FastDMG

"Replaces the system default DMG mounting application; is better in every way." - Some guy on the Internet

FastDMG is a macOS utility to quickly and efficiently mount .dmg and other disk images without any unneeded nonsense. It is a very fast and reliable replacement for Apple's hopelessly inefficient and annoying DiskImageMounter app. And yes, that icon is a reference to After Dark's Flying Toasters screensaver on Classic MacOS.

Features

• Doesn't waste your precious time verifying disk images
• Auto-accepts annoying end user license agreements
• Runs in the background (doesn't show up in the Dock)
• Displays no windows or menus and stays out of your way
• Multithreaded and can concurrently mount several images
• Disk image document icons continue to look the same
• Handles all disk image types supported by DiskImageMounter (dmg, iso, toast, etc.)
• Very fast native app written in Objective-C/Cocoa

FastDMG is a very minimal wrapper around the hdiutil command line tool that ships with macOS. It therefore uses Apple's private DiskImages framework indirectly. It is free, open source software. I've used it for many years and it works really well. If you like it, feel free to make a donation.

Download

• ⇩ Download FastDMG 1.0.2 (~1.4 MB, Universal ARM/Intel 64-bit, 10.9 or later)

Brew

FastDMG can be installed via brew:

brew install fastdmg

Then:

open /Applications/FastDMG.app

How to use

• Move FastDMG.app to your Applications folder
• Ctrl-click the FastDMG app and select Open to bypass Apple's Gatekeeper
• Select a .dmg file and press Cmd-I to show the Finder's Get Info window
• Select FastDMG under the menu item "Open with:"
• Press "Change All..."

FastDMG will then take care of mounting .dmg disk images when you open them in the Finder. You can do the same for .iso, .toast and any other disk image formats supported by FastDMG.

Version History

1.0.2 - 28/11/2020

• App is now built as a Universal ARM/Intel 64-bit binary

1.0.1 - 08/04/2019

• App is now Developer ID signed
• Built with support for Mojave Dark Mode.

1.0 - 23/10/2018

• Initial release

BSD License

Copyright (C) 2012-2024 Sveinbjorn Thordarson <sveinbjorn@sveinbjorn.org>

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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The FastDMG application icon is copyright (C) Drífa Thoroddsen.