A Mac activity monitor that thinks in apps, not processes
Activity Monitor lists a thousand processes, a hundred of them called Google Chrome Helper. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it, so you see 60 apps instead of 1,000 processes, each with one figure for memory, CPU, energy, disk and network. It keeps 30 days of history, alerts you when an app misbehaves, finds forgotten dev servers, and shows temperatures, fans and battery. Every readout can sit in your menu bar, arranged your way. Pay once. No subscription, no account.
I'm Atta. I make Mac apps on my own, and Vitals is the one I made for myself first.
My Mac would get hot and slow, so I'd open Activity Monitor and find 1,041 processes, 96 of them called "Google Chrome Helper". It never told me the one thing I wanted to know: which app is doing this?
So I built the tool that answers that. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it. One row per app, one figure each for memory, CPU, energy, disk, and network. Click the row, and everything about that app is in one place. It keeps 30 days of history, tells you when an app starts misbehaving, and finds the dev servers you forgot were running, grouped by project.
That is also what makes it different. Activity Monitor and the terminal tools show you processes and leave the adding up to you. The menu bar monitors show you how busy your Mac is, with gauges and graphs, but not which app is behind it. Vitals starts from the app, and I built it to feel like one native Mac app, not a dashboard.
Version 1.1 ships today. Every readout can be its own menu bar item; volume and Bluetooth sit beside them, and you arrange the panel and the window the way you like.
Two days ago I put it on X. 800+ people bought it in 72 hours, which I still don't quite believe. It's $5 for the first 1,000 licenses, then $29. One payment, no subscription, no account, and nothing leaves your Mac.
I'll be here all day. Tell me what you'd want Vitals to answer next, and what you'd want it to stop doing.
About Vitals on Product Hunt
“A Mac activity monitor that thinks in apps, not processes”
Vitals launched on Product Hunt on September 28th, 2026 and earned 223 upvotes and 29 comments, placing #5 on the daily leaderboard. Activity Monitor lists a thousand processes, a hundred of them called Google Chrome Helper. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it, so you see 60 apps instead of 1,000 processes, each with one figure for memory, CPU, energy, disk and network. It keeps 30 days of history, alerts you when an app misbehaves, finds forgotten dev servers, and shows temperatures, fans and battery. Every readout can sit in your menu bar, arranged your way. Pay once. No subscription, no account.
On the analytics side, Vitals competes within Mac, Developer Tools and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 636.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Vitals performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Vitals ?
Vitals was hunted by Aleksandar Blazhev. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Aleksandar Blazhev
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I'm Atta. I make Mac apps on my own, and Vitals is the one I made for myself first.
My Mac would get hot and slow, so I'd open Activity Monitor and find 1,041 processes, 96 of them called "Google Chrome Helper". It never told me the one thing I wanted to know: which app is doing this?
So I built the tool that answers that. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it. One row per app, one figure each for memory, CPU, energy, disk, and network. Click the row, and everything about that app is in one place. It keeps 30 days of history, tells you when an app starts misbehaving, and finds the dev servers you forgot were running, grouped by project.
That is also what makes it different. Activity Monitor and the terminal tools show you processes and leave the adding up to you. The menu bar monitors show you how busy your Mac is, with gauges and graphs, but not which app is behind it. Vitals starts from the app, and I built it to feel like one native Mac app, not a dashboard.
Version 1.1 ships today. Every readout can be its own menu bar item; volume and Bluetooth sit beside them, and you arrange the panel and the window the way you like.
Two days ago I put it on X. 800+ people bought it in 72 hours, which I still don't quite believe. It's $5 for the first 1,000 licenses, then $29. One payment, no subscription, no account, and nothing leaves your Mac.
👉 https://vitalsmac.com
I'll be here all day. Tell me what you'd want Vitals to answer next, and what you'd want it to stop doing.