Quit All Apps for Mac – The Fastest Way to Quit All Apps

macOS doesn’t include a one-click “Quit All” button. You can force-quit apps or quit them individually, but there’s no simple, friendly way to close everything at once. Quit All Apps gives you that in a safe, tidy way.

Just doubleclick the app icon after downloading it from Apple App Store. Follow the installation wizard, step by step. It's important that you give Quit All Apps permissions to control other apps in your Accessibility settings, otherwise the app can't quit other apps.

After finishing the installation wizard, you will see the Quit All Apps icon in the menu bar, on the top right of your screen. Installing Quit All Apps also enables the keyboard shortcommand ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ Q (Control + Option + Command + Q). No other actions are needed.

The app Quit All Apps offers three ways to instantly quit all apps:

• 1-click quit by clicking the menu bar icon in the top right area of the screen
• The keyboard shortcommand ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ Q (Control + Option + Command + Q)
• Bulk Quit where you can bulk quit multiple apps fast. Right-click the menu bar icon and click Bulk Quit... (or hit ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ B) to open the Bulk Quitting view. All running apps are selected by default. Deselect any apps that you don't want to quit, and click "Quit Selected Apps" to bulk quit the selected apps.

These are the fastest and most efficient ways to quit all apps on Mac.

Quit All Apps for Mac unlocks these keyboard shortcuts:

• Quit All Apps: ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ Q (Control + Option + Command + Q)
• Open Bulk Quit View: ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ B (Control + Option + Command + B)
• Minimize all apps: ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ M (Control + Option + Command + M)
• Open Settings View: ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ S (Control + Option + Command + S)

Since Quit All Apps version 1.4 you can edit all keyboard shortcuts to add your own custom shortcuts. Just go to the Settings view and click the shortcut to edit it.

The app Quit All Apps offers three ways to instantly minimize all apps (without quitting them):

• Richt-click  the menu bar icon in the top right area of the screen and click "Minimize All Apps"
• The keyboard shortcommand ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ M (Control + Option + Command + M)
• Right-click the menu bar icon and go to Selective Quitting (or hit ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ S). Click "Minimize Selected Apps" to bulk minimize selected apps.

These are the fastest and most efficient ways to minimize all apps on Mac.

First, make sure that the app is running. Go to your Applications folder and double-click the Quit All Apps icon. If the menu bar appears, you can right click it, go to settings and enable "Open at login" to make sure that the app is always running.

If that doesn't help:

When the menu bar is crowded, some icons may be hidden. This is standard Mac behaviour. Try to close other menu bar icons to free up space.

Pro tip: hold ⌘ (Command) and drag menu bar icons left or right to reorder them. You can move Quit All Apps closer to the right so it stays visible.

Since version 1.2, it's possible to hide the menu bar icon. Use the keyboard short command ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ O to access the settings and make sure that the menu bar icon option is enabled.

Yes, the app Quit All Apps enables the shortcommand ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ Q (Control + Option + Command + Q) that safely quits all your running apps.

Since Quit All Apps version 1.4 you can edit all keyboard shortcuts to add your own custom shortcuts. Just go to the Settings view and click the shortcut to edit it.

Yes, the app Quit All Apps enables the shortcommand ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ M (Control + Option + Command + M) that safely minimizes all your running apps (without quitting them).

Since Quit All Apps version 1.4 you can edit all keyboard shortcuts to add your own custom shortcuts. Just go to the Settings view and click the shortcut to edit it.

Since Quit All Apps version 1.4 you can edit all keyboard shortcuts to add your own custom shortcuts. Just go to the Settings view and click the shortcut to edit it.

Yes. Open Settings…  > Enable keyboard shortcut and uncheck it. This can be useful if you already use the shortcommand ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ Q (Control + Option + Command + Q) for something else. You can turn it back on any time.

Since Quit All Apps version 1.4 you can edit all keyboard shortcuts to add your own custom shortcuts. Just go to the Settings view and click the shortcut to edit it.

The app asks to save, just like if you quit it yourself. Nothing is force-quit; you stay in control and can cancel per app if needed.

Yes, there are two ways to exclude selected apps from quitting in Quit All Apps:

1. Bulk Quit Apps

Right-click the menu bar icon and choose Bulk Quit... (formerly named "Selective Quit"). All runnings apps are checked by default but you can easily deselect apps that should not be bulk quitted. 

You can also bulk minimize apps from the Bulk Quit view.

Pro tip: Use the keyboard shortcut ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ B for quick access to the Bulk Quit view.

2. Exclude Apps

Right-click the menu bar icon and choose Bulk Quit... Click the + icon to exclude (whitelist) apps from being quit or minimized by Quit All Apps. This setting will stick until you remove the app from the exclude list.

Excluded will be greyed out in the Bulk Quit view.

If you don't want to risk accidental quitting of all apps by clicking the menu bar icon, you can easily disable the one-click-quit feature.

Just right click the menu bar icon and click Settings... (or hit ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ S) to access the app setting. Click the toggle to disable "Quit all apps immediately when clicking the menu bar icon". Now, clicking the menu bar icon will open the app menu instead, where you can access features like Quit All Apps, Minimize All Apps and Selective Quitting.

If you just want to use the keyboard shortcuts, you can hide the menu bar icon. Right click the menu bar icon and click Settings... (or hit ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ O). Now, just disable the toggle for "Display quit icon in the menu bar" to hide the icon.

Now you can use these keyboard shortcuts:

• Quit all apps: ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ Q
• Minimize all apps: ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ M
• Selective quitting: ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ S
• Settings: ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ O

To reenable the menu bar icon, just hit ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ O and switch back the toggle for displaying the menu bar icon.

You can get your lifetime license for “Quit All Apps" for only $0.99 on App Store today. This includes all future updates and support.

No, this app does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.See our privacy policy for more details.

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