Some applications, especially web browsers and older applications, continue to run tasks or create animated advertisements even when they are idle. Using valuable processing (CPU) capabilities to provide you with:
- Reduce CPU power consumption of the application you are using
- Increased heat and fan noise
- Shorten battery running time
Control them using App Tamer
Find the culprits and control them. With App Tamer, you only need to do the following:
- Launch App Tamer and click its icon on your menu bar
- Click to use a large number of central processing units
- Tell App Tamer to slow down or stop the application
App Tamer will automatically slow down or pause your applications whenever you are not using them, greatly reducing their CPU usage.
App Tamer is even pre configured to automatically reduce Safari's CPU and battery usage, including Firefox, Google Chrome, Spotlight, Time Machine, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, and many other applications.
Optimize M1 or M2 Mac
App Tamer can make special use of Apple Silicon driven Macs, which have two different types of processor cores. Using it can save power in the efficiency core of M1 or M2, leaving the performance core for your application to run the fastest.
Running applications on the efficiency core can more than double the efficiency!
App Tamer completes all work
Unlike some utilities that allow you to manually manage, App Tamer automatically processes detailed information. It will slow down or pause the application when you stay away from it, and then automatically restart it when you start using it again. Just set it up and forget it - App Tamer quietly saves battery and CPU power when you work (or play).
But everything is in control
You can choose the application you want to manage. Automatically stop when you don't use them, or simply slow them down by running them on the M1 efficiency kernel or limiting the CPU they use.
The preferences of App Tamer allow you to adjust its behavior to meet your needs, whether you are frugal in saving battery power or feeding the Final Cut Pro every other CPU cycle.
Attention, Highway Warrior!
Even a small portion of CPU time can be restored, which can translate into significant battery savings. Stopping the application means that consuming 5% of the CPU can translate into 20 or 30 minutes of additional battery running time.
Detect CPU usage
Sometimes, applications or macOS system processes suddenly start using a large amount of CPU time. For example, adding a new image to 'Photos' may result in new work to be done, or it may be due to an error in the app or macOS itself.
App Tamer will detect such high CPU usage and remind you to decide whether to control or allow the process to continue.
How about App Nap?
When an apple sees it, it knows it's a good thing. MacOS has App Nap, which is similar to App Tamer. But to activate it, you must hide or completely overwrite the application's window to make it less automatic. And if App Nap doesn't work, it can be done through behind the scenes processes such as Spotlight and time machines. App Tamer did it!
It can also accelerate your Time Machine backup!
Simply click on the checkbox in the App Tamer preferences to increase the speed of Time Machine backups.
