Recovering even a small percentage of your CPU time can translate into significant battery savings. Automatically stop them when you're not using them, or just slow them down so they don't use more than a certain amount of CPU.Īpp Tamer's preferences let you tune its behavior to your needs, whether you're frugally conserving battery power or feeding every last CPU cycle to Starcraft. Just set it and forget it - App Tamer quietly saves battery and CPU power while you work (or play). It slows or pauses an application when you switch away from it, then automatically restarts it when you start using it again. Unlike some utilities that let you manually stop processes, App Tamer automatically handles the details for you. Launch App Tamer and click on its icon in your menubarĬlick on an application that's using a lot of CPUĪpp Tamer will automatically slow down or pause your applications whenever you're not using them, greatly reducing their CPU use.Īpp Tamer even comes pre-configured to automatically reduce the CPU and battery usage of Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, Spotlight, Time Machine, Photoshop, Illustrator, Word and many other applications. Less CPU power for the application you're usingįind the culprits and get them under control.
That uses valuable processing (CPU) power, which leaves you with: Some applications, particularly web browsers and older apps, continue running tasks or animating ads even when they're idle.