Later Review & Alternatives (2026 Guide)
Save all your Mac apps for later with one click
Later is a Mac menu bar app that clears and restores your workspace with ease. Switch off from work, tidy up your desktop before screen sharing, schedule apps for later, and more.
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Based on 3 reviews
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I really like the idea of this app, especially when macOS still can't address memory leak issue and in the meantime Apple keeps selling MacBooks with RAM's worth like gold in 2023🤦♂️ Personally I would prefer an additional feature to save windows in arbitrary batches. My use case as a postgraduate is for example 2 browsers(Safari and Arc); IDE(VS Code & PyCharm); instant messenger service(Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord); 2 note taking apps synchronized with notes written on iPad, PDF Expert and translation app like deepL. Usually I only want to close part of them and reopen later. It might be a problem only for m1 mac, but when I have 30+ browser tabs open, reopening all the aforementioned apps can be really sluggish, which is far from an enjoyable experience.
Using the app i have the amazing session control in one click, but some apps in the Mac Ventura like Safari don't being effective, but inside app i can't leave a message for the bugs or something like that, well i send a message on twitter but with no answer yet
The only issue is that multiple monitor support is a bit buggy. Otherwise an indispensable app.
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