FineTune lets users isolate and balance application volumes, assign specific outputs (like headphones versus speakers), and tweak equalization to enhance or tailor audio based on content or personal preference. Its integration into the OS workflow means that these adjustments persist across sessions and respect the user’s choices without requiring constant interaction with deeper system settings. -
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Font Awesome
Get vector icons and social logos for your website or blog
Font Awesome was created in a successful Kickstarter and is an easy way for web developers to add icons and logos to their website. There is both a free version and a pro version for extra features and icons. You can support the developers by buying a custom FontAwesome T-Shirt! https://fontawesome.com/shirts -
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Vorssaint
Free open-source macOS menu bar toolkit
Vorssaint is a free and open-source macOS menu bar toolkit that combines many everyday utility features into one app. It includes tools that would usually require several separate paid applications. The app provides per-app volume control, system monitoring, network monitoring, window controls, clipboard history, a file shelf, app uninstalling, link cleaning, keep-awake controls, and other quality-of-life features. It is designed to be local-first, with network access limited to user-visible actions such as update checks, speed tests, and Homebrew operations. Most tools can be enabled or hidden individually, so users can keep the menu bar setup lightweight. Overall, it is a practical all-in-one utility app for Mac users who want more control without juggling many small tools. -
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Impeccable
The design language that makes your AI harness better at design
Impeccable is a design skill system that helps AI coding tools produce better frontend interfaces by giving them a richer design vocabulary. It provides one comprehensive skill, multiple commands, and curated reference files covering typography, color, motion, spacing, interaction, responsive design, and UX writing. The project is built to counter common AI-generated design habits such as generic SaaS layouts, overused fonts, nested cards, weak hierarchy, and predictable gradients. It can be installed across several AI coding environments, including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and others. Impeccable also includes deterministic anti-pattern detection through a CLI and browser extension without requiring an API key. It is most useful for developers and designers who want AI-generated interfaces to feel more polished, intentional, and product-aware. -
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QuickPic Gallery Mod
QuickPic Gallery Mod
QuickPic Gallery Mod. -
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WhiteSur GTK Theme
MacOS like theme for all gtk based desktops
WhiteSur-gtk-theme brings a macOS Big Sur–inspired look to Linux desktops by providing a polished GTK theme with light and dark variants, rounded shapes, and refined translucency. It includes assets and installer scripts to apply the theme across GTK applications and desktop shells that support GTK theming, aiming for a cohesive, high-contrast interface. The project pays attention to details like window controls, titlebars, selection states, and widget hover effects so apps feel consistent from toolkits to system settings. Configuration options typically allow tweaking accents and choosing variants that match different desktop environments and icon sets. Documentation guides users through installing prerequisites, applying the theme, and resolving common edge cases across distributions. For Linux users who prefer Apple’s visual style but want open platforms, WhiteSur offers a maintained, community-driven path to a modern, visually unified desktop. -
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Penpot
The first open source design and prototyping tool
Penpot is the first open-source design and prototyping platform for product teams that allows true collaboration between designers and developers. What will designers and developers find in Penpot? - Powerful UI tool for the team. All stakeholders can access a complete set of interactive prototypes, design systems, components, feedback loop and pixel designs. - Design and development collaborate for real. Penpot brings both code-ready design capabilities and the familiarity of developer tools to the same workspace. - Open Standards for the design work. This means zero vendor lock-in and high interoperability. - Unique Flex Layout that allows you to create flexible designs that can adapt automatically -
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WhiteSur Icon Theme
MacOS Big Sur style icon theme for linux desktops
WhiteSur-icon-theme is a Linux icon theme that faithfully recreates the macOS Big Sur icon set’s look and feel, giving your desktop a sleek, polished visual identity inspired by Apple’s design language. It includes a broad selection of icons for many popular applications, utilities, and system features, ensuring most graphical elements on your desktop adopt the unified appearance. The theme is designed to integrate seamlessly with GTK- and icon-themed desktops, helping users achieve a consistent aesthetic across panels, launchers, and app menus. Installation scripts provide easy methods to deploy the icons into your system or local user directory, and options let you tweak the icon style or destination. Because it mimics a well-known visual design, it’s particularly popular among users who want to bring macOS-like polish to their Linux desktops without sacrificing performance. -
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SkyWater PDK
Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology
