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DESCRIPTION
iStat Menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system.
Some features:
- CPU - Monitor cpu usage. 7 display modes, multiple core support.
- Memory - Monitor memory usage. 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display.
- Disks - Monitor disk usage and activity. 6 display modes, ability to hide disks you dont want to see.
- Network - Monitor current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth, ip addresses . Ability to hide disks you dont want to see.
- Temps - Monitor the temperature of your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.
- Fans - Monitor the fan speeds in your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.
- Bluetooth - Control bluetooth status plus monitor the battery level of your Apple wireless keyboard or mouse.
- Date & Time - Date + time in your menubar. World clock display lets you see the time in multiple locations around the world.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0:
- Mac OS X 10.6 support (requires at least Mac OS X 10.5).
- Aqua skin support in all dropdowns.
- New menubar layout selectors.
- Installer now allows you to install for all users.
- Added option for “Preferences...” item on each dropdown.
- Added red and purple skins.
- Display options for each mode are built into the new layout selector.
- New calendar and world clocks.
- Added over 20,000 new cities to world clock database.
- You can now add custom cities to the world clock database.
- Added several new clock formatters.
- New clock format selector.
- Calendar icon can now be place anywhere.
- Fixed bugs with week number calculations.
- Calendar supports any day as the first day of the week.
- Improved calendar support for countries where weekends are on thursday and friday.
- Date in Date & Time dropdown now uses the full date format as specified in the International or Language & Text preference pane in system preferences.
- Option to group items together for CPU extra.
- Improved CPU dropdown display on 16 core systems.
- Added pie graph mode to CPU.
- Option to limit CPU history graph to 1 item.
- Added Console item to CPU and Memory extras.
- Added pie graph mode to Disk Usage.
- Added disk ejecting.
- Added disk mounting.
- You can now have multiple disks or sensors in the menubar.
- Network disks are now support in Disk Usage extra.
- Added option to use base 10 match for calculating hard drive sizes (same as Finder in 10.6).
- Added Disk Utility item to disks extra.
- Added new Activity extra for disk activity.
- New Sensors extra replaces the Temperatures and Fans & Electrics extras.
- Option to hide “rpm” suffix from menubar display for fans.
- Fixed bug with “disable on battery” option for S.M.A.R.T drive temperature monitoring.
- Support for battery cell voltages.
- Added Overlay graph type to Network extra.
- Added option to scale network graphs to visible peak.
- Added network location switching.
- Added dot mode to Network & Activity extras.
- Improved support for 2009 Mac Pros.
- Removed Bluetooth extra (most features will be included in a new extra later on).
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
| SCREENSHOT
| Developer: | iSlayer |
| Downloads: | 56,018 |
| - Version d/l: | 13,564 |
| Utilities: | System |
| License: | Free |
| Date: | 03 Sep 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
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| iStat Menus User Reviews (52 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 8 2008 |
MICHAEL VILAIN I've been using MenuMeters forever and switched to iStat menus for the last couple months. I've found a fundamental problem with iStat menus with the most current release of Little Snitch (2.0.1) in that the Little Snitch daemon will start hogging CPU seemingly at random. I ripped out iStat menus and the problem goes away. I think something in the network monitoring of iStat menus is affecting Little Snitch. Since I consider Little Snitch a "must have", I'm back to MenuMeters and my system hasn't had a problem since.
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 | Sep 4 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Another free treasure. One of the few apps to win a coveted spot in my menubar. Unlike some of the other system monitoring apps, iStat Menus has a lovely, logical interface that packs just the right amount of info without looking too cluttered. I love the way you can configure it to show exactly how much or little info you choose. iStat makes it easy to tell at a glance if my RAM is getting too hot -- which happened to me just last week, in fact. Turns out I had a couple of bad 2GB sticks. Thanks iStat! My donation is on the way :) Tested and working great so far in Snow Leopard.
(Version 2.0) | |
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| Sep 3 2009 |
MISHA Yaaaay! So glad to have this back on 10.6!
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 | Aug 27 2009 |
UNCLE_ZED Best monitoring app ever.. waiting for SL version. | |
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| Jun 6 2008 |
PMCARRION Best menubar utillity ever! Just uninstalled MenuMeters.
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| Sep 4 2009 |
GARY30 Excellent. Lots of info taking up very little space! Would like to see the Icon Only as an option as in previous versions, rather than Icon plus Text. Just a quibble, though.
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| Sep 3 2009 |
MALEFICIO67 Excellent update for Snow Leopard. Program is perfect, light acting, no over-using of ressources and beautifully interfaced. Very very nice and useful !
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| Sep 1 2009 |
ITISTODAY Running the Snow Leopard build, and while I'd love to love this app because of its beautiful UI, pretty graphs, and lists of the top 5 memory/CPU users (etc.), I can't because it has one cardinal sin: it hogs too much CPU. A stat viewer app should be super efficient since it runs in the background all the time. This one idles between 0.9-1.7% CPU usage when it shouldn't be doing anything (no displays are up). MenuMeters seems to be more efficient, so I'm going to stick with that for now. As the SL build is beta ATM, I won't give this a rating yet, otherwise I'd take off 2 stars for that.
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| Sep 3 2009 |
TRONDAH I can't understand why you'd want to take off 2 stars for 1.7% cpu. Just running top in a terminal takes up over 4%!
(Version 2.0) | |
| Sep 3 2009 |
MACNERD1984 Have to agree with Trondah - Under 2% is hardly bogging your system down and I'd think it'd be harsh to drop 2 stars for that.... Love this app - Well written, looks beautiful and it's free; what's not to like?!
(Version 2.0) | |
| Sep 3 2009 |
ITISTODAY Please read my comment again, iStat isn't supposed to be doing *anything* in that situation. When it's not giving you any information, it should be idle at 0%. Top, yes, does take 4% by default, but when you run it it's *doing something*. Top also doesn't have to take 4%. This top command will run at 1.2%, and it's grabbing a whole lot of information: top -ocpu -R -F -s 2 -n30 They could improve performance by fetching only the information that's being displayed at the moment.
(Version 2.0) | |
| Oct 15 2009 |
DOUG ENGELBART iStat Menu is what Apple should have implemented a dozen years ago. Now I finally can diplay date/time in the alphanumerical form "YYYY-MMDD-HHmm". This was impossible in Apple's "date & time" which can only show the time in the MenuBar, but not the date (try it)! Shame, Apple! :—) iStat's network bandwidth display is essential and beautiful, too, you can even change the bandwidth layout by dragging the ^/v-symbol etc.pp. And iStat's disk eject menu is also better than Apple's...
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| Oct 8 2009 |
ROD76 Love this application & its iPhone companion! I would recommend this to anyone who wants a system monitor that's always in view and uses very little system resources. As an added bonus its menu items link to the system applications they relate to. iStat Menus looks absolutely amazing, any features that a competitor might have over it can not overcome its polish and quality. A couple of things that would make it better would be an option for a Blinking Time Separator (for the Clock) and an option for combined Fahrenheit & Celsius (for the Temp Section). That would be a great way to get used to Celsius if you're seeing it next to the units you learned in school and relate to.
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