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Pressure

A fast way to monitor your (swap)memory

Overview

Keep an eye on your Mac’s memory with Pressure, a handy menu bar app that lives in the top-right corner of your screen. On systems with 16GB of memory, it’s common to start using swap memory over time. While that’s not inherently a problem, it can make your Mac feel less responsive.
Pressure makes this easy to spot. Whenever swap memory is in use, the amount is displayed directly in the menu bar. If notifications are enabled in System Settings, Pressure can also alert you when swap usage increases.

If you prefer a more detailed view, you can open Pressure as a windowed app to monitor your memory usage more closely.
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Features

Everything you need

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Monitoring memory and CPU

Continuous monitoring of the memory and CPU usage per process.

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Pressure

Displays the memory pressure and percentage in use.

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Life cycle

Displays processes starts and quits.

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Versatile

Although a menubar application, you can open a normal application that stays visible (constant monitoring).

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Log

Log of all running processes.

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Real memory usage

See the Real Mem usages of your processes.

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Notifications

Notifies you when the swap memory or memory pressure increases.

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Apple

Pressure is written in SwiftUI / Swift version 6 sandboxed and notarized by Apple

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Requirements

What you need

macOS 15.6 or later