EnergyBar
EnergyBar is a lightweight system utility for macOS that displays real-time CPU and memory usage in the menu bar. It provides at-a-glance visibility into system performance metrics, allowing users to quickly identify resource-heavy applications and monitor overall system load without opening Activity Monitor. The app sits passively in the menu bar and is commonly used by power users and developers who want to track system health during intensive tasks.
AI Recommendation
1 suggestionWe could not find recent information about EnergyBar's native Apple Silicon support status. The search results were inconclusive, so we recommend contacting the developer directly (Bill Zissis) to ask whether a native arm64 build is available or planned. This is worth doing promptly since Apple is removing Rosetta 2 support in macOS 28 (September 2028) — at that point, an Intel-only build will stop launching entirely. In the meantime, the Intel version continues to work under Rosetta 2 on M-series Macs, though with a small performance overhead. If the developer has ceased development, consider lightweight native alternatives like Macs Fan Control, System Toolkit Pro, or the built-in Activity Monitor, all of which run natively on Apple Silicon and provide comparable resource monitoring.
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