MacForge VS ThemeEngine

Compare MacForge vs ThemeEngine and see what are their differences.

MacForge

📦 Plugin, App, and Theme store which includes plugin injection for macOS (by MacEnhance)

ThemeEngine

OS X App to edit compiled .car files (by alexzielenski)
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MacForge ThemeEngine
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1,011 735
0.8% -
2.2 0.0
10 months ago about 2 years ago
Objective-C Objective-C
MIT License BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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MacForge

Posts with mentions or reviews of MacForge. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-15.

ThemeEngine

Posts with mentions or reviews of ThemeEngine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-09.
  • A VERY silly question about changing macOS system files
    2 projects | /r/MacOS | 9 Dec 2022
    I remember being a big fan of the app "flavours" (theme park was before my time), and was really excited to see "flavours 2" come out, until the new osx version completely changed how themes worked and the devs just gave up, since all their work was now outdated. I then got into theme engine, which seemed really promising. It seems like nobody ever really put the effort in tho to figure out exactly what assets led to which visual elements in the OS. I straight up brute forced my way into having a dark themed finder to match my terminal windows before mojave came along with a dark mode. It felt good to finally get it but god damn it was not worth the effort. I once tried to entirely get rid of the traffic light buttons to control windows in the corner. I went through every asset in theme engine and straight up deleted everything that had a traffic light in it because it was super unclear which ones to be editing, and it was faster to just delete than edit them as a transparent png. Broke my whole system, couldn't boot the PC. Went to an apple store and had to talk to 5 or 6 different people before somebody understood what "can i just use a TB to TB cable and a macbook for 30 minutes so I can target disk mode my laptop and replace my broken .car files with my backup?" Still didn't work tho, system restore only option. Turns out 90% of apple store employees only know how to clean out iphone charge ports with a toothpick.
  • Remove rounded corners on macOS
    3 projects | /r/FirefoxCSS | 15 Oct 2022
    install ThemeEngine. it's an app to modify .car files, which is the file format used for macOS themes
  • macOS 12 Concept
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 5 Jun 2021
    Theming is still possible on macOS/Mac OS X. Just go to r/OSXTweaks or Github and there are many people theming macOS Big Sur because they don’t like the look. Besides, people will love support for theming and it isn’t too hard to add in. Last but not least, Apple is getting nostalgic these days, so it seems fit for them to add theming features as theming was easier in the old days.
  • Remove rounded edges on Big Sur?
    3 projects | /r/OSXTweaks | 28 Mar 2021
    Here is a fix for that: https://github.com/alexzielenski/ThemeEngine/issues/63 (Have not tried it myself)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MacForge and ThemeEngine you can also consider the following projects:

winBuddy - :open_file_folder: MacForge plugin to give windows some extra functionality on macOS

customise_macos - Customise macOS' appearance/themes, obscure settings, and more.

mySIMBL - :package: Plugin manager for macOS

PaintCan - Force apps to use a custom NSAppearance

ManOpen - A macOS GUI application for viewing Unix manual pages.

writeable_root - Make the root directory writeable on macOS Big Sur.

Sloth - Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.

spaces-renamer - 💻 Ability to rename desktop spaces on macOS 10.10+

MEMiniMe - Makes the toolbars in Big Sur small

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

moreMenu - 👉 It's my menu and I need it now!