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.
v6.0 [Sep 8, 2017]
- General: Added light and dark vibrant dropdown themes.
- General: Added new localizations. Main app and status items are now localized in 36 languages.
- General: Added option to temporarily pause iStat Menus.
- General: Added configureable notifications.
- General: Added hotkey support for each dropdown.
- General: Added ability to customize the order of each dropdown.
- General: Added ability to hide sections in each dropdown.
- General: Added single user install mode.
- General: Added extra slow update frequency.
- General: Added larger and more detailed history graphs with tooltips.
- General: Added support for automatically installing updates (can be disabled).
- General: Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
- General: Added option to use light graph backgrounds with light dropdowns.
- General: Added Notification Centre widget.
- General: Added an option to use a narrower font in menubar text modes.
- General: Improved history graphs to cover last 30 days.
- General: Improved voiceover support.
- General: Improved launcher — iStat Menus icon in dropdowns will now launch a specific preferences tab.
- General: Improved and reduced width of menubar text modes.
- General: Improved user interface design.
- General: Improved app icon.
- Weather: Added a brand new weather item with 7 day forecasts, hourly forecasts, notifications and more.
- Combined: Added new dropdown with more information.
- CPU & GPU: Added hotkey support.
- CPU & GPU: Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
- CPU & GPU: Added list of processes that require discrete GPU.
- CPU & GPU: Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
- CPU & GPU: Added ability to show notifications based on CPU usage.
- CPU & GPU: Added ability to show notifications based on load average.
- CPU & GPU: Added ability to show notifications when active GPU changes.
- CPU & GPU: Added ability to reset menubar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
- CPU & GPU: Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
- CPU & GPU: Added CPU temperature.
- CPU & GPU: Added CPU frequency (requires Intel kext).
- CPU & GPU: Added GPU frequency for intel GPU’s (requires Intel kext).
- CPU & GPU: Added new GPU menubar modes.
- CPU & GPU: Added circular CPU graph menubar mode.
- CPU & GPU: Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
- Memory: Added hotkey support.
- Memory: Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
- Memory: Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
- Memory: Added paging indicator modes for menubar.
- Memory: Improved memory usage display in dropdown.
- Memory: Improved page in/out to report usage per second.
- Memory: Improved swap history graph to show space used instead of percentage of available swap.
- Memory: Added ability to reset menubar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
- Memory: Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
- Memory: Added ability to show notifications based on memory pressure.
- Memory: Added ability to show notifications based on free memory.
- Memory: Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
- Memory: Added circular graph menubar mode.
- Disks: Added hotkey support.
- Disks: Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
- Disks: Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
- Disks: Added ability to reset menubar graph colors and text settings to defaults.
- Disks: Improved “Disks to show in menubar” will now retain disks that are not connected instead of removing them.
- Disks: Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
- Disks: Added ability to show notifications based on free space for each drive.
- Disks: Added ability to show notifications based on used percentage for each drive.
- Disks: Added ability to show notifications when S.M.A.R.T. status changes for a drive.
- Disks: Added options to change colors in dropdown graphs.
- Disks: Added circular graph menubar mode.
- Network: Added hotkey support.
- Network: Added internet status to network, as a status dot mode.
- Network: Added ability to customize dropdown order and hide sections.
- Network: Added option to configure how many processes are shown.
- Network: Added country flag to public IP field based on location.
- Network: Added ability to manually reset total upload/download figures.
- Network: Improved process list — it will now show frozen processes in red.
- Network: Added ability to show notifications when primary interface changes.
- Network: Added ability to show notifications when IP address changes.
- Network: Added ability to show notifications when public IP address changes.
- Network: Added ability to show notifications when wifi network changes.
- Network: Added Wi-Fi physical mode details to Airport details in submenu.
- Network: Added Wi-Fi channel bandwidth to Airport details in submenu.
- Network: Added BSSID to Airport details in submenu.
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