Apparency for Mac
Check what's inside an app.
Free
In English
Version 3.1When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
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 3.1
- When opening the standard macOS Applications folder, you can now opt to include the system apps built into macOS (i.e. the apps that actually live in /System/Applications). Scroll down to the bottom of the component browser and click Include System Apps, or use File > Include System Apps (Control-Option-Cmd-L). This yields a merged view similar to what you'd see in Finder (except that Apparency also shows apps in sub-folders, such as Utilities, instead of showing the sub-folders themselves). If you want Apparency to always do this, go to Apparency > Preferences > General and check Automatically include system apps in standard folders.
- Apparency now notices when components are changed — or if you've opened a folder, when apps are added or removed — and automatically updates the component browser. This is to avoid showing stale information when an app updates itself, or when the App Store is used to update or install an app, or when you move an app to the trash. If Apparency is inactive when the change occurs (as will usually be the case), the component browser won't update until you make Apparency active again — mostly to avoid doing extra work in the background, responding to changes that may still be ongoing).
- Added new rules for Edit > Search Components.
- Fixed a bug where Component > Show Notarization Ticket would be improperly disabled for a an app with a Notarization status of Granted — Stapled Ticket. This would happen after opening a folder, or while signatures were still being verified.
- Fixed some inconsistencies in the way that paths were shown in various places, including the Where shown in the info pane, and in various inspectors (such as the Executable one). This could particularly occur after opening a folder or an xcframework.
- Added a new parameter to the AppleScript open command for including system apps when opening a standard Applications or Utilities folder.
- Fixed a bug where options specified with an AppleScript open command might not get saved properly. This could, for example, trigger a redundant confirmation dialog before re-opening a folder, such as when using File > Open Recent, or when macOS is restoring windows via Resume.
- Added a new option to the appy CLI tool to include system apps (‑‑system-apps) when opening a standard Applications or Utilities folder. This also applies to ‑‑show-components mode. Run appy with no arguments to see updated usage.
Apparency for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.1
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