Although the macOS kernel has common ancestors with the free operating system FreeBSD, The apple company is so closed that it makes Steve Ballmer's Microsoft look like the Free Software Foundation. However, this does not prevent developers from making versions of programs or even programs that are only for this operating system. In this article we are going to mention open source applications for macOS
Of course most major open source titles such as Firefox, LibreOffice or VLC are available so we are going to focus on other less known ones.
Open source applications for macOS
IINA
One of the most notable traditions in the open source world is that of forks. MPlayer, a command line multimedia player had a fork called MPlayer2. The curious thing about the case is that someone thought of making a third fork joining the best of both projects creating MPV. The three programs mentioned have versions for Linux and someone decided to make IINA, designed exclusively for La Manzanita computers.
Among the features of this program are:
- Support for Apple touch screen technology.
- Automatic creation of playlists from a folder.
- Easy navigation through content divided into chapters.
- Automatic download of subtitles from Opensubtitle.
- Possibility of changes in the appearance of the interface.
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts.
- Dark mode
- Screen on screen.
- Accessories.
Driving
Es an app electron based to create a task management dashboard. Electron is a tool that allows you to create desktop applications using technologies designed for creating web pages.
Condution features are:
- Allows you to create task lists
- Task lists can be assigned to projects.
- Setting deadlines
- Label assignment.
- Filtered by tags, project or deadlines.
- Ability to create collaborative task lists.
- Establishment of tag hierarchy.
- Show and hide tasks at predetermined times.
- Sample tasks sequentially.
Do you use open source programs on your Mac? We would like you to tell us your experiences in the comments form