The Mac app that quits
your apps for you.

On a Mac, closing a window doesn't quit the app. It stays open — in your memory, in your app switcher, in your Dock — until you remember Command-Q.

Everything it does

One-time purchase · no subscription · no account

The Quitly panel open below the macOS menu bar, showing Auto-Quit When Last Window Closes and Launch at Login both switched on, a Quit All Apps button, and an exceptions list containing Spotify, Chrome and Safari.
This is the whole app. Two toggles, one button, one list — living in the menu bar and nowhere else. No Dock icon, no window, nothing in your app switcher.

Everything it does

  • Auto-QuitThe last window closes and the app goes with it — after a two-second grace period, so apps that swap one document for another don't get caught out.
  • Quit All AppsClears the desk in one click. Asks first, every time.
  • ExceptionsSlack, Spotify, your VPN — anything on the list is off limits to both Auto-Quit and Quit All.
  • NotificationsA banner whenever something quits. Nothing happens behind your back.
  • Launch at LoginOne toggle and it's there every time you log in. Off until you say otherwise.
  • Nothing elseNo account, no telemetry, no update nags. Background apps and Finder are never touched.

The free ones do half. The paid ones do the other half.

Free utilities auto-quit and stop there. Paid ones do Quit All and not much else. Quitly does both, plus exceptions, for $2 — once.

Feature Free tools Paid tools Quitly
Auto-Quit Yes No Yes
Quit All No Yes Yes
Exceptions No No Yes
Price Free $14.99 $2

Before you buy

Quitly needs macOS 13 Ventura or later, and Accessibility access — that API is the only way macOS lets an app notice another app's windows closing.

It isn't notarized through Apple's $99-a-year developer program, so the first launch is blocked. System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Once, and never again.