No by-app overview
macOS shows permissions one category at a time — Camera, then Microphone, then Screen Recording — never "here's everything App X can do."
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In development · Mac permission & privacy auditor
See what every app on your Mac can access. Catch it the moment that changes.
macOS scatters permissions across a dozen separate Settings panes — Camera, Microphone, Screen Recording, Full Disk Access, Accessibility — with no single screen that shows what one app can actually do. SwoopByte Permissions is building that screen, plus the history macOS doesn't keep.
Read-onlyAudits and guides — never blocks or grants
By appEvery permission, one screen, not a dozen panes
DriftKnow exactly what changed, and when
By permissionIn development
Screen Recording6 apps
Full Disk Access4 apps
Microphone3 apps
Accessibility2 apps
Watch — one app hasn't launched in 200 days but still holds Full Disk Access. Review it below.
Illustrative mockupNot a live screenshot — app is in development.
The gap
iOS tells you what apps can access. macOS makes you go find out, one pane at a time.
Every "Allow" click you've ever made on a Mac lives on somewhere in System Settings — and nowhere lets you see them all at once, compare them across apps, or find out when one quietly changed.
iOS has this. macOS doesn't
Apple ships an App Privacy Report on iPhone. There's no equivalent dashboard on the Mac.
Permissions outlive apps
Uninstall an app the normal way and its TCC entry can stay behind — a ghost grant for software that no longer exists on your Mac.
Apps change under you
An update can add a new capability — a background helper, a new entitlement — without you ever re-approving what it can now do.
A real, checkable annoyance
Sequoia and Tahoe re-ask for Screen Recording every month. You still don't know who's asking.
Since Sequoia, macOS makes Screen Recording apps re-request approval on a recurring basis — a real, documented behavior carried into Tahoe. That nag is a symptom of the bigger problem: there's still no single place to see who has that access, why, and whether it's still needed.
Example verdict · illustrative
Watch: 6 apps can see your screen.
An example of the verdict the app is being built to give you — with your real numbers, on your Mac. Nothing here is a live reading.
What it will do
Audit and safety are free. History and automation are Pro.
The core map — every app, every permission, in plain language — is the free product. Pro is for people who want to know the moment something changes, not just what's true right now.
Unified permission map
By-app and by-permission views assembled from every source macOS exposes — each source labeled honestly, including where the picture is incomplete.
App identity
Developer, Team ID, signature validity, and notarization status for every app that shows up in the map — no permissions required to see this.
Ghost & stale detection
Flags permissions left behind by uninstalled apps, and sensitive access held by apps you haven't opened in months.
Guided revoke
One click to the exact System Settings pane, with a plain warning about what might stop working — never a silent toggle.
Pro · the killer feature
Permission Drift: know exactly what changed, and when.
Every install, update, and macOS upgrade gets a snapshot. When something changes, SwoopByte Permissions will tell you in plain language — not a diff you have to interpret yourself.
Example
"Raycast 1.96 added Apple Events access and a new background helper. Same Team ID as before."
Tracked
TCC grants, entitlements, code-signing identity, and embedded helper processes.
Receipt
A monthly summary — new sensitive grants, ghost entries cleaned up, nothing invented.
Changes · ProIn development
Today · Raycast updated to 1.96+2 changes
New: Apple Events accessAdded
New: background helper processAdded
Same Team ID, same signature chain — nothing about the developer identity changed.
What this app will not do
It audits and guides. It does not — and cannot — block anything.
No app can intercept or block a macOS permission prompt; there's no API for that, and we won't pretend otherwise. SwoopByte Permissions reads what's already been granted, tells you the truth about it, and hands you the exact revoke step — you make the call.
Never writes TCC.db
Every change happens through the same System Settings and tccutil paths you could use yourself — just found and explained for you first.
Never claims to block prompts
The permission dialog itself is entirely macOS's. This app has no way to intercept it and doesn't claim to.
Never invents threats
No fake infection counts, no manufactured urgency — just what's actually granted, itemized, and a plain Good / Watch / Action Needed read on your setup.
In development
Right now, you don't know which apps can see your screen. Get notified the day you can find out.
SwoopByte Permissions is in development, not yet available for download. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment the first build is ready — plus first access to any early-supporter pricing.
Also available now
The rest of the family ships today — free.
SwoopByte Battery, Uninstaller, and Disk are out now, with the same safety model Permissions is being built on: preview first, explain plainly, never act silently.
SwoopByte Battery
A free MacBook battery health monitor with a plain Good, Watch, or Action Needed verdict.
Get Battery free →SwoopByte Uninstaller
Remove apps and every leftover file safely — preview first, Trash-not-delete always.
Get Uninstaller free →SwoopByte Disk
Map your storage and see exactly what's safe to clean before anything moves to Trash.
Get Disk free →Questions people ask now
You don't have to wait for the app to get these answers.
How do I see which apps have Screen Recording access on my Mac?
Today: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording, then repeat for every other category — macOS has no combined view. That combined view is exactly what SwoopByte Permissions is building.
How do I remove Full Disk Access from an app on Mac?
System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access, then toggle the app off. Permissions will guide the same step and flag apps holding access they no longer need first.
Does this app block permission prompts?
No app can — macOS doesn't expose that API to third parties. This one audits what's already granted and guides you to revoke it yourself.
Why isn't there already a "Mac App Privacy Report"?
iOS has one. macOS doesn't ship an equivalent yet — which is the gap this app exists to fill.