Permissions for Mac 1.0.1

Download Permissions-for-Mac-1.0.1.dmg (macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel, 1.4 MB)

Open the DMG, drag the app to Applications, open it. The first time, macOS says the app is from an unidentified developer: right-click the app, choose Open, then Open again. That is once. Then grant it Full Disk Access when it asks; that is the one permission it needs, and it opens the file read-only.

New in 1.0.1: Clean Up

Apps you have removed often leave their permissions behind. The Overview now has Clean Up…: it shows every leftover entry and, when you confirm, clears them one at a time with Apple's own tccutil reset, the same thing the − button in System Settings does. Entries for apps that are still installed, entries stored by path, and Apple's own are never touched. If one turns out to be a helper of an app you still use, that app simply asks again.

From the command line: permsmac orphans --commands prints the lines to run yourself; permsmac orphans --clean runs them.

The promise is now worded exactly: it never changes a permission for an app you have.

Also in this release

Everything from 1.0.0: every permission grouped by what it lets an app do, in plain English; what changed since yesterday, last week or last month; a notification when an app gains a permission that can see or control everything; launch agents, daemons and login helpers; one click to the right System Settings pane; a command line with JSON output.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 1e435c4d86056d49dd6e77a432bd59b13b4a0547e69b65ad294ed42333a7ad61