Reveal

A tiny menu bar app that shows or hides every hidden file on your Mac — one click, or a global hotkey.

Your Mac hides thousands of files by default: dotfiles like .zshrc and .gitconfig, the ~/Library folder, .env files, .DS_Store, and more. macOS can reveal them, but only inside a focused Finder window, and only if you remember the shortcut. Reveal turns that into a persistent, system-wide switch you can see and trigger from anywhere.

How it works

Reveal lives in your menu bar as a single eye icon.

• Click it and every hidden file and folder appears in Finder.
• Click again and you're back to a clean, normal view.
• Press ⌃⌥⌘H to toggle from any app, even when Finder isn't focused.

The icon always reflects the current state — an open eye when hidden files are visible, a slashed eye when they're hidden — so you never have to guess.

Built to stay out of the way

No Dock icon, no window, no setup. Turn on Launch at Login once and Reveal is quietly ready every time you start your Mac. Under the hood it flips a single macOS setting and relaunches Finder — nothing more.

Private and trusted

Reveal is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens cleanly with no "unidentified developer" warnings. It has no accounts, no analytics, and no network access. It only does the one thing it says it does.

Requirements

• macOS 13 (Ventura) or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel — universal binary

Free to download. If it saves you a trip to the Terminal, that's the whole point.