Procession support
Everything running, explained. Answers in plain English.
Getting started
2 articles- Get started with ProcessionOpen it and it works: there’s nothing to allow in System Settings.
- Which Macs does Procession work on?macOS 26 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Purchases
3 articles- What does it cost?Watching and every explanation are free. One €4.99 purchase unlocks the rest.
- Restoring your purchaseOn any Mac with the same Apple Account, choose Procession › Restore Purchase….
- RefundsPurchases are handled by Apple, so refunds are too.
Privacy
1 articleTroubleshooting
2 articles- Procession says it can’t see per-app figuresYour version of macOS isn’t sharing them with App Store apps.
- “Not in our guide yet”Procession doesn’t know this process yet. Its verdict comes from rules, never a guess.
Part of the unlock
5 articles- HistoryA reading every minute, kept on your Mac: today, 7 and 30 days.
- AlertsA notification when an app runs away, memory runs short, or an app keeps growing.
- The menu bar extraA small pressure line and a word: Calm, Tight or Short.
- Review one by oneGo through your heaviest apps in turn: show and close, keep, or skip.
- Share a reportA PDF or Markdown summary of your Mac, to send to whoever helps you.
Reference
1 articleUsing Procession
9 articles- What does Now tell me?One sentence on how your Mac is doing, the pressure line, and what would help most.
- What is memory pressure?How hard macOS is working to fit everything in memory: calm, getting tight or short.
- What do Safe to close, Leave it and the others mean?Four verdicts, each always shown with its words.
- Close an app with Show and closeProcession brings the app forward; you close it with ⌘Q, and it tells you what came back.
- Your apps, In the background and macOS at workThree lists: apps you opened, helpers other apps installed, and macOS itself.
- Look up any process namePress ⌘F and type any name you’ve seen, such as mds_stores.
- Why do some rows say “private”?macOS doesn’t share some figures with App Store apps.
- Why can’t Procession close apps for me?On purpose: you decide, and App Store apps can’t quit other apps anyway.
- SettingsOpen at login, the menu bar, look, numbers, alerts and history.