Awesome Mac Admin Tools 
A curated list of handy-dandy tools for Mac Admins.
Inspired by the awesome list.
Table of Contents
Deployment
Packages.app
A free package creation tool. The gold standard of making your own custom installer packages.
munki-pkg
munki-pkg is a simple tool for building packages. While it was developed for use with munki, it can be used to make pkgs that are deployable with any management framework.
AutoPkg
Automated third party package download and creation for deployment.
AutoPkgr
GUI for AutoPkg, with click-to-add functionality of additional components
AutoDMG
Create deployable system images from macOS installers.*
Suspicious Package
An application for inspecting the contents of macOS packages.
AutoCasperNBI
Automate the creation of NetBoot images (NBIs) for use with Jamf Imaging.*
Composer
Jamf's in-house package creator tool. Builds pkgs and dmgs made for deployment with the Jamf Pro Suite, but pkgs built with Composer can be used with any management framework.
Payload-Free Package Creator
An Automator application that quickly builds payload-free pkgs for deployment.
Provisioning
Splash Buddy
A customizable onboarding app designed to work with Jamf Pro and DEP.
DEP Notify
A lightweight notification app designed to let users know what's happening during DEP enrollment.
ADEPT
A setup/splash screen for DEP and user-initiated Jamf Pro enrollments. Detailed documentation highlights how to work with the application in Xcode to customize it for your organization's needs.
Text Editing
Atom
An free, open source, hackable text editor.
Sublime Text
A high performance, cross-platform text editor.
Xcode
Apple's integrated development environment (IDE) containing a suite of software development tools developed by Apple for developing software used by Apple hardware. Free with an Apple ID.
BBEdit
Clean and simple HTML & text editor, made by Bare Bones Software. $49.99 at their site, or in the Mac App Store.
MacDown
An open source markdown editor for macOS.
Visual Studio Code
Microsoft's source code editor in a lightweight, open source, cross-platform application.
Productivity
Slack
Team chat and productivity client. I mean, you know what Slack is. Anyone can create a free time with ten integrations. (Join the MacAdmins Slack!) There are over 15k users in the MacAdmins Slack. Drink from the firehose and get answers from the biggest hivemind of Apple-centric IT folks in the universe.
Slack Calls
Slack recently integrated Screenhero into the Slack client. Easily call colleagues with video chat and screensharing from within a Slack team.
Trello
Use Trello's boards, lists, and cards to organize and prioritize your projects. Free, browser-based and mobile app interface. And it integrates with Slack (see above)!
Google Keep
Virtual sticky notes, lists, photos, and audio. Included with Gmail accounts.
LastPass
LastPass stores your passwords and makes it easy to auto-fill and quickly sign into webapps without retyping your credentials. It also helps generate new passwords and warns you when use the same password for different services.
Power Ups
Spruce
Works with your Jamf server to identify objects not currently being used, out of date, or are generally "crufty".
Recategorizer
Quickly recategorize policies and packages in Jamf Pro, and even more unused categories.
vfuse
A handy script that converts a never-booted DMG into a VMware Fusion VM.
Jamf Migrator
A tool to migrate data granularly between Jamf Pro servers.
Giphy Capture
Easily capture GIFs from your Mac, great for documentation.
AppCleaner
A small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.
Wallcat
Rotates through beautiful new desktop wallpapers
Amphetamine
A caffeine replacement that prevents your Mac from sleeping.
NoMAD
The functionality you want from a Mac bound to Active Directory without having to actually bind to AD. (Make sure you check out this NoMAD updater as well.)
Hello-IT
A handy menubar application to get users in touch with IT and quickly get information and resources on their Mac.
moss
A helper app for Hello IT to make building mobileconfig files easy!
MacDNA
Customizable menubar that checks for hardware status, management framework status, and other handy information.
* Is imaging dead?
License
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