Vitals
A Mac activity monitor that thinks in apps, not processes
Details
- External ID
- 1261326
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kingdom Vitals
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 294
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9969531751122515
- Tags
- Mac, Developer Tools, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Activity Monitor lists a thousand processes, a hundred of them called Google Chrome Helper. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it, so you see 60 apps instead of 1,000 processes, each with one figure for memory, CPU, energy, disk and network. It keeps 30 days of history, alerts you when an app misbehaves, finds forgotten dev servers, and shows temperatures, fans and battery. Every readout can sit in your menu bar, arranged your way. Pay once. No subscription, no account.
Enrichment
- Theme
- personal health and wellness trackers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- app-level activity monitor for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Aggregating process trees, calculating rollups per application bundle, and logging 30-day historical metrics requires low-level Darwin kernel and libproc system programming.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/C++ interacting with Darwin kernel interfaces (`libproc`, `sysctl`, Mach APIs, and IOKit) to walk parent-child process PID trees and aggregate CPU/memory/IO usage back to bundle identifiers. The hard parts are efficient polling without causing its own CPU overhead, tracking short-lived subprocesses, and managing persistent local timeseries storage (e.g., SQLite) over 30 days.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 149 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 150 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 288 days after the earliest competitor.
- Vitals · hn · 2026-09-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Meeting Alerter · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- MacSentinel · ph · 2026-09-17 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- THRIVE · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Dial • Time Tracker · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Pulse Monitor · ph · 2026-09-15 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- HealthViewer · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Gym & Macros: Workout Tracker · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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