Apparency for Mac
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Apparency overview
Apparency - the app that opens apps.
macOS checks every app against a slew of security features: Gatekeeper, notarization, hardening, entitlements and more. But it doesn't show you the result of these checks, preferring to keep these behind the scenes — either the app opens or it doesn't, perhaps with an “app downloaded from the internet” dialog first.
Use Apparency for:
- Examining the App Structure
- Getting Information About a Component
- General Information
- Document Types and Other Info.plist Properties
- Code Signature, Sandbox and Gatekeeper Info
- Getting Details About a Component
- Show the Code Signature
- Show the Info Property List
- Show the Entitlements
- Show Executable Information
- Show App Store Receipt
- Show Provisioning Profile
- Examining Components in Other Apps
- Finding App Containers
- Finding Shared App Group Containers
- Using From Quick Look
What’s new in version 2.1
- Added Component > Show Bundle Resources, which allows you to examine the files that are “sealed” by the component's code signature — typically things like nib files, string files and image files. This new Bundle Resources inspector is probably most useful when there is a problem with those files, causing macOS to complain that the app is “damaged.“
- To that end, components with bundle resource-related errors are now shown with a unique Signed By status of Bundle resources modified, instead of being lumped into the Can't verify signature status, as previously. If you use Component > Show Code Signature on such a component, Apparency offers a Show Bundle Resources button to take you directly to this new inspector, focused on the modified resources that are causing a problem.
- Added a new AppleScript make icon image data command, to easily retrieve the component's icon in a specific format and size. This can then be written to a file, manipulated as needed, and inserted into other contexts. (This avoids having to hunt down the icns file and convert it to a more universal format.) See the Scripting page for examples.
- Compatibility updates for upcoming macOS 15 (Sequoia) release: fixed a potential crash when opening a component that doesn't exist on-disk (e.g. from the DYLD shared cache), using File > Open System Component or the like. This crash might occur only on an Apple-internal installation of macOS; we're not able to reproduce it ourselves.
Apparency for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.1
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