Laptop with blacked-out built-in display in front of an active external monitor.

Mac App Store menu-bar utility

XHelpers

The useful desk features, merged into one Mac utility.

XHelpers combines display control, Finder actions, and local file encryption into one focused menu-bar app — sandboxed and delivered through the Mac App Store.

Display Control Finder Actions Local Safe Encryption (.safe) Private by Design

Display Control

Manage the visual workspace without jumping between System Settings and display menus.

Black out the built-in MacBook display while mirroring to an external monitor.
Switch mirroring, dim displays until key press, sleep, and adjust brightness or contrast.
Quick-switch among your display's supported modes, including HiDPI.

Custom HiDPI resolution presets, window arrangement, and the active-window highlight are part of XHelpers Pro; XHelpers switches among the modes your display already supports.

Finder Actions & Local Safes

Make Finder more useful while keeping selected files, passwords, and encrypted Safes on your Mac.

Create new files and folders from Finder.
Paste, move, copy paths, and open folders in Terminal, TextEdit, VS Code, Codex, Claude, or another supported app.
Encrypt selected files or folders into local .safe files.
Add files to an existing Safe or decrypt only selected contents.
Compatible .7z, .zip, and .dmg formats are available in XHelpers Pro.
Menu titles can name the target folder, so every action lands where you expect.

Finder and Safe actions run only after you choose a XHelpers context-menu action.

Finder configuration, permissions, and menu items — Finder configuration and permissions

Private by Design

XHelpers is built for local Mac workflows. It does not turn your desk utility into another account, analytics stream, or cloud file service.

Sandboxed Mac App Store app.
No account required.
No analytics, advertising SDKs, usage telemetry, or session tracking.
Safe passwords are never stored, logged, or transmitted; encryption runs locally.
One optional permission, explained in-app with live status: the Finder Extension.

Permissions overview showing the single Finder Extension permission with live status. — Permissions overview with live status

What's good about it?

Less fuss at your desk.

Only blacks out when it should dark when mirrored, normal when the MacBook screen is part of your workspace
Fast everyday actions switch mirroring, dim until key press, sleep, open Finder paths, and encrypt Safes
Helpful, not noisy runs from the menu bar without a Dock window, account, or analytics

For desk setups made for MacBooks that spend real time connected to an external display

For Finder and private files create, paste, move, open, encrypt, and decrypt selected items from the context menu you already use

For privacy no account, no analytics, no Safe password logging, and feedback opens as a reviewable email draft

How to get it

Install it from the Mac App Store.

1 Open the XHelpers listing on the Mac App Store.
2 Install XHelpers and launch it from Applications.
3 Enable the Finder extension only if you use the Finder actions.

macOS 13.0 or later Apple Silicon + Intel Updates via the App Store

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