A free and open-source collection of native macOS menu bar tools

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MacTools brings frequently used system actions together in a lightweight, fast, and unobtrusive menu bar app. Built with SwiftUI + AppKit for macOS 14.0 and later.

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Features

Feature	Description
Display Resolution	View connected displays and switch each display to an available resolution.
Display Brightness	Quickly adjust built-in and DDC/CI external display brightness, with shortcuts that can follow the mouse or control all displays together, plus Gamma/Shade fallbacks.
True Tone	Automatically adapt display colors to ambient light on MacBooks and compatible displays.
Display Sleep	Put all displays to sleep immediately, then wake them with mouse movement or keyboard input.
Dark Mode	Toggle the system light and dark appearances, with live state sync when the system theme changes.
Night Shift	Toggle Night Shift to reduce blue light and warm the screen colors at night.
Prevent Sleep	Keep the system awake while idle, optionally keep the display on by default from plugin settings with an active-session indicator, and stop automatically after 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, or 5 hours.
Clean Mode	Show a full-screen black overlay and temporarily disable input for cleaning the screen, keyboard, or trackpad.
Mouse Enhancer	Enhance mouse and trackpad controls, with separate horizontal and vertical scroll reversing plus trackpad-tap middle-click simulation.
Hide Notch	Mask the top notch area on built-in notch displays without modifying the original wallpaper.
Hide Menu Bar Icons	Hide icons to the left of a menu bar divider, with drag-based layout for visible, hidden, and always-hidden areas.
Auto Hide Menu Bar	Automatically hide the menu bar to make more screen space available.
Auto Hide Dock	Automatically hide the Dock for a cleaner desktop.
Stage Manager	Toggle Stage Manager to focus the current window and place other windows on the side.
System Mute	Mute or restore system audio output through CoreAudio on the default output device, with automatic restoration when the plugin is disabled.
Microphone Mute	Mute or restore the default microphone input through CoreAudio without requesting recording permission.
Disk Cleanup	Scan caches, developer caches, and browser caches, with path safety checks and sensitive data protection before deletion.
Xcode Cleanup	Scan DerivedData, device support files, archives, simulators, and preview caches by category; deletion is disabled while Xcode is running and only runs inside allowlisted roots.
Eject Disks	Eject all removable disks in one click, automatically skipping system and non-ejectable volumes and reporting when no disk can be ejected.
Empty Trash	Show the number of Trash items and empty Trash through Finder; the action is disabled when Trash is empty.
Clear Clipboard	Clear the current clipboard content to protect privacy and avoid accidental paste.
IP Check	View domestic/international egress IP, local LAN IP, location, ISP, ASN, and macOS network quality results, with copy support for single fields or the full result.
Translator	Translate the currently selected text with a global shortcut; the first version supports OpenAI-compatible services, automatic language selection, and a source editor whose actions stay clear of multi-line text.
Window Switcher	Replace or customize the window-switching shortcut with direct cycling or a fixed key-selection window for running windows; click a key hint to record a stable letter, digit, or Command-key binding.
App Shortcuts	Bind global shortcuts to common apps; pressing a shortcut opens or activates the app, and hides it if it is already frontmost.
Launchpad	Summon an app grid in fullscreen or a compact window, with instant search, horizontal paging, keyboard navigation, drag-to-stack folders with inline rename (click an open folder's title, or right-click a folder to rename/dissolve), an adjustable glass background (clear/standard/deep presets or a custom material + dimming, with a live preview in settings), adjustable appearance (icon size 48–96 pt with rows/columns adapting, optional icons-only mode that hides app names, label appearance presets (color: automatic/light/dark/accent, weight, and a size tier that scales with the icon — shared by app names and the open-folder title), and a compact-window size slider — the compact panel now scales with the screen instead of capping at 960×680, so any display whose usable area exceeds ~1333×829 pt renders a larger panel than before, including modern built-in laptop screens (~13% on a 14″ MacBook Pro); all previewed live by a layout thumbnail in settings that mirrors the real grid math), a global shortcut, and IME-composition safety.
Finder Right Click	Add Finder context menu actions: new folder, new file (.txt / .md / .json), open in Terminal, open with a configurable app list, and copy file names / absolute / relative / shell-escaped paths / file:// URLs — each item toggleable in Settings.
Lock Screen	Lock the screen immediately, equivalent to Cmd+Ctrl+Q.
Launch Items	Browse LaunchAgent/LaunchDaemon entries with search, field explanations, and user-level enable/disable controls.
Calendar Widget	View a monthly calendar, lunar calendar data, holidays, and today's events in the component panel.
System Status	Show 1-hour charts for CPU, GPU, memory, disk, network, battery, and high-usage processes.
Activity Stats	Track keyboard, mouse, scroll, and foreground app usage, with install/update and uninstall actions for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex activity hooks.
Device Battery	Aggregate battery levels for the Mac, trusted iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch devices over USB or Wi-Fi, Bluetooth peripherals, AirPods/Beats split batteries and charging state, and Rapoo VT series mice, with multiple widget layouts and optional low-battery notifications.
Fan Control	Manage fan speed presets with automatic, full-speed, and custom fixed-RPM modes; installs the bundled helper and requests administrator authorization on first control.
Battery Charge Limit	Limit battery charging to a chosen cap, defaulting to 80%; charging stops at the cap and does not automatically resume below it unless the user chooses to continue or force discharge.
Fix Damaged Apps	Remove quarantine attributes to resolve "damaged and can't be opened" prompts by selecting a .app in a file panel and running the fix with administrator privileges.
Quit Apps	Select and quit running apps, or quit all at once; reverse selection helps quickly choose the target set.
zsh Config	View and edit zsh configuration files such as .zshrc and .zshenv inside the app, with syntax highlighting, common snippets, and automatic backup before saving.
Plugins & Settings	Install, update, and batch-update plugins in the plugin marketplace (filter by category/search; sort by not-installed first, installed first, or name), and manage permissions, shortcuts, and plugin-specific settings.
Menu Bar Icon Customization	Use local images or lightweight GIF/MP4 animations as the menu bar icon, download animated icons from the online gallery, remove backgrounds, adjust playback speed, and preview every source with the same standard icon height and content inset as the default.
Localization	Follow the system language by default, or choose a fixed app language in Settings > General > Appearance; the picker shows each language in the system language and its native spelling.

Right-click action: You can use Option + left-click on the MacTools icon to trigger the right-click action.

Supported Languages

MacTools supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.

Install

brew install --cask mactools

Upgrade

brew update
brew upgrade --cask --greedy mactools

The in-app update dialog separates App Updates from Plugin Updates and includes plugin releases published since the previous app version.

If Homebrew still reports that the cask is already up to date, check the locally resolved cask version first:

brew info --cask mactools

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, testing, plugin development, and release workflows.

License

MacTools is open source under the Apache License 2.0.

Acknowledgements

• Third-party assets, dependencies, and implementation references are listed in Sources/Resources/ThirdPartyNotices.

• Contributors