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MacMonitor
Real-time Apple Silicon system monitor for your menu bar
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Real-time Apple Silicon system monitor for your menu bar
81 followers
MacMonitor is a free, open-source system monitor built specifically for Apple Silicon (M1–M4). It lives in your menu bar, updates every 2 seconds, and opens a full dark-mode dashboard showing CPU per-core usage, GPU, memory, battery health, power rails, network, disk I/O, and your top processes — all from the metal, no subscriptions. Install in one command: brew tap ryyansafar/macmonitor && brew install --cask macmonitor
@ryyansafar What was the biggest "aha" surprise in your own Mac's metrics that sparked building this?
@swati_paliwal My biggest AHA moment was realizing that running multiple Docker containers and cloud sessions on my MacBook Air M2 was causing serious heat and battery strain. I tried a few solutions, but they all required constantly monitoring the terminal. If I was working on something else, I had to keep switching back just to check what was happening.
That’s when I had the idea: why not bring this visibility to the menu bar? Now, I can quickly check the status from anywhere without interrupting my workflow, just a quick glance, and I’m updated. That insight is what sparked me to build this. Hope you like it, and thanks for your comment!
Free and open source alternative to iStatMenus? Sold. I've been running Flutter builds and Claude Code sessions at the same time and my M2 starts cooking. Having this in the menu bar without paying a subscription for something that should honestly be built into macOS is nice. Does it track thermals too or just CPU/GPU/RAM?
@thenomadcode HAHA that is why I made this. I had multiple Claude Code sessions and even my M2 air was just cooking. I tested out multiple things to better optimize my Mac or at least see what was burning my Mac other than what Is required. A couple of applications that inspired me were tw93's Mole CLI which was a really good deep cleaner. It had a status option to see the current stats of my Mac including all cores, so I wanted to do something similar to that including the cleaning and optimizing. Coming to thermals, Apple being Apple doesn't let us view the temperature anyway even with proper commands(at least thats what I noticed) and mactop came in handy. As of now this is built over mactop and I plan on moving to a sole application much more optimized. and yes this is accurate, as I tried out running multiple web scrapers on my Mac and it physically started heating up like crazy and I could see it in the menu bar live. I just wanted to move away from the terminal cuz I didnt want to shift windows or tabs every now and then to check my Macs condition. so this was more of an ease of use tool. It’s a labor of love to keep this open-source and free, so if you find it saves you from a 'cooked' Mac, feel free to support the project on GitHub or buy me a coffee! It really helps keep the updates coming.