LaunchD Task Scheduler 4+

Thomas Barker

    • 4.1 • 35 Ratings
    • $4.99

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Description

LaunchD Task Scheduler is a very simple to use and intuitive task scheduler for your Mac. It Creates, Edits and Delete Tasks which are used to automate launching application or scripts based on your specified schedule. Don't just take my word for it, read my reviews!

Video Demo: http://failedinsider.com/launchdemo
or click support link

Advantages over other apps:
* Automatic detection of Automator jobs, perl, python, ruby, workflow scripts and more!
* Other apps do not allow editing, only creation of tasks
* Program parameter or arguments, other do not allow you to specify
* Great FAQ and quick expert tech support
* No need to log out or restart to start or remove a task
* Unlike other apps this places the files in the correct location, there are no further steps required

This app can start an app, command or script automatically at any schedule you choose and has many advanced features.

It can run tasks based on Mac events and will even restart a task on the event of a crash.

The UI is simple to use and can quickly create a task but it is also backed with complex features if required. Such as the ability to have tasks run with I/O priority reduced and nice levels.

This app makes configuration of LaunchD a breeze.

-- List of Functionality --

* Create / Edit / Delete tasks (Not just create like other apps!)
* Places the task in the correct folder to auto launch (Other apps dont!)
* Create tasks to run at intervals, once a day, once a week, once a month
* Create tasks to run on an event
* When a volume is mounted
* At login
* Run on modification of a folder including empty ones
* keep a task running and restart it if it crashs
* Specify working directory for a task
* Automatic detection of Automator jobs, perl, python, ruby, workflow scripts, applications and application stubs
* Specify a root directory for a task
* Redirect stdout, stdin, stderr
* Set the nice level of a task
* Force low priority I/O for a task
* Enable globbing

What’s New

Version 1.0.6

- Copy bug fixed when creating/amending a job
- Fixed minor bug with specifying arguments to a program with spaces in the argument or the program

Ratings and Reviews

4.1 out of 5
35 Ratings

35 Ratings

menkhus ,

Just what I wanted

I needed a simple tool to schedule some regular jobs, and this was perfect for what I wanted.

Good tool, just the kind of thing I wish apple would have put in their OS.

applejuice777 ,

I wish I would have bought this sooner!

It's like an old fashioned HTML editor for LaunchD files! I pulled an all nighter last night beating my head against the computer screen, googling, studying, just trying to have what I thought should be a simple task - reconnect to my media server drive if it disconnects from my iTunes / Plex media server. (I am messing around with my router quite a bit studying networking, so my nas server drive disconnects every time I reboot my router) This morning I purchased this simple app, it easily found the mistake I had in my launch agent, and boom, $5 and 5 minutes later, on to the next task.

btw, I made an alias of my network drive, made a simple 2 step automator app to get specified finder item pointing to alias of nas drive, and then open finder items, save as automator app. I had that working pretty easily, but couldn't get it scheduled until using this sweet little app.

denrober ,

Looking for simple and found it

Tried getting cron to work for a bit and decided it wasn’t worth it. I then looked up how to do a scheduled launchd job and rolled my eyes when I saw the xml. I just wanted to have a script run. Found this little app and am very pleased. Very simple and works. It also has a decent icon which I know is shallow but a lot of these small utilities don’t so I appreciate it.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.