![]() ![]() I do have a directly purchased license, bought some time ago (v4?) and upgraded when needed. But I am not sure what would happen when version 7 is released (hopefully distant future) with no upgrade pricing on App Store. Multiple core support with 7 display modes. KEY FEATURES INCLUDE: CPU: You can monitor CPU usage. iStat Menus gives you information on your system temperature, system fans and Bluetooth. for me, the App Store would be quite a bit cheaper. The application has clean, crisp and clear menubar icons and dropdown menus. If my calculations are right direct purchase in AU$19.31 (plus a small bank fee), whilst the App Store is AU$14.99 but reduce by 10% Apple Card discount to AU$12.40. The price comparison is complex - 1) exchange rate, 2) 10% tax (GST in Australia - but it already included in the price in this case), 3) when I purchase from Apple I have saved 10% by buying discount Apple Cards. Yes, download the whole app from Bjango is my preferred way. It then installs the special helper apps to run when you login. If I remember rightly, the first time you run iStat Menus downloaded from the web site, you are asked to give your administrator password. The two processes are called iStatMenusDaemon and iStatMenusFans - you can see them in Activity Monitor and they run as root user. Rather than give the whole app root privileges, it is best practice to put the code that requires root privileges into a separate small carefully debugged "helper" app, whilst the main app runs with just user privileges. To read all the sensor data (or to set fans), requires root privileges. Plus, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and Apple wireless keyboard battery levels.No, the "helper" app runs in the background automatically. Plus, a world clock with sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset times for over 120,000 cities.ĭetailed info on your battery’s current state and a highly configurable menu item that can change if you’re draining, charging, or completely charged. Open iStat Menus’ calendar to display upcoming events, or events for any day. Fan speeds can be controlled, with different rules when on battery power, if you’d like.Ī highly configurable date, time and calendar for your menubar, including fuzzy clock and moon phase. Realtime listings of the sensors in your Mac, including temperatures, hard drive temperatures (where supported), fans, voltages, current and power. If you’d like to view temperatures, fan speeds, and view other stats, please download and run the iStat Menus Helper. Detailed disk I/O in your menubar, displayed as a graph, a variety of different read and write indicators, or both. If you purchased iStat Menus 5 on or after 1 July 2017, please get in touch and well give you a free license for iStat Menus 6. status monitoring and more detail for all your disks is only a click away. ![]() See used and free space for multiple disks in your menubar. Opening the menu shows a list of the apps using the most memory, and other useful info.Ī realtime graph to keep on top of what’s being sent and received for all network connections, including a bandwidth breakdown for the top 5 apps. Memory stats for your menubar as a pie chart, graph, percentage, bar or any combination of those things. Plus, GPU memory and processor usage on supported Macs, and the active GPU can be shown in the menubar. CPU usage can be tracked by individual cores or with all cores combined, to save menubar space. Realtime CPU graphs and a list of the top 5 CPU resource hogs. Our menubar and dropdown menus are now localised for Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Daylight is now indicated in the clock face (it even fades near sunrise and sunset). Improved GPU monitoring, including active GPU in menubar.Ī vastly improved time menu, with current time, sunrise, noon, sunset, dawn, dusk, sun azimuth, sun altitude, light map and more for over 120,000 cities. ![]() Wi-Fi stats, including channel, signal to noise ratio and many more. Upload and download activity is also shown per-app, making it far easier to track down the biggest bandwidth hogs.įar more detailed network information, including router address, subnet mask, DNS and MAC address. IStat Menus 5 features read and write disk activity on a per-app basis. Menubar graphs can now use dark backgrounds, improving legibility. iStat Menus 6 sports a completely new design - new menubar icons, new dropdown menus, and the app and icon itself have all been redesigned to be cleaner, clearer and more at home on Yosemite. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system. IStat Menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. ![]()
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