DMG DESIGNER v26.5 · v1.1

The DMG installer editor pros actually want.

Design your DMG window on a faithful WYSIWYG canvas, drop in your background and license agreement, then sign and notarize through Apple — all in one app, in under three minutes, without ever opening Terminal.

macOS 26+ Apple Silicon Signed Notarized
SCREENSHOT 1600 × 1000 — public/screenshots/dmg-designer-hero.png

FEATURES

Everything the ship pipeline needs.

WYSIWYG canvas

Drag-and-drop layout editor with smart alignment guides, marquee select, multi-item align and distribute, and four built-in starter templates (Classic, Compact, Pro Tool, Documentation).

Custom volume icons

Drop any image — PNG, JPG, HEIC — and Juju auto-converts to multi-resolution .icns via the macOS sips + iconutil pipeline. Cancellable mid-conversion if you change your mind.

Backgrounds gallery

Capped MRU library of background images, content-deduplicated by SHA-256. Drop-to-import, click-to-apply, no manual file management.

EULA editor + starter templates

Built-in license agreement editor with a UK / EU / US starter template generator. AS-IS / damages-capped wording you can edit before insertion. Embeds in the .jujudmg file so it travels with shared layouts.

Pre-flight .app validation

Validates Hardened Runtime, Developer ID signing, and codesign --verify --deep --strict before the two-minute notarization round-trip. Catches the common rejection reasons locally in under a second.

Auto-fetch notary log

When Apple's notary service returns "Invalid", Juju runs xcrun notarytool log for you and appends the JSON response to the failure card. No more manual Terminal trips to find out why Apple rejected.

Layouts library

Save your favourite canvas configurations to a personal library, distinct from the built-in templates. Apply, rename, delete via context menu. Per-machine, persistent across launches.

Autosave

Silent 5-minute autosave for layouts that have been saved at least once. No nag dialogs, no overwrites without changes — just quiet protection against the unsaved-half-hour-of-work moment.

Test in Finder

⌘⇧T builds an unsigned DMG and mounts it in Finder for instant preview. Auto-hides Tahoe's tab bar after mount. Five seconds from edit to verification.


PIPELINE

From canvas to App Store-grade installer.

  1. 01

    Drop your .app

    The placeholder switches to your app's real icon. Inspector populates with its details.

  2. 02

    Drop a background

    Any image, any format. Routed to the backdrop automatically; added to the gallery for reuse.

  3. 03

    Configure signing & notarization

    Pick your Developer ID Application identity, name your notarytool keychain profile. One-time setup.

  4. 04

    Build DMG

    Stages, compresses, signs, submits to Apple, staples — typically 3-5 minutes end to end. Cancel any time.

  5. 05

    Ship

    SHA-256 hash, signed + notarized status, reveal-in-Finder button. Ready to upload.

Try it free for 7 days.

Full functionality, no feature gates, no credit card required. Drop your .app, design your DMG, ship a signed installer this afternoon.

~12 MB · macOS 26+ · Apple Silicon · Developer ID Notarized