Version: 10.3.1
Operating System: macOS
Developer: Peter Borg Apps
Interface language: English
Lingon Pro
Scheduled scripts, login agents, and boot-time daemons live in launchd plists, and this editor is how you create and change them without living in Terminal.
Writing a job the system will actually load
Start with New in the toolbar, give the job a name no other task uses, and set Run to an app, a shortcut, a command, or a script. Prefer the Choose button over a bare command name: launchd does not inherit Terminal's PATH. Lingon Pro can write a PATH into the job when one is missing, and you can turn that off in Settings. Under When, start the job at login or boot, keep it alive and restart it after a crash, or add calendar times and repeat intervals. Save reloads the job; hold Option to write the plist without reloading.
The user the job runs as is what Login Items in System Settings cannot express. Your account loads the agent only in that session. Everyone loads it for each logged-in user. Root makes a daemon that starts at boot and asks for an administrator password when you save. The files land in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchAgents, or /Library/LaunchDaemons, so launchd keeps them after you quit. The free Lingon on the App Store is a separate menu-bar app: its tasks stop if you quit it, and it cannot run anything as root.
Seeing every job, not only yours
Grid shows an icon for what a task launches, tree groups jobs by kind, list sorts columns you can hide, and timeline plots dated runs about a month ahead, with repeating intervals gathered at the top. Notes and tags stick to a job even when the plist is read-only, and they stay in your home folder. Info shows the path, opens the folder in Finder, and can show launchd's status for that label. A background agent in Settings watches those folders while the app is closed and can notify you of changes; a prefix such as com.apple can be excluded so Apple's jobs stay quiet.
A command that works in Terminal and fails here is usually a privacy permission. Full Disk Access, or an explicit path you allow from the app, is often required before a script can read the files you expect. Login items from System Settings can be deleted here but not rewritten.
The license and the Mac it expects
Lingon Pro 10 is US$23.99 once, sold by Peter Borg Apps rather than the Mac App Store, because store rules block root jobs and full plist editing. A standard license covers the Macs you personally own. An upgrade from Lingon X bought after 1 January 2020 is US$16.99, and a site license is US$99.99. The vendor states a 14-day refund and that this license stays valid for the Pro 10 major version. The app needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later and ships for Intel and Apple Silicon. In 10.3.1, Apple Intelligence can draft or revise a script on Macs that support it. On macOS 27, the 10.3 line warns in the Inspector when a plist still has a quarantine flag, and a Tools command lists every quarantined plist; saving the task again clears the flag.
Show full description Pros & Cons Show details
PROS[*]Jobs saved as launchd plists keep running after you quit Lingon Pro, including root daemons that start at boot before anyone logs in.
[*]Grid, tree, list, and timeline views show the same jobs in different ways, so a monthly schedule is visible without opening each plist.
[*]The editor can fill a missing PATH, attach notes and tags to system jobs you cannot edit, and revert a task to an earlier saved revision.
[*]A standard license covers every Mac you personally own, with a published upgrade price from recent Lingon X licenses and a 14-day refund.
[*]Where the Mac supports it, Apple Intelligence can draft or revise a script in the editor, and undo is available while you change a task.
CONS[*]The paid app is US$23.99 outside the Mac App Store; the free Lingon sibling cannot run jobs as root or edit every launchd key.
[*]macOS 14 Sonoma is the minimum, so Monterey and older need an earlier Lingon X build and a separate license.
[*]Root saves depend on the system Background Items database, which the vendor says can get stuck until it is reset and the Mac is restarted.
[*]On macOS 27, a quarantined plist may refuse to run until you save the task again in Lingon Pro.
[*]Missed runs during sleep are coalesced into a single run at wake, so a job scheduled several times overnight does not catch up once per missed slot.
[*]A future major version is a separate product; the pay-once wording on the site applies to Lingon Pro 10, not automatically to the next major release.
What's New in 10.3.1 Show details [*]Release notes for version 10.3.1 were not published on official sources at research time.
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