Vitals 
A Mac activity monitor that thinks in apps, not processes
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Vitals  - A Mac activity monitor that thinks in apps, not processes

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Activity Monitor lists a thousand processes, a hundred of them called Google Chrome Helper. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it, so you see 60 apps instead of 1,000 processes, each with one figure for memory, CPU, energy, disk and network. It keeps 30 days of history, alerts you when an app misbehaves, finds forgotten dev servers, and shows temperatures, fans and battery. Every readout can sit in your menu bar, arranged your way. Pay once. No subscription, no account.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋

I'm Atta. I make Mac apps on my own, and Vitals is the one I made for myself first.

My Mac would get hot and slow, so I'd open Activity Monitor and find 1,041 processes, 96 of them called "Google Chrome Helper". It never told me the one thing I wanted to know: which app is doing this?

So I built the tool that answers that. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it. One row per app, one figure each for memory, CPU, energy, disk, and network. Click the row, and everything about that app is in one place. It keeps 30 days of history, tells you when an app starts misbehaving, and finds the dev servers you forgot were running, grouped by project.

That is also what makes it different. Activity Monitor and the terminal tools show you processes and leave the adding up to you. The menu bar monitors show you how busy your Mac is, with gauges and graphs, but not which app is behind it. Vitals starts from the app, and I built it to feel like one native Mac app, not a dashboard.

Version 1.1 ships today. Every readout can be its own menu bar item; volume and Bluetooth sit beside them, and you arrange the panel and the window the way you like.

Two days ago I put it on X. 800+ people bought it in 72 hours, which I still don't quite believe. It's $5 for the first 1,000 licenses, then $29. One payment, no subscription, no account, and nothing leaves your Mac.

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I'll be here all day. Tell me what you'd want Vitals to answer next, and what you'd want it to stop doing.

Good luck with the launch! Awesome product ❤️

Maker

 thank you!

launch day nerves are real, this helps.

Vitals was an instant iStat Menu's replacement for me. Looking forward to all the upcoming goodies has in mind for this!

Maker

 Thank you 🙌

plenty more coming soon, stay tuned.

as one of the first users i highly reccomend it!!

very helpful as someone multi-tasking PRs over multiple repos, worktrees, and agents. alot of the time my mac gets stuck due to left over servers and simulators, and i always had to hunt down what causes the lags

not anymore!

Maker

 Thank you for being the very first user 🙌

means a lot to have you here from day one.

Love apps which prioritise design and experience. Vitals really puts the indie community on limelight because of how good it is. For me a must recommend. ✨

Maker

 Thank you so much 🙌

that really means a lot coming from a fellow indie.