The Groups pane of Application Wizard Settings (macOS 13 or later) or Application Wizard Preferences (macOS 12 or 11) lets you create groups of applications and AppleScripts, so that you can organize and easily access favorite applications or AppleScripts and quickly open, quit, show, and hide more applications at the same time.
Groups list
Available groups are listed.
Open a group to see the applications or AppleScripts belonging to it. When info tags are visible, you can view group options and paths by moving the pointer over group names and applications or AppleScripts, respectively.
Add (+)
Click to add a new group, duplicate an existing group, add an application or AppleScript, or add all running applications.
Remove (-)
Click to remove the selected group(s), application(s) or AppleScript(s).
Sorting
In the Action pop-up menu, choose whether rearranging groups, applications, and AppleScripts manually in the list or keeping them automatically sorted.
Change Application or Script
In the Action pop-up menu, choose to replace the selected application or AppleScript.
Choose icon
Choose a predefined icon or assign a custom icon to the group.
Show in Open menu
Show in Quit menu
Show in Switch menu
Deselect to hide the group in the Open, Quit, or Switch menu. For example, if you have a group that you use just to open applications automatically when you log in, you can hide it in the Open, Quit, and Switch menus.
Open automatically
Select to automatically open the group of applications when you log in to your Mac. Select the Hide checkbox if you want to hide applications after they open automatically.
Application Wizard does not run AppleScripts when it opens groups automatically at login.
Open, Quit, Open/quit with shortcut
Select to open or quit the group of applications by pressing a key combination on your keyboard. Choose an action, click the shortcut field, and press the key combination you want to use.
The “Open/quit” action opens all the applications if none of them are running and quits them all if they are all running. In case just some of the applications belonging to the group are running, it asks whether you want to quit the running applications or open the missing applications.
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