Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

# Davit — a native macOS UI for Apple containers Source: [https://davit.app/](https://davit.app/) A fully native macOS app for Apple's container platform — run Linux containers on Apple silicon, no Docker Desktop required\. Free & open source · MIT licensed · Signed & notarized Requires an Apple silicon Mac running macOS 15 or later\. Or via Homebrew:`brew install wouterdebie/tap/davit` The dashboard: services, disk usage and live CPU across all running containers\.## Everything you'd expect\. Nothing you don't\. Davit talks directly to Apple's open\-source[container](https://github.com/apple/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\. 💿 ### 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\. ⚙️ ### 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\. ## How is this different from Docker Desktop? - **It's Apple's engine\.**Each container runs in its own lightweight VM via Apple's Virtualization framework — sub\-second boots, per\-container IP addresses, optimized for Apple silicon\. - **OCI all the way\.**Pulls from Docker Hub, ghcr\.io, quay\.io or any registry\. Your existing images just work\. - **Nothing between you and the daemon\.**Davit links Apple's own client library and speaks XPC directly — no socket shims, no license agreements, no accounts\. - **Tiny\.**A single ~17 MB app\.