Davit
Native macOS app enabling Linux containers on Apple silicon with direct connection to Apple’s daemon, live stats, interactive terminal, file system access, registry login, and editable platform settings. No Electron, browser, or admin access required.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Ad-free
- Container Virtualization
- Dark Mode
- No registration required
- Works Offline
- No Tracking
- Apple Silicon support
- Virtualization
- Container Orchestration
Davit News & Activities
Recent activities
- RayZ liked Davit
- POX added Virtualization as a feature to Davit
- POX updated Davit
POX added Davit as alternative to Podman Desktop, OrbStack, BitNami Application Stacks and Linux Containers (LXC)- POX added Davit
Davit information
Developed by
Wouter de Bie Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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30 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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System & HardwareGitHub repository
- 374 Stars
- 7 Forks
- 5 Open Issues
- Updated
What is Davit?
A fully native macOS app for Apple's container platform — run Linux containers on Apple silicon, no Docker Desktop required.
Everything you'd expect. Nothing you don't.
Davit talks directly to Apple's open-source container daemon over XPC — the same wire path the CLI uses. No Electron, no web views, no background agents of its own.
- Containers: Start, stop, restart and delete with live CPU, memory and IP on every row. Streaming logs with follow & boot mode, live stat charts, and raw config inspection.
- One-click terminal: Open an interactive shell in any running container, straight into Terminal or iTerm — over the native API, no CLI needed.
- Edit & Recreate: Containers are immutable — so Davit prefills a new one from the old config with the image's entrypoint and env subtracted, letting you change ports, env vars, mounts or resources in seconds.
- In-container files: Browse any running container's filesystem right in the app — navigate folders, download files to your Mac, upload or delete — over the native API, no docker cp incantations.
- Images, volumes, networks: Pull with live progress, run from any image, tag, prune. Create sized volumes and custom subnets. See what's in use before you delete it.
- Registry logins: Sign in to Docker Hub, ghcr.io, quay.io or any registry to pull private images. Credentials are verified on the spot and stored in your login keychain — shared with the container CLI, so both see them.
- Platform settings, editable: Default CPU/memory for new containers, registry, DNS, builder resources — edited in the app, validated by the platform's own config loader, saved as clean TOML overrides.
- Installs the platform for you: No container platform installed? Davit downloads Apple's signed installer, verifies it, and sets everything up in your user Library — no administrator rights needed. It can add the container CLI to your shell, too.
Native, down to the pixels.
Built entirely in SwiftUI. Menu bar quick actions, a Dock icon only when you want one, and live charts that don't spin up a browser to render.