MONIT 4+

Monit Helper not working on Catalina

And that's the whole reason I purchased Monit. I hate sneaky software like that - their homepage clearly shows Monit WITH THE HELPER INSTALLED. (I.e., with additional sensors.) Which is the only reason I paid for it. Only to learn that by default, it only has basic sensors like CPU and disk utilization. (Yawn.) To get the snazzy sensors, you have to download and install the Monit Helper. Which alas, while it installs, it doesn't work - reboots be damned. I don't know if portraying Monit with the Helper (that doesn't work) is intentional false advertising. I'd like to give benefit of doubt, but if not, it's a neglegent oversight.

Developer Response ,

To see the extra details, click on a circle chart. For instance, if you click the CPU circle the widget will expand and show details about your CPU etc. The Helper is not needed for this.

Good but really half baked at the moment

This app is great. It shows technical information regarding your computer’s processes, which is extremely useful for those that use their computers intensively. Apple should have released this with its laptops, instead of it obscures it behind various utility apps.

Having said this, it’s also missing some very obvious features:

Notification preferences. It’s great that I get notifications regarding changes in my system, but the inability to turn them off is absurd; I don’t want a notification beep telling me that I am connecting to WiFi EVERY SINGLE TIME I OPEN MY LAPTOP.

This app is also missing customizable views. It would be great to select precisely what I want to see when I slide open my notifications.

Finally, this app is missing the ability to be opened as a standalone app. While it serves its functions well, Apple’s implementation of notification center is counterintuitive without a trackpad and, for my money, this app should accommodate those use cases.

I want to emphasize that these are nitpicks, small features that I think should be included for the money I spent on it. This is an otherwise great app which I would whole heartedly recommend.

I almost gave this 1 star.

I bought this to check TEMP and FAN speed. I installed the HELPER separately, as this is needed. Then, these things were nowhere to be seen. I found from another review that you have to CLICK on the CPU circle. That's NOT intuitive. So now I know HOW to see the info I was concerned about. I think this info should be available via some little icons or something to at least let you know that it maybe wasn't CATALINA blocking the info or something... I almost gave up and then decided to see what others thought in these comments. That's the ONLY reason I now give it 5 stars.