ColiUI

ColiUI

Docker in a native Mac app, made for Colima

Your containers, their logs, a terminal, images, volumes and networks, in a window and the menu bar. With the Docker engine you already use.

Download for macOSView on GitHub ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Works withColimaDocker DesktopOrbStackRancher Desktop

v0.1.7 · macOS 26 or later · Apple silicon · Updates itself

  • Native SwiftUI
  • Live via Docker events
  • Signed & notarized
  • MIT licensed

A tour of the app

What you see is the app drawn from its designs, with sample data that moves like the real thing.

Every container at a glance

Status, ports, CPU and memory for each container, kept current by Docker events. Filter, search, start, stop or restart, and open a published port in the browser.

Your engine, one click away in the menu bar

Your Docker engine’s status and your containers, with a start or stop button, without opening the window. With Colima, its VM’s CPU, memory and disk too.

  • Start and stop containers
  • With Colima, restart or stop the VM
  • Open the app when you need it

And everything else you’d expect

  • Files

    Browse a container’s folders, preview files and download them.

  • Environment

    Variables from the image and the container, secrets masked.

  • Inspect

    The full docker inspect as a collapsible tree.

  • Run

    Image, name, ports, volumes, environment and restart policy.

  • Cleanup

    See what takes up space and prune it; with Colima, the VM disk too.

  • Colima profiles

    Create, edit and delete profiles with their CPU, memory and disk.

  • Images, volumes and networks

    Pull images and create volumes and networks.

  • Notifications

    A container that crashes or restart-loops, a Colima VM that stops, a disk almost full.

Works with your Docker engine

ColiUI finds the engine by itself: a DOCKER_HOST if you set one, otherwise the first engine that answers. It talks to the Docker Engine directly over its socket, with no Docker CLI.

  1. ColiUISwiftUI · window and menu bar
  2. docker.sockDOCKER_HOST or the first that answers
  3. Docker Engineyour engine’s HTTP API
  • ColimaMade for Colima

    Everything, plus the VM controls, Profiles, the VM disk size in Cleanup and an alert when the VM stops.

  • Docker Desktop

    Everything that goes through Docker. Start and stop it in Docker Desktop.

  • OrbStack

    The same, with “Open OrbStack” in the sidebar.

  • Rancher Desktop

    The same, with “Open Rancher Desktop” in the sidebar.

  • Custom socket

    Any Docker Engine socket you point it at.

To pick one yourself: Settings › General › Docker engine.

Set up in a minute

You need macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon, and a Docker engine.

Download for macOS

Signed and notarized by Apple. It checks for a new version once a day and installs it when you say so; your containers keep running.

  1. # Have a Docker engine: Colima, Docker Desktop, OrbStack or Rancher Desktop
  2. # Colima, for example$ brew install colima && colima start
  3. # Download the DMG, open it and drag ColiUI to Applications
  4. # Launch it: it finds your engine and lists your containers$ open -a ColiUI

Free and open source

ColiUI is MIT-licensed. Download it, read the code or suggest improvements on GitHub.

Download for macOSView on GitHub ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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