MenuBar Stats App Reviews

Good to know that the developer is working on adding temperature and fan status to the application. Very exited for that update.

The Menu Bar Stats app is nice and gives you the main stats: CPU, memory, Disk, Network, Battery. However, it also comes with a bonus app: Barsoom and I wanted to rate and talk about this app, as I realize that for me Barsoom is worth the $! I was looking for a menubar manager for a LONG time. There is Bartender that is unnecessarily complicated and doesn’t even do what you want (no drag and drop) and it’s expensive. Then there is MenuBar Rearanger 2 from the same developer as this app, but it was still too much for my needs. Then I noticed that MenuBar Stats comes with Barsoom, which IMO is in itself worth the money you pay for MenuBar Stats. It’s simple: just drag and drop and reposition your menu bar icons ANY way you want. And I mean anywhere and any way by just dragging and dropping them (Cmd+drag). And the support is prompt and very good - I had an issue where my icons wouldn’t snap into place. I emailed the support and got an email 5 min later with a solution (restart :) Worked great and has been since! I highly recommend this little app! And remember that you’re paying the $ for 2! Again - I love this app and can’t beat the value!!

Even though anchored, the window tends to ‘walk’ around the screen from boot to boot. For example if I anchor it to the top of my screen it eventually ends up at the bottom by the doc. A minor nitch. Generally a solid app.

I doesnt seem documented anywhere (although Im sure it is *somewhere*), but this app will also do a memory purge, which sometimes is a nice little useful trick. It looks very good too. I would only ask them to perhaps shade the "progress bars" a little more (might make them easier to see at a glance), and perhaps even allow us to make the different sections a different color (or at least different shades of the same color). But thats it, thanks guys!

This app is neat, and very energy efficient. But the time left on battery is usually way off. And sometimes when I start the app, it’s correct. But I’ll look at it 2 minutes later and it’s about an hour longer or shorter than actual time left. I’m comparing it to another battery meter as well as OS X’s battery meter. Kinda disappointed that the battery info is so incorrect. Makes me wonder what other info is incorrect. Just now checked it, saying there was 3:35 left… and it jumped to 6:03 left. “Actual” time left is 4:30. (according to two other battery meters)

In order to see what your computer is doing you either have to click on the menu bar or have a large (and ugly) window on your desktop. This makes it tedious and not useful.

The battery info is incorrect about 4% to 5% .

After looking for an app to notify me when my laptop battery hit certain percentages (so I can keep the battery in the 40% - 90% range in an effort to keep the battery healthy) I settled on this app. It performs this task very well and it has other features that I don’t use much of. On the pros side, it works well on Yosemite in conjunction with notifications to tell me exactly what I wanted to know vis a vis battery percentage. It is an attractive app and has a range of plugins for monitoring other stats (I use the iStat Pro desktop widget for many of the same types of info). The developer seems fairly responsive to emails for support. On the cons side, the app hasn’t been updated in a while and isn’t fully updated for Yosemite in that on a Retina display, the menu bar icons are the large chunky non-retina-optimized icons. Also, to use the battery percentage notification, you have to tell the app to display the battery percentage, which takes up more real estate in the menu bar, and the information conflicts with Apple’s built in battery monitor (the app will say 62% while the Apple menu bar item says 65%, for example). I hope the developer releases a new version to address some of this, although none of it is of the deal breaker caliber.

So easy to fix, so long the wait for the update: Yosemite was released months ago and this app doesn’t have icons for the Dark Menubar mode. PLEASE FIX IT!

Excellent improvments to an already great app - well done!

Other than the ram/memory clean. it looks great!

Tried many app store apps that give quick glance info for system stats. This one seems best and performs well. Constant info provided on menu bar without having to click anything is the best feature. The free app that allows for rearrangement of menu bar icons is also very useful (Barrsoom).

..uuh WOW! What a transformation! I lost the other tools due to problems with the latest OS X. So I settled for the previous version of this tool! It gave me what I needed, just not as slick. HOWEVER — this current version, a complete re-write is awesome! It brought back all the slick-ness, cool-ness, of my previous application! Way to go! You can group them, or keep’em separated! Well done! Clean interface! Save space or clog up your menubar.. your choice! ;-) I found only one glitch.. I hope gets fixed. In the Disk menubar “widget”, the disks cause a scroll-bar to appear. I would like to see the scroll-bar go away (maybe only appear if the menu drop down exceed the length of the screen.. unlikely.. but you never know). I love seeing all the disks at a glance. Right now you have to do the click-hold, and then scroll it. Yuck!

This application had fallen off of my menu bar, and lay dormant in my applications folder. Seeing the new 2.0 update pop up in my updates, I figured I would give it a try. I like the new interface a lot and it seems to be working great with El Capitan. I will update my review based on any stability issues or battery impacts I see using this over the next few days, but otherwise am really impressed with update!

I downloaded this app a few days ago and so far I like it. I got it to free up my memory on my 2014 MacBook Pro. I like that this app does it automatically. It sends me a notification that the memory is down to a certain percentage and then cleans it and reports back to what the free memory is now. All automatically. Sweet. I thought about giving this app 5 stars but since I have only had a short time I went with 4 but as of right now it could get a 5 star rating.

MenuBar Stats tells me what I want to know about the computer at a glance. I used Meter Menus for years but that was disabled with El Capitan. I keep my computers on 24/7 and stream music 16 hours a day through the house. (LAN ~ 1G per day) The memory grows although much of it is inactive. Apple eventually compresses the inactive and swaps it to disk. When this happens, the music starts to stumble. A plus for MenuStats is that I can clear memory. Without MenuStats, I was having to reboot my MiniMac weekly. Apple needs to put some attention on its Memory Management regime.

