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A Mac menu bar app that shows every simulator, emulator, Gradle daemon, container, dev server and AI agent using your RAM, and stops them the way their own tools do. Databases and pins are left alone. A Disk tab finds old runtimes and caches.Ramback shows every simulator, emulator, Gradle daemon, container and dev server eating your Mac's memory, and stops them in one click.
Hi, I'm Kadirhan, and I made Ramback on my own.
It started with my own Mac. One afternoon memory pressure was at warning, 4.4 GB was in swap, and when I went looking I found Xcode's build service at 1.4 GB and five Claude Code sessions holding about half a gigabyte each. Activity Monitor told me something was using the memory. It didn't tell me it was yesterday's simulator.
Ramback lives in the menu bar and lists your dev stack as things, not processes: iOS simulators (Xcode Previews too), Android emulators, Gradle and Kotlin daemons, Docker, OrbStack or Colima containers, Metro and other bundlers, dev servers, tunnels, and AI agents with the servers they left behind. Each row shows its RAM, who started it and how long it has been idle.
Stopping is the part I was careful with. Simulators get simctl shutdown, emulators adb emu kill, containers docker stop, everything else a SIGTERM to its process tree. If something hasn't quit after 5 seconds, it asks before forcing. Databases only stop after you confirm, and pinned rows and anything mid-build are skipped. Clean slate (⌘⌫) does all of that at once and tells you how much it will free first.
There's a Disk tab too: old simulator runtimes, DerivedData, DeviceSupport, Android images no emulator uses, old Gradle versions. Your files go to the Trash; only caches that download again are deleted for good, after a second yes.
A CLI and an MCP server ship inside the app, so a coding agent can check what's running before it boots another emulator and stop its own servers when it's done. It can't stop your database, your pins, a build or another agent's servers.
Pricing: the list, stopping, Clean slate, the dev server and agent rules, the disk scan, the CLI and MCP are free. Pro is $19 once for 2 Macs, with every 1.x update: memory pressure warnings, simulator and emulator rules with Undo, disk cleanup and an activity log. Every install starts with 14 days of Pro, no card.
macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel. It's outside the App Store because the sandbox can't run simctl, adb or docker.
I'd love to hear what else you find running on your Mac that Ramback should catch.
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About Ramback on Product Hunt
“Get your RAM back from the dev tools you forgot”
Ramback was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #85 on the daily leaderboard. A Mac menu bar app that shows every simulator, emulator, Gradle daemon, container, dev server and AI agent using your RAM, and stops them the way their own tools do. Databases and pins are left alone. A Disk tab finds old runtimes and caches.Ramback shows every simulator, emulator, Gradle daemon, container and dev server eating your Mac's memory, and stops them in one click.
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