Octo
Menu bar toolkit with Jitouch-style trackpad gestures, Keep Awake, a keyboard lock for cleaning and on-screen text copy.
MIT · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- tom-bonte
- Verified
- 2026
About Octo
Octo puts four small utilities behind one menu bar icon. Trackpad gestures bind tab switching, hard reload and opening links in a new tab to finger gestures in browsers and Finder, and you can change them or add your own. Keep Awake stops the Mac from sleeping, Clean Keyboard blocks keys, scrolling and swipes while you wipe the keyboard, and Copy Text lets you drag a box over any text on screen and copies it using text recognition that runs on the Mac. It suits people who want several everyday tools without installing separate apps.
It needs macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon or Intel, and the gestures need a trackpad. The build is not notarized by Apple, so the first launch has to be allowed under System Settings > Privacy & Security with Open Anyway. Gestures need Accessibility access and Copy Text needs Screen Recording. The README says Octo never connects to the internet and has no analytics. It also warns that another gesture app, such as BetterTouchTool or Jitouch, can make gestures fire twice.
Information
- Source code
- tom-bonte/Octo
- License
- MIT
- Website
- github.com
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Utilities
- Topics
- Menu bar apps
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Sources and image credits
- github.com/tom-bonte/Octo
- github.com/tom-bonte/Octo/blob/main/LICENSE
- github.com/tom-bonte/Octo/releases
- icon.png: Tom Bonte. MIT; upstream app icon, trademarks retained.
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