iStat Menus Alternatives

iStat Menus is described as 'System monitor for Mac tracking CPU, GPU, network, sensors, disks, memory, and weather with menubar stats, notifications, privacy options, and custom views' and is a very popular system information utility in the system & hardware category. There are more than 50 alternatives to iStat Menus for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best iStat Menus alternative is HWiNFO (32/64). It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try HWiNFO (32/64) or Stats. Other great apps like iStat Menus are Open Hardware Monitor, SpeedFan, Sidebar Diagnostics and MacThrottle.

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  1. CPU Thermometer is one free CPU temperature monitor; it can help you monitor your computer CPU temperature in live time. Program can start with Windows start-up, and show live CPU temperature in your desktop tray icon, so you get this important system information at a glance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. OCAT icon
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    Open source utility for Windows featuring real-time performance overlays, frame rate analytics, support for Direct3D 11, 12, and Vulkan, detailed offline analysis via PresentMon, low system overhead, hotkey-triggered recording, and customizable overlay options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. CatWalk icon
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    A simple plasmoid showing the total CPU usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
     
  4. SysMetrix icon
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    SysMetrix is a skinnable clock and metering application. Its purpose is to provide system metrics in a variety of interesting, useful, and cool ways. It can monitor and report on the hundreds of statistics

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Beaconly icon
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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
     
  6. ZetaWatch icon
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    ZetaWatch is a small OS X program that displays the zfs status in the menu bar, similar to what iStat Menus does for other information. It is fairly well tested, but due to the current state of libzfs and libzfs_core, changes will be required until the API stabilizes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Juicy icon
     1 like

    Native modern macOS battery app with customizable alerts, charge limiting, health tracking and per-app energy insights for your Mac and all its devices. Juicy lives in your Mac menu bar.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. MiniUsage icon
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    MiniUsage 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
     
  9. AppHalt icon
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    Pause unused apps to boost performance. AppHalt lets you freeze background activity, reduce CPU load, and extend battery life.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Loading icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. YAFI is another GUI for the Framework Laptop Embedded Controller. It is written in Python with a GTK4 Adwaita theme, and uses the CrOS_EC_Python library to communicate with the EC.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Python
    • Flatpak
     
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