unpkg For Mac

PKG/MPKG files are essentially installers that place applications, components, and additional items where they need to be. Many users dislike them, however, as it's not clear what files they contain and where they copy them on your drive.

With unpkg, you can unpack these installers to see exactly what the archive is made up of. In many cases, they serve no purpose than to move an app to the Applications folder, and if you want to make sure no files are copied anywhere else, you can just do this manually.

The app is incredibly simple to use. Once you've launched it, just navigate to the location of a PKG file and open it. Its contents will be extracted in the same directory, and you will see a confirmation message when the job is completed.

If you need to unpack files often, it may be a better idea to pin the app to your Dock. Then, just drop the PKG file in question onto the app's icon. Its contents will be extracted, and you can then quit unpkg.

In many cases, developers create PKG installers just to make sure an app is placed in the Applications directory, particularly if it can't run otherwise. In this scenario, you can easily just move the app there yourself, so the installer is not needed.

However, you should take care when installing applications that require additional files to be copied in other locations on your system. These will not function correctly (or at all) if the PKG installer is not used.

unpkg does exactly what you need, it's completely free, and it's dead simple to use. Grab it and see exactly what's in all those PKG files that you're hesitating to run on your Mac.