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Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app
- lupinglade 6y agoCheck out our new system monitor app "Pluto", it's a different take on at-a-glance availability and is very customizable. Mac App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pluto-hud/id1544577573?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pluto-hud/id1544577573?mt=12 Promo codes below: 36F3FWR6W6NJ HKHLWTMHHP7P 3YHKK9XFWHRE XX9WJX3HNKLR LTJ6YL343RM4 Update: here are 10 more codes for you guys, thanks for the support! REF3KY37YXHP Y4L77PPLLFTH R6HEJALF67YM 93FYNH3YXALL FWHMPFHF3XHR KJ3RYH7JK639 JL49PFKFKWYN NH4HXY7KM6XH 94E777T7449Y HEPT4TW6KWKJ
- xabi 6y agoThanks for the code!
- JosephRedfern 6y agoTo anyone reading: all these codes seem to have been used up :(
- lupinglade 6y agoJust posted some new ones.
- keehun 6y agoWow, that went fast.
- saagarjha 6y agoI believe bots scrape the internet for these, unfortunately :(
- chrischen 6y agoI assume these codes are limited to just this app? What would the bots do with individual licenses?
- nuclear_eclipse 6y agoresell them on various sites for < MSRP
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoOnce they’ve been used?
- nuclear_eclipse 6y agoI presume they would claim them with fake/fresh username/email info to get legitimate licenses/keys, then resell those after the fact.
- unilynx 6y agoYou get the app directly, no key you can resell. The codes worked, I claimed the third one of the second set I think about three minute after they were added to the post. At that point at least six of the other codes were gone.
- vjeantet 6y agoHello, codes seems ko
- TMWNN 6y agoDarn. Missed the new ones too!
- zero_ 6y agonever have luck with this stuff ;D
- sjg 6y agoI always miss out on this stuff too. Always late to the party.
- fermienrico 6y agoYou can spend $10 :) It's like 2 coffees. Not that much and not a subscription :)
- xyst 6y agoFor those reading, this is likely in reference to Sugarbucks (Starbucks) “coffee”. Brewing at home with a pot or even an espresso machine is approx <$1 per cup.
- fermienrico 6y agoTechnically you're right. Can't argue!
- stephenr 6y agoDepends how big your cups are ;-)
- 40four 6y agoI don’t know about you all, but I like huge cups of coffee.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI get picky and relatively pricey beans and distribute a French press across one giant mug and one travel mug for heat preservation. Anyway yeah it works out to about $1/vessel.
- the_other 6y ago
- zimmertr 6y agoI respect your approach to advertising. This was well executed :)
- webmobdev 6y agoDo you also sell it outside the app store?
- simonebrunozzi 6y agoCould you send one to simone.brunozzi at (google's email service) ?
- berkserbet 6y agoThanks for the code! Appears to work great on my M1 Mac.
- lupinglade 6y agoEnjoy :) Should support M1 perfectly.
- blondin 6y agonot a jab at the author but at apple. i can't even see what this app looks like and now i don't even care anymore. i know, it asked me to leave Chrome. but i don't want to. well, anyways, happy new year guys!
- chendragon 6y agoThe 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
- lupinglade 6y agoThe default theme is meant to match the OS style, similar to the graphs in Activity Monitor. Temperature and power stats are not allowed to be read in App Store apps, but if we get enough requests we plan to write a little helper app that you can download separately to supply that info to Pluto.
- evantahler 6y agoiStat Menus works great on Big Sur - they keep it updated. Temp and Power included!
- rodgerd 6y agoIt's so nice to see that clear data collection item in the Apple store. No wonder surveillance capitalism and its boosters keep demanding someone "tear down the Apple monopoly".
- other_herbert 6y agoVery 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's fanless and makes no obvious outside indication that something is busy it's hard to tell what's going on.
- jondwillis 6y agoM1 Mac mini reporting in... I can't get the fan to turn on. And I'm compiling as hard as I can...
- sgt 6y agoOh boy, you just gave me another reason to want the Mac Mini M1. I have had two previous Mac Mini's (and one is actually still operational 24/7, despite being 12 years old). Such a brilliant little machine, and much better value than say an iMac as there are tons of good screens out there. I am wondering though whether it supports dual 4k screens at 60Hz. I don't think HDMI can do that, so it would have to be DisplayPort.
