MONIT 4+

I bought this to check TEMP and FAN speed. I installed the HELPER separately, as this is needed. Then, these things were nowhere to be seen. I found from another review that you have to CLICK on the CPU circle. That's NOT intuitive. So now I know HOW to see the info I was concerned about. I think this info should be available via some little icons or something to at least let you know that it maybe wasn't CATALINA blocking the info or something... I almost gave up and then decided to see what others thought in these comments. That's the ONLY reason I now give it 5 stars.

This app is great. It shows technical information regarding your computer’s processes, which is extremely useful for those that use their computers intensively. Apple should have released this with its laptops, instead of it obscures it behind various utility apps.

Having said this, it’s also missing some very obvious features:

Notification preferences. It’s great that I get notifications regarding changes in my system, but the inability to turn them off is absurd; I don’t want a notification beep telling me that I am connecting to WiFi EVERY SINGLE TIME I OPEN MY LAPTOP.

This app is also missing customizable views. It would be great to select precisely what I want to see when I slide open my notifications.

Finally, this app is missing the ability to be opened as a standalone app. While it serves its functions well, Apple’s implementation of notification center is counterintuitive without a trackpad and, for my money, this app should accommodate those use cases.

I want to emphasize that these are nitpicks, small features that I think should be included for the money I spent on it. This is an otherwise great app which I would whole heartedly recommend.

I am a heavy user of Parallels on my Mac. Due to a lot of the programs I use through Parallels, I like to know where my memory, disk, and CPU usage is being used. I know I can recieve this information from Activity Monitor, however it is MUCH easier to click the taskbar and have MONIT display the information immediately.

The most recent update also included a darker background color to make up for the white taskbar color from OSSierra

I highly recommend trying this app out.