Alternatives to macmon
A terminal monitor for Apple Silicon Macs showing power, frequency, temperature and memory without sudo. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
macmon
A terminal monitor for Apple Silicon Macs showing power, frequency, temperature and memory without sudo.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as macmon.
Stats
See system resource use in the macOS menu bar.
Stats is a free open-source macOS menu bar monitor with configurable panels instead of a terminal view, and works beyond Apple Silicon Macs.
iStat Menus
A macOS menu bar system monitor for CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors and battery.
iStat Menus is a paid menu bar monitor covering CPU, GPU, memory, disks, network, sensors and battery, without a terminal or Prometheus endpoint.
btop++
A terminal resource monitor that looks good enough to leave open, with processes, CPU, memory, disks, network and GPUs.
btop is a terminal resource monitor for macOS and Linux with process lists and graphs, but lacks macmon's Apple Silicon power readings.
TG Pro
Mac app for monitoring component temperatures and battery health, with manual and automatic fan control.
TG Pro is a paid Mac app for component temperatures and battery health with fan control, using a graphical interface rather than the terminal.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
iStatistica
A macOS system monitor with a dashboard, menu bar monitors and widgets for hardware stats.
Sensei
A Mac app for monitoring CPU, GPU, storage and battery health, with junk file cleanup.
nvtop
Watch GPU activity in a terminal interface.
htop
Interactive process viewer for the terminal.
Prometheus
Metrics database that scrapes targets and evaluates alerting rules.
