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CircleCI 2.0 has full support for macOS, sounds like a perfect fit for you. It's also inexpensive (if you don't consider your time worthless, since it's $39/mo, which is ridiculously cheap compared to time we spent babysitting Jenkins previously), and just one of the best CI systems there exists in my experience.

Just a happy customer.

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Circle might be nice for a small project, but I would advise away from Circle Ci for larger projects. Their feature set is immature if you want to do anything that requires a moderately complex workflow or need triggered deploys. Your builds are in a queue that can take ages sometimes. Their UI is pretty poor. For example, branches show up forever on a project even if you delete them from the repo. You actually have to ask their support to remove them.

Circle CI 2.0 and their triggered deploys work pretty well, actually. We've been using 1.0 in production for over 2 years and we're about 3 months into using 2.0 and it's working out great.

Our builds are pretty complex and we have tear down scripts that we always want to run even if a build fails and CircleCI does that (on 2.0, finally).

The only thing I wouldn't advise CircleCI for is if you want to distribute your tests across many machines -- and only because it's very expensive!

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