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MacPilot 16Version 16.8Scared of the terminal or can't be bothered to remember those commands to customize your system the way you want? MacPilot is your digital savior. Easily enable and disable hidden features in macOS.View Downloads Buy Now
Power Unlocked
With the power of Unix and the simplicity of Macintosh, you have a phenomenal amount of untapped power in your hands! Use MacPilot to unlock over 1,200 features, and access them all with the easy and familiar Macintosh user interface. No command line tools or complicated file operations!
Display hidden files in the Finder, disable the startup chime, add spacers and stacks to the Dock, change the screenshot file format, run maintenance tools, tweak network settings, force empty the Trash, and tons more. Keep yourself in awe and busy for days as you discover how much macOS has "under the hood".
We have gone to great lengths to incorporate a large volume of in-program assistance within MacPilot. Don't know what something does? Just hover over it with the mouse!
Do you manage a lab and want the same configuration across multiple computers? Create "save points" and deploy them on any number of computers.
Configured something by mistake and want it back to factory settings? Simply right-click the feature and choose "Set to Default" or click the main "Reset All" button on each tab.
The Wow Factor
Get out of the passenger seat and take control of your Mac. Set your login window picture, use the screensaver as your Desktop, modify advanced file permissions (ACL), change the system welcome message, enable simultaneous recordings in QuickTime, view system logs, or enable the Debug menu in numerous apps.
Or perhaps you're feeling the need for a simpler lifestyle? Disable the Notification Centre, virtual memory, Dashboard and iCloud saving. Ditch time-wasting graphical animations, prevent system sleep, suspend Safari's web caching, disable App Nap, remove the downloaded files warning message, and more!
Other Highlights
System Profile
A beautiful system profile that outlines advanced system information. Everything from the graphics card and RAM bus speeds to the system serial number and processor info.
Reference
View a complete list of network ports, error codes, and key combos. Or, quickly browse and preview fonts or lookup Unix command manuals.
Disk Details
View advanced disk information and statistics such as Unix node path, free blocks, device block size, file count, folder count, mount point, file system type, solid state status, and a plethora of other BSD-level informational trinkets.
Maintenance
Optimize and repair your system by running common maintenance scripts such as cron, launch services, and prebinding. Reset the download quarantine list, force empty the trash, rotate system logs and reclaim inactive system RAM.
Single-Click Access
Easily access the Bluetooth, Certificate, Directory, RAID, Printing System assistants that are normally buried deep in the system.
File Browser
Browse the computer while showing all invisible and system files. View incredibly detailed file specifications, and edit advanced settings such as extended attributes, POSIX and ACL Permissions, and hard locks that make files undeletable.
Fully Loaded
Over 1,000 features to tweak your Mac experience and optimize your experience!
Finder
Toggle animations, show the Quit menu, show the file path in the window titlebar, use your screensaver as the desktop, show hidden files, disable features, and more.
Dock
Add spacers and smart stacks/menus, show only open apps, lock settings, toggle the open app indicator light, fade icons for hidden apps, and change many other interface effects and features.
iTunes
Enable half-star ratings, disable elastic scrolling, play songs while importing, disable device access, enable a high contrast interface, prevent update checking when devices are connected and more.
Login Window
Set the welcome text, enable a startup delay, change the number of retries before hint, disable the power buttons, enable Kiosk mode, disable console access, auto-lock the screen when logging in, show system users, require manual username entry, edit login items and launch agents.
Power
Complete control over wake, sleep, power saving, and more. From changing sleep durations and the hibernation mode to scheduling power events.
Startup
Force safe startup mode or 32/64-bit, enable kernel debugging, limit system RAM, mute the startup chime, disable kernel caches, and toggle a variety of other advanced Unix options.
Safari
Disable spell checking, set Find on Page to use 'starts with' instead of 'contains', disable site icons, disable caching, show the Develop or Debug menu, change the User Agent string, make the Delete key go back to the previous page, and more!
Slim Apps
Extract only PowerPC or Intel version from an app.
Easy Access
One-click access to internal system tools like the Bluetooth, Certificate, RAID, or Directory assistant.
Maintenance
Run cron, rebuild launch services, update prebinding, force empty the Trash, rotate system logs, clear the print queue, reclaim inactive system memory, find and delete corrupt preference files and more!
Disk Info
View incredibly detailed information about connected disks such from their number of free blocks and device tree path to the journal offset and RAID status.
File Browser
Quickly and easily browse and edit advanced details for files and folders. Complete control over permissions including Access Control Lists.
File Tools
Force erase files, lock files, visify/invisify, merge folders, clear ACL data, create symbolic links, and wipe Quarantine data.
Network
Discover advanced network device information that goes beyond your IP address. From DNS, IPV4, IPV6 to Proxies, Samba, and File Sharing!
