Lingon for Mac
Run whatever you want, whenever you want.
$11.99
In English
Version 10.0.1When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Lingon overview
Meet the new Lingon, your friendly tool to help you get the most out of your Mac and make your daily tasks a breeze. With Lingon, you can schedule and run tasks whenever you need them with a delightful and simple user experience.
Whether you want to start an app, run a script, a shortcut, or a command, Lingon has got you covered. You can schedule it to run at a specific time or on a regular basis, and it can even make sure that an app automatically restarts if it crashes.
And guess what? Lingon can now show a notification when a task is run, so you’ll never miss a beat. And you can run a task with Siri or from Shortcuts.
This newly rewritten app is very easy to use but packed with power. It is more intuitive but keeps all the essential features you love. You will get comfortable with it right away.
The best part? Lingon is available on a very affordable monthly subscription, so you’ll always have access to the latest features and you can try it risk-free.
To create a new task, follow these simple steps:
- Click on New in the toolbar
- Give it a name
- Choose under Run what you want to run or write a command
- Then under When choose how often you want it to run
- Save it
Lingon 10 has many new features and improvements:
- A more delightful experience and easier to use
- Get a notification when the task runs
- Easier to choose an app or a shortcut to run
- Run a task directly from the menu bar from any app
- Run a task from Siri or from Shortcuts
- More scheduling options
- Risk-free trial for one week
- Translated into 20 languages
- Many more improvements
- Optimized for macOS 14 Sonoma and later
What’s new in version 10.0.1
- Now reselects a previously selected task after restart
- Fixed a possible problem when scheduling a task
- Some small bug fixes and improvements
Lingon for Mac
$11.99
In English
Version 10.0.1
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Jul 9 2013
Version: 3.1.3
Lingon X is now available from the developer, and it includes all that good stuff you guys are asking for. $10 or $7 upgrade from any Mac App Store version. Hooray!
http://www.peterborgapps.com/lingon/
Nov 27 2012
Version: 3.1.3
Great developer, excellent communication and support. Unfortunately, as mentioned below, the developer has decided to sell through the Mac App Store exclusively. Selling through MAS brings the developer benefits such as more sales and less work maintaining a registration scheme but really hurts the product and in turn end users. The original Lingon was much more powerful but has been abandoned and removed from MAS. Lingon 3 is a nice app but due to MAS limitations of letting the app access the entire file system users are restricted to creating/editing LaunchAgents in their own ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder instead of being able to visually see and edit items in more critical areas such as their root launchagents and launchdaemons besides all the system agents and daemons. Fortunately, if you were lucky enough to purchase Lingon before it was removed from MAS it still works great on Mountain Lion but the fact that we have to use "dumbed" down software or software that is half as powerful simply because it is only available through MAS doesn't make sense to me. Developers can't offer extremely powerful software, thanks to Apple, simply because indie developers need/want more sales and the publicity that MAS offers.
However, I don't see the point in not offering a version available through MAS and a version available straight from the developer that is not crippled to meet submission guidelines. Developers, you still get MAS publicity but your customers that need more out of your software are not left out. I love Peter Borg's software and his customer service but, unfortunately, I can't advise anyone to buy this software. Give your users full software, I don't care if you charge more because you have to deal with an online merchant and licensing company, we understand those costs and will gladly pay them.
Final thought on rant, customers, don't support devs who only sell on MAS and deny you all the features you could have in an app but rather show them that offering a non-mas version of their app pays by supporting the developers that make powerful apps with demos that are sold directly by the developer. Just don't buy MAS apps and let this nonsense be the way of the future. I think it comes down to us, end users banding together. The only way we can influence, I hesitate to say force, developers to make non-mas versions of their software is if we show solidarity and no longer support/buy their apps if they are only available through MAS. Nothing drives the message home like a hit to the wallet so don't buy this app, your better off compiling an old open source version of the original Lingon. The GUI may not be as pretty but it's more user friendly and powerful. I will find a copy of the last open source lingon version and post a link here so you all can compile it. I'll post a link in a bit to a compiled version and the actual source.
Apr 13 2012
Version: 3.1
Selling this ONLY through the app store is another example of short sighted authorship. Consumers BUYING through only the app store are foolish as well. Single source supply through only Apple? What a slippery slope you tread!
We need distributed sourcing and we need robust fully functional applications.
If you won't provide me these things I'll do without. I hope more people will see the dangers of Apple's app store and opt instead to use Macupdate as their preferred source, and purchase directly from the author. Vote with your money!
Excellent program, I will not purchase any upgrades to this or other applications through the apple app store. This is end of life for this application at my location. Revival only possible through a change of policy by the developer.
Feb 2 2012
Version: 3.0.2
I realize the author's need to sell this on the App Store, however we really need a "System Lingon" as we had before that will allow management of system launch agents as well.
