Introducing Vitals 1.8: A Mac Activity Monitor You Can Use From Terminal 🖥️

Hi everyone,

Vitals 1.8 is out. It’s the biggest update since launch. 🎉

Vitals is a menu bar activity monitor for macOS. It counts every helper process under the app it belongs to, keeps up to a year of history, and shows your dev servers, coding agents, and AI plan limits.

What’s new in 1.8:

• The vitals command. Everything Vitals sees, now in Terminal: the whole Mac, the apps using the most, ports and dev servers by project, coding agents, and what’s left of your AI plans. You get a readable table, or JSON for scripts.

• Install with Homebrew. brew install --cask foredotstudio/tap/vitals installs the app and the command together.

• Safe stopping. vitals can-quit says whether something is safe to quit. vitals stop --idle stops the dev servers nobody is using, after you say yes.

• A free trial. Use every feature for 3 days, with no account and no card.

New pricing:

• $9 for a year of updates. It’s not a subscription: the app keeps working after the year.

• $15 for life at the launch price ($39 after).

Both are paid once, with a 14-day refund.

Download: vitalsmac.com/download

What’s new: vitalsmac.com/changelog/1.8

I’d love your feedback, especially if you live in Terminal.