Foreman

Foreman is a Windows-style Task Manager for the Mac. Press Control Shift Escape in any app to open it. You see every app and what it's using, in plain English, with End Task, Efficiency Mode and Suspend right there, so you can end or slow down the one that's hogging your Mac.

Foreman has six pages in the sidebar. Processes shows every app and what it's using. Performance has live graphs for CPU, memory, disk, Wi-Fi and GPU. App History, Details and Services fill in the rest. Startup Apps includes the leftovers of apps you have deleted. System processes get a plain description beside their real name, so a long list of system names becomes something you can read.

Efficiency Mode lets an app you need open run slowly in the background, on the efficiency cores of Apple silicon, and at full speed again when you switch to it. End Task and Suspend sit right beside it on every app.

A live readout sits in the menu bar.

If you know Task Manager on Windows, you already know how Foreman works: the same shortcut, the same idea, made for the Mac.

Foreman is free for 24 hours, then $12 once for up to 3 Macs. It needs macOS 14 or later and runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. The current version is 1.2.