Alternatives to Mac Sai
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. Mac Sai itself: install Mac Sai.
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
Swimat
[ARCHIVED] An Xcode formatter plug-in for Swift. Superseded by swift-format, now built into Xcode
arxiv_latex_cleaner
arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv
bumblebee
Read-only developer endpoint scanner for on-disk package, extension, and developer-tool metadata, built to check exposure to known software supply-cha
Reminders MenuBar
Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source
swift-sh
Easily script with third-party Swift dependencies
Orchard
The native UI for Apple Containers and (o)MLX sandboxes, written in swift as a replacement for docker desktop
OpenSim
OpenSim is an open source alternative to SimPholders, written in Swift
nelm
Nelm is a Helm 4 alternative. It is a Kubernetes deployment tool that manages Helm Charts and deploys them to Kubernetes. The Nelm goal is to provide
fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
fnm
🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
masscan
TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes
eza
A modern alternative to ls
sonic
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM
swiftlint
A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions
duf
Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
grype
A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
swiftgen
The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!
FineTune
FineTune, a macOS menu bar app for per-app volume control, multi-device output, audio routing, and 10-band EQ. Free and open-source alternative to Sou
macintosh.js
🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry
sourcery
Meta-programming for Swift, stop writing boilerplate code
noTunes
A simple macOS application that will prevent iTunes or Apple Music from launching
Brooklyn
🍎 Screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018
Knuff
The debug application for Apple Push Notification Service (APNs)
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than Mac Sai — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
Mac Sai is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.