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Watchtower for Mac

Monitor your files, folders, and external drives in real time, alerting you to important changes

Free
In English
Version 1.12
5.0
Based on 1 user rate

Watchtower overview

Watchtower is a lightweight menu bar utility that monitors the directories you define for certain file events such as when a file is created, moved to the Trash, is modified, renamed, deleted, or changes ownership and then triggering an action like logging the event, displaying an Alert, launching an app, or playing a sound. You can also use it to detect the mounting and unmounting of external drives.

What’s new in version 1.12

  • Watch Paths are now sorted in the UI and duplicate Watch Paths entries are detected.
  • Added popovers to the Rule Builder to provide more contextual help.
  • Further optimized memory usage, so memory usage is maybe ~30% better than earlier versions in some cases.
  • Now correctly show the proper default pattern presets for Directory-only mode.
  • Added a new Play Sound & Log Rule trigger action.

Watchtower for Mac

Free
In English
Version 1.12
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Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Sep 15 2025
1.09
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Sep 15 2025
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