Feel your Mac’s heartbeat
Live memory, speed and heat, explained in plain words. No jargon needed.
Free · Made for Mac · 100% private
Where did your day go?
Now you’ll know.
MyMacVitals tracks what you do on your Mac all day, shows what was productive and what pulled you away, and helps you make tomorrow better. It keeps your Mac running well too. Everything stays on your Mac.
Version 1.0.0 · macOS 15 Sequoia or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · 6.7 MB
- Free to download
- No account
- Nothing leaves your Mac
- No tracking
The main feature
Track today. Do better tomorrow.
You worked all day, but where did the hours go? MyMacVitals quietly watches, and at night it tells you the story: what was real work, what was a detour. Tomorrow, you steer.
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It tracks
Every app and website you use, timed by itself. No timers to press and nothing to remember.
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It shows you
Productive, neutral and distracting time, hour by hour, in colour. One look and you know.
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You improve
Spot your best hours and your biggest time-sinks. Compare days, weeks and months to see if you’re getting better.
Finally, you can answer
- How long did I really work today?
- What pulled me away from it?
- When am I at my best, morning or night?
- How many times did I switch apps and lose my focus?
- Is this week better than last week?
For the curious
- The Overview shows productive and distracting time as a share of your active time, next to how many times you switched apps, so a busy day and a focused day look different.
- Only real time at your Mac counts. Locked, asleep or away time is left out, and videos on a second screen are counted as “alongside”, so they never inflate your work or your distractions.
- Week and month views roll your days together, so a good habit or a bad one shows up as a pattern, not a guess.
Every minute, in colour
Your day, in colours.
Blue is coding. Teal is work. Red is fun. Your whole day fits on one line.
- Every app and website, timed for you
- Videos on your second screen are counted apart, never mixed up with real work
- Locked, asleep or away? That time is never counted
- Day, week and month views, search, and CSV export
For the curious
- It looks at the app in front every 2 seconds, and instantly when you switch.
- It stops counting after 3 minutes without keyboard or mouse (you can change that). A video playing in the window you’re in still counts as being there.
- It reads window and tab titles, never page contents. Private and incognito windows are saved only as “Private Browsing”.
- Categories and projects are yours to edit, and changes apply to past days too.
Zoom into any app or site.
Tap an app and see its whole day: when you used it, which windows, how long.
- Each app’s hours on a simple chart
- Which files, documents and pages you were in
- Focused time and time “alongside” shown separately
And there’s more
It looks after your Mac, too.
A Mac that hangs wastes the very day you’re trying to make better. So MyMacVitals watches its health as well.
Give it room to breathe
Optional. It pauses what you aren’t using, so what you are using can fly.
Remember everything
A second-by-second log of how your Mac did, ready to export whenever you like.
Feel your Mac’s heartbeat
Why does my Mac hang? Now you can see.
RAM is your desk. The SSD is a storage room down the hall. When the desk is full, you keep running to the storage room, and everything slows down.
- How much is on the desk and how much is in the storage room, live
- How fast data moves through RAM and the SSD, with a simple percentage
- Which apps use the fast cores and which use the quiet, power-saving ones
- A one-click speed test of your SSD
For the curious
- Memory is split the way Activity Monitor splits it: apps, system, compressed, cached and free. The swap total is exact. The per-app “pushed out of RAM” figure is an estimate, because macOS doesn’t say which app owns what is on the SSD.
- RAM speed comes from the chip’s memory-controller counters, and SSD speed from the internal drive’s own statistics. Both are read without admin rights.
- Apple Silicon has fast (performance) cores and slower efficiency cores. MyMacVitals shows which kind each app is running on, right now.
Give it room to breathe
A gentle helper. Off until you say so.
Apps you aren’t using take a nap. The second you open one, it wakes up.
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You work
You’re in your editor. Mail, Notes and Slack sit idle in the background.
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They nap
After a few minutes unused, they’re paused. They use almost nothing.
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You switch
The moment you open one, it wakes. Nothing was closed. Nothing was lost.
- You decide which apps may nap, and which never do
- Teams awake 9 to 6, WhatsApp awake at night: set schedules
- Busy apps in the background move to the quiet, power-saving cores
- It never touches the app you’re using, calls, music, downloads or Terminal
- Everything is reversible. Quit MyMacVitals and every app wakes at once
For the curious
- Napping uses the system’s own pause and resume signals, so nothing is quit and nothing is lost.
