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CLUSTER WHEN-UTILITY-BACKGROUND · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-03-21

App suspension utilities

The cluster consists of desktop utilities that suspend and resume running applications to free memory or pause resource usage, preserving unsaved state. The dated history before the index start includes only 3 entries, too few to read a shape from, indicating the cluster predates the index or members are undated. Among the traction leaders, WinDoze leads with 1 star, while iClear and ghostdev have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2025: 1MAR 2026: 1SEP 2026: 4OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2025OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 4 hobby · 1 indie · 2 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Coremium5★12 dayslivehobbyDesktop utility that moves background applications to efficiency cores to keep the active app running at full speed.
  2. 02WinDoze1★22 dayslivehobbyWindows utility that suspends chosen background apps when minimized or idle to free RAM, waking them instantly when the user switches back.
  3. 03iClear0★17 days—hobbyMac utility that pauses idle background apps when memory is low and resumes them when the user returns, preserving unsaved state.
  4. 04Mementum0★23 days—hobbyDesktop app that automatically frees memory for local AI workloads by freezing idle apps and resuming them instantly.
  5. 05ghostdev0★6 days—indieDesktop app that detects and stops hidden background servers and idle virtual machines to speed up Macs and save battery.
  6. 06Force Stop Helper0★2 moliveopen sourceSystem utility that lists running apps and provides one-tap shortcuts to force-stop them, with pinning for frequent use.
  7. 07Nyrna0★4 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop utility that suspends and resumes running games or applications to pause resource usage without losing progress.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.