Sentinel

Status: Maintained
Version: 1.4
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A GUI for controlling Gatekeeper and more, written in SwiftUI. Using this as a learning opportunity for Swift as I'm new to it.

Features

• 100% Swift
• Small app size (<1MB)
• Can drop an app in the drop target to unquarantine
• Can drop an app in the drop target to ad-hoc self sign and replace the certificate
• Custom auto-updater that pulls latest release notes and binaries from GitHub Releases (Sentinel should be ran from /Applications folder to avoid permission issues)

Screenshots

Requirements

• MacOS 12.0+ (App uses a lot of newer SwiftUI functions/modifiers which don't work on any OS lower than 12.0)
• Open Sentinel first time by right clicking and selecting Open. This adds an exception to Gatekeeper so it doesn't complain about the app not being signed with an Apple Developer certificate

Getting Sentinel

Releases

Pre-compiled, always up-to-date versions are available from my releases page.

Homebrew

Since I don't have a paid developer account, I can't submit to the main Homebrew cask repo. You can still add the app via Homebrew by tapping my homebrew repo:

brew install alienator88/homebrew-cask/sentinel

License

Important

Sentinel is licensed under Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause. This means that you can do anything you'd like with the source, modify it, contribute to it, etc., but the license explicitly prohibits any form of monetization for Sentinel or any modified versions of it. See full license HERE

Thanks

Much appreciation to Wynioux for their Gatekeeper script used as inspiration.

Some of my apps

Pearcleaner - An opensource app cleaner with privacy in mind

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