Mac system monitor · menu bar · free
Your Mac, at a glance.
SystemPulse puts processor, memory, network, storage and battery in the menu bar and keeps their history on your Mac. Pro explains what happened, what changed and what you can safely do about it.
Free to download. Pro is a one-time purchase of $9.99 — no subscription, no account.
Everything you need to see, free
The monitor itself costs nothing and never runs out: every reading, the dashboard, history, alerts and widgets.
Your menu bar, your way
Processor, memory, network, storage and battery — each as its own item, or all in one. Numbers, bars or graphs, with presets and profiles that switch by themselves.
A dashboard window
An overview of the whole Mac, a page for each reading, and the history behind it.
History, kept on your Mac
Every reading recorded: a day in ten-second detail, a month minute by minute. Export it or delete it whenever you like.
Alerts you set
Rules that notify you when a reading crosses the line you chose — and say so plainly when it comes back.
Floating panel and widgets
A small window of the readings you pick, above your other windows, and widgets for the desktop and Notification Center.
Eight themes
Graphite, Ocean, Aurora, Ember, Forest, Mono, Light or the Mac's own — and graph colours chosen apart from them.
Pro: understand it PRO
Seven tools that read the same recordings and answer the questions behind them. Bought once inside the app; everything you have recorded stays.
Mac Doctor
Why the Mac is slow, full, draining or under thermal pressure — answered from its own recordings, with the readings behind every answer.
Timeline
What happened and when: episodes grouped into incidents, with what the Mac was doing before, during and after — and a replay.
What Changed?
What changed over a day, a week or a month — a new background item, a folder that grew, a reading past its usual range.
Network Doctor
Where a connection problem is — this Mac, the Wi-Fi, the router or beyond — with name lookups and connections timed.
App Inspector
What an application keeps on disk and how that grows, how it is signed, and what it may ask for.
Permission Inspector
What can start by itself and what each application may ask for — and when that changed.
SafeClean
What uses the disk and what grew. Review large, old and application data, see an estimate first, and move to the Trash only what you confirm.
Free and Pro
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Menu bar readings — processor, memory, network, storage, battery | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dashboard window and a month of history | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alerts, floating panel, widgets and themes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mac Doctor, Timeline and What Changed? | — | ✓ |
| Network Doctor | — | ✓ |
| App Inspector, Permission Inspector and SafeClean | — | ✓ |
| Price | Free | $9.99 once |
Private by design
No account, no analytics, no tracking. What SystemPulse measures is stored on your Mac and nowhere else. It contacts nothing on its own — the few connections it can make are ones you turn on, listed in the privacy policy.
Honest about the sandbox
Apps from the Mac App Store run in a sandbox that keeps every app away from temperature sensors, fan speeds, drive health and the list of running processes. SystemPulse doesn't pretend otherwise: it shows what macOS allows, and says so where it can't.
Requirements
macOS 13 Ventura or later; widgets need macOS 14 Sonoma. Apple silicon and Intel. In 41 languages.