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Activity Monitor lists a thousand processes, a hundred of them called Google Chrome Helper. Vitals adds every helper to the app that launched it, so you see 60 apps instead of 1,000 processes, each with one figure for memory, CPU, energy, disk and network. It keeps 30 days of history, alerts you when an app misbehaves, finds forgotten dev servers, and shows temperatures, fans and battery. Every readout can sit in your menu bar, arranged your way. Pay once. No subscription, no account.
Products used by Vitals
Explore the tech stack and tools that power Vitals . See what products Vitals uses for development, design, marketing, analytics, and more.
Ecommerce 1
Ecommerce 1
PaddleThe Merchant of Record for digital products
4.8 (57 reviews)
Paddle is the merchant of record for Vitals, which means it handles sales tax and VAT in every country so I don't have to. For a one-person company selling a $5 app worldwide, that is the difference between shipping and doing paperwork. I chose it over a plain payment processor because the checkout sits on my own page, refunds are one click, and buyers get a proper invoice without me building any of it. 600+ sales in the first 48 hours went through without a single support ticket about payment.
Engineering & Development 1
Engineering & Development 1
CloudflareThe web performance & security company
5.0 (237 reviews)
vitalsmac.com runs on Cloudflare Pages. It deploys from a git push, serves from the edge everywhere, and costs nothing at my size. When the launch on X sent a few days of traffic in a few hours, the site did not notice. I chose it over the others because there is no bandwidth bill waiting at the end of a good launch, and because a small Pages Function was all I needed for redirects and headers, with no server to look after.
LLMs 1
LLMs 1
Claude by AnthropicA family of foundational AI models
5.0 (1K reviews)
Vitals is a native Mac app built by one person, and Claude is the reason that was possible in weeks instead of months. I used it as a pair programmer across the whole thing: the Swift app, the privileged helper, the website, even the launch film, which is rendered from code. What made me choose it is that it reads the whole codebase before it changes anything, explains its reasoning, and tells me when my idea is the wrong one. It also writes in plain language, which mattered for an app whose whole point is being easy to understand.