Overall iStat Menus 5 is a worthy upgrade if you own previous versions of the app. There’s an option to have all monitors displayed in a compbined dropdown as well if you really like going minimal on your menu bar items. The iStat app lets you configure the look and feel and has a continuous animation telling you how to move menu bar items around. I love how this resembles a machine turning on. On launching the app, all switches that were toggled on automatically go from off to on and get a nice tick on them. There are so many small things in the interface that I love. I use Bartender and found myself throwing most non iStat menu bar items out of my menu bar after properly configuring iStat Menus 5 to my liking. Some dropdown items also have toggles so you can now turn wifi off from within the iStat network dropdown. I obviously went with the dark mode and it looks so good that I now have almost everything toggled on just to quickly glance at what’s happening inside the Mac. The dropdown windows for various iStat items can be dark or light. Yosemite’s dark menu bar mode is fully supported with the ability to customize interface elements to your liking. The update adds a whole lot of new features and tweaks. I’m running it on Mavericks on a 2011 MacBook Air and the menu bar items from iStat make the menu bar look like I’m on Yosemite. Everything from the toggle switches to the graphs and colours just fit perfectly together. Today iStat Menus 5 releases and it takes monitoring your Mac to a whole other level. iStat Menus has been around for a long time. Skala Preview is a fantastic app for designers working on iOS and Android. Apps like Pixelmator and Briefs don’t go flat but still look modern and great. Heck even Apple showed off a lovely dark look for the menu bar in Yosemite. Many apps released for OS X use the standard light look and interface colours instead of going for a more modern look. CPU usage, memory, top CPU and memory processes, load averages, disk space and uptime are only ever a single click or swipe gesture away, from any app.If you’ve read my Mac app reviews, you know how much I love dark interfaces. The new iStat Menus widget is a great way to keep your Mac’s vital stats tucked away in Notification Center. It can even remind you of daylight saving changes. This lets you be notified when your public IP has changed, if your internet connection is down, if CPU usage is above 60% for more than 10 seconds, or a near-infinite range of other options. IStat Menus can notify you of an incredibly wide range of events, based on CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors, battery, power and more. Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and Apple wireless keyboard battery levels. Plus, a world clock with sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset times.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. Please note that sensor monitoring requires installing a free add-on from our website.Ī highly configurable date, time and calendar for your menubar, including fuzzy clock, moon phase, and upcoming calendar events. status monitoring, detailed disk I/O, and a variety of different read and write indicators.Ī realtime view of temperatures, hard drive temperatures (where supported), fans, voltages, current and power. See used and free space for multiple disks in your menubar. Advanced bandwidth and interface information is available in the dropdown menu. Monitor bandwidth usage in the menubar as text or graphs. Opening the menu shows a list of the apps using the most memory. 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. Tracked use by individual cores or with all cores combined, to save space. Realtime CPU graphs and a list of the top 5 CPU resource hogs. Each of the dropdown menus provides access to even greater detail including history graphs for access to up to 30 days of data. IStat Menus features a wide range of different menubar text and graph styles that are all completely customizable. iStat Menus is highly configurable, with full support for macOS’ light and dark menubar modes. All in a highly optimised, low resource package. IStat Menus covers a huge range of stats, including a CPU monitor, GPU, memory, network usage, disk usage, disk activity, date & time, battery and more. The most powerful system monitoring app for macOS, right in your menubar.
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