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Everything Goblin can do.

Every tab, every setting and every switch, explained in plain words. Search it, or start wherever Goblin left you curious.

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Welcome to GoblinWhat Goblin is and where everything lives: the menu bar item, the panel that drops down from it, the main window's tabs and Settings, with the first things to try.Installing GoblinWhat Goblin needs, how to install it from the disk image, and what happens the first time you open it, from the Welcome window to Full Disk Access.PermissionsEvery permission Goblin may ask for — Full Disk Access, notifications, login items, your password, the helper, the network extension, Location and more — when, why, and how to undo it.

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Getting Started

Getting Started

Install Goblin, give it the access it needs, and learn where everything lives.

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Menu Bar

Menu Bar

The figures in your menu bar, the panel that drops down from them, presets and keyboard shortcuts.

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Watching Your Mac

Watching Your Mac

The Overview and every tab that watches your Mac, and how Goblin decides what's worth telling you.

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Disk & Cleanup

Disk & Cleanup

Smart Care, Storage Explorer, Cleanup, the uninstaller and every other tool for finding space and tidying up.

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Network & Firewall

Network & Firewall

See every connection your apps make, and decide which ones they're allowed to make.

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Keep Awake

Keep Awake

Keep your Mac from sleeping for as long as you need, by hand or automatically.

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Clipboard

Clipboard

Everything you copy, kept and searchable, with pinboards, snippets, transforms and sync between your Macs.

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Screenshots & Recording

Screenshots & Recording

Capture the screen, mark it up, record it, and find it again in your clipboard history.

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Settings

Settings

Every pane of Goblin's Settings window, control by control.

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Automation

Automation

The goblin command, goblin:// links, Shortcuts and answers for AI assistants.

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Help & Privacy

Help & Privacy

What goes online and what stays on your Mac, common questions, and what to do when something's not right.

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New in Goblin 1.1

Alert dropdownsNew in Goblin 1.1The dropdowns that open by themselves from Goblin's menu bar item when an app stops responding, memory runs short, your Trash gets big, a shortcut clashes or you trash an app.Keep Awake basicsNew in Goblin 1.1Stop your Mac from sleeping for as long as you need, until a set time, or while an app, a download or your work is still running.Screen, closed lid, mouse jiggle and Drive AliveNew in Goblin 1.1The extras a Keep Awake session can bring: screen options, staying awake with the lid shut, nudging the pointer, and keeping external drives spinning.Keep Awake triggersNew in Goblin 1.1Let Keep Awake turn itself on while something is true, like an app in front, a display plugged in, a Wi-Fi network or a time of day.Keep Awake settingsNew in Goblin 1.1Every control in Settings › Keep Awake, plus the Keep Awake icon in the menu bar and the separate Keep Awake menu bar item with its own menu.The clipboard stripNew in Goblin 1.1Goblin keeps what you copy and brings it back from a strip at the bottom of the screen. What it keeps, every kind of card, pasting, editing and every key.