iStat Menus is a Mac utility that displays various system performance details in your Menu Bar. With its help, you can monitor your CPU usage, sensors temperature, fan speed, weather information for your current area, and many others.
The main window of the program gives you access to various settings which can easily be configured even by a beginner. You can choose which type of information is to be monitored and displayed on your Menu Bar, enable screen notifications if needed, select the update frequency for the offered details, etc.
In my testing, I monitored CPU usage, weather details, and the temperature of my system sensors, The program offered me real-time accurate information, without slowing down the performance of my system in the process.
The only thing that didn't work properly while testing the utility was the Weather tool. It failed to identify my current location and display weather information automatically. Instead, I had to go to the main window of the program and search my location in the Weather tab. Still, this isn't a big deal since it's fixable.
In conclusion, you should try iStat Menus on your Mac if you're looking for an easy way to monitor the performance of your system. This program provides you with accurate information, uses minimum CPU resources while running on your Mac, and comes with a reasonable price.
v5.1 [Apr 3, 2015]
- Improved performance and reduced memory usage.
- Improved support for 5k iMacs.
- Added support for 2015 MacBook Airs.
- Added support for 2015 13-inch MacBook Pro.
- Added ability to have different skin settings for light and dark menu bar modes in Yosemite.
- Added more memory details when using Memory Pressure mode.
- Added an option to show activity for individual disks in the Menu Bar.
- Added an option to show activity for each disk in a fusion drive in the disks drop-down.
- Added ability to rename cities.
- Added an option to only show MB/s or Mb/s for bandwidth in the Menu Bar.
- Added new hardware info to network connection submenus.
- Fixed some issues where disk activity was missing for some disks.
- Fixed an issue with disk activity not working with SoftRAID disks.
- Fixed an issue where disks could show 0KB free.
- Fixed an issue with 12-hour time formats if system is set to 24-hour time.
- Fixed an issue in the network extra where the primary interface setting may not have been working correctly in the Menu Bar.
- Improved per app network monitoring on Yosemite.
- Improved GPU monitoring.
- Improved disk activity monitoring.
- Improved layout in disks drop-down when a disk has multiple partitions.
- Improved display of some Menu Bar text modes in Yosemite.
- Improved event dots in calendar.
- Improved moon item display when using Simple city layout.
- Improved city database.
