
Our Take
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Four apps. Then twelve. Then you lose count. Your Mac is drowning in windows, your RAM is screaming, and manually quitting each app feels like punishment. That's where MacQuit comes in—one click from your menu bar and every single app shuts down except the ones you actually need. Developed by Steven Austen Lynn, Denis Akindinov, Denis Yaremenko, and Kevin, this $4.99 utility is built for anyone who's ever stared at a cluttered desktop and thought "there has to be a better way."
But MacQuit isn't just a fancy quit button. Hold Option and every quit becomes a force quit for frozen apps that won't respond. You get live CPU and memory stats next to every running process so you can spot resource hogs before nuking them. There's a Never-Quit List for apps you can't afford to close—password managers, terminals, dev servers—and music apps are auto-protected so your playlist never dies. You can even set it to auto-quit apps you've been ignoring for hours, keeping your Mac lean without lifting a finger. Global shortcuts let you massacre all your windows from anywhere, and background processes are grouped neatly so you know exactly what's running even when it's hidden.
At $4.99 with a lifetime license, three devices, and free updates forever, this is the kind of tiny utility that makes you realize how much time you've wasted clicking "Quit" on twenty different apps every single day. It's not glamorous. It's not going to make headlines. But if you've ever had 47 tabs open and no energy to close them, MacQuit is the small fix that makes your Mac feel new again.
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