Stats Dense Preview 1

Stats Dense Preview 1

A compact menu bar dashboard for small-screen Macs, based on Stats v3.0.25.

Dense has five fixed metrics: CPU usage, GPU usage, RAM usage, temperature, and System Total power. Slots are not customizable in this preview. Other Stats modules remain available through their original widgets and modes.

• Two rows with native text, tabular digits, and compact label/value groups.
• Fixed status-item allocation: measured 90 pt content / 106 pt including native macOS spacing on the test Mac.
• Existing data readers; no separate Dense polling timer or width animation.
• Native Combined popover material on macOS 26+, with the older popup path retained.
• Independent Dense bundle identity and manual updates, preventing replacement by the upstream updater.

Download

Extract Stats-Dense-v3.0.25-dense.1.zip, then move Stats Dense.app into Applications. Quit the original Stats and any other copy first. Enable CPU, GPU, RAM, and Sensors, then choose Combined modules → Display mode → Dense.

The ZIP includes the app, MIT license, LevelDB license, and attribution notice. SHA256SUMS.txt provides the asset checksum.

Preview status

This Universal app was built by GitHub Actions from the tagged source and contains arm64 and x86_64 binaries. It is locally/ad-hoc signed, not Developer ID notarized, so macOS may require manual approval to open it. The optional desktop WidgetKit extension is not included in this preview package.

Sensor/GPU availability depends on the Mac; unavailable readings remain placeholders. System power uses PSTR. Local runtime validation used an Apple M5 MacBook Air on macOS 27.3 with Xcode 27.0. Intel and other hardware have not been runtime-verified for this fork. No specific battery-life improvement is promised.

See the README for the fixed five-metric scope, build instructions, and limitations. Original Stats and LevelDB notices are preserved.