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@IntarsO IntarsO released this 08 Oct 17:05
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v1.1.0
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AppWrangler 1.1.0 is about memory, advice you can act on, and easier setup.

AppWrangler panel with suggestions

Highlights

  • 🧊 Auto mode can free up memory (opt-in). When your Mac runs low on memory, it freezes apps you haven't used for a while, biggest first.
    • They resume the moment you switch to them, or when memory frees up.
    • The app you're using, audio apps, messaging and calls apps, and menu bar apps are never frozen.
    • Turn it on in Settings → General → Auto mode, or run appwrangler auto freeze-idle on.
  • 💡 Suggestions in the panel, for example "Brave uses more than your 8 GB of RAM", with the reason, the benefit and one-click buttons to apply. They're based on minutes of history, not a one-second spike.
  • 🪟 Open the panel in a window that stays open, like Activity Monitor (window button in the panel, or Open in a Window in the menu). The menu bar panel stays as it was.
  • ↩️ Undo: appwrangler undo, or ask your AI assistant to "undo that".
  • 🤖 AI assistants:
    • appwrangler mcp install sets up Claude Desktop, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex in one step.
    • New tools: suggest_settings, get_app_settings, configure_app (change any setting while you talk about an app) and undo_last_change.
  • 📖 Built-in Help: the full User Manual inside the app, searchable and offline, with a ? next to every setting.
  • 🍺 Homebrew: 
    brew tap intarso/appwrangler https://github.com/IntarsO/AppWrangler
brew install --cask appwrangler
  • New command-line tools: appwrangler suggest, show <app>, set <app> key=value….
  • CI on GitHub Actions, and Russian translations for everything new.

Fixes

  • The panel no longer runs off the right edge of the screen.
  • An app frozen because memory was low now resumes as soon as you switch to it.
  • Copy, paste, select-all and undo now work in AppWrangler's text fields, and ⌘W closes its windows.

Full details are in the CHANGELOG.

Install

  • Homebrew: the commands above.
  • Download: get AppWrangler-1.1.0.zip below, unzip it, and move AppWrangler.app to Applications. The first time, right-click → Open: it's signed but not notarized by Apple.
  • Upgrading: quit AppWrangler and replace the app. Your rules and statistics are kept.

Requirements: macOS 13 or later, on Apple Silicon.

SHA-256 9d39e9e129dc9e5d23967c99f4bd5454ec7b138b39c5cad61c572cd86de09ecb AppWrangler-1.1.0.zip

AppWrangler is free software under the GNU GPL v2. ☕ Buy me a coffee

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