iStat Menus Alternatives

iStat Menus is described as 'System monitor for Mac tracking CPU, GPU, network, sensors, disks, memory, and weather with menubar stats, notifications, privacy options, and custom views' and is a very popular system information utility in the system & hardware category. There are more than 50 alternatives to iStat Menus for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best iStat Menus alternative is HWiNFO (32/64). It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try HWiNFO (32/64) or MSI Afterburner. Other great apps like iStat Menus are Stats, SpeedFan, Sidebar Diagnostics and MacThrottle.

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  1. Opsview Monitor Mobile allows you to monitor what's important, anywhere, anytime. You can manage the health of your physical, virtual and cloud based systems all from the comfort of your mobile. Get the free app and make monitoring easy again.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  2. CPU Thermometer is one free CPU temperature monitor; it can help you monitor your computer CPU temperature in live time. Program can start with Windows start-up, and show live CPU temperature in your desktop tray icon, so you get this important system information at a glance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Nerdtool icon
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    Nerdtool allows you to display many things directly on top of your desktop; weather reports, headline news, and system vitals are just a few uses.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. Beaconly icon
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    Beaconly is a flexible, easy to use data aggregating menu app that ties relevant information to you, beautifully one click-away in your macOs menu bar. Easily discover status of AWS, your Jira Tickets, and so much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. SysMetrix icon
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    SysMetrix is a skinnable clock and metering application. Its purpose is to provide system metrics in a variety of interesting, useful, and cool ways. It can monitor and report on the hundreds of statistics

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. CatWalk icon
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    A simple plasmoid showing the total CPU usage.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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  7. OCAT icon
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    Open source utility for Windows featuring real-time performance overlays, frame rate analytics, support for Direct3D 11, 12, and Vulkan, detailed offline analysis via PresentMon, low system overhead, hotkey-triggered recording, and customizable overlay options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. ZetaWatch icon
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    ZetaWatch is a small OS X program that displays the zfs status in the menu bar, similar to what iStat Menus does for other information. It is fairly well tested, but due to the current state of libzfs and libzfs_core, changes will be required until the API stabilizes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. mectrics icon
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    mectrics puts the readings you pick into the macOS menu bar: CPU, memory, battery, network, disk, GPU, temperature and fans. Clicking an item opens a popover with the detail behind the number, like per core load and top processes for CPU, or read and write throughput for disk.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. SafeFanControl is a native macOS app that lets you monitor temperatures and manage fan speeds on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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