Earlier this week, our friends at Bjango released iStat Menus 6 — a massive update to the popular menubar-based system monitoring app for Mac. This is a big update since the release of iStat Menus 5 over three years ago and includes an impressive list of new features and improvements — as is expected from Bjango. We’d gotten a sneak peek at the iStat Menus 6 app icon a few days ago.
If you’re hearing about iStat Menus for the first time, there’s a lot you’ve been missing out on. iStat Menus is an incredibly powerful and feature-rich system monitor for Mac from the house of Bjango. It sits comfortably in your menubar and gives you in-depth stats about your CPU, Memory, Drives, Network, etc. The app began its journey all the way back in 2007 and since then, the folks at Bjango have crafted the app into near perfection. Version 6.0 ships with new features such as weather, notifications, hotkeys and more.
Wait! Did you say, Weather!?
IStat Menus can notify you of an incredibly wide range of events, based on CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors, battery, power and weather. This lets you be notified when your public IP has changed, if your internet connection is down, if CPU usage is above 60% for more than 10 seconds, or a near-infinite range of other options.
One of the most notable addition in iStat Menus 6, and kind of an oddball feature from Bjango, is the addition of Weather stats in the app. The app now reports the current temperature of your location, along with the hourly forecast, weekly overview and more — pretty icons and glyphs included. Waves x noise bundle.
This new weather feature requires an ongoing subscription. You get 6-months of usage when you get the app and can extend your subscription for another year at $1.99 (60-minute updates), $3.99 (30-minute updates) or $5.99 (15-minute updates).
Notifications
iStat Menus 6 comes with support for custom notifications. You can ask the app to notify you for things like when your CPU usage is higher than X, Memory Pressure is Above X and so on. The app supports a long list of configurable alerts, so there’s a lot to choose from.
Notification Center Widget
iStat Menus 6 now ships with a tiny widget that you can enable in your Notification Center. It’s kinda like iStat Mini and lets you quickly glance at some of the popular iStat Menus features.
Customizable Colors & Hotkeys
iStat Menus has had stunning light and dark themes, but now you can go beyond that and customize the appearance to an extent. iStat Menus 6 allows you to pick the menubar color for the graphs and stats, opacity for the borders, the background color for the dropdowns and dropdown graphs. These customizable settings are available in the Global section in the app.
Similarly, you can now reorder dropdown menus and even set specific hotkeys for each dropdown in the app and easily access them with few taps on your keyboard.
Other notable improvements shipped in this release include improved accessibility, AirPods battery level support, automatic fan set switching based on events, Multiple menubar world clock times, Internet connectivity indicator, etc.
iStat Menus 6 is an incredible update and having used it over the last few days, I can happily recommend it to anyone. If you’re an existing iStat Menus user, the upgrade is just $9 for you. If you haven’t jumped aboard yet, iStat Menus 6 is available for $18 from the Bjango’s website.
See also:
- The Dialogue with Marc Edwards from Bjango
Key Features
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What does iStat Menus do? The most powerful system monitoring app for macOS, right in your menubar.iStat Menus covers a huge range of stats, including a CPU monitor, GPU, memory, network usage, disk usage, disk activity, date & time, battery and more. All in a highly optimised, low resource package. iStat Menus is highly configurable, with full support for macOS’ light and dark menubar modes.iStat Menus features a wide range of different menubar text and graph styles that are all completely customizable. Each of the dropdown menus provides access to even greater detail including history graphs for access to up to 30 days of data.• CPU & GPU •Realtime CPU graphs and a list of the top 5 CPU resource hogs. Tracked use by individual cores or with all cores combined, to save space. Plus, GPU memory and processor usage on supported Macs, and the active GPU can be shown in the menubar.• Memory •Memory stats for your menubar as a pie chart, graph, percentage, bar or any combination of those things. Opening the menu shows a list of the apps using the most memory.• Network •Monitor bandwidth usage in the menubar as text or graphs. Advanced bandwidth and interface information is available in the dropdown menu.• Disk usage & activity •See used and free space for multiple disks in your menubar. Plus, S.M.A.R.T. status monitoring, detailed disk I/O, and a variety of different read and write indicators.• Sensors •A realtime view of temperatures, hard drive temperatures (where supported), fans, voltages, current and power. Please note that sensor monitoring requires installing a free add-on from our website.• Date & time •A highly configurable date, time and calendar for your menubar, including fuzzy clock, moon phase, and upcoming calendar events. Plus, a world clock with sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset times.• Battery & power •Detailed info on your battery’s current state, and a highly configurable menu item that can change if you’re draining, charging, or completely charged. Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and Apple wireless keyboard battery levels.• Notifications •iStat Menus can notify you of an incredibly wide range of events, based on CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors, battery, power and more. This lets you be notified when your public IP has changed, if your internet connection is down, if CPU usage is above 60% for more than 10 seconds, or a near-infinite range of other options. It can even remind you of daylight saving changes.• Notification Center widget •The new iStat Menus widget is a great way to keep your Mac’s vital stats tucked away in Notification Center. CPU usage, memory, top CPU and memory processes, load averages, disk space and uptime are only ever a single click or swipe gesture away, from any app.
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