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AppHalt adds a pause button to macOS apps. Freeze any CPU-hungry Mac app without closing its windows, tabs or files. Your workspace stays intact, background activity stops, and you resume the app when needed. This major relaunch brings more reliable pause/resume, smarter app detection, smoother CPU monitoring, Auto-Pause and a cleaner macOS experience.
Hey Product Hunt,
I’m Gabriel, the maker of AppHalt.
I built AppHalt after asking myself a very simple question:
Why can we quit, hide, minimize and force-quit Mac apps — but not simply pause them?
That became the whole idea.
AppHalt adds a pause button to macOS apps.
It is made for those moments when an app is still useful, but too active in the background.
Chrome with too many tabs.
Figma after a design session.
Teams after meetings.
Photoshop sitting open.
Slack running all day.
Or any Mac app you may need again soon, but don’t want constantly working in the background.
Quitting feels too brutal.
Leaving everything running feels wasteful.
AppHalt gives you a third option:
• pause the app
• keep its windows, tabs and files open
• resume it when you need it again
The app stays where it is.
Your workspace stays intact.
Its background activity stops until you bring it back.
This is AppHalt’s second Product Hunt launch, and it is a major update compared to the first version.
What’s new:
• more reliable pause and resume
• better paused/running app detection
• smoother CPU monitoring
• Auto-Pause for inactive apps
• Pro features
• cleaner license and update handling
• a more polished macOS interface
I also want to be very clear about what AppHalt is not.
It is not a cleaner.
It is not a RAM booster.
It is not a magic “make your Mac faster” promise.
It is a focused macOS utility for people who keep many apps open and want more control over what stays active.
I’d love your feedback, especially if you live with Chrome, Figma, Teams, Slack, Photoshop, Xcode, VS Code or too many apps open all day.
What Mac app would you pause first?
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About AppHalt on Product Hunt
“A pause button for your Mac apps”
AppHalt was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #99 on the daily leaderboard. AppHalt adds a pause button to macOS apps. Freeze any CPU-hungry Mac app without closing its windows, tabs or files. Your workspace stays intact, background activity stops, and you resume the app when needed. This major relaunch brings more reliable pause/resume, smarter app detection, smoother CPU monitoring, Auto-Pause and a cleaner macOS experience.
AppHalt was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Productivity (651.7k followers) and Developer Tools (512.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 209.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted AppHalt?
AppHalt was hunted by Gabriel Nion. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Gabriel Nion