![]() ![]() ![]() Notifications, based on CPU, network, disk, battery, weather, & other events.Refined menu bar items, dropdowns & other aspects match the new design of macOS 11 Big Sur.Weather with current temperature, hourly forecast, weekly overview & so much more.See used space, free space, and disk activity in your menu bar Detailed info on your battery’s current state & a highly configurable menu item that can change if you’re draining, charging, or completely charged Keep on top of what’s being sent & received for all network connections Highly customizable menu bar clocks, calendar with upcoming events, world clocks with detailed sun and moon info. Extensive memory stats covering usage, history, memory pressure, compressed memory, swap, & a list of the apps using the most memory A realtime listing of the sensors in your Mac, including temperatures, hard drive temperatures (where supported), fans, CPU frequency, GPU frequency (Intel GPUs only), voltages, current & power Highly detailed CPU info, with current usage for individual cores, history graphs, load averages, uptime, CPU frequency, & a list of the apps using the most CPU Weather based on your current location, or for almost any city in the world It features menu bar icon improvements, rounder corners, and a new look for the main app. iStat Menus 6.5 is a significant update with design refinements across the entire app, to ensure it feels at home in macOS Big Sur. iStat Menus is highly configurable, with full support for macOS’ light and dark menubar modes. All in a highly optimized, low-resource package! As well as being easier to theme, iStat Menus 6 introduces new ways to color and style the menu bar icons, menu dropdowns, and graphs. It covers a huge range of stats, including a CPU monitor, GPU, memory, network usage, disk usage, disk activity, date & time, battery, and more. A single license is $18, but the “Family Pack” is $25 and allows you to install on up to 5 Macs.IStat Menus 6 is an advanced Mac system monitor from your menubar. If you’re curious about what’s going on under the hood of your Mac, then you should try iStat Menus. I like most everything set up the same on all my Macs, but there are some tweaks that are different depending upon the machine. I do wish there was a way to sync my settings between my MacBook Air and Mac mini, although they do allow you to export and import settings. And the ability to add TWO lines to your time and date section (it gets really small!).Reorderable (is that a word?) dropdown menus (I like this a lot to further customize the dropdown menus).Weather (although I have several other sources for weather).The ability to combine menus (I actually use iStat Menus to see things at a glance so I don’t see myself using this).But now I assigned ⌃+⌥+⌘+D as the keyboard shortcut to quickly pull that down so I don’t have to move my cursor (hitting the shortcut again hides it or just hit the Esc key). I also like clicking on it to quickly see the month and find a date. For example, I like using iStat Menus to show the time and date because it offers more options for customizing how it looks. I also like that I can assign a hotkey to menus. Version 6 puts a little more polish on the interface and makes all my usual components look a little better.īut version 6 also adds a few more customization options for changing the color and background of the dropdown menus and items. And I really appreciate the granular customizations for time and date.I use it for the advanced battery monitoring.I use it to see how hot my MacBook Air is running.I use it to measure my network connection and see if anything is using more than it should be.I use it to see how much memory (RAM) is being used by open applications.I use it to see if my CPU is getting slammed.I can’t image running a Mac without the most helpful components that sit in my menubar: I’ve been using iStat Menus since at least version 3, and the folks at Bjango just released version 6 last week. If you’re that kind of person, then you’ll love iStat Menus for your Macs. Others like to know their current & average gas mileage, tire inflation, remaining oil life, brake wear, temperature, battery charge level, and more. Some people just drive a car and don’t pay attention to anything but their speed (don’t wanna get a ticket!). ![]()
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