A tiny macOS menu bar app showing CPU and memory usage, updated every 10 seconds. No dock icon, no window, no configuration - just two numbers next to the clock.
Requires macOS 13+.
I wanted a bare minimum app to keep an eye on the CPU usage because of a stupid
bug in Apple's peopled process that will start sucking up CPU and wont stop
until I un-quarantine some files and restart it. Hopefully the bug gets fixed
and then I might never run this again.
There are many, many other apps that do this and much more, but this works great for me - plus Swift is surprisingly ok for knocking up little apps.
"To think that I should be such a noddy!"
- Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1838
Download NoddyStats.zip from the latest release,
unzip, and move NoddyStats.app to /Applications.
The app is not notarized, it's ad-hoc signed, so macOS will quarantine the download. Either approve it under System Settings / Privacy & Security after the first launch attempt, or clear the quarantine flag:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/NoddyStats.appmake run # builds and runs from /tmp
make install # builds and copies to /Applications