Activity Monitor Vitals groups every process under the app it belongs to, so you see 60 apps instead of 1,000 processes. It keeps 30 days of history, alerts you when an app misbehaves, and lives in the menu bar.
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Google Chrome 21.23 GB 
VS Code 8.17 GB 
Terminal 3.86 GB 
Safari 2.69 GB 
GitHub Desktop 427 mW Google Chrome 367 mW 
Zoom 145 mW Terminal 86 mW Google Chrome 
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Figma Google Chrome Music Playing 100% Zoom Playing 80% Google Chrome Playing 35% Slack Silent Muted Safari Silent 100% Figma Silent 100% Notion Silent 100% Mail Silent 100% Try it: every tab works. The figures are simulated, because a web page cannot read your Mac and should not.
Now I find myself stealing quick glances at the menu bar, instead of taking another sip of coffee.
Ed Wiseman Emmy-winning director and producer macOS Activity Monitor is horrible when I’m juggling dev projects and local AI. Vitals is so much better.
Knowix Developer and AI builder cant keep vibecoding everything for $5, i get a finished product, clean ui, and bug fixes
Sai Krishna Founder of Superblog Activity Monitor lists every process. On a working Mac that is about a thousand rows, a hundred of them called Google Chrome Helper.
Vitals adds each helper to the app that launched it. Every app gets one row and one figure, so "what is using my memory?" has a one-line answer.
Activity Monitor is good at showing what is happening this second. Vitals also tells you which app is responsible, what happened while you were not looking, and when something needs your attention.
The whole comparison, row by row, is at Vitals vs Activity Monitor. Comparing more than Activity Monitor? See Vitals vs iStat Menus, Vitals vs Stats, or all the Activity Monitor alternatives.
Activity Monitor 
Vitals Vitals groups processes by the project folder they run in and shows the ports they have open.
It points out the dev server that has done nothing for three days and offers to stop it. It asks before it stops anything.
Every readout can be its own menu bar item: CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk, temperature or battery, as a value, a graph or both, with or without its icon. Hold ⌘ and drag them into any order. The icon turns into a warning sign when your Mac is under strain.
Click one for the dropdown: every metric on one screen, the busiest apps right now, and a tab for each metric with the apps behind the figure. Arrange its tiles, or switch to a list with one line per metric. Click an app and the window opens on it.
Google Chrome – Terminal – Safari – Google Chrome – Terminal – Safari – Docker – Visual Studio Code – Google Chrome – Visual Studio Code – Terminal – Safari – Docker – Photos – Google Chrome – Docker – Visual Studio Code – Xcode – Safari – Google Chrome – Slack – Zoom – Music – Figma – Google Chrome – Safari – Zoom – Visual Studio Code – Google Chrome – Zoom – Figma – Slack – Safari – Music 100% Zoom 80% Google Chrome 35% Slack Muted Try it: drag the items along the bar, pick a tab, move a slider on the Sound tab. In the app, hold ⌘ to drag.
An activity monitor sees every app you run and every project you work on. Vitals keeps all of it on your machine. Read the privacy details.
You buy a license key. There is nothing to sign in to.
Vitals does not report what you run, when, or for how long.
One checks for updates. One checks your license. That is all.
Eight smaller features that come with Vitals.
A notification when an app hogs the CPU, keeps growing in memory, or hammers the disk or network.
Zoom Music Google Chrome Turn the meeting up and the music down. Nothing is recorded.
CPU and GPU temperature, fan speed, and the battery in your AirPods, mouse and keyboard.
The last 12 hours, 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days, and which apps used the most. Stored in one small file on your Mac.
Quit an app or a single process from any list. Vitals always asks first.
Vitals
MacBook Pro · M2 Max Save a 1200 × 630 share card of your memory, top apps and CPU, or copy the whole dashboard. Made for posts, in light or dark.
Choose the tabs, then show, hide and reorder the sections on each. The dropdown’s tiles and the menu bar’s items too. Reset puts it all back.
Celsius or Fahrenheit, bytes or bits, CPU per core or per Mac. Settings shows each with your own Mac’s figures.
Wall of love
What they said on X and Hacker News, in their own words.
Vitals has reminded me of two vital things: first, that Dia is using up most of my memory (something that was supposedly one of its strengths when we switched from Chrome), and second, that I need to order my next Mac with 32 GB of memory.
Asdrúbal Chirinos @achirinos For $5 it’s a steal
MaximeB @Buildingitmyway Thank you so much! The volume control update is exactly what I needed. Best $5 I’ve spent 🙌
eugen @lucian_forseti Super cool idea man!!!
