NONTROPPO  Wow, a really nice app. Very useful graphical display and very low resource usage and stable. I normally use iStat Menus, but sometimes would prefer something more like a normal app I can run and not have to uninstall if I don't want it running. This does the job perfectly.  
(Version 2.1.2)

TESLANAUT  Autoupdate (Sparkle) in the future?  
(Version 2.1.2)

DJEFIS  Sorry, but I don't understand how the world is heavy like a stone.

I have seen five Star for MenuMeters that is a Dinosaur compared to atMonitor . . . .

Which is the only problem?

That atMonotor is so fine and Professional that, probably one day, it will become shareware (?).

But, at the moment it is free and it could show you how should be a software of this category.

We must choose not to endear us to the past.

Thanks.  
(Version 2.1)

NABBER  Bug: When trying to adjust the NET font size, CPU & RAM are adjusted, not NET. This applies to other things too but I haven't messed with this much.

Nice alternative to MenuMeters!  
(Version 2.1)

DOOBIEXX  Great app, through and through. Free so please donate to keep this app going. Offers many extra features that activity monitor doesn't. Could be a complete replacement or a supplement but your sure to find something you like out of it. Very functional and well laid out and intuitive for the average user to grasp full control over their "machine." Thank you atMornitor team!  
(Version 2.0.1)

RADIORHAEEM  Excellent, excellent, excellent :)

Never thought I'd be replacing the main Activity Monitor, but this fits the bill.  
(Version 2.0)

VECC  Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much.  
(Version 2.0)

TRONDAH  How do I make it run in the background without a dock icon? I just want it to sit in the menubar.  
(Version 2.0)

MORPE  "Application not Responding"

on iMac G5

:°°°  
(Version 2.0)

JIMBLU  nice improvements with the themes. very very nice. i did spend about an hour making the menu bar activity viewer black and white and gray so it would look nice with the other apple icons. when i downloaded this new one it said my prefs were no good anymore. no matter-- i am really liking the text theme. this app is so great. now just get rid of those dotted bars that separate cpu, ram, net, etc. and make it so i can make the text size 12 under net view--i'll stretch the window and make it work. could it show Airport as well as a wired connection too (at the same time)? the pref the tells it to look up application descriptions @ iusethis dot com gives me all sorts of warning signs in the Top Window--mostly about root stuff-- i figure that's because apple's inner gut root stuff is not posted at iusethis dot com.

in my last review of this app it cut off half my post, but it was like you read my mind as to my request. i guess everybody will shut up now about this not being as pretty as iStat Pro/Menus.

i know it's not your intention because this app is a developer app and does so much more than iState pro, but you are blowing away my all-time favorite widget.

thanks so much for making this application-- you are obviously a developer's developer.

jim  
(Version 2.0)

JILL PAT  This is one hell of a monitor. I really like the customization possibilities.

Much better then the standard Activity Monitor.

Nuff said! This is THE monitor for OS X and it is free too.

Also works on OS X 10.6 without a problem. Always nice..  
(Version 1.60)

FALSTAFFA  I have used MenuMeters and iStat Menus for years, I recently began using atMonitor (V 1.60) and find it very useful and elegant, while I prefer not to employ its Menu bar display capability and instead use the floating activity viewer window, I would like to be able to toggle it between vertical and horizontal display at will via customizable keyboard shortcuts. Other than this missing convenience feature, I find it to be an excellent tool amongst its peers, overall atMonitor is a highly recommendable tool.   
(Version 1.60)

TRONDAH  Great app, but the menubar looks kinda crappy compared to iStat menus.  
(Version 1.60.0)

TESLANAUT  Please allow placement on Right Side of the menubar area?  
(Version 1.60.0)

LAMPOON  This one fine app. Kinda Activity Monitor on steroids. :-)

Thumbs up and highly recommended.

FYI: also works fine with OS X 10.6  
(Version 1.50.1)

JIMBLU  this has become my favorite application of this type. i've been a macuser for around 20 years so i've used many of them as i've wondered the hallowed halls of versiontracker and now the better mactracker. i'm not a developer or anything like that, but i like to keep an eye on things like cpu, ram, network, etc. --and i can sure see how every developer would love and need this app.

man where to start... this little application is so customizable in every way and does so much...

--i'm a minimalist and i love how i can shrink this thing down to my single favorite process in the menu bar and then expand it to the favorite ones of my choosing--collapse/expand. and the nice intuitive options to further change the menu bar view by right or left clicking, depending on how you got your mouse set up, right under each process is very nice indeed.

--the wealth of information in the drop-downs under each menu bar option is perfect-- not too much, not too little.

--very complete and easily understandable information under the Net View drop-down --more complete than even iStat Menus --essential information.

--the ability to purge my ram under the Ram View --helpful in so many ways.

for what this application does in the menu bar, it is so customizable it has a small learning curve and it might cause some users to shy away from it. the drop- downs are not only filled with helpful and essential information but they are useful too-- like the option to purge your ram.

--the floating window is just as nice if you like that type of thing.

