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Mac Tools

macOS Menu Bar Utility

The little things macOS makes you dig for. One click away.

Mac Tools is a menu-bar utility belt: per-device scroll direction, quick system toggles, clipboard history, keep-awake, and seven developer helpers — all in one lightweight popover. No Dock icon, no digging through System Settings.
100% free · Native SwiftUI app · macOS 14 Sonoma or later
Mac Tools
SystemScrollClipboardDev Tools
Scroll direction Active
Trackpad · NaturalMouse · Standard
Keep Awake Until 4:30 PM
Port Killer :3000 — node (pid 4821)
What is Mac Tools?

A utility belt for your menu bar.

Mac Tools is a single native menu-bar app that collects the small conveniences macOS makes you dig for, organized into five tabs: System, Scroll, Clipboard, Dev Tools, and About. Flip hidden files or dark mode, keep your Mac awake, fix scroll direction per device, keep a privacy-aware clipboard history, and generate passwords — without opening another window.
Features

Nine tools. One menu bar icon.

From scroll direction to port killing, everything is one click from the menu bar.

Per-Device Scroll Direction

Natural scrolling on the trackpad, standard on the mouse — the setting macOS doesn't have. Event-level detection tells the two apart, no device IDs needed.

Live Scroll Probe

A real-time readout shows how each scroll event is classified and whether it was inverted, so you can verify your setup without guesswork.

Quick System Toggles

Hidden files, desktop icons, dark mode, launch at login — flip them in one click. Finder relaunches automatically when needed.

Keep Awake

Stop your Mac from sleeping with one switch — for 15 minutes, 30, an hour, two, or until you turn it off. Shows exactly when it expires.

Clipboard History

Searchable, persisted history of copied text (5–100 items). Items marked concealed by password managers are never captured.

Quick Actions

Restart Finder, Dock, or the menu bar; empty the Trash; flush DNS — the fixes you always need at the worst time.

Password Generator

Cryptographically strong passwords, 8–64 characters, with guaranteed character classes and no modulo bias. Save straight to the local or iCloud Keychain.

Port Killer

See what's listening on any TCP port and end it — SIGTERM for graceful, SIGKILL for stubborn. Goodbye, zombie dev servers.

Text & Token Tools

Base64 and URL encode/decode, UUID generation, SHA-256/512 hashing, and JWT decoding — the little conversions, without a browser tab.

How it works

From download to done in three steps.

01

Install & Launch

Download the DMG, drag Mac Tools to Applications, and launch. It appears in your menu bar — no Dock icon, no windows in the way.

02

Grant Access Once

Per-device scroll control needs one Accessibility approval — Mac Tools detects it the moment it's granted. Everything else works out of the box.

03

Click & Go

Five tabs — System, Scroll, Clipboard, Dev Tools, and About — one click from the menu bar. Set it once and forget it's there.
Requirements

What you need to get started.

  • • macOS 14 Sonoma or later (native SwiftUI app)
  • • Accessibility permission for per-device scroll control (prompted on first use)
  • • Admin password once, only if you use Flush DNS
  • • Distributed outside the App Store — code-signed, unsandboxed so the scroll event tap can work

Stop digging through System Settings.

The little things, one click away. 100% free.