Legit.Show measured nixmac's Security frame at 25/100. No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure nixmac?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Infrastructure & DevOps

nixmac

Last updated 2026-07-06 · benchmark measured 2026-09-16 — deterministic & reproducible

nixmac configures and manages your Mac using Nix with an AI-assisted workflow.

78/100

7/7 frames

Top 51% of 14,148 measured

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-16 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored nixmac 78/100 on 2026-09-16, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/nixmac-com/2026-09-16

Is nixmac production-ready?

Legit.Show scores nixmac 78 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on nixmac (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 95/100
Accessibility — 94/100
Security — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 70/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 89/100
Discoverability — 75/100

What we measured

No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 626 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Discoverable: OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

macOS users · Nix users · System administrators · Developers · Mac power users

Pricing

Free and open source to try; hosted AI models at $4.99/mo (device sync included) or bring your own API key

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from nixmac.com's own website on 2026-07-06.
Operator: Darkmatter Labs, as named in nixmac.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-16.

Put together from public information, without nixmac's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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