Menumeters not working for free#

This kind of detailed information is available for each aspect of your system that you are monitoring. This is what the bandwidth monitor looks like when you click on the menubar item, it shows incoming and outgoing data, peak speeds, your IP, network location, and you can also access other network utilities from the pulldown menu. One because it’s a smaller footprint, two it’s easier to spot more detail at the top of your screen, and three because you can pull down the menu options and see even more information about whatever it is you’re monitoring.

I much prefer this method to just showing CPU load in the Dock with Activity Monitor. Here’s a look at the settings panel within System Preferences: Thanks to Valashtar for the clarification. Both were created by the same developers, the company just changed their name. Update: To clarify, the free version only supports Mac OS X 10.6 or lower, while iStat Menus 3 has full Mac OS X 10.7 Lion support and costs $16.

Menumeters not working for free#

Now here’s a little secret, iStat Menus 2.0 can still be downloaded for free from third parties.ĭownload the free version 2.0 from TuCows (supports Mac OS X 10.6.8 or lower)

For my uses, I show Disk IO, CPU activity, and bandwidth usage, but if you want to see everything going down on your Mac you can do that too.

Temperatures of CPU, battery, heatsinks, memory, hard drives, and moreĮverything is really customizable so you can change the width, colors, and what and how things are displayed in the menu bar by tweaking settings in the iStat Menus Preference pane.