LaunchGuardKit

An open source development kit for the components featured in LaunchGuard for macOS.

Setup

Drag and drop /LaunchGuardKit into your project.

Getting Started

While you can use the app's localized name to interact with it, it's recommended that you mostly work with the bundle identifier instead. There are multiple benefits to this; the most important being that the bundleId is more unique and unlikely to change.

let launchGuard = LaunchGuard.shared

func viewDidLoad() {
  // Enable debug console (optional)
  LaunchGuard.debug = true
  
  // Get currently running apps
  launchGuard.apps()            // ["App 1", "com.bundle.app1", "App 2", "com.bundle.app2", ...]
  launchGuard.apps(.name)       // ["App 1", "App 2", ...]
  launchGuard.apps(.bundleId)   // ["com.bundle.app1", "com.bundle.app2", ...]
}

Blocklist

The Blocklist will allow you to block applications from launching by bundle identifier, name, etc.

// By bundle identifier
let list = ["com.apple.Music", "com.github.GitHubClient"]
launchGuard.add(blocklist: list)

// By app name
let list = ["Music", "GitHub Desktop"]
launchGuard.add(blocklist: list, format: .name)

Commands

You can issue customizable commands to specific applications as well:

// Quit the Music app
let music = "com.apple.Music"
launchGuard.command(.quit, bundleId: music)

// Force quit multiple apps
let apps = ["com.apple.Music", "com.github.GitHubClient"]
launchGuard.commandAll(.forceQuit, bundleIds: apps)