The menu-bar utility belt for the little things macOS makes you dig for.
MacTools collects the settings and helpers your Mac hides behind Terminal commands, System Settings hunts, and third-party single-purpose apps — per-device scroll direction, external display control, clipboard history, keep-awake, quick system toggles, and a set of developer tools — into one lightweight menu bar app.
Free · Native SwiftUI · Apple Silicon + Intel · No Dock icon, no background bloat
Per-Device Scrolling
Natural on the trackpad, standard on the mouse — finally.
Display Control
Real hardware brightness, contrast and volume over DDC.
Clipboard History
A searchable history of what you copied — passwords excluded.
Dev Tools
Port killer, password generator, encoders and decoders built in.
Small tools. Big quality-of-life.
Each tool does one job the way macOS should have done it in the first place.
Natural trackpad. Standard mouse. Both at once.
macOS has a single global “Natural scrolling” switch, so plugging in a mouse means one of your devices always scrolls the wrong way. MacTools tells trackpads and mouse wheels apart in real time and inverts only the one you choose.
- Per-device inversion — invert the mouse only, the trackpad only, or both.
- No drivers — a lightweight system event tap, not a kernel extension.
- Set and forget — starts with your Mac and just keeps working.
Control your monitors like they were built in.
Adjust the actual hardware brightness, contrast and volume of external monitors over DDC — the same protocol the buttons on the back of your monitor use — plus switch resolutions and HiDPI modes without a trip to System Settings.
- Hardware DDC control — brightness, contrast and volume on Apple Silicon and Intel.
- Resolution switching — jump between modes, HiDPI included.
- Software dimming fallback — displays that don’t speak DDC still get a brightness slider.
Copy twice without losing the first one.
A rolling history of everything you copy, persisted across restarts and capped at the size you choose. Items that password managers mark as concealed are skipped automatically, so secrets never land in the history.
- Password-manager aware — concealed items are never recorded.
- Your cap, your call — keep the last 5 to 100 entries.
- One click to re-copy — history lives right in the menu bar popover.
Everything in the popover
Keep Awake
Stop your Mac from sleeping — indefinitely or on a 15-minute to 2-hour timer.
System Toggles
Hidden files, desktop icons, dark mode and DNS flush as one-click switches.
Port Killer
See what’s listening on :3000 and end it — gracefully or by force.
Password Generator
Strong random passwords generated locally, straight to your clipboard.
Encoders & Decoders
Base64, URL, UUID, hashes and JWT decoding without opening a browser tab.
Featherweight
A native SwiftUI accessory app — no Dock icon, no Electron, no daemons.
In your menu bar in under a minute
01
Install
Download the app and drop it into your Applications folder.
02
Launch
MacTools appears in the menu bar — no Dock icon, no setup wizard. Grant Accessibility access once if you want per-device scrolling.
03
Flip the switches
Pick your scroll setup, pin your keep-awake timer, and forget macOS ever made this hard.