CLUSTER APPLE-NATIVE-SILICON · 16 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-13
Apple Silicon VM/K8s apps
This cluster consists of native macOS apps that leverage Apple Silicon virtualization to run local Kubernetes clusters or lightweight Linux/Mac virtual machines with near-native performance. The cluster's dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from — it has zero dated entries, so it predates the index or its members are undated. Among the members with traction, omarchy-arm-utm leads with 34 stars, while IphoneEM and AndroidDeviceHub trail at 1 star each.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 16 unlabelled
Operator · 8 hobby · 2 indie · 6 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 16 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01swiftvm167★todaylivemacOS app that runs virtual machines for Mac, Linux, and Windows guests with snapshots, shared folders, and port forwarding.
- 02omarchy-arm-utm34★1 mo—Builds a native aarch64 UTM virtual machine running Arch Linux ARM for Apple Silicon from a single macOS script.
- 03harbor3★today—hobbySelf-hosted desktop app that manages Urbit ships on macOS and Linux.
- 04kuvo3★todayliveindieNative macOS app that runs the Docker engine in a lightweight virtual machine and provides a desktop interface for managing containers.
- 05kuvo-box3★todayliveindieNative macOS app that runs a real Docker engine in a lightweight virtual machine for container development.
- 06velora2★1 dayliveDesktop app for macOS that creates and manages Linux and macOS virtual machines, runs local AI models, and orchestrates container clusters.
- 07IphoneEM1★23 days—hobbyMac app that runs jailbroken virtual iPhones on Apple Silicon, providing device controls, file browsing, app management, and screenshots.
- 08AndroidDeviceHub1★26 days—hobbyNative macOS app for creating and running Android emulators without Android Studio or Java, with device controls and snapshots.
- 09isola1★10 days—hobbyNative macOS app that creates and runs lightweight virtual machines on Apple Silicon with a simple interface.
- 10opossum-desktop4★24 days—hobbymacOS desktop app that manages Apple container runtimes through a Docker-Desktop-like interface.
- 11cove0★2 dayslivehobbymacOS app that creates and manages virtual machines so AI agents can work in isolated Mac environments with one-click setup.
- 12leapvm0★14 days—hobbyDesktop app that runs a complete Linux virtual machine on Apple Silicon Macs with near-native performance.
- 13pocketvm0★6 days—Desktop virtual-machine app that runs macOS and Linux guests on Apple silicon and provides an interface for AI agents.
- 14archbox0★7 days—Mac app that runs Arch Linux ARM with a full-screen KDE Plasma desktop in a virtual machine on Apple Silicon.
- 15ampoule0★7 days—hobbyDesktop app for running macOS, Linux, and Windows virtual machines on Apple Silicon computers.
- 16gmak80★1 mo—Native macOS app that creates and manages a local Kubernetes cluster on Apple Silicon via SwiftUI and virtualization.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.