Comments on: Monitor System Activity in the Mac OS X Menu Bar for Free with iStat Menu 2

By: Phill

Phill — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:30:43 +0000

MenuMeters. Just downloaded it. Appears to be open source (WIN!), and quite effective.

Resource usage is still TBD, but so far looking good! Thanks for the tip!

By: Watch System Activity and CPU Usage from the Mac OS X Dock

Watch System Activity and CPU Usage from the Mac OS X Dock — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:38:36 +0000

[...] the Dock isn’t your thing, the iStat Menu bar item offers similar features in the menu [...]

By: billib

billib — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:40:48 +0000

iStatMenu 2.0 has been working fine for me
with Lion 10.7.2……bought a new Mac with Lion
and used Migration Assistant to migrate everything
from my old SnowLeopard Mac to the new Lion Mac
and iStatMenu migrated fine and works well.
With SnowLeopard I’ve turned off iStats’s
“Check For Updates” so it won’t MAGICALLY
switch me to their paid version.

By: Display CPU Temperature in the Mac OS X Menu Bar

Display CPU Temperature in the Mac OS X Menu Bar — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:45:16 +0000

[...] or lower iStat 3 – $16 for Mac OS X 10.7 We have talked about iStat 2 before as a great way to monitor system activity in the menubar, but if you tweak the settings and disable all the other stuff you can just display CPU [...]

By: Oot 'n Aboot

Oot 'n Aboot — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:06:53 +0000

Network Monitor doesn’t work on my MacBook Air where I need it most, dang

By: ringo

ringo — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:09:54 +0000

iStats rocks!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:29:18 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, we were told the application was sold to new developers. The post has been updated.

By: Valashtar

Valashtar — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:23:40 +0000

This is a great tip, but I have one bone to pick: iStat Menus was not sold to a third party; the folks who started the project are still developing it. They did change their name when they started making more iOS apps, but they’ve always been the same company.

For those of you who need Lion compatibility, iStat Menus v3 does currently support and will continue to enhance support for, OS X Lion.

By: xf

xf — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:37:05 +0000

Meh, doesn’t work in Lion. Oh well.

By: David Mendez

David Mendez — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:28:29 +0000

atMonitor is another free solution

http://www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/

By: Monitor Vital System Stats with iStat Menu

Monitor Vital System Stats with iStat Menu — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:04:39 +0000

[...] Someone purchased the rights to the software and started charging, but you can still download the free version of iStats Menu and get all the features. stLight.options({ [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:02:15 +0000

Another free option is MenuMeters which has the same kind of system information.

http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

It doesn’t look quite as elegant as iStat, but it gets the job done and is donationware.