Silent Start

I cannot understand why Apple does not make all sounds optional (on/off), but then the more I learn about Apple products, the less impressed I am with their software. Nice hardware (if exceedingly expensive); weak software. In any case, this app made my day. The silly startup chime should have died ~20 years ago, but for some reason Apple has kept it around. Possibly it's to give customer the sense that these computers are not intended for serious work. Turning off the chime was a simple matter of installing this app and making sure "Mute startup chime" was turned on. That's it! I give it 4 stars instead of 5 because I haven't tested it with different OS "upgrades" yet, or under different scenarios with my headphones on/off. But those seem like easy things to fix, one hopes.

After installing this app I had trouble with my computer restarting on it's own after going to sleep. I thought I had a virus or malware and spent the better part of a day checking that out. The computer continued to reboot. After uninstalling this app I haven't had a problem. Update: it wasn't this app that was causing my problem. It is still rebooting in sleep mode. Sorry for the confusion.

It works on my MBP Mid-2012 and Mid-2015!

Simply put….it doesn’t work. Maybe because I have speakers plugged into my Mac.

I'm running Mojave on my Macbook Air and this app does not work. I've tried changing all the various preferences and it still does not work, I still have the chime every time I startup or restart my mac.

Voice memos started freezing on record after the Catalina update. This didn't happen on my test account, so I knew it had to be one of the few apps I had downloaded on my main account that was causing the problem. I deleted this app (and only this app), and voice memos started working again immediately after restart. The app is pretty good on it's own, but it needs to be updated for Catalina.

Have it on two Macs, utterly useless on both. Simply doesn’t work

FYI Memo from the desk of Authored Statements: ysureican Fogarty Jerrold Fogarty DATE: Thursday, July 18th, 2019 TO: Support @ Turnbelly SUBJECT: App//Silent Start malfunction FROM: Jerrold Fogarty Authored Statements: ysureican Fogarty OS X System>>>>>>>>running i-Mac 10.11.2 Please type your feedback here Dear Sirs, I am at a quandary about your Application, "SilentStart" My i-mac Chimes may or may not be silent. I've played with the following for more than a year before submission of any thoughts........ + unplugging &/or plugged in with my ear buds... leaving the volume up or down using different variations and accounting for extraneous Variables but the results are not consistent The Chimes still sound at random then silent at other times I've uninstalled and reinstalled to account for any corruption of the files during downloading In Summation UNDEPENDABLE See preview of preference settings ANY THOUGHTS to alleviate this concern? I feel One should give the developer a heads-up before a Poor review may be offered to Apple and it's readers See attachment of preferences for the application All usage are sent to Apple ________May I offer my data to possibly resolve the issue see 2nd snap shoot for verification. Sincerely with Courtesy Jerrold fogarty Authored Statements: ysureican Fogarty

This app could be better. It does not always work. If you forget to unplug your headphones, or if the system thinks that the headphones are still plugged in, when you shut down then the chime will sound again on the next reboot. MDK

I've read everything I could about this app, because it hasn't worked once since I downloaded it last week. The app said not to shut down your computer with headphones in, because that will prevent it from working, so I tried that and it still keeps making the noise at startup... except now it also makes it when I have my headphones plugged in. I'm starting to think there's basically nothing that can prevent the startup chime from going off.