tiny-stats
Dead-simple system stats for people who don’t want a dashboard with 47 tabs. A native macOS menu bar monitor — CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk, battery, sensors — that shows the numbers that matter and nothing else. HIG-friendly, somehow lighter on your battery than the thing watching it, and open source (MIT), naturally.
…or with Homebrew:
brew install --cask cringe-tech/apps/tinystatsThe build is ad-hoc signed (not yet notarized): on a plain double-click Gatekeeper will warn — right-click → Open, or use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. Homebrew handles this for you. Requires macOS 14 or newer (Apple Silicon or Intel).
// features
A menu bar, tastefully cluttered
Up to 5 metrics inline — CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk, battery. Drag tiles around like it's Mail in 2010, then pretend the layout took you twenty minutes of careful thought. Each cell shows icon + value, label + value, or value only.
Three tabs, zero dashboards
Overview with usage bars and the processes quietly ruining your day, a History tab with charts you'll glance at once, and a Sensors tab with real SMC readings — plus a Nerd stats mode for when you want every raw number you'll never use.
Won't eat your battery (the irony)
A monitor that monitors itself: one shared polling loop that slows down on battery and in Low Power Mode, reads sensors only when you're looking, and stops collecting metrics you've hidden. Smug about it, frankly.
Read-only and refreshingly boring
No telemetry, no account, nothing written to disk but its own preferences and a local log. The only network request it ever makes is an optional update check — and you can turn even that off.
// screenshots
Click any shot to zoom.
Panels
Settings
Like watching numbers?
tiny-stats is free and open source — no trial, no "pro tier", no guilt. But if a little menu bar full of graphs sparks joy, a tip keeps it maintained and the cringe flowing.