AppPolice For Mac

AppPolice is a slim menu-bar based Mac application that puts you in control of the CPU usage of any running app, service and process in your Mac’s system. In other words, you can limit their CPU consumption using a simple slider from a system bar panel.

The utility can display both the active applications as well as background system processes, which can be optionally displayed and hidden. Moreover, it displays the PID (short for Process ID) next to each item’s name, the current CPU usage and its user who controls the item.

By default, all services run without limit. Using a slider in the popup that appears when clicking on an item you can adjust the current limit from 1% to 199%.

As soon as you set a limit, the changes will immediately take effect. You can check how much an app consumes (after you have set the limit) from AppPolice itself or using apps such as Activity Monitor.

Another useful feature is the ability to pause and resume all the limits you have set. This comes in handy when you want particular apps to use as much CPU power as they can to speed up their processes.

Also, a small green icon to the left of each displayed item indicates which app is controlled and an orange icon indicates that the limit is currently suspended.

Some extra customization options are available in the Preferences window. By default, services are displayed alphabetically, but you can choose to sort them by their Process ID. What’s more, the order can be switched to ascending or descending.

Taking everything into consideration, AppPolice is a neat Mac app that makes it really easy to control the CPU usage of processor-hungry apps. It offers a convenient menu bar panel and setting limits is a simple procedure.