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Taskglass
The Best Activity Monitor Alternative for Mac
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The Best Activity Monitor Alternative for Mac
7 followers
Taskglass is a native macOS app that shows what's slowing, heating or draining your Mac, and explains it in plain English.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Junaid, the maker of Taskglass.
Why I built it
My M4 MacBook Pro still gets slow sometimes. Every time, I'd open Activity Monitor and get 600 process names like mds_stores, kernel_task and 38 "Google Chrome Helper (Renderer)" rows. Lots of numbers, no answers. So I built the Activity Monitor I wanted: one that tells you which app is doing it, why, and what to do about it, in plain English.
What it does
- Groups every helper under its app, so Chrome is one row, not forty
- Explains 214 macOS processes, with an "Is this safe?" check from the code signature
- Keeps a 30-day timeline, so you can see what happened at 2:12 PM when the fans spun up
- Shows battery drain per app in real watts on Apple Silicon, not an "energy impact" score
- Catches runaway apps, and you can quit them right from the alert
- Lives in your menu bar (⌥⌘T) and keeps running after ⌘Q
It's native Swift and SwiftUI: a 6 MB download, about 0.2% CPU in the background, no account, no analytics. Your data stays on your Mac.
Pricing: pay once, use it on up to 3 Macs, 30-day money-back guarantee. The launch price goes up as it sells: first 100 at $5, next 150 at $9, then $14.
Feedback that would help most
1. Which process confused you that Taskglass doesn't explain yet? I'll add it.
2. What would you want an alert for?
3. Anything that feels slow, unclear or un-Mac-like? Be blunt.
I'll be here all day answering every comment. Thanks for checking it out 🙏