A modern GUI for managing macOS LaunchAgents.
- 🎯 Manage LaunchAgents with an intuitive interface
- 👁️ View user-level and system-level services
- 📊 View service status in real-time
▶️ Start/Stop user services with one click- 📋 View service logs (stdout/stderr)
- ➕ Create and configure new services
- 🔍 Browse system services (read-only)
- 📄 Inspect plist files with syntax highlighting
- 💾 Automatic backup before modifications
Download the latest release from the Releases page.
LaunchPal is currently not signed with an Apple Developer certificate. macOS will block unsigned applications from running by default.
After downloading and extracting the application, you need to remove the quarantine attribute before running it:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/launchpal.appNote: Replace /Applications/launchpal.app with the actual path where you placed the application.
Alternatively, you can try right-clicking the app and selecting "Open" from the context menu, which may prompt you to allow the unsigned app to run.
If you prefer to build from source:
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/chenwei791129/launchpal.git
cd launchpal
# Install dependencies
make setup
# Build the application
make build
# The app will be in build/bin/launchpal.app- Can only modify user-level services (~/Library/LaunchAgents)
- System services (/Library/LaunchDaemons, /System/Library/LaunchDaemons) are read-only
- Cannot stop services running as root
- Some system services may require Full Disk Access permission to view
MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.