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🌀 MacGauge v1.2.0 — Performance Modes & Custom Module Styles

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@StevenACZ StevenACZ released this 04 Jul 22:09
v1.2.0
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MacFan is now MacGauge. Brand only: the bundle ID, helper label, and settings keys are unchanged, so replacing MacFan.app with MacGauge.app keeps your helper authorization and settings.

Added

  • Performance modes (Settings > General): Efficient (default) steps values and charts once per tick and keeps the fan icon still — MacGauge idles at a few percent of one core all day. Full plays every continuous animation, for Macs with power to spare.
  • Menu bar module spacing (Together / Tight / Normal / Wide): trim the dead space around each module, or fuse them all into a single block — clicks stay per-module.
  • Per-module styles: graph length for CPU/RAM, and color styles — Multicolor, Mono, Gray, or By load with your own 0-100% thresholds and a color per band; the network arrows get custom up/down colors. Detail popovers follow the exact same colors.
  • Show more / Show less in the CPU and RAM popovers: the top-processes list expands from 5 to 15 rows.
  • Simulated previews in Settings > Display: usage sweeps and network rates climb on their own, so your colors and thresholds visibly react while you adjust them — no need to load the Mac.

Changed

  • The CPU and RAM popovers rank every process — compilers, helpers, and daemons included, like Activity Monitor — so a heavy build no longer hides the real culprits.
  • Settings redesigned: performance mode as two selectable cards, a visual Display screen with a section sidebar (fan & temperature together; modules; CPU; RAM; network), each card ordered for live color testing.
  • The CPU/RAM By-load bands read Low / Medium / High — "hot" stays exclusive to temperature.

Fixed

  • Idle CPU usage: continuous menu bar animations and always-alive popover content kept the app at most of one core; popover content is now lazy and Efficient mode keeps the pipeline dry (~4% idle, 25 MB).
  • The CPU popover could stay on "Measuring…" forever when switching between the CPU and RAM popovers.
  • The settings window could drift from its designed size (macOS edge tiling, toolbar reshapes) and its cards could lose their margins; the window now pins its size and every tab keeps the designed width.

Install

  1. Download MacGauge-v1.2.0.dmg (notarized and stapled).
  2. Verify integrity (optional): shasum -a 256 -c MacGauge-v1.2.0.dmg.sha256
  3. Drag MacGauge to Applications, then authorize the helper from Settings > Safety.

Requirements: Apple Silicon Mac (M1+), macOS 13 Ventura or later.

Verification

  • DMG notarized and stapled; Gatekeeper assessment: accepted.
  • SHA-256: 1c846af765048d96a0b4ac49a04c091515459a60e6b5f505fe489d3f985eb662

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

Warning: fan control can interfere with macOS thermal management. Use at your own risk and return to automatic control when unsure.

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