Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and Apple wireless keyboard battery levels. Plus, a world clock with sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset times.ĭetailed info on your battery’s current state, and a highly configurable menu item that can change if you’re draining, charging, or completely charged. 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. I do have a directly purchased license, bought some time ago (v4?) and upgraded when needed.The most powerful system monitoring app for macOS, right in your menubar. ![]() But I am not sure what would happen when version 7 is released (hopefully distant future) with no upgrade pricing on App Store. for me, the App Store would be quite a bit cheaper. If my calculations are right direct purchase in AU$19.31 (plus a small bank fee), whilst the App Store is AU$14.99 but reduce by 10% Apple Card discount to AU$12.40. ![]() ![]() The price comparison is complex - 1) exchange rate, 2) 10% tax (GST in Australia - but it already included in the price in this case), 3) when I purchase from Apple I have saved 10% by buying discount Apple Cards. Yes, download the whole app from Bjango is my preferred way. It then installs the special helper apps to run when you login. If I remember rightly, the first time you run iStat Menus downloaded from the web site, you are asked to give your administrator password. The two processes are called iStatMenusDaemon and iStatMenusFans - you can see them in Activity Monitor and they run as root user. Rather than give the whole app root privileges, it is best practice to put the code that requires root privileges into a separate small carefully debugged "helper" app, whilst the main app runs with just user privileges. To read all the sensor data (or to set fans), requires root privileges. No, the "helper" app runs in the background automatically.
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