Vitals
A Mac menu-bar app that only speaks up when something needs attention.
- Year
- 2026
- Type
- Apps
- Platform
- macOS
- Status
- In progress
- Built with
- Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, Rust
Watches RAM, CPU, disk, temperature and battery from the menu bar. An AI diagnostic explains the cause and the fix, and real actions free memory or clear caches.
A Rust thread samples the machine every few seconds. The menu-bar icon stays flat and monochrome when all is calm, and spikes into colour only on an alert. A notification fires only when a metric genuinely reaches the red.
The diagnostic calls the Anthropic API with the live metrics and returns a finding, a cause and an action. You bring your own key, stored in the macOS Keychain. Sonnet by default, Opus by toggle.
The actions are real: free inactive memory, clear caches, empty the Trash, pause the top CPU process (reversible).
Not wired yet: payment for a managed subscription, and the weekly recap chart, which is illustrative.