Power Manager for Mac
Auto-start, shut down, or sleep your Mac.
$49.95
In English
Version 5.12.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Power Manager overview
Power Manager is the solution for reducing the energy costs of Mac computers. Use Power Manager to assert control over when your Macs are available and when they are switched off.
Power Manager extends the scheduling functionality provided by OS X's Energy Saver. Unlike Energy Saver, Power Manager is aware of multiple users, offers unrestricted schedules, provides greater customisation, and supports a wider range of actions.
Power Manager includes the ability to schedule applications, launch documents, and run scripts. Includes AppleScript support, Automator actions, command-line interface, and programming interface.
Legacy versions of Power Manager available here.
What’s new in version 5.12.0
- New: Status menu bar item shows a new Notifying section for notifying triggers.
- New: New notifying cancel and postpost options for time based triggers; allows non-administrators constrained trigger adjustment.
- Change: Minor user interface changes for macOS 26.
- Change: Scheduler installer requires Power Manager be placed in /Applications folder.
- Change: Upgraded pinned certificate authentication to use uid instead of username; existing pins are updated automatically.
- Change: Improved handling of notarisation certificate expiry for the menu bar item.
- Change: Improved notary robustness.
- Change: Rotate services certificate on Scheduler launch.
- Change: Improved interprocess communication efficiency.
- Change: Updated status menu bar item to show connecting state and errors.
- Change: Reduced memory consumption.
- Change: Updated dependencies and tooling.
- Bug: Remove closed UNIX domain sockets and gracefully close servers.
- Bug: Fixed OSA code conflict between begins and behaviours.
- Bug: Fixed potential crash caused by unexpected environment variable.
- Bug: Fixed potential for warnings to remain after the warning period has elapsed.
- Bug: Fixed platform version value to include macOS Rapid Security Response/Background Security Improvements.
- Bug: Fixed interprocess reconnection after long periods of inactivity.
- Bug: Fixed certificate rotation for existing services.
- API: New notifications.postpone request; similiar to scheduler.adjust but limited to notifying triggers.
- API: New notifications.postponeperiod request; the seconds a notifying trigger can be postponed by.
- API: New notifications.setpostponeperiod request; set the seconds a notifying trigger can be postponed by.
- API: New notifications.cancel request; similiar to scheduler.cancel but limited to notifying triggers.
- API: Expanded queued trigger structure with cancel and postpone date range fields.
- API: New encoding values for UTF-16 Little Endian and UTF-16 Little Endian with BOM.
- API: Fixed encoding of inline scripts for non-UTF-8 encodings.
- API: Applied defaults for non-optional fields.
- API: Added maximum and minimum limits for event fields to remove ambiguity.
- API: Changed not before and not after in Time Range condition to be optional.
- API: Increased maximum value for drift, seconds, and session age to 2,678,400 seconds (31 days), from 259,200 seconds (3 days).
- API: Deprecated AppleScript authenticate command as not required with passive authentication.
- API: Deprecated AppleScript authenticated property as not required with passive authentication.
- Note: macOS default values are in the process of being replaced by formal API calls.
- Note: Deprecated graphical remote management; use pmctl, file configuration, and packages instead.
Power Manager for Mac
$49.95
In English
Version 5.12.0
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Sep 2 2023
Version: 5.10.0
Sorry the posts are wrong! For 12,95 you get the product for one year!
A permanent license with 2 years upgrade costs 49,95!!!!!
It would be so nice if you could rely on the price information within Macupdate :-(
Dec 24 2019
Version: 5.3.0
Pretty slick product. I'm viewing the demo now. Also, it's not $49 as indicated here but $12.95 USD for a single license. Pretty sure based on a day's testing I'll buy it at that price.
Sep 30 2019
Version: 5.1.0
A happy user, the programmer is very helpful and responds very quickly! I also read the comments here about the price of the program and yes it costs money, but your time is money too! So I use the user-friendly Power Manager in combination, saving energy, restarting and shutting down the computer in certain hours of the night or not at home to finish certain things, starting certain programs to finish the Queue or the cleaning, move and delete of certain program backups etc, running some Apple scripts or via the Automator, so just things that cost me valuable time during the day or things that could possibly slow my computer happen now during my working hours or at night. In the distant past I sometimes had the problem that I closed certain things that were still running ... and lost hours, not anymore! In short, Power manager in combination with ... is a wonderfully easy time and energy saving program.
Aug 10 2019
Version: 5.0.0
Can't install scheduler either automatically or manually. Even tried the package installer. No luck there, either. Used to be one of the best things on my computer.
May 9 2016
Version: 4.5.2
Maybe I don't get it. $50 for letting my Mac shutdown automatically?
