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VaultBar for Mac

Locks and unlocks AES-256 encrypted APFS vaults from the menu bar, auto-locks on sleep or idle, never stores the password.

By roypadina. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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VaultBar at a glance

Version
0.4.0
Released
4 November 2026
Download size
1.8 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Security and Privacy
Developer
roypadina
GitHub stars
2

About VaultBar

Menu-bar app to lock/unlock AES-256 encrypted vaults in one click: auto-lock on sleep, screen lock or idle; password never stored. macOS, Apple Silicon + Intel.

Screenshots

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How to install VaultBar on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for VaultBar and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.4.0 from roypadina'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 VaultBar 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: VaultBar.zip (1.8 MB).

What is new in VaultBar 0.4.0

SHA-256: 56e6dc38e3f870eddf671e35fc74b121e5df5dcab7ccb4fd46caffe5af8db2d4

### Added
- Updates from inside the app, with your permission. VaultBar asks once, on its second launch, whether to check for updates automatically; with your yes it checks once a day (downloading the release feed from GitHub, which sends nothing about you) and asks before installing a new version. Check by hand with **Check for Updates…** in the menu bar menu, the About window or Settings. Updates are signed and need no `xattr` step. Installing one quits VaultBar without the "Quit VaultBar?" prompt (unlocked vaults stay unlocked) and starts the new version.

### Changed
- VaultBar now makes one kind of network connection, the update check above, and only if you allow it. Everything else is as before: no analytics, no other requests.

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