MacEnhance / Macforge

MacForge 🧩

MacForge is an open-source plugin manager for macOS. It lets you discover, install and manage plugins to improve the user experience of macOS without the need for manually cloning/building or copying files.

Installation 📂

• Download the latest release
• Unzip the download if your browser does not do so automatically
• Open MacForge and allow it to install helper tools
• Disable System Integrity Protection
  • Open Terminal.app and run the command
  • sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.libraryvalidation.plist DisableLibraryValidation -bool true
  • Boot to recovery mode by rebooting and holding down ⌘ + R
  • Open the Terminal from the menubar and run the command
  • csrutil enable --without debug --without fs
  • Reboot
• Start installing and using plugins

Functionallity notes 📝

• Loading plugins into most applications requires that System Integrity Protection and Library validation are disabled
• Loading plugins into some applications may require the plugin must be signed and in the /Library directory
• Some applications installed by MacForge may not require System Integrity Protection or Library Validation to be disabled to function

System Requirements 🖥

• MacForge supports macOS 10.13 and above
• For macOS 10.12 and below check out mySIMBL
• Bundles distributed through MacForge may have different application and system requirements

Wiki 📑

Features 💪

• Discover what's new 🔍

  • Browse an extensive and growing collection of Plugins, Application and Themes!
  • Search for plugins (Name, Developer, ID)
  • See new and recently updated tweaks
  • Browse existing bundles
  • Search through all existing bundles (by name, bundle ID)
  • See what each repository has to offer
  • Add or remove repositories
  • It's easy to host your own repository on GitHub!
  • Discover, download and update bundles

• Manage bundles 📦

  • Drag and drop plugins .bundle onto MacForge to automatically install them
  • MacForge can open files with the .bundle extension to automatically install them
  • Blacklist applications from loading plugins
  • Quickly and easily manage plugins
  • Delete plugins
  • Show plugins in Finder
  • Enable/Disable plugins
  • Toggle plugins between single user and all users (User icon)

• Stay up to date 📲

  • Check what installed bundles have updates
  • Quickly update all bundles
  • Have MacForge automatically update bundles
  • Recieve notifications when MacForge detects updates

Developer 👨‍💻

• Contributing Code 🤝
• Help wanted 💵
• Submitting Issues 🐞
• Creating a bundle 🏗
• Publishing a bundle 🛳
• Sharing a bundle 🔗
• Selling a bundle 💰

Troubleshooting 🐛

• Having problems? Submit an issue here: submit

Uninstalling ❌

• Trashing MacForge will stop it from loading into applications

Developement ❤️

• Wolfgang Baird (@w0lfschild) (MacEnhance)