Hackintool

The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing

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Hackintool helps you inspect and configure a Hackintosh: patch Intel framebuffers, map USB ports, fix displays and audio, check your bootloader and kexts, and much more, all in one native macOS app.

What's new in 5.0

• Rewritten in Swift with a new native interface: a sidebar, a toolbar with search, and dark mode throughout.
• Universal app, running natively on Intel and Apple Silicon (macOS 12 or later).
• USB mapping brought up to date with USBMap, including macOS 26 (Tahoe) port properties, the 15-port limit and controller renames.
• Windows Bluetooth export rewritten for macOS 12 and later, including Bluetooth LE keys.
• macOS 26 Tahoe and 27 Golden Gate support, with refreshed PCI/USB IDs, Mac model data, AppleALC codec lists and macserial.
• Many long-standing bugs fixed in framebuffer patching, EDID fixes and more.

[!IMPORTANT] Updating from 4.x? Version 5.0 is signed with a new key, so 4.x can't update to it automatically. Download it once from the releases page; after that, updates arrive automatically again. Your settings carry over.

Features

Section	What it does
System	Model, CPU, Intel graphics generation and platform ID, serial number checks and a serial generator, Mac model specs, and connected peripherals
Patch	Intel framebuffer patching from Sandy Bridge to Ice Lake (Comet Lake via the Coffee Lake framebuffer): edit framebuffer fields, connectors and flags, then generate WhateverGreen DeviceProperties, KextsToPatch (hex or base64) or an SSDT, and save straight into your config.plist
Displays	EDID details and fixes, display overrides and HiDPI scaled resolutions, and injector kexts
Radeon	AMD GPU support check by family and macOS version, and WhateverGreen device properties and boot-args (experimental); points Vega-based Ryzen APUs to NootedRed
Sound	Audio devices, codecs and their pin configuration, and AppleALC layout IDs
USB	Live port discovery and mapping, connector types, and USBPorts.kext / SSDT-USBX export
Disks	Partitions and EFI partitions, with mount and unmount
PCIe	Every PCI device with names, device paths and ACPI paths; export as DeviceProperties or an SSDT
Power	Your pmset power settings, editable, with a one-click fix for sleep problems caused by hibernation
Bootloader	Detects OpenCore or Clover, checks for updates and applies common patches to your config.plist; AMD Vanilla kernel patches for AMD CPUs with your core count filled in
NVRAM	View and edit NVRAM variables
Extensions	Installed kexts against the latest releases, with download and build from source
Utilities	Install kexts, rebuild the kext cache, dump ACPI tables, Windows Bluetooth and UTC registry files, AppleIntelInfo
Calc and Logs	A hex/byte calculator, and boot, Lilu and system logs

Screenshots show a made-up Comet Lake desktop, not a real machine.

Before you start

[!WARNING] Hackintool isn't an automated tool that does all the work for you. You need to know how patching works before using it. Please read these guides first:

• Intel Framebuffer patching using WhateverGreen
• An iDiot's Guide To Lilu and its Plug-ins by @jaymonkey
• General Framebuffer Patching Guide using Hackintool by @CaseySJ

Where framebuffer data comes from

Choose the source in the Framebuffer menu:

• Installed Kext reads the framebuffer table from your installed Intel framebuffer kext. When it isn't available (it no longer ships with recent macOS), Hackintool falls back to its bundled tables.
• macOS 10.13.6 / macOS 10.14 use the bundled tables, so you can create patches without a dump.
• IOReg Dump (Native / Patched) reads the tables WhateverGreen publishes when you boot with the -igfxfbdump flag (needs the debug versions of WhateverGreen and Lilu).

Installation

1. Download Hackintool.zip from the latest release.
2. Unzip it and move Hackintool.app to your Applications folder.
3. Open it. The app is signed but not yet notarized, so the first time macOS may warn you. If it does, right-click the app and choose Open, or go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.

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