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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…

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dimitarvp

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

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