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v1.5.0
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bgviewer is a menu-bar kill-switch for macOS background services — see everything running behind your Mac and stop, pause, restart, or disable it, including the KeepAlive agents that respawn when killed.

New in 1.5.0 — the Storage pane 💾

Suggested by a user — thank you!

  • The drive button in the header opens a pane listing the biggest files (>100 MB) sitting in Downloads, Desktop, Documents and Movies — size, location, and how long ago you last touched them. That 12 GB installer from last year finally gets seen.
  • A free-space bar for your startup disk sits in the pane's corner (green → orange → red as it fills).
  • Deliberately no delete button. Rows only reveal in Finder — removing files is a decision that stays yours.
  • macOS may ask once for access to those folders the first time you open the pane — that's the standard privacy prompt.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AroraShreshth/bgviewer/main/install.sh | bash

Or download bgviewer-1.5.0.zip below, drag to /Applications, then xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/bgviewer.app (not notarized yet) or approve via System Settings → Privacy & Security.

  • Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 13+ · SHA-256 in checksums.txt · README
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