⌘5part of dipswitch, an app for your mac
LOAD
the fans are on. this app says why.
one sentence, with the name of the app behind it. no graphs to read and no list of processes to sort.
apple silicon · macOS 13 or later
a tuesday, mid-sentence
the mac starts to drag. nothing on screen says why.
watch it happen, then run this mac yourself. what you open, leave running and quit changes the strain, the sentence and the feel of the screen.
- speaks when
- macOS itself reports strain, and one app has left its own usual range on this mac
- otherwise
- busy is not a problem. it says nothing needs you
- quit
- asks the app to close, so it can ask to save
names, not graphs
hundreds of processes. one of them is the reason.
the system’s own activity viewer lists every one and leaves the detective work to you. LOAD counts each helper in the app that started it, so the list is apps you recognise, with the busy one on top.
- counts
- helpers in their app. a browser is one row, not thirty
- percent
- of the whole mac. never above 100
- written notes
- 188 background processes explained in plain words
- macOS itself
- never quit as a whole. some parts restart by themselves. one logs you out, and LOAD says which
history
it was slow at half past two. you were not looking.
LOAD records with the window closed: processor, memory pressure, heat, battery, and the apps doing the work in each minute. scroll, or drag the line back, and it says what was happening then.
16:48
Nothing needs you. Your Mac is cool and memory is fine.
live · the line rides the newest minute
14:27
now
- records
- whenever dipswitch is running, window open or not
- kept
- each minute for 36 hours, then coarser, up to 32 days
- on disk
- 13 MB at the very most
what it will not do
no fan control. no memory cleaning.
LOAD reads the fans and never drives them. it will not “free” memory either: cache is memory macOS hands back the instant an app asks, so LOAD counts it as spare and leads with what is left, not with what is used.
- fans
- read. never driven
- memory
- shown as spare. never cleaned
- first week
- it describes and names no cause until it has seven days of this mac
- not every mac
- a reading this mac cannot give says not available, never 0
- battery share
- per app it is an estimate, and labelled as one
- its own cost
- about 0.2% of the mac with the window open, 0.01% behind the menu bar. measured on one mac
free, and PRO
looking is free. so is quit.
every view, every process card, today’s history, the menu bar and QUIT cost nothing. PRO adds the heavier hand: force quit, stopping what keeps the mac awake, history beyond today, and notifications.
download free.
what free does
- DISK
- scan, map and rate the whole drive. build the delete list.
- NET
- every app and where it connects, live and for today.
- PASTE
- history, search and every privacy rule. seven days kept.
- VOICE
- dictation with every speech model. no limit.
- LOAD
- every view, today’s history, and quitting what is in the way.