Metal
How vibe coders and indie builders use Metal: 40 projects built with it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
40
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.5%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
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Add-ons built for it
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Latest projects built with Metal
- Windowsill — Turns one captured memory a day into a small watercolor painting with a short title and year.“Windowsill - I built an iPhone app that turns one memory a day into a small watercolor”
- Ripples — Plays a Lights Out style logic puzzle where tapping a pool flips it and its four neighbours across graded wave levels.“I built a one-rule puzzle game solo: tap a pool, it flips its neighbours, drain the board”
- Hollow — Scans a disk and draws every file as a shaded rectangle sized by its space on disk, with filters, Quick Look, Trash with undo, and a CLI.“I built a GrandPerspective-style disk visualizer for Apple silicon that scans my home folder in 5 seconds”
- Wallnetic — Plays user-supplied video files as animated macOS desktop wallpapers.“Wallnetic - free, open-source live video wallpapers for Mac (1.4.2 just shipped)”
- Weatherling — Draws simulated rain drops and water running down the edges of open Mac windows on a transparent overlay.“Make it rain on your Mac desktop!”
- Lens — Records Mac screen video with click-following auto zoom, a webcam bubble, and on-device captions and noise removal.“Built my own Mac screen recorder because the good ones were too expensive for a side project”
- 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”
- MignonSketch — Simulates physical painting media such as wet watercolor, thick oil paint, and pencils on a phone canvas.“Simulating wet watercolor and thick oil paint on a phone GPU”
- Confi — Converts images between many formats locally on a Mac without uploading them.“Confi - An offline image converter for Mac that handles 35+ formats (HEIC, RAW, AVIF, JPEG XL, PSD)”
- Radiant Canvas — Generates and edits images locally on Apple silicon Macs using multiple downloadable AI image models.“I made a native Mac app that runs multiple AI image models locally”
- WhisperWhy — Records speech on macOS, transcribes it locally with whisper.cpp, and pastes a cleaned-up version at the cursor.“WhisperWhy — a fully local, notch-style dictation app for macOS (whisper.cpp + local LLM, open source)”
- amble — Turns a sentence describing the user's day into a structured schedule using a small on-device language model.“The scariest line in my SaaS spreadsheet was the OpenAI bill, so I moved the model on-device.”
- TUFF — Runs large mixture-of-experts language models locally on a Mac by keeping shared weights in RAM and streaming experts from SSD through a bounded cache.“Shipped TUFF 3.0 — a Mac app that lets you run LLMs too big for your RAM”
- Tideglass — Renders live, animated ambient worlds on a second screen that react to the music currently playing.“I have a hard time focusing, so I spent two years building a second screen that's alive”
- i spent my evenings building a… — Simulates watercolor painting on phone and tablet with fluid physics for blooms, backruns and granulation, and can paint over photos of paper sketches.“i spent my evenings building a watercolor simulator for the phone with real fluid physics, Claude-built in Metal”