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CLUSTER FILE-TYPE-UTILITY · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-05-15

macOS default app managers

This cluster consists of macOS utilities that let users review and change which application handles specific file types, MIME types, and URL schemes. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only two entries predate the index, so it either predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders, based on activity signal, are openwith, OpenAbi, and wildcard, each with one star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAR 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
MAR 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01openwith1★11 dayslivehobbymacOS utility that shows every file type and URL scheme with its default app and lets users change the associations in bulk.
  2. 02wildcard1★2 molivemacOS utility that controls which app opens each file type, applying changes only after review.
  3. 03Mimic0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that lets users browse installed applications and set or customize default file type and MIME associations.
  4. 04default-editor-switcher2★6 mostale—ai-builthobbyMenu bar app that lets developers switch groups of file types to a different default editor in one click.

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