Wasted $5 on this POS addon. Doesn’t work in El Capitan.

The app works pretty well, but it lacks granualrity and control. It gives information in a very conventiont location, and it runs smoothly, but it’s missing a few minor things. The widths of some of the graphs are kind of small and I’d like them a bit wider, colors aren’t easy to change, and the information displayed is only available as the developer thinks you might want it. For an app that traiditionally would be in the realm of “pro-user” software, the lack of personal control is kind of supprising.

I have used the “Clock” App for sometime, and really like it. The Clock App was just upgraded, and I just discovered the "Status App" by the same vendor, I have been using the Status App for a while now, and I have added the Temperature and Fan modules which are free. This is one nice utility for those that like to keep an eye on what the “hardware” is doing. I am a retired engineer, and being able to see of these parameters is useful. I have found it to be the same caliber utility…Nicely done !!..It provides a lot of system information in a simple easy to see, and access format. This info can be helpful when troubleshooting a problem. I like well designed utilities, they are like good tools in your took chest, you may not use them all the time, but when you need them, they are worth every penny you paid for them. BC

To an age old ‘app’ I’d used on OSX for years… yet more refined, certainly more ability to ‘drill down’ and customize it’s interface on your menu bar to your liking. Graphs/bars/pie charts or circlular graphics, percentages or MB/KB - celsius/farenheit, fan RPMs and thermostat TRULY make this an incredible value without the need for separate apps, living both on menu bar and on your Dashboard (for the details) — MenuBar Stats has a quick ‘dropdown’ on each of the specific monitors you’ve selected to include on your ‘bar. Each dropdown includes very fine details from temp; GPU (integrated) & GPU 2, GPU heatpipe and GPU proximity. Each ‘core’ of your CPU as well as their proximity, the memory modules and their proximity even PCH Die/Prox and PECI CPU/GPU and SA-while measuing incoming air exchange, three heatpipes and outgoing air pipes. That’s JUST the temp. CPU, memory, disk, fans, battery and network activity — use ‘em all, one or some, none if you want but the detials you ‘need’ are there in front of you all the time. Your computer’s vitals. And it’s EXTREMELY lightweight @ a consistent 50 MB of memory in the background, using from .2-.4% of my CPU @ any given time and it’s not a ‘home phoner’ — nothing sent or received in last 24 hours, since it’s ‘birth’ — 4.3 MB reecived and 60KB written. Energy impact rated in Act Mon @ between 0.1 and 0.3 it’s not going to affect battery life off the wall and with real memory used @ 86.0MB, 20.0 is consistently purgable and impact in MB is 35-55, typically right at 50MB. Nothing compared to your Dropbox, G-Drive or Adobe’s desktop management and creative suite’s 350-450MB impact (each, consistently) leaving plenty of resorces for tasks that BENEFIT by having a tool like this still runnning and visible in the background. I pay my mortgage doing video, audio and still produciton — 80% of it ‘on the run’ so I’m heavily dependent on our Macbook Pros and iPads with their aggregation and integration with OS X. The continuity/handoff features are a God Send and After Effects is now a viable program to use on the go! Even transcoding video and finalizing, grading, encoding — batch, raw processing of 50MB stills, and 72 track audio masters, then re-masters (to a perfectly adequate 32 channels :)) this ‘tool’ is absolutely paramount to keep an eye on the computer’s abilty to sustain the load I’m putting on it, energy remaining ‘in the field’ as well as sneaky programs in the background draining my resources or bandwidth from my ISP :) — a 6/5 stars if possible. Would be cool to see more companies of third party software we used for so long with OS X or even OS 9 — come to the App Store for Mac (Lord knows iOS is just fine!) and see how their ‘apps’ do. Many of the former share/free-ware D/Ls from devs would most likey be happily paid four, five even ten bucks for …if anything, because of nostaligia or our ability to ‘use’ the app from famiiarity regardless of built in OS options new to OSX itself. This would allow the dev to (most likelyfi nally be compensated as I’m sure most didnt contribiute via ‘donation’ ware) continue supporting and updating the app. As well, where is Lord British? The Wolfenstein folks? My 5 ½” floppy days of gaming in ’83!?!? “Retro” is certainly making it’s resurgence on iOS why not OS X? I’m honestly curious, completely willing to pay British to be ‘brought back’ ( I know the story of Ultima, ‘’Lord Brit” and the rest …) to life by an EA or UNREAL or an ‘indie’ with the pockets deep enough to rsearch the games, buy out the rights and rebuild them for our new rigs. It would be VERY cool to take a break from AE and Cinema 4d/FCP X, 7 and Logic for 20 minutes and play Ultima 3 or 4 again (not ‘Online’ mega world) — again, while using THIS App to monitor my Logic, PS and rendering in the background, make sure shes able to take the load while I’m seeking the Avatar with my level 68 Palladin! Great Job to Fabrice Leyne — an Excellent Job with MenuBar Stats - and intelligent, wise action to take (if you know what you’re doing) filling a ‘void’ left in the wake of OSX point updates and further (for the better, mind you — I Love El Cap! Best v. of OSX to date and quick, slick and fast on my 2012 15” rMBP as my mid ’15 15” rMBP — my 2012 iMac and Mac Pros — as well as the kids’ 2011 and 2010 iMacs, my oldest’s 13” 2014 MBA — all run as fast if not FASTER than the day purchased — and with MBS, you’re able to SEE those improvements with your eyes each time another updated comes ‘down the pipe’! Thanks for the excellent tool! J