Know what's slowing you down and manage your system.
Before it happens.
Get an instant, one-click view of the processes hogging your RAM or heating up your cores. Stop digging through system settings. Get the data you need to keep your workflow smooth and lag-free.
- Memory footprint~ 18 MB
- Idle CPU< 1 %
- Sandbox-freesigned + hardened
Product tour
The app, up close
Real 1:1 screenshots from MenuBarMonitor. The same panels you see in your menu bar, nothing staged.
Real screenshots from the app, 1:1. Nothing rebuilt.
What's new in v3
Sensors, control, and personalization that scale with how hard your Mac actually works.
Disk-I/O, plus a Compact-mode menu bar and drag-and-drop tile reordering. Every feature stays opt-in, monochrome by default, and respects the same no-root, no-telemetry contract as v2.
Personalisation · Compact mode
One headline tile when the Mac actually has something to say.
Compact mode collapses all four (or eight) tiles into a single, most-critical reading. The strip stays out of your way until thermal pressure climbs, RAM tightens, or sustained CPU load deserves a glance.
Personalisation · Drag-and-drop
Reorder the menu bar with the gesture you already know.
Settings shows your tiles as a draggable list. Move thermal up, push GPU off the right edge, slot Disk in between RAM and Power. Visibility and order become two independent decisions.
Disk I/O
Read and write throughput, IOPS, and per-volume totals.
Read straight from IOKit's IOBlockStorageDriver counters, no shell-out, no AppleScript. The popover shows live MB/s plus the cumulative volumes view so you can spot a backup hammering an external SSD without leaving the menu bar.
Background hog detector
Find the apps that quietly run hot in the background.
The detector tracks every userland process for sustained CPU while its app isn't focused. After a configurable threshold, the panel surfaces the top offenders with how long they've been at it and a one-click path to investigate.
- Frontmost app is excluded: your editor doesn't get blamed for typing
- Three severity tiers: noticed, persistent, egregious
- Opt-in only: disabled by default; bookkeeping is dropped instantly when you turn it off
13 languages
The interface speaks the language you do.
MenuBarMonitor renders every label in the user's chosen language: first-run picker, popover, settings, and notifications. Auto mode follows the macOS region, so a German Mac speaks German out of the box.
Pick a fixed language or leave it on Auto. Switching applies instantly, no relaunch.
One simple, one-time price
MenuBarMonitor includes the full feature set. Buy it once and keep it forever, no subscription.
Lifetime
Final price. VAT is not shown under Section 19 UStG.
Buy once, keep it forever. Every future update included, across macOS generations.
- Valid for one personal Mac
- Live CPU, GPU, thermal, and RAM metrics in the menu bar
- Second-by-second P/E core split
- Top processes with soft affinity for E-cores
- Memory pressure history and optional relief tools
- No tracking. No telemetry.
- Every major and minor update included, today and in the future
- Runs on upcoming macOS versions the app supports
- No expiry, no renewals, no recurring charges
- Early access to beta updates
All three apps
MenuBarMonitor + Notchmate + BetterMacWidgets together, all three license keys & downloads in one email.
One Mac per app.
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