mectrics
Your Mac's vitals in the menu bar. Free and open source.
Details
- External ID
- 1210872
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- mectrics
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- July 31, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 268
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5160550458715596
- Tags
- Mac, Open Source, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
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+.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mac system monitoring in menu bar
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 269 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #136 of 270 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 244 days after the earliest competitor.
- MacMonitor · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- LighterMac · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Mac Kit · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Dynamic Menu Bar · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- WTMemory · ph · 2026-09-12 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- OmniMac · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Clearspace · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- RedialMenu · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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