Whitespace.
See who already built your idea — and the space they left open.

CLUSTER BAR-CPU-GPU · 17 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-15

macOS menu bar system monitors

This cluster is macOS menu-bar utilities for at-a-glance system performance monitoring, showing CPU, memory, GPU, and sometimes FPS or sensor readings in a popup, overlay, or details panel. Its dated history is too thin to read a shape from: no dated entries exist before the index start, so it predates the index or its members are undated. Among the named traction leaders, shade- has the highest star count at 5 stars, with meters at 2 stars and HeatMonitor at 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2026: 11OCT 2026: 6
SEP 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 12 hobby · 5 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 17 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Perch5★24 dayslivehobbymacOS menu bar app that launches apps, switches between windows, and shows CPU, memory, and network usage from a search panel.
  2. 02meters2★1 day—hobbymacOS menu bar app that shows live CPU, memory, and GPU usage with graphs for monitoring local LLM performance.
  3. 03SysPulse1★9 days—macOS menu bar utility that shows live network, CPU, GPU, and memory usage with compact readouts and a detailed dropdown panel.
  4. 04sparktop1★3 days—hobbyMenu bar app that displays live GPU fleet status, utilization, and health alerts for AI hardware clusters.
  5. 05mystat0★2 days—hobbyMenu-bar app for macOS that shows CPU activity, memory pressure, and GPU statistics at a glance with a details panel.
  6. 06amdgpu_mtopg0★9 days—Desktop app that shows live AMD GPU load, memory, clocks, sensors, and PCIe link status for Macs with AMD GPUs.
  7. 07watcher0★2 days—hobbyNative macOS menu bar app that shows CPU, memory, GPU, and sensor readings in one popup.
  8. 08RemoteMonitor0★17 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that displays GPU, CPU, memory usage and temperatures of a remote Linux machine over SSH.
  9. 09Desktop-Overlay2★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu-bar overlay that shows live CPU, memory, disk, network, and thermal metrics on top of other windows.
  10. 10ActivityMonitor1★1 mo—Windows utility that displays CPU usage per logical core as a scrolling bar-chart history.
  11. 11LookSize0★28 days—hand-codedmacOS menu bar utility that displays image dimensions and video resolution/frame rate in Finder Quick Look.
  12. 12resident0★1 mo—macOS menu bar gauge that monitors resident memory and decode speed of local language models.
  13. 13cpu-load-bar0★27 dayslivehobbymacOS menu bar app that displays current CPU load and memory pressure with alerts for high usage.
  14. 14silicon-stats0★28 days—hobbymacOS menu-bar utility that displays live CPU, GPU, and FPS performance metrics in a floating overlay.
  15. 15cpu-load-bar-mac0★27 dayslivehobbymacOS menu bar app that displays CPU load and memory pressure, including 1, 5, and 15-minute load averages and top processes.
  16. 16LLMRAMGuardian0★27 days—hobbymacOS utility that shows live RAM usage in the camera notch and optimizes memory so developers can run local large language models smoothly.
  17. 17activity-line0★27 dayslivehobbymacOS menu-bar app that shows live CPU, GPU, RAM, and network usage as a sparkline, entirely on-device with no telemetry.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.