Apple Containers, with a real UI

Apple's container tool brings lightweight, native containerization to macOS — but it ships CLI-only. Crane fills the gap: a polished, purpose-built app that makes container management visual, fast, and Mac-native.

No terminal required. No Electron. No subscription.

Features

• Container lifecycle — Create, start, stop, and remove containers with extensive configuration (ports, volumes, env vars, networks, resource limits, DNS, sysctls, Rosetta)
• Image building — Build images from Dockerfiles with an in-app editor and syntax highlighting
• Image management — Pull and manage OCI images
• Volume management — Create and prune volumes
• Network management — Create networks and attach containers
• Log streaming — Real-time container logs with per-handle tabs and follow mode
• Adaptive polling — Exponential backoff reduces CPU usage when idle, resets on changes
• Auto service startup — Automatically starts the container API service on launch
• Liquid Glass UI — Native macOS 26 design language

Requirements

• macOS 26 (Tahoe)
• Apple silicon
• Apple container cli tool

Getting Started

• download and install from https://github.com/glsorre/Crane/releases/latest

Building

xcodebuild -project Crane.xcodeproj -scheme Crane build

Or open Crane.xcodeproj in Xcode and build normally.

Contributing

The project is in active development — contributions are welcome.