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Sweatpea

Your Mac has a temperature. And a suspect.

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Sweatpea is a little green pea that lives in your Mac's menu bar and reacts to how hard your Mac is working. Chill, warm, sweating, meltdown. Click it and it names the app responsible, explains macOS processes in plain English, and offers a polite Quit. It also tracks memory and storage, and asks you to take a two-minute break every hour. About 1% of one core. No account, no analytics. Free, with Pro at $9.99 once.

PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 7%) · 0 views

Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 312 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Observability & eval
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Mac
  • Productivity
  • Menu Bar Apps

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Could you build this?

Yes A macOS menu bar app that reads process and memory stats through standard system APIs and shows friendly explanations is a well-trodden SwiftUI/AppKit build. The plain-English process explanations can come from a curated lookup table.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 519 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #84 of 520 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.

  • FanBubble · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • Brello · ph · 2026-11-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • Juicy - Mac Battery App · ph · 2026-07-10 · 228 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • ThermPort · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Open Caffeine · ph · 2026-06-01 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • CleanMyApple · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • mectrics · ph · 2026-07-31 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Pumzi · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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