Brings back autostart with hidden windows for applications in macOS 13.3 or later.
Autostarter is a small app that makes it possible to launch applications automatically during login without letting the applications show windows, even with macOS Ventura or later. This feature, which Mac users loved, can now still be used, although it had been dropped with the introduction of macOS 13.
Autostarter can fully supersede the function "Login Items" for the launch of applications. The automatic start of other objects, for example server connections, can still remain in System Settings.
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Great Utility At A Great Price
Shaun Amery
This utility does exactly as it’s intended to do. Some apps, such as Discord in my case, take some tweaking with the Aggressive Hide timer, but this is to be expected when a 3rd party app launches other 3rd party apps that could behave very differently from one another.Totally intuitive for me given the instructions that are displayed in the main window and the helper that comes up when adding apps that need Agressive Mode!
Great little utility.
sambug83
Glad to have found this app. The only thing I would suggest is adding the ability to choose whether to customize how an app is hidden (such as choosing between closing the app window or closing the app itself so it will go to the menu bar). Still, I’m happy with this app.
It's the real deal for a buck
Carmine morra
I sorely missed 'hiding' apps. This is the fix. For me, settng "At Login time:" to " Show activity icon in upper right corner" was the only way to not get Launched Application notification notification that would then need to be closed. You'll see what I mean when you set the options.
Autostarter is a keeper!
Ward Clark
When I upgraded to Ventura, I was shocked to discover Hide had been removed from Login Items.Google quickly found a MacRumors Forum topic that introduced me to Autostarter, which I have launching 18 apps at login. I've set 5 to Hide, including 3 that ignored my Hide settings in earlier macOS releases. Highly recommended!
macOS Tahoe is currently not capable of handling sliders in tables correctly. The controls for setting startup delays and the times for aggressive hide commands have been modified accordingly as a workaround.
Version 2.4
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