How to find the bundle ID of a Mac app

Jan 30, 2023

Learn how to find the bundle ID of a Mac app, the reverse-domain string like com.apple.finder, by running osascript with the id of app AppleScript command.

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I was running a script and I had the need to find the bundle ID of one app I had installed.

The bundle ID is the string that looks like a domain, but written in the opposite way.

Like com.apple.finder or com.microsoft.VSCode.

Here’s the script you can use:

osascript -e 'id of app "Finder"'

Terminal showing osascript commands returning bundle IDs for Finder, Visual Studio Code, and Hyper apps

osascript is a tool that runs AppleScript. That AppleScript code, id of app "Finder", asks the Mac for the bundle ID of the app with the name we passed to it.

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