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

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.

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.

App Wrapper has been used to Notarize apps from the following dev tools.

• ⭐️ Xcode built Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI applications.
• ⭐️ FileMaker Mac applications.
• ⭐️ Cycling '74 Max version 9 Mac applications.
• ⭐️ Tauri based Mac applications.
• ⭐️ Electron based Mac applications.
• ⭐️ Xojo made Mac applications.

Don't see your development tool of choice listed above, take advantage of the No-obligation 14 Day FREE trial and test your Mac apps with App Wrapper today.