Boost
Free Mac menu bar app for memory and disk
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Boost shows what's really using your Mac's memory, pauses apps instead of quitting them, and only cleans caches that rebuild themselves. Free and open source (GPL-3.0), no account, no telemetry. macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel.
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PH · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Mac
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes A Mac menu bar app is built in Swift with AppKit or SwiftUI, reading memory stats through Mach and system APIs. Pausing apps via signals and cleaning caches are feasible, though it needs careful macOS system knowledge.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #151 of 537 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 332 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Hardly Working · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- MacPrune · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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