# AppPolice/AppPolice

MacOS app for quickly limiting CPU usage by running applications

Repository: https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/apppolice
Language: Objective-C
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2023-09-06T14:05:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4661, "days_push": 1092, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1136, forks 87 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:43.628199+00:00)

## What it is
AppPolice is a macOS application with a minimalistic UI that lets users quickly throttle down the CPU usage of any running process. It is a native Objective-C app distributed as a .dmg, requiring OS X Lion 10.7 or newer.

## Use cases
- limit cpu usage of a runaway process on mac
- throttle an app that is overheating my laptop
- reduce cpu consumption of background applications
- slow down a game to keep the fan quiet
- cap process cpu usage without terminal commands

## When to choose
- you need a simple GUI to throttle CPU on macOS
- you want a lightweight native app rather than CLI tools like cgroups or cpulimit equivalents
- you are on OS X 10.7 or newer

## When to avoid
- you are on Linux or Windows
- you need per-thread or fine-grained resource control
- you need an actively developed tool with recent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gui, developer-tools
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: -
- tags: cpu-throttling, process-management, system-utility, objective-c, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- AppPolice/AppPolice (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:43.628199+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:36:23.849280+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:43.628199+00:00, sha 6be6d1478e58)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.