It&#x27;s my understanding (albeit limited) that the spinning gear was an indicator to the user that AppleScript was doing something (did I ask the app to do this?!?!)<p>You will always see the gear in the menu bar if you are using Automator.<p>Not having the spinning gear just because app came from MAS implies a whole level of trust that Apple probably isn&#x27;t ready to afford.  But again I have no idea about Apple internal design mentality.<p>I think the issue is that sometimes the spinning gear doesn&#x27;t go away after the script completes confusing users.  This is an OSX bug not anything to do with the Mac App Store.