unquarantine
A menubar app that automatically removes quarantine flag from all your downloads
Details
- External ID
- 1391014977
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- unquarantine
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 28
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6856264411990777
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- security exploits and system hacking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- menubar utility for removing macos download quarantine flags
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple macOS menu bar utility that monitors the ~/Downloads directory and runs xattr -d com.apple.quarantine on new files.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 175 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 176 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pqurp · hn · 2026-05-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- lumacut · github · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- PasteDaemon · hn · 2026-08-14 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- expoCiber-tools · github · 2026-09-25 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Janus · github · 2026-09-25 · 114 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- bg0 · github · 2026-09-14 · 251 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Removal · github · 2026-09-11 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- unclutter · github · 2026-09-17 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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