In macOS we can use System Settings → General → Login Items to add items we want to launch when we login to our computer.
Unfortunately, since version 13, it is no longer possible to hide those processes when they are started.
For power users 😁 with many login items Startup Manager Pro is the solution.
Look at the comprehensive list of features and download for free.
Needs macOS 14 Sonoma and later
Coming from StartupManager: see the Faqs
At startup / Login
Select your set
At login Startup Manager Pro waits until you have a network connection (change this behaviour in the Settings).
If you do not want to wait for it, then press the Return key. When you have more sets, you’ll have some time to select a different one.
Monitor Startup
Monitor all processes that are started at login and get an indication of the number of items to go.
You can choose the loading speed.
Editor
When you start Startup Manager Pro manually, you enter in editor mode.
Here you can define order and more of your login processes.
You can drag url’s and mounted smb volumes on to the list.
You can also stop all running processes, select another set and start all the processes in that set.
Features
- Startup Manager Pro starts at login via a Launch Agent
- Add/drag applications, urls, smb volumes, documents onto the list to open/run when you login
- Change a set when you’re about to log in (when using more sets)
- Define startup order
- Introduce a delay (up to 10 minutes for applications) before starting an item
- Rename Sets and Login processes
- Unlimited Login Sets
- Save/load your Login Sets
- Link a set to a specific Wifi network, for example use different login sets for at work and at home; when you log in, the wanted set will be used
Enable this in the settings - Monitor at Login the items that are processed
- Decide if you want the hide an item after startup (like it was before macOS 13)
Some specific applications won’t obey - Disable a process, so it will not start at the next login (via the contextual menu/right mouse click)
Easy to restore later on or if you want to try out a simular application - The editor will notice when an item is in Startup Manager Pro and in the System Login Items
With the option to remove the item from within Startup Manager Pro - Stop/Start all or a single Login Item with the push of a button (you can also use the contextual menu). This is handy to quit all inlog items (including mounted smb volumes), select another set and start all items for that set, without the need to log out/in.
- Unmount/mount shared smb volumes via a contextual menu
- Add url’s to the Login List (by dragging an url from the browser’s address bar onto the list)
- Add any process, such as loginHelpers inside application packages
- Add a shell script or an AppleScript to perform actions at login
- Skip items that need network access when there’s no network available
- Import from existing System Settings Login Items (if possible)
- Export a set to the System Settings Login Items (if possible)
- Light and Dark mode (with a nice touch for the Dock icon)
- With the exception of Sparkle update checks, no user activity is tracked
- Option the uninstall myself
- Updates via Sparkle
- Startup Manager Pro is written in SwiftUI / Swift version 6 and notarized by Apple
Settings
Check the first option when you use your laptop on different locations (wifi networks).
Set the login speed and delay.
How you want to have your updates.
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