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24 alternatives to GetMac
Your Mac in the Cloud. Redefined.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites.
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Centralized Mac maintenance for small and medium teams
2025 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →
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Spin up a Mac Mini M1 in the cloud.
2021 · scaleway.com · its alternatives →
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We just open-sourced Lume - a tool we built after hitting walls with existing virtualization options on Apple Silicon. No GUI, no complex stacks - just a single binary that lets you spin up macOS or Linux VMs via CLI or API. Why we built Lume: - Run native macOS VMs in 1 command, using Apple Virtualization.Framework: `lume run macos-sequoia-vanilla:latest` - Prebuilt images on https://ghcr.io/trycua (macOS, Ubuntu on ARM) - API server to manage VMs programmatically `POST /lume/vms` - A python SDK on github.com/trycua/pylume Run prebuilt macOS images in just…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The latest Mac Mini, now with the M2 pro chip
2023 · apple.com · its alternatives →
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CleanMyMac X▲418Keep your Mac clean, fast, and secure in two clicks.
2018 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →
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Securely run operating systems on your Mac
2021 · mac.getutm.app · its alternatives →
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Connect, control, and clean your devices from one location
2023 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →
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Cloud drives mounted locally on your macOS desktop
2023 · cloudmounter.net · its alternatives →
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Next generation Macbooks with the new M2 pro chips
2023 · apple.com · its alternatives →
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Cumulus▲160A SoundCloud player that lives in your Mac menu bar
2015 · gillesdemey.github.io · its alternatives →
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Ultimate cloud storage manager with native M1 support
2021 · cloudmounter.net · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're excited to share Lumier (https://github.com/trycua/cua/tree/main/libs/lumier), an open-source tool for running macOS and Linux virtual machines in Docker containers on Apple Silicon Macs. When building virtualized environments for AI agents, we needed a reproducible way to package and distribute macOS VMs. Inspired by projects like dockur/windows (https://github.com/dockur/windows) that pioneered running Windows in Docker, we wanted to create something similar but optimized for Apple Silicon. The existing…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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