Open-sourced on October 19, Mac.apk turns an APK straight into a Mac app: no emulator or VM, with 64-bit ARM code running natively on Apple silicon. It needs macOS 26.4+, and 51 of the 65 apps the author hand-tested work. This post covers the four-step install, using F-Droid and Aurora Store, keyboard/mouse/controller input, and the important warning that it is not a sandbox.

Unplug your Mac’s external monitor and every window piles onto the laptop screen? LayoutKeeper remembers each window’s position and desktop per monitor and restores them with one click or automatically when you plug back in. It also lets your keyboard control external monitor brightness. v0.6.8, free under GPL-3.0. Requirements, setup and limitations.

llmspeed is a free, open-source web tool: pick a GPU or Mac, a model and a quantization, and it types out a response at the estimated speed, tells you whether the model fits, and lets two setups race. How to use it, how to read its measured/derived/projected labels, and speed and time-to-first-token tables from the RTX 3060 to the 5090, Macs and the Ryzen AI Max+ 395.

House Control controls lights and AC through a live 3D model of your home, with Smart Life, Home Assistant, Hue and Apple Home support, in the Mac menu bar and on iPhone. About 520 stars, MIT, v1.0.0.

Coucou is an MIT-licensed Mac notch companion that watches Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more, and lets you approve requests from the notch or your iPhone or Android phone. Mac 0.4 adds dictation and meeting notes.