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v1.6.0
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Added

  • Make room for an app — for a call, a recording, a render or a game. For 30 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours or until you stop it, one app gets everything it needs: full speed, never capped or frozen (its own CPU rule set aside; memory limits still apply). Everything else steps back: efficiency cores at once, the Mac counts as busy from 60% and the rest then shares one core less, work that can wait is paused, hot processes are held, and idle apps are frozen if memory gets short, even if idle freezing is off. Away mode is suspended. Start it from the menu bar icon's right-click menu, an app's details, appwrangler make-room Zoom 1h, appwrangler://make-room/Zoom?minutes=60, or the MCP tool make_room; the panel shows the time left with Stop.
  • Unfreeze one app from the menu bar icon's right-click menu (one item per frozen app, with why it was frozen) or the panel's new Frozen list. There's deliberately no "unfreeze all": the rest stays tamed. Something that can wait isn't paused again for 30 minutes after you unfreeze it.
  • A snowflake on the menu bar icon (❄︎2) while apps are frozen.

Changed

  • Prioritized (was High) apps get room: while one is working, work that can wait is paused and the rest makes way. They still stay within the safety limits: if prioritized apps together would take every core while the Mac is saturated, they share all but one. The tiers now read Prioritized, Normal and Can wait (still high, normal, low for the command line and assistants).
  • Calls count as what matters: an app playing or recording audio (Zoom, Teams, Meet in a browser) makes the rest step back while it works, and you don't count as away during a call.

Install

  • Homebrew: brew upgrade --cask appwrangler. New installs: brew tap intarso/appwrangler https://github.com/IntarsO/AppWrangler && brew install --cask appwrangler.

  • Download: get AppWrangler-1.6.0.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.

  • Claude Desktop: download AppWrangler-mcp-1.6.0.mcpb below and double-click it to add AppWrangler's tools to Claude. It uses the installed app when there is one (details).

Requirements: macOS 13 or later, on Apple Silicon (the widget needs macOS 14).

SHA-256 ac27e7dbfa302b9bbb7687847e38b270b205402b7f6dd94a019b8c6be4d78c0a AppWrangler-1.6.0.zip

Full history: CHANGELOG. AppWrangler is free software under the GNU GPL v2. ☕ Buy me a coffee

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