DotQuit
Quit macOS apps when their last window closes
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Details
- External ID
- 1269303
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- DotQuit
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.94
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Open Source, GitHub
Description
DotQuit is an open-source, lightweight macOS menu bar utility written natively in Swift. Closing an app's last window on macOS often leaves it idling in memory. DotQuit solves this by gracefully quitting apps when their last window closes. • Native Swift with ~19MB RAM footprint • AXObserver-based gentle termination (no force-kill) • Customizable app whitelist • Apple Notarized & open source (GPLv3)
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos menu bar utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- macos utility to close apps when their last window closes
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a small, single-purpose native macOS menu bar utility utilizing standard Accessibility APIs (AXObserver) that coding assistants can generate effortlessly.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 211 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 212 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- Open Contexts · ph · 2026-10-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TrimyMac · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Captain Kill Switch · ph · 2026-09-12 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- PortlessBar · ph · 2026-10-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- RemoveMacAI · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- LidAwake · github · 2026-10-03 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- TopTab · github · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Acclimach · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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