

It can also force-quit any unresponsive application and help recover your Mac to a normal running state. The Activity monitor helps you by displaying the main processes and the percentage load on the CPU and GPU. However, if you want to have extra control over what you’re doing and the processes running, you would have to opt for the third-party solutions listed below. The Activity Monitor is a decent app from Apple and is ideally suited to beginners. Is the built-in Activity Monitor good enough? It also allows you to close and terminate all unresponsive tasks or tasks, hogging up too much performance. Note: The Activity Monitor shows you real-time usage and power consumption.

The Tabs contain the following information – CPU, Memory, Energy, Disk Usage and Network.
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Please note that sensor monitoring requires installing a free add-on from our website.Ī highly configurable date, time and calendar for your menubar, including fuzzy clock, moon phase, and upcoming calendar events. status monitoring, detailed disk I/O, and a variety of different read and write indicators.Ī realtime view of temperatures, hard drive temperatures (where supported), fans, voltages, current and power. See used and free space for multiple disks in your menubar. Advanced bandwidth and interface information is available in the dropdown menu. Monitor bandwidth usage in the menubar as text or graphs.

Opening the menu shows a list of the apps using the most memory. Memory stats for your menubar as a pie chart, graph, percentage, bar or any combination of those things. Plus, GPU memory and processor usage on supported Macs, and the active GPU can be shown in the menubar. Tracked use by individual cores or with all cores combined, to save space. Realtime CPU graphs and a list of the top 5 CPU resource hogs. Each of the dropdown menus provides access to even greater detail including history graphs for access to up to 30 days of data. IStat Menus features a wide range of different menubar text and graph styles that are all completely customizable. iStat Menus is highly configurable, with full support for macOS’ light and dark menubar modes. All in a highly optimised, low resource package. IStat Menus covers a huge range of stats, including a CPU monitor, GPU, memory, network usage, disk usage, disk activity, date & time, battery and more. The most powerful system monitoring app for macOS, right in your menubar.
