Hello All,
I spent most of my career as a Windows admin, so when I started working on Macs, the first thing I did when something broke was look for Event Viewer. What I found instead was Console.app, and honestly, it felt like drinking from a firehose. Thousands of messages, no color coding, no way to quickly zero in on what actually matters.
I kept thinking there had to be a better way, and when I couldn't find one, I just built it myself.
MacLogger is a native macOS log viewer designed to feel familiar if you're coming from Windows. Faults and errors are color-coded and surface first. You can filter by severity with one click instead of writing predicate queries. Process names get translated to plain English so you're not staring at raw identifiers trying to figure out what com.apple.whatever actually is. There's even an AI feature that explains any log entry in normal language, which has saved me more time than I expected.
It also has a crash log viewer, live tail with auto-scroll, and cascading filters for process, subsystem, and type. Everything runs natively on Apple Silicon. No Electron, no web wrapper.
I've been using it daily on my own machines and it's made troubleshooting way less painful. There's a 7-day free trial, and after that it's pay-what-you-want starting at $2. One-time purchase, no subscription.
https://jasonchotchkiss.github.io/MacLogger
I'd love to hear what you think. Still actively working on it and happy to take feedback or answer questions.
Screenshots
https://imgur.com/a/yc8pmXj