MenuMeters

What is MenuMeters?

MenuMeters is a macOS system monitoring utility that places live resource meters in the menu bar. It helps users keep an eye on CPU load, memory use, disk activity, and network throughput without opening a separate dashboard window. The app is useful for troubleshooting performance slowdowns, watching system load during development or media work, and keeping key hardware activity visible during everyday use. Recent versions run as a standalone Mac app rather than an older System Preferences pane, so users interact with it directly from the menu bar and its settings window. MenuMeters is maintained by Yuji Tachikawa and is aimed at people who want lightweight, always-visible system stats on their Mac.

Safety overview

Status: Mostly safe

MenuMeters is a legitimate system monitoring utility, and its background menu bar activity is consistent with reading local performance information. Because it updates live system meters while running, some ongoing background resource polling is normal. Keep it installed only if you want persistent menu bar monitoring, and download updates from the publisher’s page rather than third-party repackaged copies.

Recommendation: Keep MenuMeters if you use its menu bar meters to watch CPU, memory, disk, or network activity during everyday work or troubleshooting. If you no longer need live system monitoring, you can disable or remove it without affecting macOS beyond losing those menu bar indicators and related settings.

File path

• /Applications/MenuMeters.app

Related processes

• MenuMeters

Related can I delete pages

• ~/Library/Preferences/com.yujitach.MenuMeters.plist

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