# Mac Monitor (open-source security and privacy app)

> Mac Monitor is a free, open-source security and privacy app for macOS. "The missing ProcMon for macOS": Mac Monitor records Endpoint Security events and displays them for analysis. It has 1,387 GitHub stars and is released under the BSD-3-Clause license.

Mac Monitor is an advanced, stand-alone system monitoring tool tailor-made for macOS security research, malware triage, and system troubleshooting. Leveraging Apple's Endpoint Security (ES) and System Extension APIs, it collects and enriches system events, displaying them graphically, with an expansive feature set designed to surface only the events that are relevant to you. The telemetry collected includes process, interprocess, memory, XPC, file events, and more in addition to rich metadata, allowing users to contextualize events and tell a story with ease.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/Brandon7CC/mac-monitor |
| Platforms | macOS |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 1,387 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | Swift |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Password managers, encryption & privacy |
| Latest release | v2.1.0 (Nov 22, 2025) |
| Last commit | Sep 20, 2026 |

## Install

### Homebrew (macOS)

```sh
brew install --cask mac-monitor
```

Package page: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/mac-monitor

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