Alternatives

Products that do what QEMU front end for M1 and Intel Macs does

1. 1
   OpenEmu▲72

   Multiple Video Game System for Mac

   2013

2. 2
   Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s▲238

   Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE, 104 GB at 4-bit) on Macs with a fraction of that RAM by streaming experts from SSD. MLX + Swift, Ollama-compatible API. - carloslfu/slotstream

   5d ago · github.com

3. 3
   Apple Silicon M1 as a Service▲200

   Spin up a Mac Mini M1 in the cloud.

   2021

4. 4RA
   Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone▲312

   Aug 2026 · github.com

5. 5
   Qwen3.8-Flash-Next▲108

   The open-weight preview of Qwen4

   10d ago · qwen.ai

6. 6AQ
   A QEMU port for iOS that you can sideload▲31

   2020 · getutm.app

7. 7Q6
   Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a 16 GB M1 Pro with SSD-streamed MoE▲24

   Jul 2026 · github.com

8. 8
   OpenEmu▲185

   🎮Retro video game emulation for OS X

   2015

9. 9
   iMobie M1 App Checker▲112

   Check instantly if your favorite Mac & iOS apps are M1 ready

   2020

10. 10VV
    Vmctl/Vmcli – Easily Run Linux VMs on M1 Macs▲198

    2021 · github.com

11. 11
    New iMac▲234

    New design in a spectrum of vibrant colors, plus M1 chip

    2021

12. 12
    The New Mac Mini▲108

    Apple's newest Mac Mini with the latest M1 chip

    2020

13. 13
    mectrics▲268

    Your Mac's vitals in the menu bar. Free and open source.

    Jul 2026 · mectrics.app

14. 14
    Zazu▲193

    Open source launcher, an alternative to Alfred

    2017

15. 15
    NeuralCam Live for Mac▲139

    Upgrade your M1 Macbook's webcam with AI

    2021

16. 16
    Apple Silicon App Test▲107

    Test your apps for compatibility before you buy an M1 Mac

    2021

17. 17
    M1 MacBook Pro▲233

    With the M1 Pro or M1 Max chip

    2021

18. 18HQ
    Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks▲56

    I got tired of libvirt XML and Vagrant's Ruby/reload dance for single-host VM stacks, so I built a compose-style runtime directly on QEMU/KVM. What's there: GPU passthrough as a first-class primitive (VFIO, OVMF, per-instance EFI vars), healthchecks that gate depends_on over SSH, socket-multicast L2 between VMs with no root and no bridge config, cloud-init wired through the YAML, Dockerfile support for provisioning. What it's not: Kubernetes. No clustering, no live migration, no control plane. Single host. Prototype, but I'm running it on real hardware. Curious what breaks for…

    Apr 2026 · github.com

19. 19
    Qapital▲108

    Make saving easy and automatic (pre-launch)

    2014

20. 20
    Apple Silicon Games▲158

    Check game compatibility & performance on the new M1 Macs 🎮

    2020

21. 21
    Flashlight▲240

    The missing plugin platform for the Mac Spotlight

    2014

22. 22
    Soundbar▲213

    A lightweight SoundCloud player for Mac

    2016

23. 23OS
    Open Source Suite for Binary Analysis, Based on QEmu and LLVM▲46

    2018 · rev.ng

24. 24
    QwQ-32B▲197

    Matching R1 reasoning yet 20x smaller

    2025

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