GaugeMon
Release History
GaugeMon Changelog
Version 0.2.1
23 September 2026- Update checks now go to updates.uresk.net and include the app version and license state (trial, licensed, trial ended, or needs attention), which we count per day to see how many copies are in use. Nothing that identifies you is sent or stored; see the privacy page.
Version 0.2.0
23 September 2026- A chart picker for every gauge with more than one story. CPU: usage, cluster frequency, power and temperature. GPU: device, renderer and tiler utilization, power, frequency and temperature. Memory: used, swap and pressure. Battery: charge, and watts into or out of the battery. The choice is remembered per gauge, and multi-line charts have a legend.
- A fuller GPU view: the GPU's name and core count, renderer and tiler utilization, allocated memory, power and temperature.
- Opening GaugeMon by hand now shows the window; opened at login, it shows only the menu bar, as before. A General setting, "Show the window when GaugeMon starts", turns this off.
- CPU and GPU details opened from the menu bar now fill in their power and temperature charts while open.
- License problems are easier to fix: if a key stops validating, the License window says why and offers Try Again, and a key removed from this Mac in the customer portal is re-activated automatically when a slot is free.
- A brief license-server hiccup can no longer mark a paid license as invalid.
Version 0.1.0
23 September 2026- First public release of GaugeMon for macOS 14 (Sonoma) and later.
- Nine menu bar gauges: CPU, GPU, Memory, Power, Temperature, Fans, Network, Disk and Battery. Per-gauge style (value, graph, bar, ring, or per-core bars for CPU), optional caption and colouring; separate items or one combined item; drag to reorder with a live preview; °C or °F. Gauges a Mac cannot show are hidden.
- Detail popover for every gauge: big number, 10-minute history chart, breakdown (E-cores and P-cores with cluster frequencies; app, wired, compressed and cached memory with pressure and swap; CPU, GPU, ANE and DRAM power rails; every temperature sensor; per-interface network) and the top five processes.
- Overview window with every gauge as a card and chart, plus the chip and core layout.
- Processes window: per-core meters, load average, task and thread counts, and a sortable table with CPU, memory footprint, power in watts, threads, disk read and write, wakeups, CPU time, PID, user and kind (Apple or Intel under Rosetta). Search filter, tree view and inspector with masked arguments.
- Quit, Force Quit, Interrupt, Hang Up, Pause and Resume with confirmation, after checking the process is still the one you picked. Keyboard shortcuts ⌘F, ⌘T, ⌘⌫ and ⌥⌘⌫.
- Copy Summary: a plain-text snapshot of gauges and top processes on the clipboard.
- No sudo and no subprocesses: reads host statistics, IOReport, the HID temperature sensors and the SMC (read-only) directly. Optional privileged helper, installed and removed from Settings, for other users' process numbers and signals.
- Samples only what is on screen: menu bar gauges every 1, 2 or 5 seconds; processes only while a process list is visible.
- Polar licensing with a 14-day fully unrestricted trial, and Sparkle auto-updates with 12 months of updates included.