MacMonitor
Your mac's vitals right in your menu bar!
Details
- External ID
- 1256151
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- MacMonitor
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- User Experience, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
MacMonitor is a free, open-source menu bar system monitor for macOS: CPU, memory, disk, network, battery, temperatures, displays and weather.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- system performance monitor for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 275 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #178 of 276 (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
- PCMonitor_v1.2 · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Mstat a temperature and stat tracker for macOS in Zig and SwiftUI · hn · 2026-08-03 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DisplaySpan · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- PiMonitor v2.1 · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Desktops · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Mac Kit · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Aman Disk · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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