Awesome macOS

A comprehensive list of awesome macOS frameworks & libraries.

Where to Start macOS development

• Apple macOS Human Interface Guidelines - You probably should start by reading this. It explains almost everything you should and shouldn't do when developing for the Mac.
• Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X 5th Edition - A great deal of macOS programmers started with this book. 🔶
• Ry's Cocoa Tutorial - Clear, concise and practical. Hands down the best digital book on Cocoa Development.
• Ry's Objective-C Tutorial - If you are just starting out, read and learn Objective-C first with this free tutorial. (Or you can learn Swift, your choice.)
• Ray Wenderlich's macOS Tutorials - Ray Wenderlich website has a lot of tutorials for macOS development.

Libraries And Frameworks

UI

• TwUI - A UI framework for Mac based on Core Animation
• Masonry - Auto-Layout, simplified.
• KSNavigationController - UINavigationController on macOS.
• StatusItemController - Boilerplate controller for Status Item apps.
• AboutThisApp - A more customizable about this app panel.
• RichEditor - Allows you to turn a native NSTextView into a full blown WYSIWYG editor.

Animation

• pop - An extensible iOS and OS X animation library, useful for physics-based interactions.

Networking

• Alamofire - A HTTP networking library written in Swift. 🔶
• AFNetworking - A HTTP networking library written in Objective-C.
• TRON - Lightweight network abstraction layer, written on top of Alamofire. 🔶

SVG

• IJSVG - OSX SVG Library

Updating

• Sparkle - open source software update framework for macOS
• Squirrel - Cocoa framework for updating OS X apps

Global Shortcuts and Window Management

• ShortcutRecorder - The only user interface control to record shortcuts.
• MASShortcut - Modern framework for managing global keyboard shortcuts compatible with Mac App Store.

Utilities

• Algorithm - Algorithm is a collection of data structures that are empowered by a probability toolset. 🔶
• Hue - Color utilities written with Swift. 🔶
• Freddy - A reusable framework for parsing JSON in Swift. 🔶

Omni Group Frameworks

• Omni Group Frameworks - A huge collection of frameworks, open sourced by The Omni Group.

Open Source macOS Apps

• GIFs - A Mac App for finding GIFs
• MacDown - Open source Markdown editor for OS X
• FB Messenger - macOS App for Facebook Messenger
• Panda - A macOS app for switching between Light and Dark modes
• ChitChat - A native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web
• WWDC Mac - The unofficial WWDC app for macOS