Stop Please! v1.0.0

Stop Please! v1.0.0

First release of Stop Please!

Stop Please! is a menu-bar utility for macOS that pauses everything that is playing with one shortcut, and resumes only what it paused with the next press.

Features

• Shift + Play/Pause (or ⌃⌥⌘P) pauses every app that is playing and remembers them as a group
• The next press resumes exactly that group, even if another app has since become the Now Playing app
• Keeps up to three groups, with a chooser to pick which one to resume
• Lists every Now Playing source in the menu; click one to pause or play just that app
• Works with apps as installed: no plugins, no per-app setup, nothing injected
• Launch at login, and Export Log… for bug reports
• Lightweight: about 35 MB of memory and practically no CPU while idle. No network access and no analytics

Requirements

• A Mac with Apple silicon
• macOS 15 or later

Installation

Download StopPlease-1.0.0.dmg (or the .zip), open it, and drag Stop Please! to Applications.

Stop Please is not notarized, so macOS blocks the first launch: open System Settings → Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway next to the message about Stop Please, and confirm.

Shift + Play/Pause needs the Accessibility permission; macOS asks for it when you choose that shortcut. ⌃⌥⌘P needs no permission.

Future releases are signed with the same certificate, so the Accessibility permission carries over when you update.

See the README for usage, permissions, and how to uninstall.