PureApps Hub
Your licenses and your installed apps in one window. Handles activation so the apps themselves don't have to.
In developmentOpen source, ready to run
The best open source Mac apps,
signed and ready to run.
There are brilliant open source apps for the Mac. Most people never run one, because getting it usually means a Terminal, a build step, or a warning that macOS can't verify the developer. We do that part for you.
- Notarized by Apple
- Apple silicon only
- Upstream credited
The apps
A short list on purpose. Each one does a single thing properly.
Display control
Brightness, volume and input switching for external monitors, straight from the menu bar and the keys you already use.
In developmentMore coming
New apps land here as they're finished, not before.
Requires an Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 12 or newer. We don't ship Intel builds.
What PureApps does
The software is already out there and already good. Our job is everything between that source code and a working app on your Mac.
We find the good ones
Open source projects that are genuinely worth using, credited by name, with their license intact and our changes published back.
We sign and notarize
Every build is signed with our Apple Developer ID and sent to Apple for notarization. macOS opens it without the "unidentified developer" wall.
We build for Apple silicon
Compiled for arm64 only. No Rosetta, no Intel leftovers dragged along — just the fastest build for the Mac you own.
We keep them current
Upstream keeps improving. We follow those updates, rebuild, re-notarize, and the Hub tells you when a new version is ready.
Why pay for something free?
You don't have to. Every app here has its source published, and you're free to clone the repository and build it yourself — we'll even point you at it. What a license buys is the part that takes time: a build that Apple has already checked, on Apple silicon, kept up to date, with one place to manage it and someone to email when it breaks.
The projects we build on don't owe us anything, and we don't pretend their work is ours. Each app says what it's built from, right on its page and in its About window.
One license, every app
Buy once. Activate in the Hub. Use it on your own Macs.
- Buy a license. A key arrives by email, handled by Lemon Squeezy.
- Paste it into the Hub. One activation covers every PureApps app on that Mac.
- Forget about it. Apps ask the Hub, the Hub keeps things valid, offline included.
Pricing coming soon
A single one-off price for the whole collection. No subscription.
About the Hub
The Hub is the one app that knows about licensing, so the others don't carry it around. It's free, it's small, and it's where you'll find every app you own, what it was built from, and every update waiting.
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