MountMate
A simple macOS menu bar app to manage external drives
Free · Open sourceLatest versionMac
About MountMate
_A simple macOS menu bar app to manage your external drives._
What is MountMate?
MountMate is a lightweight macOS menu bar utility that lets you mount and unmount external drives with a single click – no Terminal, no Disk Utility, no hassle.
Whether you're dealing with a noisy spinning HDD or want finer control over when your drives are active, MountMate gives you a clean, no-nonsense solution right from your menu bar.
Why I Built It
I have a 4TB external HDD plugged into my Mac mini 24/7. Since it's a spinning drive, macOS constantly spins it up – just for trivial things like opening Finder or running Spotlight. That meant:
- Unwanted noise
- System slowdowns
- Wasted energy
I tried:
- Disk Utility – too slow and clunky
- Custom shell scripts – too technical
- Existing third-party apps – too bloated or didn’t work right
So I built MountMate.
Features
- View all connected external drives
- See which ones are mounted
- Mount/unmount any drive with a click
- Check available free space
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Quick mount/unmount with
⌘⇧Mand⌘⇧U - Network Shares: Auto-mount SMB, NFS, and AFP shares at login
- Keep Alive: Auto-reconnect shares and volumes when they drop, after network changes, on wake, and at login
- Force Eject: Safely force eject drives that are in use
- Runs quietly in the menu bar
- Fully native – no Electron, no dependencies
Why Use MountMate?
macOS automatically mounts drives when they’re plugged in – but gives you no easy way to remount them later unless you use Terminal or Disk Utility. MountMate is perfect for:
- External HDDs you don’t always need
- Drives used only for backup
- Reducing wear and tear or noise
- Improving system responsiveness
- Network shares that silently drop and need reconnecting
Private, Fast, and Safe
MountMate runs entirely offline, using native macOS APIs and command-line tools. It:
- Does not track anything
- Does not require connect to the internet
- Does not access your files
- Does not require root permissions
Just a clean utility that does one job well.
Screenshots
Feedback & Contributions
MountMate was built to solve my personal workflow issue, but I’d love to improve it for others too. Feel free to open an issue (opens in a new tab) or suggest improvements!
Description adapted from the project README.
- Version
- 6.0
- Updated
- Oct 10, 2026
- Size
- 4.1 MB
- License
- MIT License
Open source details
- Source code
- Exact source for v6.0
- Released
- Oct 10, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 509
Community project. Help and bug reports go to the maintainers on GitHub; AppsXi does not provide support for this app.
License
PermissiveMIT License
Use, change and share it freely, including in closed source apps, as long as the copyright notice stays.
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Signed by Tran Cong Minh (79LQ4MHVMG)
Apple Developer ID team 79LQ4MHVMG
Notarized by Apple
Hardened Runtime on
File matches the hash GitHub published
SHA-256 064d9e245c6f636e9e5263d7f5fc6a333230530a0681a6b0721e80c3c007f75f
No malware found
ClamAV 1.5.4 on Oct 14, 2026
Install and behavior test in a virtual machine: not run yet
Coming soon for all listings.
Updates itself from the maintainer's own feed
sparkle: https://mountmate.homielab.com/appcast.xml. AppsXi checks each new version too.
Versions
6.0checked
Checked Oct 14, 2026 · Mac
DMG · 4.1 MB
Questions about MountMate
Is MountMate free?
Yes. MountMate is free and open source under the MIT License. AppsXi lists the maintainers' official release and does not charge for it.
Is MountMate safe to download?
AppsXi downloads every version of MountMate from the maintainers' official GitHub release and checks it before it is listed. For version 6.0 (checked Oct 14, 2026), the Mac download is signed by its developer and notarized by Apple, each file matches the checksum GitHub publishes for the release, byte for byte and a malware scan found nothing.
Does MountMate run on Apple silicon Macs?
Yes. MountMate has a native Apple silicon build, and it runs on Intel Macs too.
What does MountMate need to run?
MountMate needs macOS Ventura (13) or later.
Who makes MountMate?
MountMate is an open source project by HomieLab on GitHub (homielab/mountmate). Help and bug reports go to its maintainers there.
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