[HN Gopher] Stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar
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Stats - macOS system monitor in your menu bar
Author : LeoPanthera
Score : 91 points
Date : 2025-01-30 19:37 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| herrkanin wrote:
| I've been for many years a happily paying customer of iStat Menus
| [1], from which this seem to be the heavily inspired of.
|
| [1] https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
| aucisson_masque wrote:
| Been using stats for 4 years now, never had any issue with it.
| why pay when something free and open source is available.
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| I paid for it, and paid for one upgrade, but stats looks like
| it covers all of what I am interested in.
| imagetic wrote:
| I've lost count of how many years I've owned a Bjango license.
| Amazing software.
| bolognafairy wrote:
| One, two, three...Christ, 16 years here. This made me feel
| terrible. Thanks!
| varenc wrote:
| ++ to this rec.
|
| I've tried Stats over the years as the project has evolved and
| I keep coming back to iStat Menus. Stats feels _very_ inspired
| by iStats Menus 's design as well. The one thing I appreciate
| about Stats though is support more SMC sensor values.
| karianna wrote:
| I'm being lazy (am an iStats user), has anyone here compared the
| two?
| jamesmackennon wrote:
| I swapped from stats to iStats a few years ago. I've found
| stats to be easier to customize and the UI is more uniform.
| That said, it doesn't have the weather widget, so I've kept
| iStats around solely for its weather functionality.
| swrobel wrote:
| I assume you mean you went iStats -> stats
| reaperducer wrote:
| A weather widget is built-in to macOS now.
|
| System Settings > Control Center > Weather
| maattdd wrote:
| I switched from iStats to stats like 1 year ago. I found it
| more responsive (and free). I'm using Vetero for the weather
| functionality.
| TMWNN wrote:
| For me Stats replaced MenuMeters, which has not been updated
| lately.
| ithkuil wrote:
| Menumeters still works for me on the latest MacOS (actually
| it's some fork of menumeters)
|
| What does this have that menumeters hasn't?
| tanvach wrote:
| I've just switched, mainly it works 100% while some menumeter
| sensors do not show up on the menu bar for me. The drop down
| menu is also much more informative and modern with charts.
| ge96 wrote:
| Windows doesn't have a programmable equivalent does it? Last time
| I messed around with this stuff I got by with an Electron app and
| using browser desktop notifications but I think I couldn't
| actually modify the taskbar/put icons somewhere.
| doug_life wrote:
| Are there any equivalents that work in Windows 11? There were a
| handful that worked in previous versions of Windows but lots of
| them won't work in W11 and those that say they do are risky
| installs.
| grishka wrote:
| Heh, I installed this and immediately found out that
| "LegacyScreenSaver" has leaked 40 GB of memory.
| sammcgrail wrote:
| are you on a work laptop? A lot of times they have screensavers
| for intel arch, and apple silicon might have something to do
| with this problem
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| I brew installed but it didn't come up in my menubar. Just
| restarted my Mac and now I see it. I'm too lazy to make a PR to
| update the docs though right now.
|
| Edit: I just see the battery widget not any of the other ones.
| This is a confusing onboarding experience.
|
| Edit2: ah, they were all hidden because of Macs crap UX on
| menubar space. No indication there are more menu item. What a
| poor design decision Mac.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| Yeah, it's really bad UX how icons simply don't show up if
| there's no room on macOS. There should at least be a spillover.
|
| Back in the day I paid for https://www.macbartender.com/ to get
| these features.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| Thanks, I'm totally gonna try that!
| Khaine wrote:
| You can also use Ice[1], which does the same thing and is
| open source
|
| [1] https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice
| freehorse wrote:
| Alright, bet. Wanna make your Mac menu bar less clunky? Here's
| the tea. Pop these commands in your terminal to tighten it up:
| defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing
| -int 8 defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain
| NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8
|
| Changed your mind? No cap, just undo it with these:
| defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing
| defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain
| NSStatusItemSelectionPadding
|
| Then, log out and back in. Boom, you're golden.
| theoreticalmal wrote:
| Ick
| bolognafairy wrote:
| stickin out ya notch for the rizzler
| evanjrowley wrote:
| I had a neat program like this for Windows in the early 2000s.
| Got it from a Microsoft engineer who unfortunately I lost contact
| with. It must have been the lightest-weight resource monitor
| program to have ever existed for Windows NT, 2000, CE, and XP.
| Basically it took the Task Manager's resource meters, displayed
| them transparently, and set them on the upper-right corner of the
| screen.
| floydnoel wrote:
| reminds me of power tools
| tcdent wrote:
| I like that I was able to style these with a super minimal theme
| in my menu bar that gives me a glance at what my system is up to
| and if it's outside normal parameters.
|
| Have been using this for about a year now without issue.
| sammcgrail wrote:
| Can it beat istat?
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| Cool. I used to pay for iStat Menus, but one day I got a new
| laptop and couldn't figure out how to download the old version I
| had bought a license for.
|
| IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all
| times and, on top of that, the top 5 apps consuming each one of
| them. It should be a default feature of computing devices by now,
| but it's so far from that which only benefits bad actors
| (resource hogs, bad software). I shouldn't have to launch
| activity monitor every time I want such basic info.
|
| I'll try this out.
| kennysoona wrote:
| The lack of a systray on MacOS is one of the reasons I really
| hate the interface. Stuff like this can partly make up for that.
| kccqzy wrote:
| How is a menu bar app not a substitute for the systray?
| spiantino wrote:
| Stats + Hidden Bar + Brave are my first 3 downloads on any new
| Mac
| mattrighetti wrote:
| I did not know about Hidden Bar, will try that out! I've been
| using Bartender for a long time but that is not free.
| brainzap wrote:
| with macs being so powerful, I am now only monitoring 12 hour
| energy consumption in Activity Monitor
| larusso wrote:
| I needed something like stats back when RAM was an issue on my
| MacBook 2011 (I installed 16Gb even so 8 was the official max
| from Apple) and the n during the 2020ish years before my first
| M series to figure out why my fans started to act up. Now I
| also only need to figure out what eats Batterie.
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