Nerdtool allows you to display many things directly on top of your desktop; weather reports, headline news, and system vitals are just a few uses.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
BitBar Alternatives
BitBar is described as 'The BitBar app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. And it's completely free. An impressive number of plugins have already been contributed by a wide range of developers just like you, and this site makes it easy to find them' and is an app in the system & hardware category. There are more than 25 alternatives to BitBar for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Python and Wayland apps. The best BitBar alternative is Rainmeter, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BitBar are Stats, Wigify, Conky and ViBox.
Alternatives list
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE Plasma
31 MiniUsage alternativesMiniUsage displays various data like CPU usage, amount of network flow, battery status and process names which uses much CPU time in a menubar. It takes little space and can display various data, so it's suitable for notebook.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
Lightweight macOS menu bar utility providing live CPU, memory, disk, network, battery, and thermal state monitoring, supporting Apple Silicon and Intel hardware, with customizable interface options, low resource usage, and strong privacy protections.
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Offers modular monitoring of CPU, Memory, Network, Disk, Battery, GPU, Bluetooth, Temperature, and Fans, each configurable and reorderable, with menu bar integration, notifications for low battery or storage, keyboard shortcuts, and color theme adaptation.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
The best Windows Task Manager, macOS Activity Monitor, and Linux System Monitor alternative. A modern, cross-platform process manager to monitor CPU, memory, GPU, and more in real-time.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
+2
A magical creature lives in your menu bar — it might be a game character, a playful puppy, or something entirely unique. And it never stops running!
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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Pluto is a highly refined and customizable at-a-glance system monitor for your Mac. Keep track of what's going on behind the scenes without dropping what you're currently doing.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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Beaconly is a flexible, easy to use data aggregating menu app that ties relevant information to you, beautifully one click-away in your macOs menu bar. Easily discover status of AWS, your Jira Tickets, and so much more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
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AnyBar is a small indicator for your menubar that does one simple thing: it displays a colored dot. What the dot means and when to change it is up to you.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
Your iPad and iPhone show you when apps are using your network. So why can't your Mac? Sure, there's always the Network section in Activity Monitor, but that's far from ideal. At best you can group by All Processes, Hierarchically, sort by Rcvd Bytes, and check the...
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Argos is a clone of Bitbar for Linux.