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Apparency for Mac

Check what's inside an app.

Free
In English
Version 2.1
5.0
Based on 2 user rates

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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5.0

(1 Reviews of Apparency)

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Atalantia
Atalantia
Nov 27 2023
1.6.1
5.0
Nov 27 2023
5.0
Version: 1.6.1
Great little helper tool.
Atalantia
Atalantia
Nov 27 2023
1.6.1
5.0
Nov 27 2023
5.0
Version: 1.6.1
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Oct 26 2023
1.4.1
5.0
Oct 26 2023
5.0
Version: 1.4.1