App Tamer versions

Slow down or pause your apps when you're not using them.
2.8
Mar 28, 2024
2.3
Feb 9, 2017
Editorial review
rating
2.2
Aug 31, 2016
Editorial review
rating
2.1
Oct 8, 2015
Review
2.0
Jan 22, 2014
Editorial review
rating
1.3
May 31, 2012
Editorial review
rating
1.2
Mar 27, 2012
Editorial review
rating
1.0
Sep 21, 2010
Review

What's new

v2.3 [Feb 9, 2017]
- If Spotify is playing music in the background, App Tamer will no longer stop or slow it down.
- Corrected a logic error that prevented App Tamer from correctly slowing apps that have lots of helper processes (such as Spotlight and Google Chrome).
- When Chrome and Spotlight are slowed by App Tamer, their CPU usage is now more steady.
- Fixed several small memory leaks.

v2.2 [Aug 31, 2016]
- Compatible with Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra.
- Improved App Tamer's efficiency when managing lots of processes.
- Made App Tamer much more intelligent about stopping and starting helper processes such as Safari Web Content, Safari Networking, Google Chrome Helper, etc.
- Made contextual menus (when clicking on processes in App Tamer) behave consistently.
- Fixed problems with text not fitting correctly when running on French systems.

v2.0 [Jan 22, 2014]
- Fixed a problem with App Tamer sometimes failing to slow down a process even when you’ve specified a CPU limit for it.
- Added a small highlighted corner in the status indicators to show whether a running application has been configured to slow down or stop.
- Fixed a bug that could cause App Tamer to crash when it started up under certain conditions.

v1.3 [May 31, 2012]
- Added Retina display support.
- App Tamer now wakes up applications for scroll wheel and gesture scrolling even when they're in the background.
- Applications wake up when the display configuration changes so they can switch window configurations if necessary.
- Errors were fixed that caused warning messages in the Console under some circumstances.
- Fixed bugs in handling the consequences of high CPU load.

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