Vitals
A menu bar app that checks your Mac's health and tells you, in plain words, what it found and whether it matters.
What it does
- Live vitals in the menu bar — CPU, memory pressure and temperature, in as much or as little space as you want to give it.
- A health check that reads like advice, not a log. Every finding says what happened, whether it matters, and what to do next — then re-checks afterwards and tells you whether it worked.
- Unexpected restarts explained. It reads the panic report, names the likely area with an honest confidence, and judges severity by whether the same thing keeps happening — one isolated crash last month is not an emergency.
- Background software in plain language. Each launch agent shown with its publisher and purpose, flagged only when its program is genuinely missing — not because you have "too many".
- Alerts that hold their tongue. Nothing fires until a condition has lasted; a one-second spike is not a problem.
What it deliberately does not do
- It never changes anything on your Mac. There is no delete button and no "clean up" button anywhere in the app. It shows you the file and opens the right settings pane; the decision stays yours.
- It does not control charging. That is AlDente's job, and two apps writing the same hardware would fight. Vitals reads AlDente's settings so it can tell a charge limit apart from a fault.
- It sends nothing anywhere. There is no account, no server and no telemetry. If you report a problem you see the exact text first and send it yourself.
- It never invents a number. A reading it cannot take is shown as Unavailable, never as zero.
Opening it the first time
Vitals is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens normally: unzip it, drag Vitals.app into your Applications folder, and double-click. It lives in the menu bar and has no Dock icon or window of its own — click the menu bar item to open it.
Something wrong?
There is no support queue and no bug tracker to sign up for — mail admin@popnx.com. The app can assemble a diagnostic report for you under Report a Problem; it contains no usernames, file paths or personal files, and it is shown to you in full before anything is sent.