ENV Manager

Think of ENV Manager as a password manager for your .env files. The variable names are ordinary data; the values live in the macOS Keychain — never in a plaintext file the next grep could stumble into.

Create an environment

1. Open ENV Manager from the sidebar.
2. Click New Environment and name it after the thing it configures: my-app · production, staging, local.
3. You can keep as many environments as you like, each with its own set of keys.

Add variables

1. Select an environment.
2. Add a key (DATABASE_URL, STRIPE_SECRET_KEY, …) and its value.
3. The value goes straight into the macOS Keychain. The app's own files only remember the key names and their order — the secrets themselves are the Keychain's problem (and it's very good at that job).

Reveal a value

Click the reveal control on any variable, and macOS asks for Touch ID or your password — every single time.

Why every time? Because a revealed secret is a plaintext secret on screen. The prompt makes "showing a secret" a deliberate act, not something that happens because you left a window open.

Export a .env file

1. Select the environment.
2. Click Export .env.
3. Authenticate (Touch ID / password — same reason as reveal: a .env file is plaintext).
4. Choose where to save it. You get a standard KEY=value file, ready for your project.