Later

Save all your Mac apps for later with one click

4.7•3 reviews•

133 followers

Save all your Mac apps for later with one click

4.7•3 reviews•

133 followers

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Later is a Mac menu bar app that clears and restores your workspace with ease. Switch off from work, tidy up your desktop before screen sharing, schedule apps for later, and more.

Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Menu Bar Apps

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Screenity

Maker

Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm sure you've all had this problem before. You want to share your screen or make a recording, and all your apps are in the way. So you have to close them all, and when you're finished, open them back one by one. Or maybe you've been working for ages, and want to take a break and get your mind off work, but you don't want to have to clear and restore your workspace manually later. I have. And I couldn't find any apps that could solve it, so I decided to learn Swift in a week and build Later. What the app does is simple, you can save all your apps with one click, and reopen them later. That's all. Here are some of its features: 👻 Hide or close all your apps ⚡️ Restore your session with just one click 👀 View metadata and a preview of your saved sessions ⏱ Schedule apps to reopen after some time to get back in the flow 🔋 Save battery by closing your apps instead of leaving them open ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts to save and restore your session ⚙️ Advanced settings to ignore apps, terminate instead of hiding, etc. There's a 40% discount for the whole week, so make sure you don't miss out! If you're a maker and you're curious about how I built this app and tens of others I've launched in the past, I've been sharing all of my process on my newsletter every week and on Twitter. Shoutout to TopNotch for inspiring me with the UI and being a great reference of how a menu bar app should work - it's a super solid app! Hope you find this useful 💜 P.S. Just realized Product Hunt mutes the video by default 🥲 Unmute if you want to listen to some music that took me forever to find and time perfectly with the visuals!

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4yr ago

daily.dev

@alyssaxuu I remember your tweet where you mentioned you started learning Swift. This small app is really useful.

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4yr ago

Screenity

Maker

@csaba_kissi Thank you :)

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4yr ago

@alyssaxuu Great product. I've been following how you created it, congratulations on the launch!

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4yr ago

Screenity

Maker

@yankovichv Thanks Vladimir!

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4yr ago

@alyssaxuu Thanks so much for the Killer App! That's amazing and most needed app for us as this era, we never shut down our machine any more.

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4yr ago

Love the little demo on the website! Suggestion: make the FAQ part of the main site instead of redirecting to Notion (the subsequent redirects are not a great experience). Question: by default, Later only hides app, same as what happens after you hit ⌘H, right? That’s how the session is preserved intact. But if I select “Quit apps instead of hiding”, then it quits the apps and relaunches them. In that case, my tabs won’t be restored, right? For example, if I have multiple spreadsheets open in Excel, Later will relaunch the app, but will not open the specific files too.

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4yr ago

Screenity

Maker

@anna_0x Thank you! I might move the FAQ into the main site, it's just easier to edit and add to it if it's in Notion :P And yes, by default it hides the apps only. In terms of relaunching, it depends on the app, for example Chrome, Notion, Figma... will save state. But other apps like Safari won't by default. I believe apps generally have settings for this, but it's not something I can override with Later altogether, it has to be set by the user manually sadly.

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4yr ago

mocap4face

I like it. Is there any additional battery savings from hiding other than the no need to render them?

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4yr ago

Screenity

Maker

@klohnatomas The battery savings are mostly from using the "quit apps" option in the popup. It was the default option on launch but I switched it around. Although I am investigating ways to block network usage for hidden apps among other things at the moment.

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4yr ago

I have an intel Mac and due to buy a new one soon. Will I have to buy 2 licenses or will it transfer?

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4yr ago

Screenity

Maker

@brccl1 The license can be used on up to 5 devices, feel free to contact me though if it doesn't work!

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4yr ago

Softr

@alyssaxuu do you plan to support multiple sessions in the future? So I can have multiple group of apps saved and restored depending on my needs?

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4yr ago

Product Hunt

I typically open up all the same apps every time I reboot. Love the simplicity of simple workflow apps like this.

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4yr ago

Screenity

Maker

@rrhoover Thank you Ryan! Definitely a use case for the app :)

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4yr ago

Revo AI Email Assistant

I just bought it and started using it, this is something I really needed and that will be very useful for me. Congrats on the launch @alyssaxuu!

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4yr ago

Screenity

Maker

@mehdidjabri Thanks a lot Mehdi :) Hope you find it useful!

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4yr ago

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4.7

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Later is praised for its simplicity and utility in managing Mac workspaces. Users appreciate its ability to streamline app management and keep desktops clutter-free. The app's sleek interface and robust search feature are highlighted as strengths. However, some users note compatibility issues with MacOS Sonoma and bugs with multiple monitor support. There's also a desire for enhanced session control features, particularly for managing apps in batches. Overall, Later is valued for its efficiency in organizing and revisiting apps.

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