# Vitals

An Activity Monitor replacement that groups resource use by app and agent.

HTML: https://softbests.com/software/vitals
Markdown: https://softbests.com/software/vitals.md
Website: https://vitalsmac.com

- Category: [Developer utilities](https://softbests.com/category/developer-tools)
- Pricing: Paid
- Platforms: macOS
- Underrated

## Best for

Mac power users and developers who want to know which app, coding agent, or container is eating CPU, memory, and power.

## Why it deserves attention

Vitals rolls processes up into apps, so instead of scanning a thousand rows you see which app is consuming CPU, memory, GPU, and battery. It adds a process inspector with code signature and parent chain, tracking for coding-agent sessions and AI usage limits, dev servers and ports, Docker containers, per-app volume, temperatures and fans, and up to a year of hourly history. It also ships a menu bar monitor, a CLI, and an MCP server that Claude, Codex, and Cursor can query. It is a one-time $15 license for macOS. The trade-off is that it is closed source and Mac-only, and some readouts depend on what macOS exposes.

## Can replace

- Activity Monitor

## Related and alternatives

- [Stats](https://softbests.com/software/stats)
- [btop](https://softbests.com/software/btop)