App Inspector 0.2.0

App Inspector now keeps itself up to date.

• Automatic updates. App Inspector checks for a new version once a day, downloads it in the background and installs it when you quit the app. Turn automatic checks or installs off in Settings, or choose Check for Updates… in the app menu.
• Signed updates. The update feed and every update are signed, and App Inspector refuses an update whose signature doesn't match.
• One network request. The daily check fetches the update feed from this repository. It's the app's only network traffic and sends nothing App Inspector reads from your Mac.

Updating from 0.1.0: 0.1.0 can't update itself. Download the DMG below once, and drag App Inspector to Applications to replace it. Your Full Disk Access setting may need to be turned on again.

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later. Universal build for Apple silicon and Intel, signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256

• AppInspector-0.2.0.dmg: 8c2662d21ffd7deff610621dc6eee9be2d62827f5b0de278aca6bf10e017afb9
• AppInspector-0.2.0.zip (update archive): e770ebe8a246623ddaf3ed203541c8f879e23f536becf08729b9f82403ae8efc

App Inspector 0.1.0

The first release of App Inspector: see what every app on your Mac is allowed to do, in one window.

• Privacy permissions from the user and system privacy databases, with the record behind each state and a link to the matching System Settings page.
• Extensions: app extensions with their user election, and system extensions with their activation state.
• Startup and background items: login items, launch agents and daemons, matched to their app, with their Login Items approval.
• Leftover permissions: entries for apps that are no longer installed, which System Settings hides. Reset one or all of them; macOS asks for an administrator password only for entries in the system database.

Anything App Inspector can't read is shown as Unknown with the reason, never as denied or off.

Install: open the DMG and drag App Inspector to Applications. Then allow it under System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access; the app has a button that opens the right pane.

Requires macOS 15 Sequoia or later. Universal build for Apple silicon and Intel, signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

SHA-256 AppInspector-0.1.0.dmg: 80f8564a0a0b9357c59747adf0b6882ccb18aa19c1971653da3838441b658b32