App Wrapper - Easily publish Mac apps on the Mac App Store or websites

App Wrapper is our premium Post-Build Processor for the macOS, used by 100s of developers to prepare their macOS applications for the Mac App Store and distribution on their websites. Download the FREE trial today.

App Wrapper 4.7 released September 17^th 2024, compatible with macOS 11 Big Sur,
12 Monterey, 13 Ventura, 14 Sonoma & 15 Sequoia.
Requires Xcode 10 or newer.
App Wrapper comes with a FREE no-obligation 14-Day trial.

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Let App Wrapper help with publishing your Mac apps

App Wrapper makes publishing Mac apps easy. Featuring a dapper interface which covers the many options required for distributing modern Mac apps. App Wrapper includes many convenience functions which can help improve the capability or compatibility of your Mac apps.

App Wrapper can check, wrap, sign, pack and submit your Mac Apps to Apple for either selling on the Mac App Store, or for Apple's malware scanning and approval for web site distribution.

⭐️ Knows which certificates to use for each channel.
⭐️ Helps identify code signing certificate issues.
⭐️ Automatically removes files that code sign chokes on.
⭐️ Remove unwanted architectures from the bundle.
⭐️ Set system requirements, SDK compatibility.
⭐️ Modify version number & configure the  About Box.
⭐️ Auto fixes nested files permissions problems.
⭐️ Built-in property list editor for manual control.
⭐️ Built-in Icon editor to generate high resolution icons.
⭐️ Add, remove of modify nested files within the bundle.
⭐️ Manual control over supported language packs.
⭐️ Automatic removal of unsupported language packs.
⭐️ Creates & installs a Apple Help Book from HTML.
⭐️ SF Symbol rasterizer, creates multi-resolution TIFF files, and embeds them into your Mac app for you.
⭐️ Scripting capability to integrate with other dev tools.
⭐️ GUI features for full color icons or to disable window tinting.

Checking system can discover potential issues before submission

We've spent a lot of time building our checking engine, with the aim to catch many potential problems before you start the process of wrapping and submitting to Apple. Including the following.

⭐️ Executable files, architectures and meta data.
⭐️ App Sandbox & Harden-Runtime entitlements.
⭐️ Target volume & folder supports code sign's needs.
⭐️ App bundle structure, including symbolic links.
⭐️ Info.plist file for invalid keys or values.
⭐️ App icon contains necessary elements.
⭐️ Code sign tools and certificate chain of trust.
⭐️ Packing certificates and tool versions.
⭐️  Apple Submission settings & account.

Command Line Tool

Script App Wrapper from your fav development tool

Apple Help Books

Create & install Apple Help Books from HTML

SF Symbol Rasterizer

Creates & installs multi-resolution TIFF files

UB Splitting

Separate Intel & Apple Silicon Zip files or installers

Improve your Mac App Store experience with App Wrapper

App Wrapper was originally designed way back in 2011 with the goal of making it easy to publish apps to the Mac App Store, a core belief we still hold true.

54% of Mac users prefer to download apps from the Mac App Store. App Wrapper simplifies the process of setting App Store specific entitlements, checking some rejection reasons, bundling resources, signing the app, creating the archive and uploading it to the App Store.

⭐️ Quickly configure App Store entitlements & usage reasons.
⭐️ Check for some potential rejection reasons.
⭐️ Packing supports the required Apple Installer format.
⭐️ Provisioning profiles for Apple's online functionality.
⭐️ Automatically submits the package to Apple.

Quickly self-publish & distribute on your website

Distributing your app via a website still requires several steps, harden-runtime, packing, Apple's "inspection". Once again, App Wrapper can save you time by making it easy to configure and handling these steps for you.

⭐️ Easily configure Harden-Runtime entitlements & "Privacy" usage messages.
⭐️ Check for some potential Notarization issues.
⭐️ Supports multiple archive formats, Zip,  Installer, DropDMG and DMG Canvas.
⭐️ Include additional files in Zip or DMG files.
⭐️ Auto submits the archive to Apple's Notary service & Staples the Notarization ticket to the package.
⭐️ Universal Binary Splitting, generates two Zip archives or installers from a single app. Ideal for updates.

Download the FREE trial of App Wrapper today and
see how you can improve the delivery of your Mac apps.

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Publishing Mac apps on the Mac App Store or websites is easy with App Wrapper.