Hackintool VS AppPolice

Compare Hackintool vs AppPolice and see what are their differences.

Hackintool

The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing (by benbaker76)

AppPolice

MacOS app for quickly limiting CPU usage by running applications (by AppPolice)
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Hackintool AppPolice
35 8
2,956 1,060
- 0.8%
7.4 0.0
7 months ago 8 months ago
Objective-C Objective-C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Hackintool

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hackintool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-01.

AppPolice

Posts with mentions or reviews of AppPolice. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-18.
  • Emulate Code On Slower Computer?
    1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 10 Aug 2022
    It looks like AppPolice can do something similar on Mac OS, albeit in a somewhat hacky way (by repeatedly checking the process's CPU usage and pausing/resuming it) so it might not give you an accurate idea of how your program would actually behave on a slower computer.
  • Free alternative to AppTamer?
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 18 May 2022
    Is this the latest version? https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice/releases/tag/v1.1
  • Is there an app/extension or something that allows a game (downloaded app) to run at slower speeds?
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 20 Mar 2022
    App Police lets you quickly throttle down the CPU usage of any running process.
  • Is it a good idea to get a laptop fan for a Air M1 while rendering in Blender?
    1 project | /r/macbookair | 10 Jan 2022
  • 100% CPU use in Zoom on 2017 MPB Big Sur 11.4 – how to solve?
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 12 Jun 2021
  • Hackintosh / MacOS free tools
    32 projects | /r/hackintosh | 1 Jun 2021
    - Lulu : user friendly and easy to use firewall - Stats : monitoring your hack/mac hardware (temps, fans, HDD, SSD...), basically a copy of iStat Menu but free - KeepingYouAwake : keep your hack/mac awake (prevent from going to sleep mode without modifying system parameters) - Hackintool : The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing (must have) - HoRNDIS : use your Android phone's native USB tethering mode to get internet access - AppCleaner : thoroughly uninstall apps - AppPolice : quickly throttle down the CPU usage of any running process - Onyx : clean and configure your hack/mac - HandBrake : open source video transcoder - Shutter Encoder: easy to use video transcoder - Keka : lightweight and powerful file archiver - Sublime Text : lightweight and powerful text editor - SuperDuper! : backup your disks, make the copy bootable if necessary - Teamviewer : control your hack/mac from another device (phone/computer/tablet) - VirusTotalUploader : check for malware inside a file - Malwarebytes : scan your system drive for malware - WineBottler : use Windows apps on MacOS - Karabiner-Elements : configure your keyboard as you want (useful to configure hotkeys on a windows keyboard) - IriunWebcam : use your phone as a wireless webcam - DaVinci Resolve: professional video editing software - Shifty : get more control over Nigh Shift

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hackintool and AppPolice you can also consider the following projects:

USBMap - Python script for mapping USB ports in macOS and creating a custom injector kext.

sensible-side-buttons - A macOS menu bar app that enables system-wide navigation functionality for the side buttons on third-party mice.

OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide

LuLu - LuLu is the free macOS firewall

OS-X-USB-Inject-All - Kext to inject all USB ports for the installed Intel EHCI/XHCI chipset automatically.

eul - 🖥️ macOS status monitoring app written in SwiftUI.

RDM - Easily set Mac Retina display to higher unsupported resolutions

yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.

Dozer - Hide menu bar icons on macOS