--the dock icon is also customizable. if you like to keep your dock viewable, you can keep an eye on the cpu in the menu bar and the ram in the dock with the smallest possible loss of screen real estate. --or vice -versa, or an amazing combination of two processes.

if you want to use up desktop space the Top Window is as thorough as it gets -- this is where i imagine it shines as a developer app. i use it for the occasional kill of an app that's hanging--but each process in the Top View has six columns of information with it in the bottom half of the window and the top half has everything you could possibility want to know about what is highlighted in the bottom half, and all its associated files-- all in a window that is very, very well organized. above that is a row of seven buttons with common and useful functions-- like kill. ...a nice search window.

atMonitor's application drop-downs on the right side of your screen are not wasted either. there's a Utility drop-down from where you can launch Apple's Activity Monitor, along with many other Apple Developer Utilities if you have them installed. also there is a System Info drop-down with geeky developer information about your system, some of which you might need to know at one time or another --like how your mac is connecting to the internet or your Startup Services --   
(Version 1.19)

SIBSCANA  Just great. The app are beautifull, has all the functions and pretty fast comparable to others. Even MenuMeters are beaten. Thank you vm  
(Version 1.19)

MORPE  wow!!

great App!

CPU temperature on old iMac G5??

option to disable floating always on top??  
(Version 1.19)

SUPPORT@ATPURPOSE.COM  Q: Please add a CPU usage totals as 100xCPU count, like Activity monitor.

A: Excellent suggestion. We'll consider this for the next release.

Q. Also, the bars are quite wide. It would be nice if they could occupy the standard square width ...

A. Menu bar views can be resized by placing cursor on the edge of a view and then dragging it (live resizing) right in the menu bar.

Q. ... have an option to show CPU cores as individual bars.

A. There is an option to display bars instead of histogram - see the "Activity Viewer" panel in atMonitor's preferences.  
(Version 1.18)

BEIGE  This is the only CPU menu monitor that currently works with Snow Leopard and so I'd like to ask the dev to add a few things that I think would make it a little more usable. Please add a CPU usage totals as 100xCPU count, like Activity monitor. It's hard to tell how many CPUs are being used by a process when it reads "12%." Also, the bars are quite wide. It would be nice if they could occupy the standard square width and have an option to show CPU cores as individual bars.  
(Version 1.18)

DOOBIEXX  I have to say, I have used this app for a long time now, not as a complete replacement for istat but for it's other great features like it's quick access to utilities and also the logging. Heck, you can't buy it yet. It is essentially freeware until the final release. I don't think this app deserves the criticism below. The developer has been updating this app constantly and with every update we get more features with less system resources needed. Memory usage is way too much, but for now it is still a beta... let the dev continue to perfect his product before charging for it like many other developers. Look at it from a different angle. It's not nearly as bad as you claim. You can't ask for more than constant updates, which the app gets, so.... I like it, and I think it has a very bright future. Give the dev a chance, quit with the 1 star ratings and give the dev inspiration, not discouraging remarks. My opinion, nothing more, nothing less.  
(Version 1.18)

AZTEC.WARRIOR  In Short: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME !

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Although I have been using iStat Menus and iStat Pro for a while and always load them on any Mac I use, I am always open to newer and better. This is unfortunately not the case with atMonitor. In fact it looks like it is 15 years old. I was very surprised by the poor UI design, the limited preference selection and the overall poor implementation.

I will largely compare this app to iStat Menus and iStat Pro as those are what I use. atMonitor combines the capability of having both iStat Menus and iStat Pro. I will address each aspect seperately.

Similar to iStat Menus it provides several monitors that can be displayed 100% of the time on the menu bar. Clicking (or hovering over) these displays provides additional information. Not surprisingly the values reported are virtually identical. There was a discrepancy with the CPU temperature but I suspect that it had to do with the update interval.

There is one major difference between the full monitor component and iStat Pro in that iStat Pro displays in your dashboard and atMonitor displays as a floating window on your desktop. The preference here will probably vary by individual. Personally, I prefer the dashboard implementation as it is easier to display/hide as required but I can also see other view points. One may want to view the monitors actively (especially process resource utilization) while working on something - say a program being developed and debugged. I did find that iStat Pro provides more features and a much cleaner UI.

Overall, I have to recommend that folks stay away from this software as it uses more resources than competing products (which are free) and has a limited feature set as compared to say using a combination of iStat Pro and iStat Menus. I am not sure how the author is going to entice people to pay for the "Pro" version when it is released. Even at free, I would still recommend everyone stay away. The only hope is that the developer makes significant improvements before this is released.   
(Version 1.17.1)

RAMPANCY  I really wish I could get some info on future pricing of this app.   
(Version 1.15b)

MAJOR MAUSER  Nice little program. Sort of like an activity viewer deluxe. Does not go as far as Istat pro. But if the developer adds some interactivity to the Activity Window like expanded info or click able icons of you top memory hog programs... the program would be even better.  
(Version 1.0.9)