MacMonitor
Your mac's vitals right in your menu bar!
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MacMonitor is a free, open-source menu bar system monitor for macOS: CPU, memory, disk, network, battery, temperatures, displays and weather.
PH · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
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
- Commercial product
- User Experience
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial While basic menu bar wrappers are easy, reading low-level Apple Silicon hardware metrics (temperatures, SMC sensors, per-core CPU usage, and battery telemetry) requires native Swift/Objective-C code and undocumented IOKit APIs.
What it would actually take: A real version requires a native macOS app built with Swift and SwiftUI/AppKit. The hard part is accessing undocumented macOS APIs (such as IOKit, AppleSMC, and libproc) to extract low-level hardware temperatures, fan speeds, and accurate per-process telemetry without causing kernel panics or sandbox permission rejections. It requires deep knowledge of Darwin OS internals and macOS native development.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 666 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #569 of 667 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
- mectrics · ph · 2026-07-31 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- ThermPort · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- NetworkMonitor · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Dotmeter · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- PCMonitor_v1.2 · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Pyre — System monitoring for your Mac · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Mstat a temperature and stat tracker for macOS in Zig and SwiftUI · hn · 2026-08-03 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- WebMonitor · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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