The SkyWater PDK is the first broadly available open-source process design kit for a commercial-grade CMOS node, enabling researchers, startups, and students to design real ASICs without proprietary NDAs. It provides the essential artifacts for digital and analog flows: SPICE models, DRC/LVS rules, extraction decks, and technology files for open tools like Magic and KLayout. Standard-cell libraries and IO pads are included so digital designers can use open synthesis and place-and-route to reach a manufacturable GDS. Because the PDK is open, it becomes a common target for community reference designs, open tapeouts, and teaching curricula. Documentation and example flows show how to assemble complete toolchains, from RTL to sign-off, using open EDA components. The project effectively lowers the barrier to custom silicon, catalyzing an ecosystem around an accessible 130-nm process. -
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Materialize
Materialize, a web framework based on Material Design
Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design. Using VanillaJS and as less dependencies as possible to keep it fast and simple. We use TypeScript since it builds upon JavaScript and enhances the type- and code safety. You don't have to learn or integrate any new or crappy stuff. The goal here is to stick to the roots. Just copy and paste from the documentation and you are good to go. Most of the Features work event without JavaScript. Components should be useable by mobile devices and easily accessible by keyboard too. Try it out. User-centric approach with established design principles mainly from Google's Material guidelines. Our Components should work on nearly every device with a monitor. User-centric approach with many members all around the world, which helps bring Materialize forward and improve usability for everyone on the web. You can be a part too. -
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Thaw
Menu bar manager for macOS 26
Thaw is a macOS menu bar management app focused on hiding, showing, and organizing menu bar items, with the broader goal of being a versatile customization toolkit rather than a single-purpose hider. It is a fork of the Ice project created to keep the concept actively maintained, fix bugs, and stay compatible with the latest macOS releases, especially newer versions where menu bar behavior and APIs have changed. At its core, Thaw provides multiple ways to reveal hidden items (hover, click empty space, scroll or swipe) and can automatically rehide items to keep the menu bar clean without constant manual toggling. It also supports a dedicated “always-hidden” section, drag-and-drop arrangement of items, and options to display hidden items in a separate bar, which can be particularly useful on MacBooks with notches. -
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The Hacker theme
Hacker is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages
Hacker is a theme for GitHub Pages. -
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erd
Translates a plain text description of a relational database schema
erd is a Haskell-based command-line tool that transforms a plain-text description of a relational database schema into a graphical entity-relationship diagram using common ER conventions. This utility takes a plain text description of entities, their attributes and the relationships between entities and produces a visual diagram modeling the description. The visualization is produced by using Dot with GraphViz. There are limited options for specifying color and font information. Also, erd can output graphs in a variety of formats, including but not limited to: pdf, svg, eps, png, jpg, plain text and dot. In case one wishes to have a statically linked erd as a result, this is possible to have by executing build-static_by-nix.sh: which requires the nix package manager to be installed on the building machine. NixOS itself is not a requirement. -
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Ethereal Style
Ethereal Style for Zotero
Zotero Style, also known as Ethereal Style, is an open-source Zotero plugin that enhances the reference library interface with visual reading indicators and customizable columns. It helps researchers monitor their progress through academic papers and organize collections more effectively. Reading activity can be displayed as color gradients behind document titles. A dedicated progress column visualizes annotation activity across PDF pages. The plugin distinguishes read and unread references through title formatting. It also provides a separate column for tags and additional library organization controls. Its interface enhancements allow researchers to identify unfinished readings and manage large literature collections without opening every document. -
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Figma electron app
Figma is the first interface design tool based in the browser
Figma is the first interface design tool based in the browser, making it easier for teams to create software. Figma-linux is an unofficial Electron-based Figma desktop app for Linux. You can install Figma-linux from Snap. There is also an AppImage available. Get it on our Releases page, then make it executable and install using the terminal commands provided. Download the .deb package from the Releases page, and install it with dpkg or your favorite .deb installer. -
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Pinta
Simple GTK# Paint Program
Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD. Use easy drawing tools to draw freehand, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and more. Pinta includes over 35 adjustments and effects for tweaking your images. Use Pinta in your language. Pinta is at least partially translated into over 55 languages. Don't be afraid to experiment, Pinta tracks your full history so you can always undo. Use layers to help separate and group elements of your image for easy editing. Like docked windows? No problem. Floating windows? No problem. You can even mix and match. Original Pinta code is licensed under the MIT License, see license-mit.txt for the MIT License. Code from Paint.Net 3.36 is used under the MIT License and retains the original headers on source files. -
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One Dark Pro
Atom's iconic One Dark theme for Visual Studio Code
One Dark Pro is a popular Visual Studio Code theme inspired by the Atom One Dark theme, designed to provide a visually appealing and consistent coding environment. It focuses on readability and aesthetics, using a carefully selected color palette that reduces eye strain while maintaining strong contrast between code elements. The theme supports a wide range of programming languages, ensuring consistent syntax highlighting across different file types. It also integrates seamlessly with VS Code features, enhancing the overall developer experience. The design emphasizes clarity, making it easier to navigate and understand complex codebases. It is widely adopted due to its balance between style and functionality. Overall, OneDark-Pro serves as a high-quality customization option for developers seeking a polished coding interface. -
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Actions and Tags for Zotero
Customize your Zotero workflow
Actions & Tags is a Zotero plugin for automating library organization through event-driven actions and custom scripts. It can add or remove tags when items are created, opened, closed, modified, or matched by other triggers. Users can also launch actions manually through configurable keyboard shortcuts. Built-in and community examples cover tag replacement, item-link copying, automatic note creation, and metadata translation. Scriptable operations allow advanced users to manipulate selected items, notes, collections, and application behavior. Actions can be combined into repeatable workflows that reduce manual cataloging and cleanup. The plugin is installed as an XPI extension and is intended to make Zotero adapt to individual research habits. -
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Dash
Build beautiful web-based analytic apps, no JavaScript required
Dash is a Python framework for building beautiful analytical web applications without any JavaScript. Built on top of Plotly.js, React and Flask, Dash easily achieves what an entire team of designers and engineers normally would. It ties modern UI controls and displays such as dropdown menus, sliders and graphs directly to your analytical Python code, and creates exceptional, interactive analytics apps. Dash apps are very lightweight, requiring only a limited number of lines of Python or R code; and every aesthetic element can be customized and rendered in the web. It’s also not just for dashboards. You have full control over the look and feel of your apps, so you can style them to look any way you want. -
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HTML5 Boilerplate
The web’s most popular front-end template
HTML5 Boilerplate is a popular and professional front-end template that lets you build fast, robust and adaptable web sites or applications. It’s built with the combined knowledge and effort of hundreds of developers over a span of years, creating a powerful tool in one small package. HTML5 Boilerplate comes loaded with great features, such as HTML5 support, optimized Google Analytics snippet, jQuery and Modernizr, and so much more. It supports the latest and most popular browsers and does not impose a specific development philosophy or framework, so you can code any way you want. -
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Material UI
Comprehensive React component library that implements Material Design
Material UI is an open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design. It's comprehensive and can be used in production out of the box. A meticulous implementation of Material Design; every Material UI component meets the highest standards of form and function. Start quickly with Material Design or use the advanced theming feature to easily tailor the components to your needs. CSS utilities allow you to move faster and make for a smooth developer experience when styling any component. Reach out for the Figma Design Kit and the Sync plugin to bridge the gap between development and design when using Material UI. -
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Pika
An open-source colour picker app for macOS
Pika (pronounced pi·kuh, like picker) is an easy-to-use, open-source, native color picker for macOS. Pika makes it easy to quickly find colors onscreen, in the format you need, so you can get on with being a speedy, successful designer. -
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System Design Primer
Learn how to design large-scale systems
System Design Primer is a curated, open source collection of resources that helps engineers learn how to design large-scale systems. The project is structured as a comprehensive guide covering core system design concepts, trade-offs, and patterns necessary for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems. It offers both theoretical foundations—such as scalability principles, the CAP theorem, and consistency models—and practical exercises, including real-world system design interview questions with sample solutions, diagrams, and code. The repository also contains study guides for short, medium, and long interview timelines, allowing learners to focus on both breadth and depth depending on their preparation needs. In addition, it includes flashcard decks designed to reinforce learning through spaced repetition, making it easier to retain key system design knowledge.
