Software for macOS

Do you like to verify whether you are using the latest versions of our applications? Just use the Check for Updates menu item in each program or enable its automatic check feature. Or better, use Bresink Software Updater to check, download, and update our software products automatically. For manual verification, you can also use the version overview.

All our active applications follow Apple's Universal2 standard. They can run natively on Macs with Apple Silicon, optimally supporting the latest Macs with M1 processors.

TinkerTool System 7

TinkerTool System 7 is a collection of system utility features assisting you in performing advanced administration tasks on Apple Macintosh computers. The application makes use of a self-adapting user interface which automatically adjusts to the computer model and to the version of macOS you are running. All options available in the current situation are accessible via “panes”, very similar to the techniques you already know from the System Preferences application. All functions can be controlled by a single program which acts as general toolbox and First Aid assistant. Learn more…

TinkerTool System 6

TinkerTool System 6 is an alternative version of TinkerTool System, designed for the operating systems

supporting their different feature sets. Learn more…

TinkerTool

TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into macOS. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. It will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates. Learn more…

Backup Server Control

Backup Server Control provides a graphical user interface to setup and administer a server for network-based Time Machine® backups with a few mouse clicks on a Macintosh®. Other Macs running macOS Sierra or later can perform backups on the Time Machine server. The current status of network backups can be reviewed any time.

A Time Machine server running on a Mac can be very powerful. It is easy to handle and offers good scaling. By adding new disk drives, the service can be extended any time when needed, matching new requirements for increasing storage sizes or when new computers arrive. Learn more…

System Monitor

Do you like to know which parts of your computer are currently busy? Do you like to monitor the current performance of hard drives and network interfaces? Do you like to keep an eye on the number of write accesses to your precious SSD? Do you like to see which disks are currently in sleep mode? Are you a PC switcher, but you miss the flickering activity lights of disks and interfaces on your Mac? But you like to do all this unobtrusively, with typical Mac design, wasting no screen real estate? Then, System Monitor will be a very interesting app for you. Learn more…

Battery Monitor

More and more computers are mobile devices nowadays. The most important prerequisite for a portable computer is a chargeable battery which keeps the device powered. Batteries are not really cheap replacement parts and they are subject to wear and tear. Their lifetimes should be optimized, handling them with the necessary care. Battery Monitor is a small auxiliary application useful in this regard. It offers the following features: Display of the charge state in the Dock, display of internal battery information, capturing charge and discharge curves, bookkeeping of the aging process of the battery. Learn more…

Sync Checker

Sync Checker is designed to check if two folders or disks are perfectly synchronized, i.e. if they have exactly the same contents. Verify if your backup and sync programs work correctly, find out where two macOS installations differ, test if your web server has received the latest updates of your web pages: There are many situations where Sync Checker can be really helpful.

If file collections are not in sync, Sync Checker will help you to browse through the differing items, analyzing exactly where a mismatch occurred, and if the differences are critical or negligible. Filter tools help you to navigate through large sets of mismatching objects. You can also create a textual report of the results which can be printed or exported. Learn more…

NFS Manager

NFS Manager is a graphical user interface to control all built-in NFS features of macOS. It can manage a whole network of macOS computers to setup a distributed NFS file system via a few simple mouse clicks.

NFS (Network File System) is the industry standard for file sharing on UNIX systems like macOS. Each macOS system can be setup as an NFS server to offer files to the network, or as an NFS client to access files shared by other computers. Different from other file sharing protocols built into macOS, NFS has no limitations in the number of users or connections concurrently active. In addition, NFS can be setup to connect to servers fully automatically (“automounting”) without any password entries being necessary. Learn more…

PrefEdit

PrefEdit is an application to manage nearly all aspects of the preference system contained in every macOS installation. The program consists of three components which are tightly integrated with each other: A browser and editor for the macOS preferences database, a browser and editor for macOS property list files (plists), and a browser for preference manifest files. PrefEdit was the first preferences editor ever published for Mac OS X. With its long experience and maturity, it has become one of the most advanced preference management applications for macOS available today. Learn more..

Bresink Software Updater

If you use many of our software products on your Mac, it can become tedious to keep all of them up-to-date. Bresink Software Updater facilitates the maintenance of our applications considerably. At a glance you can see if all programs are at their latest versions. All necessary steps, such as the download, the security check, and copying the programs to their usual places on your computer can be performed automatically in no time. Learn more…

SystemLoad

SystemLoad is a diagnostic application assisting you in the detection of cooling or power supply problems with Apple Macintosh computers. The tool can put a user-definable load onto one or more processors. This can help in diagnosing the following issues: problems with the cooling system or temperature sensors, problems with chirping noise caused by oscillating parts in the voltage supply circuitry of specific computer models, problems with battery units of portable computers. Learn more…

End-of-Life Products

Hardware Monitor

Hardware Monitor is an application to read out hardware sensors in Macintosh computers. Several hundred sensors in more than 70 model series are supported. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions, including speech output. Readings can be stored and exported. In addition, artificial software sensors monitoring macOS can be defined, and external LCD units can be controlled. The application also allows you to explore other technical data of your computer, like exact processor type, logicboard data, battery, display, and drive information, or manufacturing details.

Hardware Monitor Remote

The program Hardware Monitor Remote is an add-on to the program Hardware Monitor for the macOS operating system. Hardware Monitor Remote allows you to use a hardware monitoring service on a remote Macintosh system. Other computers can contact this system via network to receive readings from all available hardware sensors. You can connect to an unlimited number of computer simultaneously and monitor them all from a single workstation.

Legacy Software Products

Temperature Monitor and other software products for use with operating systems prior to macOS 10.12 Sierra can be found on the page for vintage and obsolete computers.