Great iStat Menu alternative

I found them as well.

Good product, and the right price

This is why I complained about istat menus going the paid shareware route. I don't have a problem with people trying to make a living, but those particular apps are more eye candy, gee whiz type of apps.

I thought that MM did not work with Snow Leopard... My Leopard set stopped working at any rate so I paid for the iStat Menus... it is certainly worth every penny and more of the $10.

Thanks for sharing this. I was going to pay for iStat forced updated to 3.0, then went looking for a discount coupon, and nothing showed up. Also other users review in Macworld made me stop from paying. One user mentioned its MacBook fans were behaving strangely with iStat, and other mentioned that bjango is not a serious company, not sure about it but anyway, I'll give Menu meters a try.

This one (http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/) appears to be the best, and best looking, of the free options.

I happily paid for the iStat though. Along with BetterTouchTool, the 2 utilities I most need on OSX.

I have no problem with the fan feature on my 2010 i7 MBP.

Anyone know which one uses the least amount of system resources to do its job?

Fyi, menumeters works fine in Lion, and shows all threads of each processor core. No temps tho.. but iStat lost a customer trying to get $25 for an app that basically mirrors the system monitor in your menubar. I'd have paid 10.. dummies.

srf4real said:

Fyi, menumeters works fine in Lion, and shows all threads of each processor core. No temps tho.. but iStat lost a customer trying to get $25 for an app that basically mirrors the system monitor in your menubar. I'd have paid 10.. dummies.

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+1 to that. iStat is way overpriced for an app that doesn't actually do anything other than read stats and display them. Checking menumeters out now though, good to know it works on Lion too.

I using MenuMeters, little poorer but it's simple and free.
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

You can adjust colors of the icons / text - yes, iStat looks better




The iStat Menus - totally overpriced ($16), it's should cost no more than $4.99 on AppStore.



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menumeters is great, thanks for the info!

gotta love free

airdrop said:

I using MenuMeters, little poorer but it's simple and free.
http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

You can adjust colors of the icons / text - yes, iStat looks better

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The iStat Menus - totally overpriced ($16), it's should cost no more than $4.99 on AppStore.



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Totaly agree is damm overpriced!!

Thanks a lot. Just what I need.

I like iStat Menus but in Canada they want $20 after taxes... not worth it for such a simple app.

$10 at most is what I would pay, ideally for such a simple app $5 would be nice.

atMonitor provided gpu usage and diode temperature. Now that it is defunct and doesn't appear to work on Yosemite, do any of these apps provide this information?

Anything for El Capitan?
I see MenuMeters gave up.
Currently I am using atMonitor, is working, trying to get used to it.

MenuMeters has been fixed for Sierra - Here's the link : http://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/

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It's a port to OS X El Capitan 10.11 and later of our beloved utility MenuMeters by Alex Harper, at http://ragingmenace.com. As he has not yet released the port to OS X 10.11 El Capitan, I made a minimal modification to the source code he has kindly made public so that it runs fine.

Confirmed to run OK on El Capitan 10.11 and Sierra 10.12."

leslieb99 said:

MenuMeters has been fixed for Sierra - Here's the link : http://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/

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It's a port to OS X El Capitan 10.11 and later of our beloved utility MenuMeters by Alex Harper, at http://ragingmenace.com. As he has not yet released the port to OS X 10.11 El Capitan, I made a minimal modification to the source code he has kindly made public so that it runs fine.

Confirmed to run OK on El Capitan 10.11 and Sierra 10.12."

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Thanks for sharing that. However, it doesn't run on High Sierra 10.13, I tried.

runs perfectly fine in 10.13. Love Menumeter.

Thalios said:

runs perfectly fine in 10.13. Love Menumeter.

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My bad. I tried again from https://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/ and it worked like charm!

Thanks for the correction @Thalios!

Is there a way I can see a graph of the battery temperature? I could do that from iStats Menu. Now I have to resort to XRG which doesn't really have 'Battery Temperature'