UnderTheHood v1.1

What's New in v1.1

• 🧠 Memory Monitoring: Real-time RAM usage tracking with visual gauge indicators.
• 🔋 Smart Battery Detection: Fixed UI visibility so the battery section automatically hides on desktop Macs (Mac mini, Mac Studio, iMac).
• 🧹 Refined UI: Cleaned up hardware chip model labels and improved metric layout.
• ⚡ GPU Tracking Fixes: Improved AGX/IOAccelerator metrics extraction on Apple Silicon.

xattr -cr /Applications/UnderTheHood.app

UnderTheHood v1.0.beta

UnderTheHood

A native macOS menu bar app for monitoring Apple Silicon thermal hardware sensors in real time.

Features

• Live CPU and GPU core thermal tracking from the macOS menu bar
• Battery detail features work in progress
• Built using native SwiftUI (MenuBarExtra) for low CPU and RAM overhead
• Direct system sensor hardware access via C/Objective-C bridging headers to IOKit / IOHID

Installation

1. Download the latest release .zip from Releases.
2. Unzip and move UnderTheHood.app into your /Applications folder.
3. First launch: Right-click UnderTheHood.app in Finder and select Open to bypass macOS Gatekeeper.

(Alternatively, clear the quarantine flag via Terminal: xattr -cr /Applications/UnderTheHood.app)