Apparency for Mac
Check what's inside an app.
Free
In English
Version 3.0When 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 3.0
- Added the ability to search components, not only by name, but more interestingly, by criteria.
- Added the ability to open a folder and show all of the components underneath.
- You can now sort on the Signature column of the component browser, which can be useful when you open a folder that contains apps with a mixture of Signed By identities and other statuses
- Added an option to the File > Open dialog to Look inside this component for sub-component.
- Added new Component > Show Localizable Strings From Bundle (Cmd-Shift-Option-L) command, which opens an inspector for the localizable strings found in the selected component's resource files.
- Added Component > Open Component in New Window (Cmd-Shift-N), for quickly opening the selected component in a new Apparency window.
- Added preference for Open with String Literal looks in > All system components (on Locations pane), to search system components more exhaustively when using File > Open System Library with String Literal.
- Enable Jump to Selection (Cmd-J) in all sorts of list contexts, including the component browser, Info.plist inspector, entitlements inspector, and so on.
- Made a number of performance improvements around the initial “Finding Components” phase of opening a component (which is especially valuable when opening folders).
- Added new parameters to the AppleScript open command to allow opening a folder without the confirmation dialog (without confirmation for folders), and to turn off finding sub-components (without looking for subcomponents).
- Added new options to the appy CLI tool to allow opening a folder without the confirmation dialog (‑‑folder), and to turn off finding sub-components (‑‑no-sub-components). Run appy with no arguments to see updated usage.
- Apparency's notarization ticket is now stapled to the app bundle instead of to the containing disk image file.
- Minor compatibility fixes for macOS 26 (Tahoe) in File > Open options pane, where it could force the dialog to get very wide and not be resizable.
- Removed support for macOS 12 (Monterey).
Apparency for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.0
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