Dotmeter
A Mac system monitor that shows who, not just how much
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Dotmeter lives in the menu bar and opens a window for the full picture: which app is using the processor, graphics, memory, disk, network and power, how hot the Mac runs, and what is on every USB port. It also acts on what it shows: uninstall an app with what it left behind, see which ports are open, and find the cable that is slowing a drive down. Ask Claude or GPT about it with your own key. Free, open source, signed and notarized by Apple.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Partial A menu-bar dashboard and app uninstaller are vibe-codeable in Swift, but per-process GPU, power, SMC temperature, and USB details rely on low-level and partly private macOS APIs that are hard to get right without deep platform knowledge.
What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/SwiftUI menu-bar app that reads metrics through IOKit, the SMC, host_statistics, and powermetrics-style interfaces, with a privileged helper for sensitive data. The hard parts are reliable per-process GPU and energy attribution across macOS versions, accurate thermal sensor mapping on different Mac models, and safe uninstall logic that won't break the system. It also needs code signing, notarization, and testing across hardware generations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 413 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #224 of 414 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 375 days after the earliest competitor.
- Multimeter · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MacMonitor · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- ThermPort · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Pyre — System monitoring for your Mac · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- MacMetric · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables · hn · 2026-05-01 · 566 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- tinyStats · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- mectrics · ph · 2026-07-31 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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