Vitals
A Mac system monitor and Activity Monitor alternative that groups processes into apps and tracks CPU, memory, GPU, battery, coding agents, and AI usage limits.
A Mac system monitor and Activity Monitor alternative that groups processes into apps and tracks CPU, memory, GPU, battery, coding agents, and AI usage limits.
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- What is Vitals ?
- A Mac system monitor and Activity Monitor alternative that groups processes into apps and tracks CPU, memory, GPU, battery, coding agents, and AI usage limits.
- Who is it for?
- Mac developers who need to identify idle development servers, open ports, and resource-heavy coding sessions across local projects.
Product information
What this product does
Vitals is the Activity Monitor alternative for Mac: 60 apps instead of 1,000 processes, up to a year of history, and alerts when an app misbehaves.
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Platforms
- Mac
- Desktop
Company & Maker
Who built Vitals ?
- Company
- Fore Studio
- Product
- A Mac system monitor and Activity Monitor alternative that groups processes into apps and tracks CPU, memory, GPU, battery, coding agents, and AI usage limits.
- Founded
- 2026
- Team size
- 1
- Founders
- Atta Ur Rehman Shah - Founder
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“I make Mac apps on my own, and Vitals is the one I made for myself first.”
Problem Solved
What problem does Vitals solve?
Built for Mac users, especially developers running coding agents, Docker containers, and dev servers. Activity Monitor shows roughly 1,000 separate processes, so finding what is using memory or heating the Mac means mentally grouping helper processes. Vitals groups them into about 60 apps, names misbehaving apps, and points out idle dev servers. Example: a developer finds idle servers and old containers they did not know were running and reclaims 10GB of memory.
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Vitals is a paid macOS activity monitor that groups processes by their parent apps instead of listing each process separately. Mac users and developers use it to investigate resource consumption, monitor system health, and identify idle development servers.
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Best-fit workflows
- Find which app is eating your memory
- Stop idle dev servers and Docker containers
- Track coding agent sessions and AI plan limits
- Let an AI assistant query what is running on your Mac
- Find what drains the battery or keeps the Mac awake
- Identifies the Chrome tab or extension responsible for high memory consumption in the browser breakdown.
Pricing reality
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One-time Mac utility purchase with no recurring subscription.
Actual cost
The official pricing page lists $9 for a perpetual single-Mac license with one year of updates, or $15 for lifetime updates during the introductory offer. The advertised regular lifetime price is $39.
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Last updated Oct 2026
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