App to Find Electron-Bugged Apps on macOS
The Electron issue plaguing macOS 26 Tahoe isn’t something a user can fix. Aside from downgrading back to Sequoia, which is likely more trouble than its worth, it is better to keep Electron apps at arm’s length. If it is constantly running in the background, such as 1Password (fixed), it is best to voice your concern to the developers. For others, it is likely more practical to simply stop the an affected app from running longer than it is necessary until the fix is issued.
TahoeElectronDetector is a free app designed to detect Electron apps installed on macOS system and find whether or not the detected apps are still affected. The app becomes unresponsive for a period of time before it fetches the result; so the “be patient” is very much real.
One of the apps that is affected is an eBook reader I use for a certain Korean bookstore. Not only the app has been sitting in the beta ever since I’ve heard of them, the last update the app has received is in 2024. It is unlikely the bookstore will make it a high priority to accommodate Macs of all platforms in South Korea. I genuinely suspect there are more cases such as this; proprietary apps built out to serve only one function that took advantage of Electron for quick development but now fails to maintain it.
On my system, only 2 apps are updated, 1Password and VS Code, since the Electron bug was found. Even Logi Options+ is on the list, but I doubt any hardware manufacturer is eager to push an update when it is technically, albeit considerably more slowly, working.