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The missing Applications Menu for macOS

Mac Media Keys for the Masses

Make your battery information a bit more interesting.

gfxCardStatus is an open-source menu bar application that keeps track of which graphics card your unibody, dual-GPU MacBook Pro is using at any given time, and allows you to switch between them on demand.

The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

Grafana is an observability data platform designed to aggregate metrics, logs, and traces from diverse sources into a unified environment. It functions as a centralized interface for visualizing complex telemetry data, transforming raw streams into interactive dashboards that support real-time system health tracking and performance monitoring. The platform distinguishes itself through a plugin-based modular architecture that integrates disparate databases, cloud services, and monitoring tools via a standardized data abstraction layer. This framework allows for the dynamic loading of external

Add a global delay to Command-Q to stop accidental app quits.

ControlPlane - context-sensitive computing for macOS

ctop is a terminal-based dashboard utility designed for monitoring and managing containerized applications. It provides a real-time interface for tracking the operational status and resource utilization of multiple containers simultaneously, offering a centralized view of system health directly within a terminal emulator. The tool distinguishes itself by integrating directly with the container runtime to provide both high-level infrastructure overviews and deep inspection capabilities. Users can organize their dashboard through persistent filtering and sorting preferences, ensuring that perfo

Spectacle is a keyboard-driven window manager and organizer that uses system accessibility frameworks to manipulate window coordinates and dimensions. It allows for the arrangement, resizing, and movement of application windows across multiple displays using global keyboard shortcuts. The tool focuses on multi-monitor layout management, enabling users to shift active windows between connected displays and snap windows into predefined screen regions such as halves, thirds, or corners. It also provides the ability to center and maximize windows to optimize screen real estate without using a mou

Easily disable or enable a monitor on your Mac.

Fastfetch is a command-line utility designed to retrieve and display detailed hardware and operating system specifications. It functions as a terminal-based system profiler, providing developers with a method to verify environment configurations and diagnose system issues during local development. The tool distinguishes itself through a modular architecture that organizes data collection into independent components, allowing for the selective enabling or disabling of features to manage resource usage. It utilizes direct interactions with kernel interfaces and system APIs to acquire data, main

Übersicht is a desktop widget engine for macOS that renders JavaScript-based widgets as live content directly on the desktop background. Widgets are authored using JSX syntax with inline CSS styling, enabling a React-like component model and automatic code reload without manual refreshing. The engine provides built-in bridges for executing arbitrary shell commands asynchronously, accessing device geographic location with street-level detail, and routing outbound HTTP requests through a local proxy to bypass cross-origin restrictions when fetching external data. Distinctively, widgets can be a

spdlog is a high-performance C++ logging library designed to record diagnostic messages and application events. It serves as an asynchronous logging framework and thread-safe library that coordinates access across concurrent threads to maintain message integrity. The project functions as a multi-target log router, distributing single events to multiple destinations such as consoles, files, and system daemons. It includes a log rotation manager that handles file lifecycles through basic, rotating, or daily rollover strategies to prevent disk exhaustion. The library covers a broad range of cap

eul is a native macOS system monitor and desktop application built with SwiftUI. It serves as a status bar utility for tracking real-time CPU, memory, network, and battery usage. The application includes a dedicated Bluetooth device battery tracker to monitor the charge levels of connected peripherals. It is developed as a multilingual utility with a localized user interface to support multiple languages. The software covers system resource monitoring and peripheral battery tracking, integrating these metrics directly into the macOS menu bar.

A tool used to make user-friendly wine wrapped ports of Windows software for macOS.

This library provides a programmatic interface for monitoring system resources and managing process lifecycles. It functions as a cross-platform utility that retrieves real-time metrics on hardware utilization and allows for the inspection and control of running system processes. The project normalizes disparate operating system data structures into a unified interface, enabling consistent interaction with kernel-level information regardless of the host environment. By utilizing compiled extensions to interface directly with native system APIs, it provides a consistent way to access performan

Get current battery level

Start the screensaver.

System and process monitor for Linux

htop is a terminal user interface system monitor for Unix systems. It functions as an interactive process viewer and real-time resource visualizer, providing a dashboard to track CPU, memory, and load average metrics. The tool enables the sorting, filtering, and termination of active system processes and threads. It distinguishes itself through a text-mode interface that can render processes in a hierarchical tree structure to visualize parent-child relationships and allows for the assignment of CPU affinity to specific processor cores. The monitoring surface covers CPU utilization, memory a

A Python module for getting the GPU status from NVIDA GPUs using nvidia-smi programmically in Python