Get Quit All 1.3.6 for Mac

Quit All is a slender menu bar utility that lets you close your running apps without hunting through the Dock. Here’s how a typical session flows.

1. Open the menu. Click the icon in your menu bar, and a dropdown lists every app currently running.
2. Mark your targets. Check the boxes next to the apps you want to close — or choose Select All to round up every last one.
3. Decide on force. A standard quit asks you to save any unsaved work. If an app is stuck, tick the forced quit option to cut it loose.
4. Fire the shortcut. Hit ⌘Q or whatever custom shortcut you’ve assigned, and the apps shut down one by one. No dragging, no right-clicking.

What’s stayed true through version 1.3.6 is the app’s quiet, single-purpose nature. It sits in the background, works on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs, and never tries to be more than a fast way to clear your desktop. If you regularly end the day with a dozen windows open, this little helper earns its spot in your menu bar.

First day moves

Once the app is sitting in your menu bar, spend ten minutes setting it up so it disappears into your workflow. Head into Preferences and tick Launch at login — that way it's always there without you thinking about it. Then assign a global shortcut that feels natural under your fingers. The default ⌃⌥⌘Q works fine, but if you already use that combo elsewhere, try something like ⌃⌥⌘X or a single function key you never touch.

Next, open the app list and take note of what's lurking in the background section. You'll probably spot a few helpers you forgot were running — printer utilities, updater daemons, that one menu bar clock you installed two years ago. Quit All shows these clearly, which is half the value right there. Don't feel obligated to close everything on day one; just get comfortable with the list and how the checkboxes behave when you toggle them quickly.

One small tip that pays off later: if you tend to keep the same core apps open all day, create a mental "keep" list. Quit All doesn't have exclusions, so knowing which three or four apps you always leave running prevents accidental quits when you're moving fast.

Featherlight Idle at 40 MB of Memory

After a few weeks with Quit All on a Mac running macOS 14, a few things become clear. The app itself is featherlight — it rarely pushes past 40 MB of memory and sits idle until you click it. There's no background polling that spins up the fans, and launching the menu is instant even with thirty apps running. On an M-series machine it's essentially invisible; on an older Intel Mac it stays just as quiet.

Stability has been rock-solid through version 1.3.6. The quit process is sequential, not a brute-force kill command, so apps get their standard close signal one at a time. Documents that need saving still prompt you, and forced quits only happen when you explicitly check that box. I've yet to see it hang or leave an app in a half-closed state, which matters when you're clearing the deck before a reboot or a presentation.

The only quirk worth knowing: if you quit a large application like a video editor that takes a few seconds to release its memory, the menu stays open and responsive rather than locking up. That's good design, but it means you might click Quit Selected again before the first round finishes. Give heavy apps a beat.

A freelancer's end-of-day ritual

Picture a graphic designer wrapping up around 6 PM. The desktop is chaos — Figma, Slack, a browser with twenty tabs, Preview holding three client PDFs, Spotify quietly streaming lo-fi, and a VPN that's been connected all day. That's eleven apps, some of which are buried behind full-screen spaces.

She clicks the Quit All icon, scans the list, and unchecks Safari and Things — those stay open for tomorrow. Everything else gets a checkmark. A tap of ⌃⌥⌘Q and the machine quietly sheds its workload over about eight seconds. Slack asks to confirm, Figma closes cleanly, the VPN disconnects without fuss. She doesn't touch the Dock once. The Mac's memory pressure drops from yellow to green, and she closes the lid knowing nothing is left running in the background. That's the kind of tidy exit that makes tomorrow morning feel less cluttered. If you juggle project-based work where a clean slate matters, download quit all for mac and build your own shutdown routine around it.

• macOS 11 or later
• Apple silicon or Intel 64-bit processor
• Interface: English