Mounty

A tiny macOS menu-bar app that keeps your SMB network shares mounted — automatically.

Mounty lives in your menu bar and reconnects your network volumes the moment they become reachable again — after a VPN toggles, Wi-Fi reconnects, or the Mac wakes from sleep. No more manually re-mounting shares in Finder.

Features

• Automount — enable per-volume automounting; Mounty reconnects as soon as the server is reachable.
• Reachability-aware — reacts to network changes, VPN tunnels, and detects silently dead mounts.
• Quick actions — open any mounted share in Finder or your preferred terminal (Terminal, iTerm2, Warp, …).
• Import / export — back up and restore your volume list as JSON.
• Launch at login — optional, one toggle.
• Native & lightweight — SwiftUI menu-bar app, no background daemons.

Install

Homebrew (recommended)

brew install --cask maptic/tap/mounty

Always install with the full maptic/tap/mounty token — the unqualified mounty does not resolve to this cask.

Direct download

1. Download the latest Mounty.dmg from the Releases page.
2. Open the DMG and drag Mounty into Applications.

Important

First launch is blocked by Gatekeeper. Releases are only signed and notarized when the release workflow has Developer ID credentials; without them the app is ad-hoc signed, and macOS reports that it "could not verify Mounty.app is free of malware". To allow it:

1. Try to open Mounty and dismiss the warning.
2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the message about Mounty, and click Open Anyway.

This is a one-time approval — Homebrew carries it into later upgrades — and it is unnecessary for notarized releases. Note that the old right-click → Open shortcut no longer works: Apple removed it in macOS 15. Clearing the flag from a terminal (xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Mounty.app) fails with Operation not permitted unless that terminal is granted App Management in Privacy & Security.

Build from source

Requirements: macOS 26.1+, Xcode 26+.

git clone https://github.com/maptic/mounty.git
cd mounty
./scripts/install-hooks.sh          # one-time: install formatting + commit-msg hooks
xcodebuild -scheme Mounty -configuration Debug build

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first. In short:

• Commits follow Conventional Commits — releases are fully automated from commit history via release-please.
• Code is auto-formatted with swift-format on commit (via the provided git hook).
• The project uses lightweight, provider-neutral story records — see AGENTS.md and docs/stories/.

License

MIT © Merlin Unterfinger / maptic