AppKit
How vibe coders and indie builders use AppKit: 49 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
49
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.3%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
0
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Swift 32
- SwiftUI 22
- GitHub Pages 5
- Rust 3
- Metal 3
- SwiftData 3
- WebKit 2
- Claude Code 2
What's built with it
Latest projects built with AppKit
- DROIDLESS — Runs unmodified Android APK bytecode in a Rust virtual machine and renders its views as native desktop controls.“DROIDLESS: Run Android APKs Without Android 🤖🦀”
- HushNotes — Shows floating notes over all apps that stay hidden from screen shares and recordings, with color themes, a quick-capture hotkey for selected text, and read-only MCP access for AI tools.“I built Mac notes that stay on my screen but invisible to screen share”
- Krate — Packages desktop apps as single portable .krate files that run on Mac, Windows and Linux using a shared installed runtime.“I built a format where the same app file runs on Mac, Windows and Linux”
- DefaultBrowserChanger — Switches the macOS default browser from a menu bar icon or global shortcut so links open in the chosen browser.“I got tired of external links opening in the wrong browser while juggling AI & work sessions, so I built a 1-click menu bar changer in pure Swift”
- Break Reminder — Reminds the user to step away from the screen at set intervals with full-screen breaks and snooze or skip options.“Built a tiny macOS app because I kept forgetting to take breaks”
- Ghost Deck — Plays local music files in a classic deck layout with a ten-band EQ and playlist, behind a 3D low-poly world that moves to the music.“I built a Mac music player where your album floats over a low-poly world. It went live on the App Store yesterday”
- Kokos — Provides a native macOS file manager with browser-style pinned tabs, split view, keyboard folder jump, and undoable cut, copy, and paste.“I built Kokos, a native file manager for macOS that works like a browser (pinned tabs, ⌘K, real ⌘X/⌘C/⌘V)”
- SwiftPlayer — Plays local video and audio files on macOS using Apple's native frameworks, with subtitle support and playback controls.“I built a free Mac video player because VLC was a struggle for my mom's MacBook Air Intel ( 2020 i3 duo)”
- Mooziac — Plays YouTube Music and local audio files in a native macOS player with synced lyrics and a waveform seek bar.“Mooziac: A Native macOS Music Player for YouTube & Local Music”
- Mooziac — Plays local and YouTube Music tracks from a macOS menu bar player with synced lyrics and playlists.“I made Mooziac — a native menu bar music player for macOS”
- CatLoaf — Runs a small animated cat on the macOS desktop that wanders, loafs, sleeps when idle, follows the cursor, and can be dragged around.“I wanted a tiny non-invasive desktop cat, so I made this!”
- Caddy Docs — Puts colored edge tabs on the screen that open per-assignment files, notes, and reference documents as overlays and restore their layout later.“I built a Mac app that turns the edges of your screen into little workstations”
- Tidy — Renames image and PDF files based on the text recognized inside them and sorts Downloads and Desktop with rules.“My Mac app that names files by reading what's inside them just got camera scanning. Solo dev, 5th month.”
- Repaste — Keeps a local clipboard history of recent text, images, links and files, shown by hovering over the MacBook notch or pressing a hotkey.“I turned the MacBook notch into a clipboard manager”
- Vyron — Plays a 100-level arcade space shooter on Mac and iPhone with synced saves.“A year building a game with no engine, solo. It is live.”