Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar • Hacker News Board

I swapped from stats to iStats a few years ago. I've found stats to be easier to customize and the UI is more uniform. That said, it doesn't have the weather widget, so I've kept iStats around solely for its weather functionality.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by ge96 » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:47 PM UTC

Windows doesn't have a programmable equivalent does it? Last time I messed around with this stuff I got by with an Electron app and using browser desktop notifications but I think I couldn't actually modify the taskbar/put icons somewhere.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by doug_life » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:48 PM UTC

Are there any equivalents that work in Windows 11? There were a handful that worked in previous versions of Windows but lots of them won't work in W11 and those that say they do are risky installs.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by grishka » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:50 PM UTC

Heh, I installed this and immediately found out that "LegacyScreenSaver" has leaked 40 GB of memory.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by aucisson_masque » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:55 PM UTC

herrkanin wrote: post #2

I've been for many years a happily paying customer of iStat Menus [1], from which this seem to be the heavily inspired of. [1] https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

Been using stats for 4 years now, never had any issue with it. why pay when something free and open source is available.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by swrobel » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

jamesmackennon wrote: post #5

karianna wrote: post #3

I’m being lazy (am an iStats user), has anyone here compared the two?

I swapped from stats to iStats a few years ago. I've found stats to be easier to customize and the UI is more uniform. That said, it doesn't have the weather widget, so I've kept iStats around solely for its weather functionality.

I assume you mean you went iStats -> stats