Alternatives to macintosh.js
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. macintosh.js itself: install macintosh.js.
Clock Signal
A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, Cole
gops
A tool to list and diagnose Go processes currently running on your system
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
entt
Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more
fly
Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD
PureMac
Free, open-source macOS cleaner. CleanMyMac alternative with zero telemetry. Native SwiftUI, scheduled auto-cleaning, Xcode/Homebrew/system cache clea
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)
dockerize
Utility to simplify running applications in docker containers
BLEUnlock
Lock/unlock your Mac with your iPhone, Apple Watch, or any other Bluetooth LE devices
JupyterLab App
JupyterLab desktop application, based on Electron
Reminders MenuBar
Simple macOS menu bar application to view and interact with reminders. Developed with SwiftUI and using Apple Reminders as a source
macshot Offline
Feature-packed native macOS screenshot & recording tool: annotate, auto-redact PII, record GIFs, OCR + translate, scroll capture, beautify, and more.
libfaketime
libfaketime modifies the system time for a single application
Unshaky
A software attempt to address the "double key press" issue on Apple's butterfly keyboard [not actively maintained]
LeoCAD
A CAD application for creating virtual LEGO models
bpftop
bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for e
dwarfs
A fast high-compression read-only file system for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows
entityx
EntityX - A fast, type-safe C++ Entity-Component system
gcsfuse
A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage
macchina
A system information frontend with an emphasis on performance
LosslessSwitcher
Automated Apple Music Lossless Sample Rate Switching for Audio Devices on Macs
asimov
Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
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 macintosh.js — 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.
macintosh.js 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.