Your Mac is running things
you never agreed to.
Updaters for apps you deleted. Jobs that wake up while you sleep. A service that died months ago and never told you. Launchdeck puts all of it on one screen — and lets you shut it down for good.
You've never seen most of your own machine.
Every install adds something. Almost nothing ever removes it. It builds up for years, and macOS gives you no reason to ever look.
Ghosts of apps you deleted
You dragged the app to the trash. Its updater stayed behind, still starting on every login, still checking in. Nothing ever cleans these up, and nothing ever tells you they're there.
Something wakes up at 3am
A job with nothing running right now looks exactly like a job that's finished forever. One of them is going to start again tonight. Launchdeck tells you which is which, and when.
It's been failing for weeks
Background jobs fail silently by design. No notification, no red dot — just a thing that quietly stopped doing its job while you assumed it was fine.
You killed it. It came back.
Killing the process is not the same as stopping the job. macOS will bring it right back. Launchdeck stops it the way that actually sticks.
Nobody knows what's normal
Hundreds of entries, most of them cryptic reverse-domain names. Which ones are Apple's? Which ones are yours? Which one is that thing you installed once in 2023?
Finally, the whole picture.
Everything, on one screen.
One list for the whole background world of your Mac — the stuff macOS starts, the stuff Homebrew starts, the stuff some installer snuck in two years ago. Search it, filter it, sort it by whatever's bothering you.
The noise from Apple's own services stays hidden until you ask for it. What's left is the part you can actually do something about.
Understand it without a search engine.
Every entry tells you what it actually is: whether it's alive, when it next runs, what command it fires, where its logs are, and who put it there in the first place — the app, Homebrew, your package manager, or you.
That last part matters more than it sounds. Change the wrong thing and it just comes back on the next update.
Change things without breaking your Mac.
Start it, stop it, disable it, delete it — but never blind. Launchdeck shows you the exact command before it runs anything, so you always know what you're about to do and can walk away.
Apple's own services are locked to read-only. Nothing gets touched by accident.
Small tool. No surprises.
Just start typing
Search jumps in as soon as you type. Filters and sorting are one key each — no menus to learn.
Logs, right there
Stop hunting for log files. Open any service and read its output without leaving the app.
Nothing happens silently
Every change is shown as a command and waits for your confirmation. Destructive ones ask twice.
Schedule your own
Want something to run every hour, or at login? Fill in a short form. No XML, no man pages.
Always current
The list refreshes itself while you work, and keeps your place. Start something and watch it come up.
Scriptable too
Not in the mood for a UI? The same inventory prints straight to your terminal, ready to pipe.
One command. Then look around.
Install it
brew install sderosiaux/tap/launchdeck
No Homebrew? There's a one-line installer and prebuilt binaries on the
releases page, or cargo install launchdeck if you have Rust.
Look
launchdeckYou'll probably find something you forgot about in the first thirty seconds. Nothing changes until you decide it should.
Clean house
Stop what shouldn't be running. Delete what shouldn't be there. Every action shows you the command first, so you're never guessing.
Reasonable questions.
What does it actually show me?
Will it change anything without asking?
Is this safe on a work machine?
Does it need my password?
Do I need Homebrew?
Linux or Windows?
Go see what's on your machine.
It takes a minute to install and you'll almost certainly find something you didn't know was there.