Top 15 iStat Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

iStat is a series of system monitor apps. It's available in different versions: iStat Menus, iStat for iOS and iStat Server ( http://bjango.com/iphone/istat/ ) as a companion application to the iStat for iOS app that lets you remotely monitor your computers (free for Windows and Mac).

CPU
Realtime CPU graphs and a list of the top 5 CPU resource hogs. CPU usage can be tracked by individual cores or with all cores combined, to save menubar space.
Network
A realtime graph to keep on top of what’s being sent and received for all network connections.
Date & Time
A highly configurable date, time and calendar for your menubar, including fuzzy clock and moon phase. A world clock with sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset times for over 20,000 cities. It’s one of the most powerful replacements for Apple’s date and time menu available.
Disk Usage
See used or free space for multiple disks in your menubar. More detail for all your disks is only a click away.
Disk Activity
Detailed disk I/O in your menubar, displayed as a graph, a variety of different read and write indicators, or both.
Sensors
Realtime listings of the sensors in your Mac, including temperatures, hard drive temperatures (where supported), fans, voltages, current and power. Fan speeds can be controlled, with different rules when on battery power, if you’d like.
Battery
Detailed info on your battery’s current state and a highly configurable menu item that can change if you’re draining, charging, or completely charged.
Memory
Memory stats for your menubar, shown as a pie chart, graph, percentage, bar or any combination of those things. The memory dropdown menu shows a list of the top 5 memory hogs, as well as other useful info.
Complete control
Each menu extra comes with many different display modes, customizable colours, font sizes and widths. ...

1. SpeedFan

SpeedFan SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. It also has the ability to control fan speeds gradually on many motherboards and video cards to......

2. Hardware sensors monitor

Hardware sensors monitor Hardware sensors monitor utilizes sensor chips on smart motherboards to track system and CPU core temperatures, voltages and cooling fans. By quickly catching an overheated computer, you can prevent disasters such as system instability or damage. The program is resource friendly, resides quietly in the system tray, and continually monitors......

3. Speccy

Speccy Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC, available as installer version and as portable version in 24 languages. It does a quick scan of your machine and gives you a complete rundown of every piece of gear thats in your computer.......

4. CheckMyMac

CheckMyMac CheckMyMac monitors key components in your system and helps preventing and discovering major malfunctions before they happen. Features: Monitor system components Manage User Processes(new) Monitor User Processes Within MenuBar(new) Schedule alert notifications based on various temperature sensors in your system. Clean inactive and leaked RAM in your system. Control your......

5. Performance Monitor

Performance Monitor Performance Monitor is a small program that shows you the CPU, Memory, Disk and Network utilization under Windows NT platforms (2000, XP, Vista, Win 7, etc...).It's composed by four fully configurable small graphs and it can work in the tray area also.The windows are fully anchorable.PerfMon can become transparent and......

6. Compact Tray Meter

Compact Tray Meter This compact utility displays real-time CPU, RAM and disk drives usage meters right on the taskbar notification area, or next to the system clock, that is always visible:>> Special features:-Real-time reporting of the CPU activity.-Real-time reporting on the system RAM usage.-Real-time reporting of the disk drives activity.-Color coding of the......

7. AMD64 CPU Assistant

AMD64 CPU Assistant AMD64 CPU Assistant monitors the temperature of AMD64 CPU cores (AMD64 K8 processor on Socket 754/S1/940/F1207/939/AM2/ASB1/S1g1) using the on-die thermal sensor.It also shows info about CPU and memory (load, timings, voltage, technical details) and includes a task manager.This program runs under Vista x64 and Windows 7/8 x86/64 only when the......

8. EPU-6 Engine

EPU-6 Engine EPU-6 Engine is a program for managing the power-saving profiles. A few preset profiles to choose from can be found and you can adjust the settings. You can select one of the three preset models for the CPU fan in the BIOS of Asus mainboards.The ASUS EPU provides total system......

9. Real Temp

Real Temp Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core, Quad Core and Core i7 processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TJMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU.......

10. CPU Thermometer

CPU Thermometer CPU Thermometer is one free CPU temperature monitor; it can help you monitor your computer CPU temperature in live time. Program can start with Windows start-up, and show live CPU temperature in your desktop tray icon, so you get this important system information at a glance. This is one completetly......

11. Monity

Monity Monity is an advanced system monitor that takes place in macOS Today View and oversees component statistics.FEATURESSystem monitoring• Uptime, Processes, CPU Usage, CPU load averageMemory Management• Wired, Active, Inactive, Compressed, Free memory • App-Memory, File-Cache, Reserved memory, Available & Used Memory• Supports new Memory display formatNetwork Activity• Monitoring of all......

12. SSD Fan Control

SSD Fan Control iMac users who tweak their systems using 3rd party hard disks or solid state disks, are often surprised by an unpleasant aftermath: an annoyingly noisy hard disk fan. Fan management in Apple systems relies on temperatures reported by the SMC system. The SMC collects data from external sensors or by......

13. WebTemp

WebTemp WebTemp provides (server) hardware remote monitoring features. WebTemp displays temperatures like CPU temperature as well as voltages and fan speeds measured by SpeedFan or other hardware monitoring tools and together with CPU and memory load, network traffic and notebook battery status it creates statistics which can be saved,......

14. XRG

XRG XRG is an open source system monitor for Mac OS X. XRG allows you to monitor CPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature, network activity, disk I/O, current weather, and stock market data. The goal of XRG is to be a functional system monitor that has a clean and......

15. HWiNFO (32/64)

HWiNFO (32/64) HWiNFO are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. Both tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computers hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as......