Berthly
Berthly is a free, open-source macOS desktop application that provides a graphical interface for Apple's container tool, which runs Linux containers in lightweight virtual machines on Apple Silicon. It is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license with no telemetry or analytics.
Berthly gives a Docker Desktop-style experience on top of Apple's container tooling: building images, running containers, managing machines, handling networks and volumes, and monitoring logs, all through a visual, keyboard-first interface instead of the command line. Additional features include live performance charts for CPU, memory, and network, drag-and-drop Dockerfile builds, and automatic detection of image updates.
Berthly does not replace or reimplement Apple's container daemon. It communicates with the existing daemon over XPC, so it is a second way to drive the same underlying service Apple already ships, described by the project as giving that daemon "eyes and hands" rather than doing container execution itself.
Berthly fills a real gap, since Apple's container tool has no first-party GUI. As a thin front end over functionality Apple itself provides, and with no first-person production use yet established, this sits at the outer edge of Assess.