- somebodynew 6y agoApple says that the M1 Mac Mini supports: > One display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz connected via Thunderbolt and one display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz connected via HDMI 2.0 That is, it does support two 4K screens at 60 Hz. Note that this is in contrast to the M1 MacBooks which only support one external display in addition to the laptop display.
- tomaskafka 6y agoM1 Macbooks reportedly support also 4k/120hz, and 4k/144hz/hdr with DSC, so it's quite possible that Mini would too
- perryizgr8 6y agoHDMI can do that, but unfortunately the M1 can't.
- 247hustler 6y agoAwesome, clean UI
- lupinglade 6y agoThanks! Glad you are enjoying it.
- WatchDog 6y agoNot on a mac right now, is there an alternative page that shows the UI, the screenshots on the app store in firefox are tiny.
- keyle 6y agoI was too wondering why the screenshots are so low res... is it because I have some apple domains blocked like ocsp?
- soneil 6y agonope, you’re seeing correctly - it’s a very low-functionality site that’s primary role is to open the App Store app (only works from Safari, I believe). The full images are available in the appstore.
- saagarjha 6y agoI remember there being a great Safari extension that blocked this behavior. I wish I knew of something that could do this after Apple nuked their entire ecosystem :(
- lupinglade 6y agoYou can see a couple of screenshots here: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/kprd2g/unique_new_system_monitor_app_pluto/ https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/kprd2g/unique_new_...
- FreshFries 6y agoIt would be nice if you would add that you are plugging one of your own applications.
- moondev 6y agoSame situation for me, I ended up adjusting the image urls from the page to get a better look: https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/44/42/64/44426488-0da4-ebf1-167a-c81213c01705/c1dc7576-b79d-42f2-846f-062c81b39325_Screen_2.png/1920x0w.png https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/... https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/a3/b3/13/a3b31353-1d67-ebcc-19c6-7cbb496adedc/c6bda9f5-8865-4e47-b131-a9fabc07ca44_Screen_3.png/1920x0w.png https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/... https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/e9/c9/79/e9c97916-791a-bdc8-abd7-82379de47453/3ed40333-67de-4334-bb78-ea984dbbc3d2_Screen_4.png/1920x0w.png https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/... https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource114/v4/7b/e0/13/7be013d7-25fb-923d-0742-df8048ef3926/3b1ec903-bb0e-43ae-80c9-b0991e674aef_Screen_3.png/1920x0w.png https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource114/v4/...
- gnicholas 6y agoDoes 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!
- bori5 6y agoMenuMeters works fine on my Mojave, but from reading release notes it would appear to run on BigSur as well. MenuMeters for OS X El Capitan 10.11 and later https://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/ https://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/ and https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters
- gnicholas 6y agoWow, didn't know there was a new version — thanks! I recently booted up my 2008 iMac to get some old files, and I was reminded how much I liked MenuMeters.
- throwaway744678 6y agoConfirmation here: it works fine on Big Sur too.
- Fnoord 6y agoPluto requires macOS 11 (Big Sur). It doesn't work on 10.15 (Catalina).
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoIt works, but honestly it needs a visual update because it looks very err... hacker-ish?
- jonpurdy 6y agoI used the MenuMeters forks up until a few months ago when I purchased iStatMenus. Love it and well worth the money, especially since I can used the unified view (so my widgets don't get moved around arbitrarily by menu bar reorganization).
- ilikepi 6y agoReminds me of customizing WindowMaker's dock with system monitor widgets[1]. I wonder how quickly (or if at all) the macOS dock responds to changes to an app's icon... [1] https://www.dockapps.net/category/system https://www.dockapps.net/category/system
- pram 6y agoSame thing I was going to post! I always loved those little widgets, especially the one with the rubber ducky. They just have this whimsical feeling modern desktops are lacking https://www.dockapps.net/wmbubble https://www.dockapps.net/wmbubble
- LeoPanthera 6y agoI feel so old. The original Mac OS X dock supported "live" icons. If you minimized the System Monitor, the icon turned into a real time CPU graph. If you minimized a QuickTime video, the video continued playing, tiny, right in the dock. I was really sad when this went away, and I don't really understand why it did.
- webmobdev 6y ago> If you minimized the System Monitor, the icon turned into a real time CPU graph. On macOS Mojave, the Activity Monitor still does show real-time graph in the icon if you want it to - right-clicking the icon gives you various graphs to choose from. Don't know about the QT videos though.