- Each app gets one of three choices: Always on, Check every few minutes (woken briefly to fetch messages), or Can wait.
- Busy background apps are marked low priority, so macOS runs them on the efficiency cores.
- A tiny safety watcher resumes any paused app, even if MyMacVitals itself crashes.
Remember everything
A flight recorder for your Mac.
Like the black box on an airplane. It remembers every second, so you can see what happened.
Every secondreadings of CPU, memory and SSD
90 daysof history, kept on your Mac
1 clickto export a readable report
- Which app used the most memory, disk and power, minute by minute
- The worst moments, second by second, with what was in front
- Hand the report to a friend, a techie or an AI, and tune your Mac together
For the curious
- Readings every second use about 1% of one core. You can slow them down or switch the log off.
- Per-second detail is kept for 7 days and per-minute summaries for 90. You choose both.
- Exports (report, CSV, JSON, a copy of the database) never include window titles or page addresses.
Privacy and security
Your life stays on your Mac.
Not “we promise.” There is simply nowhere for your data to go.
Saved only on your Mac
One folder in your Library. Nothing is uploaded. Ever.
No account. No servers.
Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to.
No analytics
Nobody can see that you installed it, what you do, or what’s on your screen.
Private windows stay private
Incognito is saved only as “Private Browsing”.
Titles, never contents
It reads window and tab titles. Never your pages, passwords or messages.
Delete it all in one click
Settings → Data → Uninstall removes the app, its data and its permissions.
What it asks for, and why
- Accessibilityoptional
- To read window titles, like which document is open. Skip it and apps, time, performance and the helper still work.
- Automationoptional, per browser
- To read the active tab’s title and address. Never the page itself.
- Notificationsoptional
- Only for the memory and busy-app warnings, which you can switch off.
- Never asked for
- Screen Recording, Full Disk Access, camera, microphone, contacts or location.
The only network request the app can make is loading YouTube thumbnails, and that is off by default.
Made for Mac
Built for Mac. Only Mac.
For now, it’s built and tested on an Apple Silicon MacBook (M1).
- macOS 15 Sequoia or later
- Apple Silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4…)Built and tested on an M1 MacBook
- Intel MacsSupported (universal app), less tested
- Desktop MacsShould work; battery details simply won’t show
- Windows, iPhone, iPadNot available
Get it
Install in under a minute.
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Download
Get the MyMacVitals disk image.
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Drag
Drop MyMacVitals into your Applications folder.
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Open
It lives in your menu bar. Allow Accessibility if you want window titles.
Download for Mac
Version 1.0.0 · October 2026 · macOS 15 Sequoia or later
SHA-256: ffc210a4b7a9f1bc66894475e647e1fbc5e4de265f5aec03686c67943be7981b
Questions
Good things to ask.
Is it really free?
Yes. MyMacVitals is free to download and use today.
Does it slow my Mac down?
It’s light. Reading your Mac every second uses about 1% of one core, and you can slow that down or switch the log off in Settings.
Is it safe to pause apps?
Yes. It only pauses an app and resumes it. Nothing is quit and nothing is lost. It never touches the app you’re using, calls, music, downloads or Terminal, and the helper is off until you turn it on.
Does it send my data anywhere?
No. There is no account, no server and no analytics. Everything stays in one folder on your Mac.
Why does it ask for Accessibility?
Only to read window titles, such as which document is open. If you skip it, apps, time, performance and the helper still work.
Which Macs does it work on?
Any Mac running macOS 15 Sequoia or later: Apple Silicon (M1 and newer) and Intel. It was built and tested on an M1 MacBook, so that’s where it’s best proven.
How do I remove it completely?
Open Settings → Data → Uninstall MyMacVitals. It deletes the app, its data and the permissions you gave it.
Made by Aslam Sarfraz
A full stack, AI and DevOps engineer who builds useful, private software. MyMacVitals is free to use today, and your feedback shapes what comes next.
Sound familiar?
Your Mac works hard for you all day.
The day disappears.
Eight hours at your Mac, and you can’t say where they went.
It hangs when you’re in a hurry.
You click. You wait. The little wheel just keeps spinning.
You closed everything. It still crawls.
Something is quietly eating your memory. You just can’t see it.
MyMacVitals answers all three.