Please properly label your processes..

The name used is super sketchy..

developers can not change the names shown there, feedback for apple! (which they have ignored for years now)
Most of us developers would much rather show the app/process name instead of the company / dev team name.

At least it is not showing my personal name anymore - which it did in the beginning.

If at least it would show the name of the item in addition...

(this is most likely BTT's process priority helper tool if you have enabled that. For normal apps they indeed changed it to the app name on recent macOS versions so they didn't completely ignore the feedback :-))

//edit: actually it looks like when registering via a different method (unfortunately only available starting with macOS 13) (SMAppService | Apple Developer Documentation ) it would inherit the app's name. I'll check whether that is feasible as the process priority helper tool is pretty special - right now I think it is not possible...

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Hmm, weird. Many of the other apps that I have running; Hazel, Dropover, Home Assistant, etc all have the app name there.. BTT is the only one that doesn't.

It had been a hot min since I enabled that process to run in the background; so I had forgotten about it. I noticed it when making some changes to apps running at login.. and thought for a second I had some malware or something lol. Until I recognized the name matches the BTT site url.

MacOS 15.3 MacBook Pro M2

I know it’s unfortunate but I think implementing that other approach is too much hassle given that I still need to support macOS 11 ;-(

The main problem is that the priority helper process needs to run as root in order to modify the BTT process priority. Most other apps don’t need this. I think there are now ways to make this possible since macOS 13 via the framework linked above, however it’s pretty complex. The priority helper tool is pretty niche, maybe I‘ll just remove it for the future, on modern macOS it’s not as useful as previously anyways.