The real solution is to not install anything outside of your app bundle in the first place. In this case, instead of sticking a plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents

The real solution is to not install anything outside of your app bundle in the first place. In this case, instead of sticking a plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, you can use an API to add a login item, pointing to a helper .app inside the main app bundle: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLoginItems.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma... Then the system will automatically disable the login item if the app is removed. Edit: It seems like Zoom was using a login item, but using the "shared file list" API instead of the newer (but still dating back to 10.6) SMLoginItemSetEnabled. An alternative is to just make your daemon check for itself whether the main app has been removed, and delete itself if so.