Many Tricks
Did you know that today is the 25th birthday of Mac OS X (now macOS, of course)? Our site’s header is a bit of a hint :). In celebration of this milestone birthday, here’s an update to our oldest Mac app, Butler (which turns 23 this year).
Version 4.4.9 is out with a number of fixes, mainly related to bugs changes in macOS. We’ve worked around a macOS 26 issue where, sometimes, clicking at the very top edge of the display didn’t get forwarded to Butler’s menu bar items. And we worked around an issue in macOS 14 where menu fonts weren’t automatically inherited by submenus. There are a number of other fixes which you can read about in the always-intersesting release notes.
As usual, you can update within Butler itself, or just by downloading a fresh copy of the app from our web site—you won’t lose your settings.
Thanks for the Butler 4.4.9 update, Peter and Rob. There are many lesser apps out there that can only do a snippet of what Butler can do. I think you should promote Butler more.
Yay! »Alte Liebe rostet nicht!« 😄
Still my go-to going on 20 years. Thanks, dudes.
Exactly my sentiment too.
Yup, same here … I think I must’ve been one of Peter’s first customers. I can’t say exactly when I purchased it but it must’ve been before march of 2004 because I just found a mail exchange between Peter and me about Butler that shows that I’ve already been using Butler at the time. I even purchased two or three times because I couldn’t understand that such a valuable software was being sold that cheap, and I wanted him to stay in business so he could issue updates, and, tadaa, apparently it worked 😉