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EasyDMG
Automate app installation. No more drag and drop! Free & OSS
EasyDMG makes installing Mac apps from DMG files a single click. Set it as your default DMG handler and never drag-and-drop again. Optional: - Skip warnings for unverified apps - Trash DMG after installation. No more GB of old installers in your Downloads folder - Open app - or reveal it in Finder - after installation - Installation progress bar, notifications, or totally silent - Don't prompt when installing updates, just install anything higher versioned
I built this app because I was annoyed by the standard app install process. You download a DMG. You click it. Then begins a mildly tedious series of tasks that really doesn't need to exist. First you mount it, then you have to drag the app over to the little folder (like a peasant). Usually, you forget to unmount. Certainly, the DMG sits in your Downloads folder for a year wasting hard drive space.
EasyDMG automates all this. Now you simply click the DMG, and boom - your app is installed. The disk image is unmounted. The DMG heads to the trash. I'm annoyed that I had to make this app. It shouldn't take that many steps to install an application in macOS. However, I had a lot of fun with it. There are some little easter eggs. I tried to give the Settings UI some character (light and dark mode, non boiler-plate theme colors) even though most of you will barely ever open it.
Under the hood, EasyDMG does a lot to manage various edge cases. It's also a nice fix for those of us who install a lot of indie apps, and hate dealing with Apple's "Are you sure?" paternalism. You will no longer have to go to System Settings > Privacy & Security to actually use the app you just downloaded. But you do still get the macOS Gatekeeper security check!
This is a simple app. It's free and open source. Open it once to set as your default for DMG handling, and you basically never have to think about it again. It doesn't need to be open all the time, which means no dock icon and no menu bar icon (we all have enough of those). If you use Homebrew for everything, it may not be for you. But if you don't use Homebrew, or if you download a lot of indie apps that aren't on there, it's a great little utility.
100% native (Swift) & local. No tracking, no ads, no network requests. Just small and fast.
About EasyDMG on Product Hunt
“Automate app installation. No more drag and drop! Free & OSS”
EasyDMG was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #156 on the daily leaderboard. EasyDMG makes installing Mac apps from DMG files a single click. Set it as your default DMG handler and never drag-and-drop again. Optional: - Skip warnings for unverified apps - Trash DMG after installation. No more GB of old installers in your Downloads folder - Open app - or reveal it in Finder - after installation - Installation progress bar, notifications, or totally silent - Don't prompt when installing updates, just install anything higher versioned
On the analytics side, EasyDMG competes within Mac, Productivity, Open Source and GitHub — topics that collectively have 867.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how EasyDMG performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted EasyDMG?
EasyDMG was hunted by Jeff. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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