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iContainer for Mac

GUI application for Apple Containers.

By nico81. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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iContainer at a glance

Version
2.4.0
Released
18 September 2026
Download size
26 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Developer Tools
Developer
nico81
GitHub stars
232

About iContainer

A native macOS app to manage Apple Container workloads, built with SwiftUI.

Screenshots

iContainer screenshot 1

How to install iContainer on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for iContainer and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 2.4.0 from nico81's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to iContainer show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: iContainer-v2.4.0.dmg (26 MB).

What is new in iContainer 2.4.0

## 🗂️ Networks & Volumes, and a Service page that speaks container CLI 1.4

### Networks and Volumes in the sidebar
Two new reorderable sections list the container service's **networks** (subnet, attached containers, `builtin` badge on `default`) and **volumes** (real disk usage read from the sparse backing image — "68 MB used of 512 GB" — mounting containers, `anonymous` badge for image `VOLUME` leftovers). Each has a detail page, a context menu (*Create Container on This Network… / with This Volume…*, copy subnet/gateway/name, reveal the backing file, delete) and *Prune Unused…* from the section header. Delete is disabled while the resource is in use, with the reason shown — the CLI locks a volume while **any** container references it, even a stopped one, so volumes report **mounted / attached / unused**.

### Look inside a volume
The volume page has **Info** and **Contents** tabs. Contents is a read-only browser (folders first, sizes, dates, symlinks, hidden-files toggle) that reads the live filesystem through a running container that mounts the volume, or — when nothing mounts it — through a temporary read-only helper container, the only way to look inside an ext4 image from macOS. Containers that mount named volumes get a **Volumes** tab with the same browser, and *Browse* in their Mounts block jumps there.

### Create sheet: pick a network
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