Specto
Cards you can move
Reorder Processor, Network, Storage, Battery, Resources, and Summary by dragging. Collapse, hide, or switch half and full width. Add System, Alert History, Top Apps Today, or Network Quality when you want them.
Specto
Your Mac’s vitals,
in your menu bar.
A local-only monitor for CPU, memory, disk, network, battery, and GPU — with a dashboard you can rearrange, pin, and keep on your desktop.
Download v1.6.0
App Store — coming soon
Features
Every sensor you need. Nothing you don’t.
Live readings in the menu bar, a card dashboard you can shape, and tools that stay out of the way until you need them.
Pin and stay in flow
Detach the dashboard into a floating window that stays across Spaces. Use ⌥⌘S or the menu bar to focus or close it. ⌘1 / ⌘2 switch tabs; Esc closes.
Menu bar, your way
All-in-one compact bar or separate sensors. Optional sparklines, custom SF Symbols, and smart hide.
Health you control
Threshold colours, notifications, and battery guards — with density modes from Compact to Detailed.
Light on the Mac
Adaptive sampling pauses GPU, process, and volume work when nothing on screen needs them.
Customize
Glass or Dark. Accent yours.
Settings split into Menu Bar, Dashboard, History, and Health — so chrome, layout, and alerts stay where they belong.
Glass
Translucent chrome that follows system light and dark.
Dark
Solid deep-dark panels for high-contrast environments.
Privacy
It runs on your Mac. And mostly stays there.
No accounts. No analytics. No selling data. Optional history is off by default and stored only on this Mac.
Local by default
CPU, memory, volumes, speeds, battery, and processes are read on device for display — not uploaded as telemetry.
History is optional
Network and per-app Resource History live under Application Support, auto-prune after 30 days, and clear when you turn them off.
Wi‑Fi name on screen
SSID may appear in Network and widgets for display. It is not written to history files and is not sent to a server.
You choose outbound
No accounts or in-app analytics. Optional taps: Public IP via ipapi.co, or Network Quality probes to Cloudflare. Developer ID builds also check specto.biz/appcast.xml for updates (Sparkle).
What can leave your Mac: Public IP refresh (ipapi.co) and Network Quality (five HTTPS probes to Cloudflare) run only when you start them. Signed builds may fetch the Sparkle appcast for updates. Results are not stored as telemetry. Full detail matches the repo’s privacy policy for Specto 1.6.0.
What’s new
Shipped in 1.6.0
Build 138 — July 2026.
v1.6.0 · Build 138
Layouts, insights & widgets
Mac Weather and playful insight cards, Temps & Fans, auto-fit, per-drive cards, actionable alerts, CSV export, one Specto desktop widget with tap-to-focus, and Glass that follows macOS Light/Dark.
v1.5.0 · Build 135
Dashboard cards & pin window
Movable cards, in-place add/remove, density and Focus, floating pin across Spaces, volume actions, network quality, and adaptive sampling.
v1.4.6 · Build 134
System Pulse & onboarding
New app icon, Quiet / Balanced / Detailed profiles, contextual notification permission, and a compact health header.
Testimonials
Loved by developers & power users.
Here is what Mac users say about Specto’s lightweight, local-only performance.
“Specto replaced three status bar utilities for me. The auto-fit dashboard and instant zero-CPU background mode make it indispensable on my Mac Studio.”
“Finally a Mac system monitor that respects privacy! No analytics, local history logging, and customizable cards. Exactly what a system utility should be.”
“The Desktop Widgets and live thermal maps are gorgeous. It feels like a native Apple app built with pure SwiftUI precision.”
Get Specto
One Mac. One menu bar app.
Grab the latest release from GitHub. Mac App Store listing is on the roadmap.
Requires macOS 14 or later · Universal