When applications are unresponsive on Mac, what you need to do is to open Activity Monitor and end the task. Like Windows Task Manager, Activity Monitor for Mac also enables users to manage the running applications, processes on the computer.

For instance, on Windows, you can easily force close frozen programs via Task Manager, but is there a Task Manager for Mac? And how can you open Task Manager(or Task Manager equivalent) on Mac? Here is how to launch Task Manager for Mac and end tasks.Īctivity Monitor: Equivalent to Task Manager on a MacĪctually, there is Activity Monitor on Mac, which is similar to the Task Manager in Windows computer. After all, these are two different operating systems. If you just transfer from Windows PC to a Mac computer, you may find many familiar applications and features missing on Mac.