App: Autostarter
Developer: Marcel Bresink Software-Systeme
Genres: Utilities, Productivity

Autostarter is a small app that makes it possible to launch applications automatically during login without letting the applications show windows, even with macOS Ventura or later. This feature, which Mac users loved, can now still be used, although it had been dropped with the introduction of macOS 13.

Autostarter can fully supersede the function "Login Items" for the launch of applications. The automatic start of other objects, for example server connections, can still remain in System Settings.

Release notes:
- Added new feature to detect whether the user has configured items for applications that don't support windows during launch or are otherwise limited in their user interfaces. This is basically a misuse of Autostarter which could cause performance issues or abnormal behavior at login time. The new version still auto-starts such apps, but all attempts to control their windows will abandoned early.
- The start report and the configuration assistant features have been enhanced accordingly.