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@IntarsO IntarsO released this 08 Oct 19:42
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v1.3.0
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AppWrangler 1.3.0 adds buttons to the widget and Free memory now, and makes freezing safer after a full gap audit.

Medium widget with Pause, Auto and Free memory buttons

Highlights

  • 🖥 Widget buttons: Pause/Resume, Auto and Free memory on the medium and new large widget. The large size shows five apps and up to three suggestions.
  • 🧊 Free memory now freezes the apps you haven't used for a while, right away. Each resumes the moment you switch to it. It never freezes the app in use, audio, busy apps, messaging/calls, terminals, IDEs or VMs. Use it from the widget, appwrangler free-memory, appwrangler://free-memory, or by asking your AI assistant.
  • 🔗 appwrangler:// links for Shortcuts and scripts: pause, resume, auto/on|off|toggle, free-memory, window, settings, help.
  • ⚙️ App-wide settings from Terminal and AI assistants: appwrangler prefs and MCP get_preferences/set_preferences (Auto timings, idle freezing, low-memory level, alerts…).

Safer freezing

  • A freeze ends as soon as the setting that caused it is turned off. Before, an app frozen by a memory limit could stay frozen after the rule was removed or changed.
  • Low-memory freezes are lifted only after memory has been fine for a minute, so apps don't flip between frozen and running.
  • Nothing new is frozen while limits are paused, and commands running in a terminal's foreground are never frozen.
  • Idle freezing skips apps still doing work, terminals, code editors and IDEs, and virtual machines.

Fewer surprises

  • App names work the same in the CLI, MCP and suggestions. Bundle IDs and installed apps resolve correctly, and ambiguous names list the candidates. Critical macOS processes and patterns like * are refused.
  • Undo never overwrites edits you made in the window since (--force to override). It also covers alert buttons and right-click actions.
  • mcp install keeps your extra settings and symlinks, and handles more Codex config layouts safely.
  • Suggestions no longer propose slowing down compilers and build tools.
  • Right-click Force Quit now asks for confirmation.
  • Getting Started leads with Auto mode, and the User Manual covers everything new.

Full details are in the CHANGELOG.

Install

  • Homebrew: brew upgrade --cask appwrangler. New installs: brew tap intarso/appwrangler https://github.com/IntarsO/AppWrangler && brew install --cask appwrangler.
  • Download: get AppWrangler-1.3.0.zip below and replace the app in Applications. Your rules and statistics are kept. The first time, right-click → Open, because it's signed but not notarized.

Requirements: macOS 13 or later, on Apple Silicon. The widget needs macOS 14 or later.

SHA-256 1dd9fdb1b9823960e9e86a88316c5edfb37ac2c967c43591435697aa9379a8db AppWrangler-1.3.0.zip

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

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