Keeps your Mac quick when too much is running at once.
Processor 96% Busy. Asking 3 background programs to wait. backup lowered photo sync lowered updater lowered Back to normal in 90 seconds.
Your Mac’s processor can only do so much at once. When a backup, a photo sync and a software update all run together, they compete with the app you are actually using, and everything starts to stutter: typing lags, videos skip, windows beachball.
Activity Monitored watches for that moment. When the processor is overloaded, it gently lowers the priority of the busy programs running in the background. They keep working, just a little more politely, and the window in front of you stays smooth. Once things calm down, every program goes back to normal.
Every 3 seconds it checks how hard the processor is working and which programs are using it most. If there is spare room, it does nothing at all.
When the Mac is overloaded, it moves the heaviest background programs to macOS’s low priority lane, the same one macOS uses for its own background chores. Nothing is closed or paused, and no work is lost.
Every change starts its own 90 second timer that reverses it automatically. The timer runs separately, so even if Activity Monitored crashes or you remove it, your programs still return to normal. Every change is also written to a log you can read.
Install Activity Monitored.command and choose Open.Or paste this single line into Terminal:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Questboy23/activity-monitored/main/install.sh | bash