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Every Mac needs a goblin.

He lives in your menu bar, watches your Mac, and says what's wrong in plain words. Then he fixes it. He also brought his own tools: system monitor, disk cleaner, app uninstaller, clipboard manager, screenshot tool, text grabber, window manager, keep-awake and a firewall. When all is well, he naps.

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Production download · Version 1.3.5 · 115.4 MB
macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon and Intel
Signed and notarized by Apple

Goblin's menu bar panel: a health line with Smart Care, CPU, memory, network, disk, GPU and power tiles with small live graphs, connected drives, the three busiest apps and a row of pinned tools

Nine apps' worth of jobs. One goblin.

The jobs you'd otherwise buy several apps for, done by one small app that only speaks up when something's wrong. Click a card to see the screen that does it.

System monitorKnows busy from stuck.CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network, heat and battery in the menu bar, with a verdict in plain words and the culprit named. Disk cleanerFind the space, then clear it safely.Disks drawn as rings, caches and junk, big files, duplicates, every Trash. Checked again before anything goes. App uninstallerWhen an app goes, all of it goes.Caches, preferences, helpers and system extensions, plus the leftovers of apps you already deleted. Clipboard managerEverything you copy, kept.A strip along the bottom of the screen (⇧⌘V), pinboards, snippets, search that reads images, iCloud sync. Screenshot toolCapture, then annotate and pin.Area, window, full-screen and scrolling shots, recordings and GIFs, blur and markup, pinned to the screen. Text grabberCopy text from anything.Draw a box around text in a picture, a video or a locked PDF and it's on your clipboard. QR codes and barcodes too. Window managerSnap windows into place.Drag a window to an edge, or press a shortcut for halves, thirds and quarters. Keep-awake appNo more dozing off.Awake for an hour, until a time, while an app or download runs, or with the lid closed. One click from the menu bar. FirewallA firewall that asks first.Off until you turn it on. Allow or deny once, for a while or for good; rules, blocklists, profiles per Wi-Fi network.

Already have an app for some of this? Goblin names the ones you have in Settings › General, compares them side by side, brings their settings over if you like, or keeps out of their way.

One app

One app. Every job.

Ten tabs in one window, and a menu bar item that only speaks up when something needs you. Click a tab: these are his real screens.

Goblin's Overview: a Mac health line with Smart Care, a warning that three dev servers are idle, CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network and power cards with history bars, and Capture, Displays and Sound below
Overview: six readings, the health line, anything worth a look, and the tools you pin.

What's inside.

The short version of each area, so you know what you're getting.

Vitals
  • CPU per core, apps ranked by load; a background app stuck at full speed is named, with a Quit button.
  • Memory with helpers grouped under their app; pressure, wired and compressed.
  • GPU, every temperature sensor, fan speeds and throttling, with the apps making the heat.
  • Power draw per app, time remaining, battery health and charger output.
  • Drive health, logs and crash reports a click away.
  • Goblin AI: ask what's using memory, CPU, battery or disk. Answered on your Mac.
Storage
  • Storage Explorer draws every disk as rings, cloud drives included. Click to step inside.
  • Files finds large files, old downloads and installers.
  • Cleanup finds caches and logs, Xcode junk, iOS backups, broken preferences, Mail attachments.
  • Duplicates finds identical files and similar photos. Trash empties every bin on every drive.
  • Smart Care: one scan across cleanup, Trash, startup items, app updates, unused apps and maintenance, then one Run.
  • Uninstaller removes an app with its helpers and extensions, and finds leftovers.
Network
  • Speeds, daily and weekly totals, latency, packet loss, jitter and Wi-Fi signal, each with a verdict.
  • Every connection grouped by app and destination, with bytes sent and received.
  • A world map of the countries apps reach, and 30 days of history.
  • Firewall, off until you turn it on: alerts answered once, for a while or for good; rules, blocklists, profiles per network.
  • Encrypted DNS, and a warning when a program changed since you trusted it.
Clipboard & Capture
  • Clipboard history in a strip along the bottom (⇧⌘V), with previews and search that reads images.
  • Pinboards, snippets with fill-in fields, text expansion, transforms; encrypted on disk, Touch ID locks.
  • Clipbar shows actions over selected text in any app and runs community extensions.
  • Area, window, full-screen and scrolling screenshots, recordings and GIFs, an annotation editor, pins.
  • Capture Text lifts text, QR codes and barcodes off any part of the screen.
  • Measure to the pixel, Pick Color in the format you choose.
Tools
  • Window Tiling: drag to snap, or shortcuts for halves, thirds and quarters.
  • Keep Awake for a while, until a time, while an app or download runs, or with the lid closed.
  • Displays, Sound (devices, levels, who's using the mic), Convert Images, PDF Tools, Archives.
  • Fix-its: restart the Dock, Finder, the menu bar or audio; Wi-Fi off and on; flush DNS; reset Bluetooth.
  • Projects: dev servers grouped by folder with their ports, idle ones stopped in one click. Docker containers too.
  • Pinned tools show on the Overview, in the menu bar panel and in their own menu bar item.
Menu bar
  • One item, or one per figure. Five looks: icon, figure, graph, stacked and auto, saved as presets.
  • Extra figures join only while something's unusual: a big download, memory running short, a low battery.
  • The panel shows every reading with a small live graph, the busiest apps, the health line with Smart Care, and your pinned tools.
  • Keep Awake and Tools can have menu bar items of their own.
  • A dropdown appears when apps stop responding or the Trash gets big.

Three questions.

Read all the frequently asked questions →

Where can I get Goblin?

Use the Download button to get the current production release. Open the disk image, drag Goblin to Applications, then open it. Read the installation guide.

Which Macs does Goblin run on?

Any Mac with macOS 15 Sequoia or later, Apple silicon or Intel. It's signed and notarized by Apple and keeps itself up to date.

I already have apps that do some of this. Do I have to switch?

No. Settings › General shows a banner naming the apps you have that overlap with Goblin. Click it to compare features side by side, bring that app's settings over, or mark it Keep both and the banner leaves it alone. Goblin's clipboard, capture, Clipbar, Keep Awake and tiling are each off or out of the way until you turn them on.

Move him in.

  1. Download GoblinThe production installer is 115.4 MB.
  2. Drag Goblin to ApplicationsOpen the disk image and drop him onto the Applications folder beside him.
  3. Open himHe moves into your menu bar. Click him any time; the main window is one click further. New versions install themselves.
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