What's new in Blame
Every release, newest first. Blame updates itself; Settings › About › Check for updates gets a new one at once.
Updates install while you are away
Improved
- Updates: a downloaded update installs by itself when you step away: after ten minutes with no keyboard or mouse input, or when the display goes to sleep. It does not install while a video or a call keeps the display awake. Blame quits, updates and opens again in a few seconds. Until then the menu-bar icon has a badge and the panel a Restart to Update button, as before.
Fixed
- Updates: a Mac where Blame was never quit could sit on an old version for days. While an update waited for the next quit, Blame stopped looking for newer ones, and a menu-bar app is almost never quit.
Autopilot says exactly what it did
Improved
- Settings: the free memory limit says what it counts: memory free now, not what macOS could still compress, which is why it reads lower than macOS's own figure.
Fixed
- Autopilot: cleanup offers only what it can really move. It kept trying a hidden temp file and a folder macOS protects, every hour, and refusing each time; nothing was moved, but the work was wasted. Something it cannot move is now left out from the start, and anything refused for a lasting reason is not tried again for a week.
- Autopilot: an app copy or a folder left loose in Claude Code's temp folder is cleaned up whole, never a part of it.
- Autopilot: a paused app no longer claims to free memory. Measured on a real Mac, pausing left free memory where it was: macOS compresses a paused app's memory instead. Pausing still stops an idle app working in the background.
- Autopilot: the record says "paused Notion" for what was done, and "would pause Slack" for what it only decided. Every entry read "would", even the ones it acted on.
Diagnosis is one screen
Improved
- Diagnosis: the Map view is gone. It drew the same memory as the bar above it, as a ring, behind a toolbar switch. The bar, the rows and Before/After are the screen now.
- Settings: the support address in the app is [email protected], the same one the site gives.
The trial tells you it is on
New
- Welcome: the first step says Autopilot is on for 7 days, that everything it does can be undone, and what comes after. It had started quietly at first launch.
- Autopilot: when the trial is over, This week stays, with Copy as picture, and a line says what Autopilot would have done since: how often it would have stepped in, and about how much memory and old files that was. The screen carries a Buy Blame Pro link.
Improved
- Autopilot: the weekly "Autopilot this week" note reaches you after the trial too, and the trial's own note stands in for that week's, so the day it ends brings one note, not two.
- Updates: a copy older than 1.0.49 is shown this update in a window instead of waiting for a quit that never comes.
Fixed
- Autopilot: nothing is paused in the first ten minutes after your Mac wakes. After a long sleep every app looked unused for hours, and the app you were coming back to could be paused in that minute.
- Autopilot: cleanup judges a project by its newest edit anywhere inside it, not by its top-level folders alone. A project edited daily in src/ could read idle for months and have its build output moved to the Trash.
- Alerts: the button on an alert that restarts an editor's extensions, or quits an app with agent sessions, opens Blame and asks first. It ends in … so you know.
- Autopilot: a cleanup move that is refused is on record with its reason, and so is a pause that did not take.
- Autopilot: the note at the end of the trial names Settings › About, where the key goes.
An update tells you it is there
New
- Updates: when a new version is ready, the menu-bar icon gets a small blue arrow and the panel a row with Restart to Update; one click, and Blame is back on the new version in a few seconds. Before, a menu-bar app that is never quit kept running the old version for days.
Improved
- Settings: the Updates captions say what each switch does now: downloaded by itself and offered with the badge, or only offered.
Blame stays after a restart
New
- Welcome: Blame opens at login on a fresh install, so it is there after the first restart; a menu bar monitor that is gone after a restart can show neither a slow afternoon nor a week of Autopilot. The welcome's first step carries the switch, and Settings › General keeps its own. An install from before this version is not changed.
The delete switch reads cleanly
Fixed
- Autopilot: The "delete instead of using the Trash" switch had its title and caption squeezed into a block. The title is one line and the row has room; the caption wraps rather than cutting off at narrow widths.
- Autopilot: Flipping that switch updates the cleanup rule's tooltip at once.
A full disk gets its space back without you
New
- Autopilot: Under 5 GB of free disk, the cleanup rule first removes what it had itself moved to the Trash. The Trash frees nothing until it is emptied, and on the night of 2 Nov 6 GB of Blame's own cleanup sat there while swap filled the disk and macOS asked for apps to be closed. Only Blame's own items, never anything you put in the Trash, and never one you had put back. Each one is announced and on record.
Improved
- Autopilot: A rule turns itself off only once the record is sure it is wrong more than 5% of the time, not on a handful of decisions. Tab unloading had turned itself off at 2 wrong of 20 and sat out a night it was needed.
- Autopilot: A rule that turned itself off under the old measure comes back on once, and is judged from there.
Your week, as a picture to post
New
- Autopilot: Copy as picture, beside This week on the Autopilot screen (Pro). It puts a 1200×676 card on the clipboard, ready to paste into a post: the memory Autopilot gave back this week as one number, what it did, and what it got wrong. Nothing leaves your Mac unless you paste it.
