exelban/stats
macOS system monitor in your menu bar
Recommended between 2025-09-30 and 2026-06-23. Last pushed 2026-11-01.
▲ 3 recommend · ▼ 1 criticism
What hackers say
“I have CPU and total system wattage up there so I always know if something weird is going on.”
— twilo, 2025-12-28 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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You can just ping your CPU usage to the menu bar and monitor that. I have CPU and total system wattage up there so I always know if something weird is going on. https://github.com/exelban/stats
“Menubar system monitor: Stats”
— unmanageduck, 2026-06-23 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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….org/packages?&query=ffmpeg Office suite: LibreOffice https://www.libreoffice.org IDE: Zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed Window management: Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle Menubar system monitor: Stats https://github.com/exelban/stats Screen tweaks: MonitorControl https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl Autorun checker: KnockKnock https://github.com/objective-see/KnockKnock Video streaming platforms: Grayjay https://grayjay.app/desktop Communication: Signal https://signal.org/download/macos Torrenting: Transmission https://github.com/transmission/transmission VPN: Mullvad https://mullvad.net/en/download/vpn/macos DNS: NextDNS https://nextdns.io Ad…
“Stats is another good one too:”
— sys_64738, 2025-09-30 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Try installing Vitals.app open source app to see what's going on: https://github.com/hmarr/vitals Stats is another good one too: https://github.com/exelban/stats
Criticism
“I got my PR closed without comment”
— bhouston, 2026-05-01 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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I tried to contribute back adapter current Wattage display to stats, but I got my PR closed without comment. It is similar to this: https://github.com/exelban/stats/pull/3024
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Alternatives hackers mention
- hmarr/vitals ▲ 1