Automatically quitting idle Mac apps, without a scare
Quitter showed that hiding or quitting idle apps is a real habit. Newer tools add timers and force-quit. The useful question is what happens to unsaved work, and whether the rest of your desk can change too.
The original idea is still right
Marco Arment's Quitter made a simple case: if an app has been idle long enough, hide it or quit it so it stops tapping you on the shoulder. That is still the right instinct for social apps, news readers, and anything you open “for a minute.” Quitter is a focused menu bar utility. It does not try to be a workspace, and it does not need to be.
What people actually install next
A wave of smaller Mac utilities now auto-quit on a timer, sometimes with a countdown, a cache wipe, or a force-quit fallback. Some of that is useful. Force-quit and cache deletion are also how you lose work or surprise an app that was doing something quiet in the background. Idle-quit is only trustworthy if the default is cautious.
Amhara's idle path is hide first, then quit, off by default, with exemptions for heavy creative tools, a warning tier, and an unsaved-document check. It also lives next to Sessions: the same app that can clear forgotten windows can open the desk you meant to be on. That combination is the product, not a timer with a prettier icon.
Try before you replace a tool you already trust
If Quitter already does exactly what you want, there is no reason to switch for switching's sake. Amhara is in private beta, free while it is in beta, and aimed at people who want idle-quit and named desks in one native Mac app. Join the waitlist if that is the job. Leave Quitter installed if it isn't.