Fixed
- Autopilot: A week in which Autopilot only slowed agent sessions you were not watching now counts as a week it acted. Before, This week said nothing had needed doing.
Fewer alerts about the same runaway app
Improved
- Alerts: An app whose memory keeps running away alerts three times: after a minute, 30 minutes later if it is still growing, then 2 hours later. Then Blame stays quiet about it until it has been gone for an hour. Before, it could alert every 30 minutes all day.
- Alerts: A repeat says "2nd alert about this" and replaces the earlier banner in Notification Center instead of piling up beside it.
- Alerts: When two apps run away at once, each gets its own alert. Before, the second could stay unmentioned while the first was being reported.
Fixed
- Alerts: Quitting an app from its alert starts its count over, so a fresh runaway later is reported like a new one.
A full disk gets a clear warning, and a real cleanup
New
- Alerts: A disk still filling alerts again at 10 GB and at 5 GB free, not once a day.
- Alerts: A disk alert carries Open Disk and Empty Trash.
- Disk: An Empty Trash button, through Finder, after a confirm that says everything in the Trash goes. macOS asks once to let Blame control Finder.
- Autopilot: Below 5 GB free, cleanup deletes outright instead of using the Trash, which frees nothing until it is emptied. Only caches, temp files and build output their tools rebuild, never what you put in the Trash. Every delete is announced, and a switch under the rule turns this off.
Improved
- Autopilot: Below 15 GB free, cleanup looks every 10 minutes and accepts younger temp files, caches and build output (1 day, 7 days and 14 days instead of 3, 30 and 30).
Fixed
- Alerts: A low-disk alert now says the disk is low. Before, it could carry the headline of another cause, such as a browser growing, and the disk went unmentioned.
Pausing holds steady
Fixed
- Pausing: An app you have left is no longer paused and let go over and over while free memory hovers around the line. Blame waits for a minute of pressure before pausing, lets go after two calm minutes, and then leaves that app alone for half an hour.
Tab unloading, fixed at the root
New
- Tabs: Each browser learns how long its tabs must be left before they count as idle.
- Tabs: A tab with text you have not sent is never unloaded (with the Blame extension 1.1 or later, on the Chrome Web Store).
Improved
- Tabs: Idle tabs go oldest first, and only as many as your Mac needs.
- Autopilot: Tab unloading, if it turned itself off under the old measure, comes back on once.
Fixed
- Tabs: A tab's idle time now runs from when you left it. Before, a tab you had used for an hour and left a minute ago could count as an hour idle.
Autopilot judges its rules fairly
Improved
- Autopilot: Judges a rule on at least 10 decisions before it can turn the rule off.
- Autopilot: An unload of browser tabs counts as a mistake only when you go back to several of the tabs it unloaded within the hour; going back to one tab is just a reload.
- Autopilot: Tab unloading, if it turned itself off under the old judging, comes back on once.
Autopilot's week names the browser
Improved
- Autopilot: The week says which browser it unloaded tabs in: "Unloaded 3 tabs you had left in Google Chrome".
Tab counts you can trust
Improved
- Autopilot: The week shows the browser tabs it unloaded right away, not "0 tabs" until its ten-minute check.
Fixed
- Tabs: The memory Blame expects to get back from unloading tabs is measured against all of the browser's tabs, not only those of the profiles where the extension is installed.
Tabs reach a Chrome that updated itself
Fixed
- Extension: The browser extension now reaches a Chrome that updated itself in place. Such a Chrome runs from a temporary copy, and since 1.0.35 Blame could not tell which browser it was, so no tab was unloaded there.
Triage when your Mac is overloaded
New
- Tabs: When your Mac is overloaded and short of memory at the same time, Autopilot unloads the browser tabs you have left sooner (after 10 minutes instead of 30), and goes back to normal when the Mac recovers.
- Agents: Autopilot learns a new rule: in that state, the busy tools of AI agent sessions you are not watching move to the efficiency cores, so the session in front keeps its speed. It only records what it would do until it has a week under 5% wrong.
- Diagnosis: Suggests the free extension when Chrome, Arc, Brave or Edge holds the most memory and the extension is not installed.
Fixed
- Autopilot: Its record counts a mistake even when the same rule was right earlier that hour.
Tab unloading and heat
New
- Tabs: Autopilot unloads browser tabs you have left when your Mac runs short of memory, with the free Blame extension for Chrome, Arc, Brave or Edge.
- Heat: Blame shows when your Mac is hot and slowing itself down, and what keeps it busy. Autopilot (Pro) cools it by moving busy background work to the efficiency cores.
- History: A heat spectrogram, how hot your Mac ran and which apps heated it.
Improved
- Disk: Used space is easier to see.
Fixed
- History: Hours around midnight keep all their history.
- Blame 1.0 shipped on 7 Oct 2026, after the 0.2 and 0.3 betas from 1 Oct. Notes on this page start at 1.0.35.