Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

Man I wish Apple would add docker api compatibility to Apple containers

I've been a fan of Orbstack for make 2 years or so. Worth the cost for me because it's so well integrated and fast and docker command compatible.

I'll give this a try though.

This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly.

28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5".

Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch.

Suggestion: add a getting started tutorial to the site which suggests an image to try out and has screenshots (or a silent video) showing you how to get that image up and running and what you can do with it.

The create image dialog suggests "nginx:latest" but that's not a great starting demo.

Unrelated. I noticed that the settings window (Cmd-,) text inputs all type from the right instead of the left like older macOS inputs (or web inputs[0])

Is that a thing macOS is moving to? I'm sure I've seen Apple use these too.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

I will give this a try!

Docker desktop on mac does not work well (uses lots of resources) and my current alternative is OrbStack (very slick, uses far less resources, but freemium).

Really nice. Worked perfectly downloading the runtime and running nginx:latest.

It's getting to the point that scrolling down on Github and seeing Claude as a contributor is a signal the app will be good (Native feeling, no Electron, etc)

Docker desktop is a memory hog. What's the memory usage of Davit?

I don't know a lot about containers. Would containers created for/with this also work in Docker?

Good name for this app, BTW.

contained-app includes a Files feature to allow in-container filesystem browsing. Is there any plan to implement this in Davit as well?

Looks like great work, will try it soon!

I really want to use this but am stuck (right now) having to use Caddy's docker tags integration for name resolution.

Other recent vibe-coded projects providing similar interfaces:

- https://github.com/tdeverx/contained-app

- https://github.com/tofa84/berth

Looks great, does it also come with a menubar integration?

Looks neat, need to give it a spin

ooh nice

How does it compare to something like OrbStack?