CommunityNews

CommunityNews

Vitals: a tiny macOS process monitor

Vitals is a little Mac app I built recently that shows you which programs are slowing your computer down. It lives in the menu bar, keeping track of resource usage in the background, so you can summon it instantly at the click of a button.

While other tools like Activity Monitor show you each process’ current CPU usage, Vitals shows a per-process CPU graph covering the last 60 seconds. This makes it much easier to track down apps that misbehave sporadically…

This thread was posted by one of our members via one of our news source trackers.

Most Liked

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Not yet but bookmarked it. Not sure I need it; iStat Menus works just fine for that as well.

Where Next?

Popular Macos topics Top

New
First poster: bot
With 2020 now squarely behind us, it’s safe to say that the year didn’t go as anyone planned, but at Panic we somehow managed to release ...
New
First poster: bot
Swift for TensorFlow was an experiment in the next-generation platform for machine learning, incorporating the latest research across mac...
New
First poster: SmithyTT
Joe Biden had a question for Tim Cook: Why, the then-vice president wanted to know, couldn’t Apple make the iPhone in the U.S.? It was Ja...
New
First poster: AstonJ
Vitals is a little Mac app I built recently that shows you which programs are slowing your computer down. It lives in the menu bar, keepi...
New
First poster: bot
Beautiful calculator for Mac. Numi is a beautiful text calculator for Mac. This thread was posted by one of our members via one of o...
New
First poster: bot
This is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scriptin...
New
New
First poster: maxmannen
Generate images from text using Stable Diffusion 1.5. Simply describe the image you desire, and the app will generate it for you like mag...
New
New

Other popular topics Top

Devtalk
Hello Devtalk World! Please let us know a little about who you are and where you’re from :nerd_face:
New
AstonJ
If it’s a mechanical keyboard, which switches do you have? Would you recommend it? Why? What will your next keyboard be? Pics always w...
New
siddhant3030
I’m thinking of buying a monitor that I can rotate to use as a vertical monitor? Also, I want to know if someone is using it for program...
New
AstonJ
You might be thinking we should just ask who’s not using VSCode :joy: however there are some new additions in the space that might give V...
New
AstonJ
I ended up cancelling my Moonlander order as I think it’s just going to be a bit too bulky for me. I think the Planck and the Preonic (o...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Build highly interactive applications without ever leaving Elixir, the way the experts do. Let LiveView take care of performance, scalabi...
New
mafinar
This is going to be a long an frequently posted thread. While talking to a friend of mine who has taken data structure and algorithm cou...
New
DevotionGeo
I have always used antique keyboards like Cherry MX 1800 or Cherry MX 8100 and almost always have modified the switches in some way, like...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Build modern server-driven web applications using htmx. Whatever programming language you use, you’ll write less (and cleaner) code. ...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Fight complexity and reclaim the original spirit of agility by learning to simplify how you develop software. The result: a more humane a...
New