![]() ![]() Great for trouble shooting that MBP you gave your old man. All in a highly optimised, low resource package. These great features are new in iStat Menus 6 Weather with current temperature, hourly forecast. 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. An advanced Mac system monitor for your menubar. iStat Menus 6 allows you to pick the menubar color for the graphs and stats, opacity for the borders, the background color for the dropdowns and dropdown graphs. For me though, Bjango do such a fantastic job and Bjango’s iStat Menus is such an everyday tool that it is just about the only app I am willing to pay a subscription for, and so I do.Įdit: I also should mention that Bjango offers a family pack for multiple macs that is great value ( can’t remember how many but think it was five) and a remote iStat monitoring tool as well. The most powerful system monitoring app for macOS, right in your menubar. iStat Menus has had stunning light and dark themes, but now you can go beyond that and customize the appearance to an extent. With regard to the weather features Bjango have added, they are certainly nice, but there are other menu bar weather apps that also work well and don’t charge a subscription. It can read all the temps, voltages, and rpms, it just cant control the fans. Unfortunately, even though SMC has never had a problem running, iStat Menus refuses to control the fans. You can tell Bjango, the developers of the app love the Mac because of its capabilities and the way it is designed. Well I didnt want 'better' fan control as SMC does work, but since I have iStat Menus running anyway, I was hoping to just condense into one program. The Combined feature is also great for those that can be a bit anal about desktop and menu bar appearance. Fixed an issue with disk activity monitoring on APFS based fusion drives. 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. If you click the Bluetooth icon on the Menu bar and click your AirPods from the list, you can see its battery. Its temperature monitoring and fan speed management for my poor solder crippled GPU is used every day. Added support for second generation AirPods. iStat Menus can notify you of an incredibly wide range of events, based on CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors, battery, power and more. So now that iStat is a paid app (dont get me wrong I like the app but thats not what this thread is about) I went looking for an alternative app with the same functionality, but free :D I came across MenuMeters and it is VERY similar, lightweight, and best of all its free. If you have an old Mac that is slowly dieing, but you want to keep her hobbling along until Apple finally releases an up to date properly flexible and functional replacement, then Bjango’s iStat Menus is indispensable.
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