- ilikepi 6y agoWow, I did not realize Activity Monitor did that. QuickTime Player seems to have lost its dynamic icon, though. I've gotten to the point where I don't even use the dock anymore, it just stays hidden. Quite a long way from the good ole' days of themes.org, freshmeat.net, and spending hours customizing my desktop environment.
- echelon 6y agoI can't help but notice that this is being distributed via Apple. Pretty soon you'll only be able to get Mac apps from the app store. It's coming.
- sibartlett 6y agoMac App Store is nothing new, it was launched 10 years ago.
- macintux 6y agoWe’ve been hearing that refrain for years. It obviously can’t be disproven, but if you’d care to put a time bound on that statement, I’d be happy to find a site where we can place a bet against it.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoLooks nice. I wish you luck. I have sworn off these things, after numerous issues with another one.
- lupinglade 6y agoWhat issues did you have?
- odux 6y agoI will try this when I get to my mac but such apps in the past have caused significant CPU load for me.
- lupinglade 6y agoShould be very light weight and you can make it even more light weight by tweaking to only show what you require.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoCrashes. HARD crashes. Random, frequent, mysterious. Worthless crash dumps. Removing the utility immediately stopped them. I tried the utility several times, over the last few years. Every time, as soon as I started using it, the crashes began. I really wanted it to work, but it wasn't worth it.
- nicoburns 6y agoThis looks nice, but I've personally found that this is something I prefer a TUI app for (specifically htop is very good). Why? 1. Because TUI apps are perfectly good for this. These kind of apps don't really need a fancy UI. 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 <1 secon d and be responsive.
- madprops 6y agoCheck bpytop
- technotarek 6y agoSlightly 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.
- wlesieutre 6y agoI haven't noticed that, but I'd propose an alternate explanation: the amount of time it takes for you to notice a CPU spike, get annoyed by it, and launch task manager ends up being just slightly shorter than the running time of some common CPU spiking tasks.
- asdff 6y agooh yeah, I caught addressbooksync maxing out four cores for about a minute on htop before.
- TENACIOUSANT 6y ago100% this on my rMBP 2015. Almost every time too. I notice my PC will give a similar 'system interrupts' reaction with Task Manager, however.
- nitrogen 6y agoOn Windows some scheduled tasks are scheduled to run whenever the system is idle, and seem to stop running when the system is being used again (e.g. by opening a task manager). Maybe the same is true on Mac. This behavior does make one think of malware. It's frustrating when the core features of an OS thwart user monitoring and control, even if inadvertently.
- mft_ 6y agoYep, many many times on my 2017 MBP. Far too consistently repeatable to be coincidence, IMO.
- rovr138 6y agoIf Activity Monitor runs with a higher priority/niceness, that could explain it
- RyJones 6y agoAny chance for a portrait orientation?
- lupinglade 6y agoYes, we are exploring adding this.
- jdpedrie 6y agoPlease do! It would fit my preferred window layout so much better.
- sgt 6y agoWell done. Looks absolutely worth the money!
- ivanmaeder 6y agoOn the subject of system performance on macOS… does anyone know of a decent app/tool for limiting CPU on different processes or programs? This might be less relevant on newer hardware, but I'm interested in limiting certain apps (e.g., Dropbox, OS tools) from heating up the computer and making the fans go crazy.
- coldtea 6y agoYou can use the renice command from the command line, after finding the applications pid: http://cheat.sh/renice http://cheat.sh/renice
- dakull 6y agoI like to use htop `brew install htop` and then play with nice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_(Unix) for "bad" processes).
- lost_my_pwd 6y agoGive AppPolice a try: https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice https://github.com/AppPolice/AppPolice
- lynguist 6y agoIs there a way on Mac to sum the memory usage of processes with the same name?
- WhoCaresLies 6y ago- 2mb - no data collection - beautiful i love macOS because devs on that platform embrace apple's mindset 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
- lupinglade 6y agoAnd its a universal binary too, so probably half of that per architecture :)
- busymom0 6y agoNot sure if it's just me but your App Store screenshots (great ones) look a bit low resolution. They look blurry on my mac's App Store app.
- zlsa 6y agoHeads up: I'm unable to email pluto+support@cyaneous.com (the email listed for support.) I'm happy to follow up via email (heh) for troubleshooting.