Live CPU, GPU, memory, network, battery and storage stats right in your menu bar — plus a full dashboard with per-core detail, temperatures and fan speed.
Sharp Lynx keeps your Mac's vitals one glance away.
Formerly SystemPal — same app, same developer, rebuilt from the ground up with a new name, a new design, and far more of your Mac on screen. If you owned SystemPal, this is your update.
Pick the stats you care about and they live in your menu bar — CPU, GPU, memory,
temperature, battery and network, updating every second. Click for a detailed
popover, or open the full dashboard when you want the whole picture.
MENU BAR, YOUR WAY
• Choose exactly which metrics appear, and drag them into the order you want
• Two-line labels so you never have to guess which number is which
• Compact spacing to fit more in a crowded menu bar
• Give the menu bar its own theme, independent of the app
A DASHBOARD THAT ACTUALLY TELLS YOU SOMETHING
• CPU — live load with a stacked user/system chart, per-core bars split into
Performance and Efficiency cores, and 1/5/15-minute load averages
• GPU — utilization and temperature
• Memory — used, plus the App / Wired / Compressed / Free breakdown
• Network — download and upload on opposite sides of the axis, so a busy
upload never hides a busy download
• Storage — capacity per volume and live read/write I/O
• Battery — charge, health, cycle count and power draw
• Top Processes — sort by CPU or memory
PER-COMPONENT DETAIL PAGES
Dedicated pages for CPU, GPU, Memory, Storage, Network, Battery and Sensors,
each with a large live chart and the numbers that matter.
SIX THEMES, LIGHT AND DARK
Multi-color (a semantic color per metric), Dual, Mono Amber, Mono Gray,
Mono Blue and a clean Light theme. The Mono Gray menu bar adapts to your
wallpaper exactly like macOS's own menu bar items.
TEMPERATURES AND FANS
macOS doesn't expose thermal sensors or fan speed to sandboxed App Store apps.
Sharp Lynx reads them through the free Sharp Lynx Helper, a small companion you
download separately from our website — the app will prompt you and can start,
stop and update it for you. Everything else works without it.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No tracking. No analytics. No network requests. Everything is
measured on your Mac and stays on your Mac.
Built for Apple Silicon Macs, running macOS 14 or later.
This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Pretty handy tool for monitoring system resources
theweathermanpro
This application has been great for me on my M1 Max MacBook Pro. The tool presents memory and CPU as graphs. Network utilization is shown as upload/download speeds in bytes per second and updates to Kbs and Mbs when needed. The only reason I took a star off is for viewing the current temperature of my CPU. It seems that this software hasn’t been updated for many years, but everything else has been working well for me in SystemPal. I use another app for fan speed and CPU temperature. One other feature that I like about this app is the ability to free up RAM (memory) when I’m approaching full capacity. Although Macintosh utilizes memory well, it’s still nice to have some control over it. As more of a Windows/Linux user, this is a nice touch for an application. Lastly, the disk read/write speeds for my SSD in the MacBook is nice to monitor either in the small window of the app or by adding it to my taskbar. The units change just as network units change.
“Best Bang for the Buck!"
Hollywood7367
I was having issues running a very demanding video game (World of Warships) on my 2014 MacBook Pro, experiencing crashes, freezing and other problems related to the high memory and processor demands of the game software and it’s MS Windows client. I purchased System Pal and a dual fan cooling pad to address both the memory and temperature problems. System Pal allowed me to set up automatic cache memory cleaning activation at custom designated levels as well as providing real-time system operating information including processor temperature levels. I have been using it almost every day for over six months and have eliminated the the problems entirely. The cooling fan was instrumental in lowering the operating temperature, however System Pal’s temperature and memory readings provided me with real-time situational awareness of the MacBooks status while I played the game. It does what it says it will do and more, at a very affordable price. That is why I believe it provides the “Best Bang for the Buck!"
Please fix CPU Temp for M1 MBA
psylens
I'd give this a 5 star rating if the CPU temp worked on my M1 MacBbook Air. Otherwise, it's pretty solid, and worth the $3 to me. No updates for 6 years now. Would love to see further advancement of the product, such as options for refining the display of I/O, and of course the temperature for the MBA. I don't know if the temp doesn't work because there's no fan, but i know the temp info is available for the MBA, so i'm sure the UI could be tweaked to accomodate temp display without fan speed somehow.
Simply Awesome
Sniper Cartman
I’ve been using this app for years in fact its been about 5 years now and to me this app goes with Mac OS, it really should be one of the most essential mac apps. I’d love to sit here and nit pick on everything about the app but the fact of the matter is that there is only good here. To my knowledge there hasn’t been any bad updates or times when things started to become buggy. System pal lets you monitor your macs health and performance and it does the job very well. From setting alerts to clearing memory to monitoring temperatures there is no better app available hands down. This may be 2.99 but its worth 20 easily in my eyes, a absolute must have for any mac from mac pro to a macbook air, every mac should come with this app period. Pop-hub if you see this do me a favor and keep doing what your doing, this app is hands down the best monitor for macs.
Fixes, from a round of auditing the whole app plus reports from you.
• "Pause sampling when idle" in Settings did nothing at all — the setting was being overridden before it was ever read. It now works, so with every window closed Sharp Lynx samples only what your menu bar is showing
• Temperatures can be switched to Fahrenheit everywhere. Almost every reading in the app was built with °C baked in, so the setting only ever changed the menu bar
• When the helper is running but has stopped sending readings, Sharp Lynx now says so and offers to restart it. It used to say the helper "isn't running" and offer a Start button that could not do anything
• The menu bar popover explains when temperatures are unavailable instead of quietly leaving them out
• A fan whose sensor can't be read is no longer reported as "Off"
• Storage: capacity and free space now describe the boot volume rather than whichever drive happened to sort first — an attached external drive could be labelled as this Mac's disk
• Readings that haven't arrived yet show "—" instead of a made-up 0. On launch the app briefly claimed 0% CPU, 0 B/s and 0 GB of memory
• Disk write is one colour throughout, and the CPU card's figures are one size again
Temperatures and fan speed still come from the free Sharp Lynx Helper 1.1 or newer, downloaded separately. Everything else works without it.
Sharp Lynx was previously called SystemPal — same app, same developer.
Version 6.4
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Information
Seller
Pop-Hub Limited
Size
1.8 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.