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Boost v1.2.0

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v1.2.0
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What's new in 1.2.0

  • Menu bar popover. Click the icon to see memory pressure, a graph, swap, cached and compressed memory, your five biggest apps, and free disk space. Pause or quit an app from there, or hit Free Memory.
  • History. A reading every minute, kept for a week. Chart it over 2 hours, 24 hours or 7 days, with the peak, the average and each time your Mac went into swap.
  • Auto-pause. Pick apps to freeze after 5 to 60 minutes in the background. Each one wakes when you switch to it. If Boost crashes, a watchdog resumes everything it froze.
  • Alerts. A notice when memory has stayed tight for a minute, naming the app using the most. The swap alert is still there.
  • Projects tab. Finds node_modules, Rust target, SwiftPM .build, virtualenvs and similar folders in projects you have not touched for 30 to 180 days. Everything goes to the Trash.
  • Uninstall tab. Lists what an app left in your Library, with sizes, before anything moves. Exact matches only, to the Trash, with Undo.
  • Settings. Start at login, and an option to always show the percentage in the menu bar.
  • New app icon, and sizes under 1 MB now show in KB.

Install

brew install --cask kernel-hunter/boost/boost

Or download Boost.zip below and drag it to Applications.

Boost is not notarized. It is signed with a local certificate, so a direct download is stopped by Gatekeeper the first time. Homebrew handles that for you. If you downloaded the zip by hand, right-click the app and choose Open. Building from source avoids the question:

git clone https://github.com/Kernel-Hunter/boost.git
cd boost && ./Scripts/build.sh

SHA-256: 80ae5589558a592aaf33c903dd2e737a5d6890dc80fc44107c156aadb75e7232

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