Info
View a complete list of ports, error codes, fonts, key combos, manuals, and system configuration.
Automation
Save a system configuration for easy deployment across numerous systems or after a system restore.
Advanced
View an advanced feature list that has hundreds of additional untested, but reported, tweaks for all versions of macOS dating back to 10.0.
For the full or demo version of our app, please use the download links below. After installation, the demo will automatically begin. For existing owners, unlock the app via the "Unlock..." menu item.
Current Version
All current versions of Koingo apps are compatible with the latest version of macOS or Windows (when applicable), Apple Silicon, support 64-bit architecture, and are optimized for Retina (HiDPI) Display. These retail versions of our apps are intentionally not sandboxed to provide the most flexible user experience. For sandboxed versions, see our App Store editions.
Older Versions
These versions are no longer supported and are listed primarily for customers with older licenses.
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
- Maximum OS: macOS 15 (Sequoia)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
- Maximum OS: macOS 14 (Sonoma)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur)
- Maximum OS: macOS 13 (Ventura)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur)
- Maximum OS: macOS 12 (Monterey)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur)
- Maximum OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
- Maximum OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
- Maximum OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
- Maximum OS: macOS 10.14 (Mojave)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
- Maximum OS: macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)
- Maximum OS: macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
- Maximum OS: macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.7 Intel (Lion)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.6 Intel (Snow Leopard)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC/Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC/Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC/Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC/Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC/Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC/Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.4 PowerPC/Intel (Tiger)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Mac Edition
- Minimum OS: Mac OS X 10.2 PowerPC (Jaguar)
- Maximum OS: Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger)
Super helpful if you know what you need it to do for you. Probably a bit scary for noobs. Perhaps additional feedback on impending action choices would help a little?
Chris
Over the years since the introduction of the OS X Public Beta I have used many different tools to customize the user experience. MacPilot is far and away the most complete and most informative of all the various products I have found. While I don't use MacPilot very often, I enjoy the customized features every time I sit down in front of my Mac.
Joe Bailey
Excellent app !
Einstein Albert
MacPilot is an essential utility for serious Mac OSX users, imho. I am a fairly technical user, including being a certified Java developer, and I spent a couple years fighting through certain configuration issues, usually looking up issues in one of the Mac Community forums then often going to a terminal shell and UNIX to sniff around and try to get the settings right. MacPilot saves me all those hours trying to learn esoteric methods, and provides me with a simply GUI to configure things that I wasn't previously aware of. MacPilot also saves me from the painful recovery time from my prior modus operandi: query a forum for a solution to a config issue, get some incomplete or incorrect info, get into the weeds on my machine and execute some commands that make things worse, and then spend a couple hours fixing it!
Brian Herbert
Amazing how much Apple has hidden to streamline the average user experience. MacPilot gives those decisions to you. Now you can hide or show as much or as little as you want. There are basically no limits here! It's like rediscovering your Mac all over again from the top down, which I'm sure many would agree is a truly magical experience.
Larry Hadwin
MacPilot is my favorite utility program bar none !
Frederick M Pfeiffer
splendid software
Adrie
I have really enjoyed using the app
Sean Daniel Swonger
I use it for many things but my favorite is to turn "Show hidden files and folders" on or off.
Michael Malfatti
Old user since 90's
François Mémier
All of our products come with a full set of licensing options: from single users and households to small businesses and larger corporations.
Personal Licenses
Student/Senior
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1 computer2 unique devices per year
Solo
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1 computer/user5 unique devices per year
Household
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1 household10 unique devices per year
Business Licenses
School
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1 school300 unique devices per year
Small Business
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10 computers/users60 unique devices per year
Corporate
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Unlimited10000 unique devices per year
Our manual is always expanding! While we strongly believe our products as so intuitive you shouldn't need a manual, there are exceptions now and then. If you feel there is something missing from the documentation, please contact us.
For a single-page listing of all help entries, click here.
| Version 16.8 – January 27, 2025 | |
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Requirements This version requires at least macOS 13 (Ventura from Fall 2022); however, it is designed specifically for macOS 15 (Sequoia from Fall 2024). We have all older versions available for download on our web site. Please use the one designed for your version of macOS. A current, valid, license for any Koingo app will unlock all previous versions. |
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| Upgrade Notes This upgrade is free for users owning the current major version, an active subscription, Utility Package Pro, or a "lifetime license." No action is required other than downloading the new version from our web site and unlocking as normal with an e-mail address. For all other users, orders for the current version can be purchased on our web site. |
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| New Feature: | AutoBoot on lid wake on Intel Macs added. |
| Enhancement: | Added more information in into the Errors database. |
| Bug Fix: | Fixed wrong default column widths and other UI issues in the Power pane. |
| Bug Fix: | Removed some LaunchPad features which no longer work in the latest macOS. |
