doom-fish

Safe, idiomatic Rust bindings for Apple's macOS frameworks. One crate per framework. All the power, none of the ceremony.

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The Rust crates we wished existed when we started writing macOS apps in Rust. Each crate wraps a single Apple framework with a focused, safe API — no half-baked FFI, no surprises at runtime.

If you've ever wanted to drive Apple's screen capture, on-device LLMs, computer vision, accessibility, or HID input from Rust without rolling your own bindings, you're in the right place.

• screencapturekit-rs — High-performance screen, window and audio capture (ScreenCaptureKit).
• videotoolbox-rs — Hardware-accelerated video encode / decode (VideoToolbox).
• avassetwriter-rs — Mux encoded video / audio into .mp4 and .mov.
• gst-screencapturekit — GStreamer source element backed by ScreenCaptureKit.

• foundation-models-rs — Apple's on-device LLM (macOS 26+).
• vision-rs — OCR, object detection, face landmarks.
• speech-rs — SFSpeechRecognizer speech-to-text.
• naturallanguage-rs — Language detection, tokenisation, named-entity recognition.
• soundanalysis-rs — On-device sound classification.

• apple-metal-rs — Apple's Metal framework.
• imageio-rs — Read / write / convert PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, RAW.
• uti-rs — UniformTypeIdentifiers, for file-type / MIME identification.

• cgevents-rs — Synthesise and intercept keyboard, mouse and scroll events globally.
• carbonhotkey-rs — Global keyboard shortcuts. No Accessibility permission required.
• iohidmanager-rs — Enumerate connected mice, keyboards, gamepads via IOKit HID.
• gamecontroller-rs — Gamepad enumeration and state snapshots.
• axuielement-rs — Drive other apps' UIs via the Accessibility API.

• apple-cf-rs — Shared Core* frameworks (CoreGraphics, IOSurface, Dispatch, …).
• networkframework-rs — Apple's Network.framework.
• apple-log-rs — os_log, with Console.app and the log CLI integration.

• doom-fish-examples — Cross-crate examples that wire the suite up end-to-end.

• One crate, one framework. Pull in only what you need.
• Safe by default. Lifetimes, ownership and Send / Sync modelled honestly.
• macOS-first, honest about it. We target current macOS releases and say so up front.

Issues and PRs are welcome on any crate. If you're missing a wrapper for an Apple framework you need, open an issue — there's a decent chance we want it too.