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Your Mac's vitals in the menu bar. Free and open source.

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CPU, memory, battery, network, disk, GPU, temperature and fans in your menu bar. You pick which ones show, and a click opens the detail behind it. Compact Health folds the whole machine into one item that stays quiet until something's off. MIT, macOS 15+.

PH · launched Jul 31, 2026 · 268 upvotes (top 48%) · 1 view

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Mac
  • Open Source
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Yes A macOS menu bar app written in Swift reading standard system stats via IOKit, host statistics, and sysctl APIs is well-documented and can easily be generated with an AI assistant.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 701 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #346 of 702 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 244 days after the earliest competitor.

  • ThermPort · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.71
  • MacMonitor · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Pomelo · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Boost · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Shortcuts in Menu Bar · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • MemStats · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • tinyStats · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Multimeter · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55

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