ftop
A small, quiet system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs: one floating glass panel that works at any size.
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Details
- External ID
- 1408023234
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ftop
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 153
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.90
- Tags
- apple-silicon, macos, swift, system-monitor
Enrichment
- Niche
- hardware monitoring and diagnostic tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- system monitor for apple silicon macs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A floating macOS system monitor can be implemented in SwiftUI using standard macOS Mach host statistics and sysctl APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 766 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #92 of 767 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- Wokyintosh · github · 2026-09-09 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- glance · github · 2026-10-05 · 64 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- MacBook-Duo · github · 2026-09-11 · 127 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- foldelight · github · 2026-09-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- MoniVol · github · 2026-09-27 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- DisplayMux · github · 2026-09-11 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- timebar · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Kipless · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
Other launches for this product
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