Safe to QuitRelease notes
What's new in Safe to Quit
Every version, newest first. Updates are free. The app tells you when a new version is ready, and your download link always gives you the newest one.
1.5.1
Latest- Fixed
Security Checkup fits your window
The buttons on the right no longer get cut off, the arrows sit inside the list, and the page uses the extra room on a big screen.
- Fixed
Leftovers show names, not codes
Things removed apps left behind are listed by a name you recognise instead of an internal app ID, and "Scan again" fits on one line.
- New
Security Checkup: is your Mac locked down?
One score out of 10 for the settings that keep strangers and bad software out: updates, the firewall, FileVault, the screen lock, sharing switches and leftover remote-access tools. Each fix opens the right setting for you.
- New
Internet Activity: who is talking to the internet
See every app that used the internet today and how much it sent, plus any program on your Mac that other devices on your Wi-Fi could reach. It only looks, it never blocks anything.
- New
Camera and Mic: which app used them, and when
A simple log of every app that turned on your microphone or camera, so the green light is never a mystery.
- New
Where Did My Space Go
A map of your whole disk, biggest folders first, so you can see where the space went before you clear anything.
- New
Check my Mac
One button walks you through what is slow, what you can clear, what starts on its own, how your Mac slept and how safe it is, in under a minute.
- New
Easier to read, everywhere
Every page now starts with a one-line answer and shows only what needs you. Click a row for the details. Back and forward arrows, Command-[ and Command-] take you back to where you were.
- Fixed
Uses a fraction of the battery
Safe to Quit now uses under 2% of your processor while it watches, down from as much as 20%.
- Fixed
Real names instead of codes
Background items and leftovers now show the app they belong to, like AnyDesk, instead of names like com.philandro.anydesk. Updaters no longer show up as newly added every time they run.
- Fixed
No more pop-ups about other apps' data
On macOS 15 and later, your Mac no longer asks whether Safe to Quit may access data from other apps. Cleanup and the app list now look inside other apps' data only once you have given Full Disk Access.
- New
A proper Mac window
Safe to Quit now opens as a normal window with a sidebar, shows in the Dock while open, and remembers its size and place. Closing it keeps the small icon in your menu bar. Command-1 to 9 jump between pages.
- New
Overview: your Mac on one page
See what needs you, live CPU, memory, heat, storage and battery, the busiest apps, and a chart of the last 24 hours without opening anything else.
- New
Cleanup: see how much space you can free safely
One number for the space you can get back, then a page for each kind: unused apps and their leftovers, old large files, leftovers from deleted apps, and developer caches. Nothing goes until you tick it, and everything moves to the Trash so you can put it back.
- New
Why your Mac is slow right now
The panel names the one thing that matters in plain words: an app working hard, your Mac cooling itself down, low memory or a busy disk. It also says what changed since yesterday.
- New
Look up any background helper
Click one of the oddly named helpers macOS runs behind the scenes to see what it does, how long it usually takes and the one safe thing to try. Apple's own helpers are never stopped.
- New
See what is inside System Data
Get my storage back splits System Data into Time Machine snapshots, Mail, developer files, old iPhone backups and more. It shows which are growing and which are safe to let go.
- New
Last night report
In the morning, see how your Mac slept: how much battery it lost, what woke it and which app kept it awake, with a button to the exact setting that fixes it.
- New
Know what starts with your Mac
A page lists everything that starts itself at login, who added it and why. You get told once when something adds itself quietly, and you can stop any of them until your next login.
- New
Find the tab eating your memory
Click a browser to see which tab or extension is using the memory, in Safari, Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Vivaldi and Firefox.
- New
Heat gauge names the cause
When your Mac runs hot, the gauge now says why: an app, the charger, a warm room or the Mac slowing itself down.
- Fixed
The panel stays under the menu bar icon
The panel could slowly drift down the screen after a few answers. It now stays put, and Get my storage back opens inside it with a Back button.
- Fixed
Safe to Quit now shows up in Full Disk Access
It was missing from the list, so there was no switch to turn on. It now appears, ready to switch on.
- New
Get my storage back
Click the storage gauge to see old installers, downloads you have not opened in 90 days and caches of closed apps. Pick what goes and it moves to the Trash, so you can put it back.
- New
Restart a browser and get your tabs back
Safe to Quit offers this only when your browser is set to reopen tabs, and never during a call, upload or download. If it is not set, the card shows how to turn it on.
- New
See where a browser's memory goes
Click a browser to see how much is used by pages and tabs, graphics, extensions and helpers.
- Fixed
The panel stays clean after several answers
After answering a few questions in a row, the panel could look grey, cut off or overlapping. It now stays tidy, and every open question shows as its own short row.
- Fixed
The app list holds still while you click
Rows no longer jump under your pointer, so you can click the app you meant. Numbers keep updating in place, and an app that quits meanwhile stays as a dimmed Closed row.
- Fixed
Keep and Close act on what you just read
The question card now stays on the same finding while your pointer is in the panel.
- Fixed
The panel header no longer goes blank
The header text could disappear after a notification cleared. It now stays visible.
- New
Right-click menu on the menu bar icon
Right-click or Control-click the icon for a quick menu: Open Safe to Quit, Check for Updates, What's New, Open at Login, Settings and Quit.
- New
Ask any app: is it safe to quit?
Click an app and Safe to Quit checks for uploads and downloads, the microphone or a call, tasks macOS is still finishing and commands running in a terminal. Then it tells you to go ahead or to wait a moment.
- New
Tell me when it is done
When it is better to wait, Safe to Quit watches the app and lets you know the moment it is safe to close.
- New
Storage gauge and low-space warning
A plain warning appears when your Mac is almost out of space, with a button to your Mac's own Storage settings. Nothing gets deleted.
- New
What you got back after closing an app
Once you close an app, you see how much memory it freed and how much cooler the Mac got.
- New
Today
See what happened on your Mac today and what you did about it. It is kept for 7 days, on your Mac only.
- New
Restart reminder and a new look
A gentle nudge when your Mac has not restarted in weeks and memory is struggling. The whole app has a fresh look, in light and dark.
- Fixed
Heat gauge reads Cooling right after you close the hot app
It no longer keeps showing a hot Mac once the cause is gone.
- New
Safe to Quit 1.0
Lives in your menu bar and tells you in plain English which app is making your Mac hot, loud or slow. It asks one yes or no question before closing anything, and learns what is normal for each app so it can spot one that keeps eating more memory.
Ideas or bugs? Write to [email protected]. Every email gets read.