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Octo for Mac

Menu bar toolkit for trackpad gestures, keep-awake, keyboard cleaning, and text copying.

By tom-bonte. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Octo at a glance

Version
1.1.1
Released
28 October 2026
Download size
3.3 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
tom-bonte
GitHub stars
7

About Octo

Small tools for your Mac, in one menu bar app: trackpad gestures, keep awake, clean keyboard, copy text

Screenshots

Octo screenshot 1

How to install Octo on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Octo and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.1.1 from tom-bonte'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 Octo 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: Octo-1.1.1.dmg (3.3 MB).

What is new in Octo 1.1.1

Fixed

The menu bar panel sometimes opened at the left of the screen instead of under the octopus (with full-screen apps, a menu bar that hides itself, a crowded menu bar on a MacBook with a notch, or menu bar organisers like Bartender and Ice). It now always opens under the icon.

Easier install

The disk image window now shows how to install, including what to do when macOS blocks the first launch.
New: install or update with one line in Terminal (see the README). macOS doesn’t ask you to allow Octo when it’s installed this way.

Updating: run the Terminal line from the README, or quit Octo, open the new disk image and drag Octo to Applications, choosing Replace. Your settings and permissions stay.

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