Quit All 1.3.6 for macOS

You know the standard quit command in the File menu. Quit All takes that same idea and puts it right in your menu bar so you can close a handful of apps, or every single one, without chasing windows around your screen. It’s a small utility from developer Ignazio Lacitignola that feels like it should have been part of macOS all along.

The menu bar dropdown lists your running apps. Pick a few and they close. Pick one and it’s gone. Hit “Quit All” and everything shuts down—foreground, background, the works. You can flip on sound effects for a little audible click when an app closes, and the dark mode keeps it easy on the eyes late at night. It’s the kind of tool you install, set to open at login, and forget about until the moment you’ve got thirty things running and want to start fresh.

Day to day performance

I’ve had Quit All living in my menu bar for a couple of weeks now, and it’s the sort of tool that disappears into the background until you need it. It launches fast—no splash screen, no bouncing dock icon, just a quiet icon up top. Memory use sits around 35 to 40 MB on my machine, which is a rounding error compared to the apps it’s keeping an eye on. CPU time barely registers unless you’re actively quitting a dozen things at once, and even then it’s a blip.

Stability has been rock solid. No crashes, no hangs, no mysterious beachballs. It respects the system quit dialog, so if you’ve got unsaved work in Pages or a Photoshop file you forgot about, it’ll tap you on the shoulder before pulling the plug. The forced quit option is tucked behind a deliberate click, which is the right call—nobody wants an accidental quit all crack-style nuke when you’re mid-flow. It feels built for people who just want things tidy, not for showing off.

Bartender hides icons, not app windows

If you’ve poked around the Mac utility space, you’ve probably heard of Bartender. That one’s more about hiding menu bar icons—different job entirely. CleanMyMac X has an app quitter buried in its optimization module, but it’s heavy for a single task and drags a lot of extras with it. Quit All does one thing and stays out of your way. There’s also SwiftQuit, which automatically quits apps when you close their last window. It’s clever, but it makes assumptions. Quit All gives you the wheel—you decide what goes and when. For a lightweight, deliberate approach, it’s the one I keep around.

• macOS 11 or later
• Works on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs