Orcylo
📊 Mac vitals, 30-day history & AI limits in your menu bar
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Details
- External ID
- 1267468
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Orcylo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Mac, Developer Tools, Menu Bar Apps
Description
Orcylo is the Activity Monitor alternative for Mac 🖥️ 📦 Groups ~700 processes into the ~25 apps you actually use 📈 30 days of history: see what slowed your Mac, even after the fact 🚨 Smart alerts when an app misbehaves 🤖 Claude Code & Codex usage limits right in your menu bar ⚡ Native, lightweight, stays out of your way Stop guessing why your Mac is slow. 🚀
Enrichment
- Niche
- macos menu bar utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mac system monitor and history for menu bar
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic macOS menu bar apps can be generated with Swift, building a reliable, low-overhead system monitor that maps low-level Unix processes to application bundles and tracks 30 days of performance data requires non-trivial macOS systems programming.
What it would actually take: A real version requires Swift/Objective-C interacting with libproc, sysctl, and IOKit APIs to sample process metrics without battery or CPU drain. It needs an efficient local time-series SQLite database to aggregate 30 days of data and map PID trees to bundle identifiers accurately. Developers need strong macOS systems engineering expertise to handle sandbox restrictions and accurate process hierarchy tracking.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 158 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 159 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 270 days after the earliest competitor.
- Vitals · ph · 2026-09-28 · 294 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time · hn · 2026-01-08 · 161 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Claude Meter · hn · 2026-02-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Codex Usage · ph · 2026-09-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Mac menu bar app for Claude Code rate limits · hn · 2026-04-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- ClaudeUsage · hn · 2026-02-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Mino · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- AI Usage Tracker · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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