lazyapple

A terminal UI for Apple Container -- the native macOS container runtime introduced in macOS 26.

This is a fork of lazydocker by Jesse Duffield, rewritten to work with Apple's container CLI instead of Docker.

What is this?

Apple introduced a native container runtime for macOS. It ships a CLI tool called container that can run Linux containers without Docker. lazyapple gives you a terminal UI to manage those containers, just like lazydocker does for Docker.

What works

• Containers: list, start, stop, restart, kill, remove, view logs, exec shell, view stats/env/config/top
• Images: list, pull, remove, prune
• Volumes: list, remove, prune
• Networks: list, remove, prune

What doesn't exist (because Apple Container doesn't support it)

• No docker-compose / services / projects
• No pause/unpause
• No attach (use exec shell instead)
• No events streaming (polling is used)
• No --since or --timestamps on logs

Requirements

• macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later
• Apple Container CLI installed (container command available in PATH)

Verify it works:

container list --all

If you get command not found, Apple Container is not installed on your system.

Install

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/g-battaglia/lazy-apple-container.git
cd lazy-apple-container
go build -o lazyapple .

Run it

./lazyapple

Optional: install to PATH

sudo cp lazyapple /usr/local/bin/

Then just run lazyapple from anywhere.

Keybindings

Global

Key	Action
q / Ctrl+C	Quit
1	Containers
2	Images
3	Volumes
4	Networks
x / ?	Menu
Enter	Focus main panel
PgUp / PgDn	Scroll
[ / ]	Prev/next tab
/	Filter list

Containers

Key	Action
s	Stop
r	Restart (stop + start)
k	Kill
d	Remove
E	Exec shell
a	Attach (exec shell)
m	View logs in terminal
e	Toggle stopped containers
w	Open in browser

Images / Volumes / Networks

Key	Action
d	Remove
b	Bulk commands (prune, etc.)

Config

Config lives at ~/.config/lazyapple/config.yml.

gui:
  scrollHeight: 2
  sidePanelWidth: 0.333
  theme:
    activeBorderColor:
      - green
      - bold
logs:
  tail: "100"
stats:
  graphs:
    - caption: CPU (%)
      statPath: DerivedStats.CPUPercentage
      color: blue
    - caption: Memory (%)
      statPath: DerivedStats.MemoryPercentage
      color: green

How it differs from lazydocker

	lazydocker	lazyapple
Runtime	Docker Engine	Apple Container
CLI	docker	container
Compose	Yes	No
Services/Projects panels	Yes	No
Pause/Unpause	Yes	No
Events API	Yes (streaming)	No (polling)
Platform	Linux, macOS, Windows	macOS 26+ only

Credits

Fork of lazydocker by Jesse Duffield. All the TUI framework, panel system, and keybinding infrastructure comes from the original project.

License

MIT