Pulse
Your Mac's vital signs, one click from the menu bar.
Pulse sits in the menu bar and shows how hard your Mac is working. Open it for a compact status panel, close it and it stays out of the way.
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- Size
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- Runs on
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- SHA-256
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Illustration. A screenshot will replace it with the first release.
Features
What Pulse does.
Status panel
One compact panel for processor load, memory, storage, network activity and battery.
Menu bar readout
Keep the numbers you care about visible in the menu bar itself.
Light on resources
A monitor should not show up in its own readings. Pulse samples at a modest rate and idles when the panel is closed.
No Dock icon
Pulse lives only in the menu bar.
Options
Settings you can change, and the permissions the app asks for.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Menu bar items | Choose which readings appear in the menu bar. |
| Refresh rate | How often the readings update. |
| Launch at login | Start Pulse automatically when you sign in. |
| Check for updates | Turn automatic update checks on or off. |
| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
| None required | Pulse reads system statistics that macOS makes available to every app. |
Documentation
Install, update, remove and fix.
Install
- Download Pulse from this page.
- Open the DMG file from your Downloads folder.
- Drag Pulse into the Applications folder.
- Open Pulse from Applications. The first time, macOS asks you to confirm that you want to open an app downloaded from the internet.
Update
- Pulse checks this site for new versions and offers to install them.
- To update by hand, download the latest DMG here and drag the app into Applications again, replacing the old copy.
Uninstall
- Quit Pulse.
- Drag Pulse from Applications to the Trash.
If macOS will not open it
- Check that the download finished and the checksum matches the one in the download box above.
- Download the file again directly from this page. Copies from other sites are not supported.
- Still blocked? Send the exact message macOS shows to [email protected].
Security testing
What was checked on this build, the result, and how to repeat it.
Results will be posted with the first public build.
- Build
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- Tested on
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- macOS
- to be confirmed
Developer ID signature
The app is signed by its developer and has not been altered since.
Apple notarization
Apple scanned this build for malware and approved it.
Notarization ticket stapled
The approval travels with the download, so it opens on a Mac that is offline.
Hardened runtime
macOS blocks code injection and other tampering while the app runs.
Entitlements review
The special permissions built into the app are limited to what it needs.
Download checksum
The file you downloaded is byte-for-byte the one published here.
Independent malware scan
The download was checked by third-party antivirus engines.
Network activity
Outbound connections were watched during testing and listed in full.
Each command can be pasted into Terminal to repeat the check on your own copy.
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