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 
Visual Studio 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 
Google Chrome 
Photos Safari 
Figma Google Chrome Try it: every tab works. The figures are simulated, because a web page cannot read your Mac and should not.
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.
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.
Vitals sits in the menu bar as an icon, a figure, a small graph, or several figures stacked. Pick which to show: CPU, memory, GPU, network, temperature or battery. The icon turns into a warning sign when your Mac is under strain.
Click it for a compact view of the app: every metric on one screen, the busiest apps right now, and a tab for each metric with the apps behind the figure. One more click opens the main window on the same tab.
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 – 
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Music – Figma – Google Chrome – Safari – Zoom – Visual Studio Code – Google Chrome – Zoom – Figma – Slack – Safari – 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.
Six 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.
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macOS 15 Sequoia or later · Apple silicon and Intel · 4 MB · Notarized by Apple
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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.
The regular price is $29 for one Mac. During the launch it is $5 for the first 50 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.
No. What you run, your history and your project names stay on the Mac. Vitals goes online only to check for updates and to check your 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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