This app is not publicly available yet. Please contact me for a download link if you’d like to try it out.

Features

• Runs no background processes except when mode switching
• Typically uses less than 30MB of memory
• Detects Time Machine, iCloud Drive, and Automatic Updates and suggests disabling them (these settings are not easily toggleable by a third party, but can sometimes cause issues)
• Disables Spotlight indexing
• Disables Wi-Fi with choice of network adapter (won’t interrupt AoIP networks)
• Disables screensaver, display and drive sleep, powernap, network wake and standby mode
• Quits sync services (such as Google Drive and Dropbox), VPN services and torrent clients
• Quits distracting apps: browsers, messaging, mail and video conferencing apps. Often these apps have push notifications that can interrupt audio or cause network and processing spikes
• For features that require administrator privileges (Spotlight indexing, Wi-Fi and screensaver and power options), the app asks for your password once on each mode switch

Note: See the manual for the full lists of apps that LAM will find, quit and restore.

What it won’t do… NB!

This app targets the big-ticket items for audio optimisation. However, this app IN NO WAY GUARANTEES to find every possible source of audio interruption. You are responsible for finding your own way to a streamlined audio experience on macOS, and I will take no responsibility whatsoever for interrupted audio or CPU overloads.