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Container Desktop
Docker Desktop-style SwiftUI app for managing containers, images, volumes, networks and machines through Apple's container CLI.
MIT · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- sembsa
- Verified
- 2026
About Container Desktop
Container Desktop is a native graphical front end for Apple's container command-line tool. Its window covers containers, images, volumes, networks and machines, a Run dialog sets ports, environment variables, volumes and resources, and a menu bar extra stops containers without opening the window. An optional section manages Helm repositories and releases. It is for people who want a graphical view of Apple's container runtime instead of Docker Desktop.
It requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple silicon and the container CLI installed, by default at /usr/local/bin/container. Releases are not notarized, so the first launch has to be allowed under System Settings > Privacy & Security. By default the update check sends a random installation identifier, the app version and the macOS version; this can be turned off under Settings > Privacy > Anonymous statistics.
Information
- Source code
- sembsa/ContainerDesktop
- License
- MIT
- Website
- sembsa.github.io
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Developer tools
- Alternative to
- Docker Desktop
- Evidence checked
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/sembsa/ContainerDesktop
- github.com/sembsa/ContainerDesktop/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/sembsa/ContainerDesktop/releases/latest
- sembsa.github.io/ContainerDesktop/
- icon.png: Sebastian Trześniewski. MIT; upstream app icon, trademarks retained.
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