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Unquarantine

A small macOS menu bar app that monitors your ~/Downloads folder and removes the com.apple.quarantine attribute from new files.

Q: Why? A: Apple makes it unnecessarily difficult to distribute macOS apps without paying them a $100 ransom every year. Many good developers refuse to play that game, and I am here for their apps. Luckily, all it takes to get them running is removing the quarantine flag.

Q: Is it safe? A: That depends on what you download. Unquarantine removes quarantine flags automatically; it doesn’t check whether an app is safe. Only run software you trust.

How to use

Requires macOS 13 or later.

Download Unquarantine.zip.
Unzip.
Ironically, remove the quarantine attribute by running:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine Unquarantine.app

Move the app to /Applications.
Launch it.

Hopefully, this is the last time you’ll have to unquarantine anything.

Attributions

Idea by Grishka
Icon by Sergey Chickin