Dominik Sobe @sobedominik Best $5 I ever spent. Good job Atta
Steve Chazin on Hacker News It's definitely "no brainer" pricing territory rn
R. @RichDoesTech cool idea :)
Daniel Smidstrup @DanielSmidstrup Just give a shot to this guy 🫡
Lucien Arbieu @ArbieuLucien instant purchase
Nicholas Arce @nickarceco Great product really enjoying it. And $5 is an absurdly good deal lol. Thanks for building this! 🙌
Ivan Golovach @ivandotge just bought
Bud Hennekes @Aboundlessworld nice website, looks clean as well! definitely pulling ’em in.
Jordy @Droppyformac Wait what $5?? That’s it?
Hakimuddin K @hakimuddinkika Granted I am a data geek, but I have to say I love Vitals. Such a slick app, much better than Activity Monitor. I hope Apple buys you out!
Nicolas @habibicode website is nicely made by the way, apple-like!
oleks @oleks01 love this. instant buy
Shashank Bhardwaj @bhardwajshash $5 for a lifetime license is a steal for an app-focused Activity Monitor
Kimi Nguyen @kimindiehacker per app volume control on mac is worth the $5 alone
Sadok @yesadok Vitals is such an upgrade over Activity Monitor, having CPU, memory, GPU and projects in one place is a game changer
Sarmad Tahir @itxsarmadd I’ve been looking for an app like this forever, and this is exactly what I needed. Love the UI too — it’s surprisingly hard to find something decent out there. Took me about 20 seconds to be convinced and make the purchase. Really well done. $5 gladly spent!
Filippo Rovelli @filippo_rovelli I bought it as soon as I saw it, as i’m not pleased with standard macos activity monitor, and it is amazing, super fast, well designed, tons of details. Amazing the projects one for developers as me dealing with leaked node processes 😂
Gabriel @gabzarias I was one of the first 30 to get it. Your website was enough to impress me. The app is great. Wonderful idea and implementation. I can’t wait for future updates and enhancements
Kishore Surendiran @kishore2908 $5 while the launch price lasts, $29 after. No subscription, and every update is included, for life.
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Activity Monitor lists processes, about a thousand on a working Mac. Vitals lists apps. Every helper is added to the app that launched it, so each app has one figure for memory, CPU, energy, disk and network. Vitals also keeps 30 days of history, sends a notification when an app misbehaves, lives in the menu bar, and finds dev servers left running.
For everyday questions, yes: what is using the memory, what is draining the battery, what is slowing the Mac down. You can quit or force quit an app or a single process from Vitals. Activity Monitor still has a few specialist tools, such as sampling a process, that Vitals does not copy.
With no window open it samples every five seconds and uses about a tenth of a percent of one core. It samples faster only while you are looking at it.
macOS 15 Sequoia or later, on Apple silicon and Intel. Power and temperature figures are most detailed on Apple silicon.
Yes. Every readout can be its own menu bar item, a value, a graph or both, and you ⌘-drag them into any order. The dropdown and the window are yours to arrange too: choose the tabs, and show, hide or reorder the sections on each.
Both, if you like. It is always in the menu bar. Turn on Show in Dock and it stays in the Dock like Activity Monitor; opened by hand it shows its window, and at login it stays in the menu bar.
The regular price is $29 for one Mac. During the launch it is $5 for the first 850 licenses, and the price goes up as they sell. It is one payment, not a subscription. The count on this page comes from our licensing server, so it is the real number.
No. Every update is included for life. There are no paid upgrades and no renewal.
As many as you pay for. One license covers one Mac, and two Macs cost twice that. For more, pick 5, 10, 25 or 50 Macs on the pricing card. You get one license key that works on that many Macs, and each Mac costs less as the bundle gets bigger: $99 for 5, up to $699 for 50. During the launch, a bundle costs the launch price for each Mac if that is less. Move a license to a new Mac whenever you like, with no account and no email to support.
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No, but there is a 14-day refund. If Vitals is not for you, email us and we refund the payment.
The download link is on the page you land on after checkout. Your license key arrives by email within a minute. If you lose either, enter your key on the download page to get the link again.
The App Store sandbox stops an app from reading other apps' processes, which is the one thing an activity monitor has to do. Vitals is signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens like any other app.
Nothing about what you run. Your apps, your history and your project names stay on the Mac. Vitals goes online only to check for updates and to check your license. Activating sends the key, the Mac's name and an anonymous ID, so you can tell your Macs apart when you move a license.
macOS only lets an app read your own processes. To include the system's, you can enable a small helper. It answers one question, how much these processes are using, takes no commands, changes nothing, and quits when Vitals closes. Vitals works without it.
No. It only quits an app, a process or a dev server when you ask, and it shows a confirmation first.
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