Computer screen displaying a "StartupManager" application interface listing various apps with options to adjust startup delay, against a desert landscape wallpaper background. Text includes descriptions and app names.
Startup Manager Window


macOS doesn't make it easy to manage your startup options anymore. The app, Startup Manager, by developer Arie van Boxel brings back some of the options that have been removed and adds quite a few more. If you use Startup Manager, you can once again choose the order in which apps launch, and you can have them hidden on launch as well.

Other features include:

  • Temporarily disable a startup item without removing it from the list
  • Use different sets of startup apps which you can choose at login
  • Backup/restore login sets
  • Stop/Start all or a single Login Item with the push of a button (you can also use the contextual menu)
  • Set a delay between any items during login
  • Add any process, such as login helpers inside application packages
  • Skip items that need network access when there’s no network available
  • Mount network drives
  • Apple native, written in Swift
  • Import/Export items to/from System Settings


Startup Manager doesn't have any control over items that macOS launches in the background.

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