Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

Check out our new system monitor app &quot;Pluto&quot;, it&#x27;s a different take on at-a-glance availability and is very customizable.<p>Mac App Store link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;pluto-hud&#x2F;id1544577573?mt=12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;pluto-hud&#x2F;id1544577573?mt=12</a><p>Promo codes below:<p>36F3FWR6W6NJ HKHLWTMHHP7P 3YHKK9XFWHRE XX9WJX3HNKLR LTJ6YL343RM4<p>Update: here are 10 more codes for you guys, thanks for the support!<p>REF3KY37YXHP Y4L77PPLLFTH R6HEJALF67YM 93FYNH3YXALL FWHMPFHF3XHR KJ3RYH7JK639 JL49PFKFKWYN NH4HXY7KM6XH 94E777T7449Y HEPT4TW6KWKJ

Slightly off topic, but fully related. Has anyone ever noticed that when your CPU is spiking on a Mac, simply opening Activity Monitor often brings it in check? Please tell me I haven’t fabricated this correlation! I’ve noticed it on several generations of MBA’s, with the 2020 Intel as the most recent.

On the subject of system performance on macOS… does anyone know of a decent app&#x2F;tool for limiting CPU on different processes or programs?<p>This might be less relevant on newer hardware, but I&#x27;m interested in limiting certain apps (e.g., Dropbox, OS tools) from heating up the computer and making the fans go crazy.

Not on a mac right now, is there an alternative page that shows the UI, the screenshots on the app store in firefox are tiny.

Very nice :) I just bought it, this is a lot nicer to have around than switching back to the activity monitor.. I just recently got an m1 Mac air and since it&#x27;s fanless and makes no obvious outside indication that something is busy it&#x27;s hard to tell what&#x27;s going on.

- 2mb<p>- no data collection<p>- beautiful<p>i love macOS because devs on that platform embrace apple&#x27;s mindset<p>on other hand you check the windows store, and you get plenty of dotnet apps, even the simple ones are heavy on disk, 100mb on average

Does this have a menubar widget? I miss MenuMeters, after it was killed by an OS update a while back. Would love to try it out, regardless!

The graphs on this look really close to how the ones in iStat Menus 6 look. I love the aesthetics of this app and how it shows all the graphs, but wonder if it has the ability to show things like temperatures and powers

This looks nice, but I&#x27;ve personally found that this is something I prefer a TUI app for (specifically htop is very good). Why?<p>1. Because TUI apps are perfectly good for this. These kind of apps don&#x27;t really need a fancy UI.<p>2. 90% of the time I want to use a system monitor is when my system is running slow and I need to find out why and which process I need to kill. A fancy GUI app will often take an age to load in these circumstances. Whereas somehow htop will usually still load in &lt;1 secon d and be responsive.

Well done. Looks absolutely worth the money!

Heads up: I&#x27;m unable to email pluto+support@cyaneous.com (the email listed for support.) I&#x27;m happy to follow up via email (heh) for troubleshooting.

Reminds me of customizing WindowMaker&#x27;s dock with system monitor widgets[1]. I wonder how quickly (or if at all) the macOS dock responds to changes to an app&#x27;s icon...<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dockapps.net&#x2F;category&#x2F;system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dockapps.net&#x2F;category&#x2F;system</a>

Is there a way on Mac to sum the memory usage of processes with the same name?

Not sure if it&#x27;s just me but your App Store screenshots (great ones) look a bit low resolution. They look blurry on my mac&#x27;s App Store app.

Thanks for the code! Appears to work great on my M1 Mac.

Any chance for a portrait orientation?

Looks nice. I wish you luck.<p>I have sworn off these things, after numerous issues with another one.

not a jab at the author but at apple. i can&#x27;t even see what this app looks like and now i don&#x27;t even care anymore. i know, it asked me to leave Chrome. but i don&#x27;t want to.<p>well, anyways, happy new year guys!

Awesome, clean UI

It&#x27;s so nice to see that clear data collection item in the Apple store.<p>No wonder surveillance capitalism and its boosters keep demanding someone &quot;tear down the Apple monopoly&quot;.

I can&#x27;t help but notice that this is being distributed via Apple.<p>Pretty soon you&#x27;ll only be able to get Mac apps from the app store.<p>It&#x27;s coming.