TaskZero 1.1

One click. Zero clutter.

TaskZero is a native SwiftUI macOS menu-bar utility that reviews your running applications and verified third-party background processes, then closes the ones you choose — safely, and entirely on your Mac.

Download

Download TaskZero-1.1-macos.zip below, unzip it, and drag TaskZero.app to your Applications folder.

• Universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel)
• Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later
• TaskZero is a menu-bar app: it does not open a window or show a Dock icon. After launch, click its glyph at the top-right of the menu bar.

This build is locally signed and not Apple-notarized, so on first launch macOS may ask you to approve it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Highlights

• Review before you close — a clear preview separates your apps, verified background processes, protected system services, and your exclusions.
• Graceful first, force last — apps are asked to quit normally; only verified, user-owned items that ignore the request are force-closed, and only if you allow it.
• Conservative by default — anything that can't be confidently identified is left untouched. Unknown means protected.
• Stop any time — cancel a cleanup mid-run; remaining items are skipped and no new signals are sent.
• Read-only process monitor — inspection only; never terminates anything. Right-click a row to add an exclusion.
• Private — no account, analytics, telemetry, or network calls. Preferences and history stay in local UserDefaults.

Safety

TaskZero never uses sudo, never changes SIP or Gatekeeper, and never unloads launch agents or daemons. Executable path, start time, and code signature are re-validated immediately before any force action, so a recycled PID is skipped rather than signalled.

Built with the hardened runtime enabled. Released under the MIT License.