Roadmap

In the next update

What we're building now. Updates are free with your license, so these arrive on their own.

• Next updateBig files you forgot

  The largest files you haven't opened in a year, wherever they are, with a Trash button for each.

• Next updateDuplicate files

  Copies of the same file across your folders, with the extra copies offered for the Trash.

• Next updateCloud folders, sized

  How much iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive keep downloaded on this Mac, and which files you could leave in the cloud.

• Next updateMore in Shortcuts and Siri

  Ask for your day, what's out of the ordinary, or your agents' week from Shortcuts and Siri.

• Next updateInteractive widgets

  Turn Stay Awake on or off, and open Your day, right from a widget.

• Next updateYour own shortcuts

  Choose the keys for Quick Search, Clean Keyboard, Stay Awake and any page of the app.

• Next updateQuiet while you present

  Alerts wait while you share your screen, present or record, and arrive once you're done.

• Next updateCompare two Macs

  Export a report on one Mac and open it on another to put them side by side. A file you move yourself, never a cloud account.

Understand your Mac

The core of Mactivity: what's using your Mac right now, and why.

• AvailableApps, not process lists

  Helpers, renderers and background services add up under the app that launched them, for processor, memory, energy, disk, network and graphics.

• AvailableOne-click diagnosis

  Why is my Mac slow? names the cause in plain words, from a runaway app or tight memory to Spotlight indexing, with a button to act on each.

• AvailableCheckup

  A short list of what deserves your attention: a disk close to capacity, crashing apps, broken startup items, a gap in your history.

• AvailableNotice slow drift

  Checkup points out an app whose memory has crept up over the weeks, and a battery that empties faster than it did.

• AvailableBrowser breakdown

  Expand Safari, Chrome or any Chromium browser and its tab processes, extensions, GPU process and network service each get their own line. Electron apps split into windows and helpers.

• AvailableApps you forgot

  Apps sitting open for days, still holding memory, each with what quitting would free.

• AvailableYour next Mac

  From a week or a month of use, the chip class, memory and storage to look for in a new Mac, and which Mac to get, laptop or desktop, counting the displays on your desk and how often the lid stays closed, as a one-page PDF.

• AvailableDisplays and devices

  Every display with its resolution, scaling, refresh rate and connection, each port and what's on it, the USB and Thunderbolt devices plugged in, and whether the lid is closed.

• AvailableReports

  Save the last 7 or 30 days as a two-page PDF: the figures, the busiest hour and the apps behind it, top apps by every measure.

• AvailableAsk by typing (optional)

  If you switch it on in Settings, Quick Search can answer questions using Apple Intelligence on your Mac, about now, any day this week, or your coding agents. Nothing is sent anywhere.

• AvailableSlowdowns you missed

  Open the diagnosis after the moment has passed and it still answers: the times in the last week your Mac struggled, how long each lasted, and the apps that were busiest.

• AvailableA slow login, explained

  After a restart, see how long your Mac took to calm down and which apps kept it busy, with the ones that open at login marked.

• AvailableOut of the ordinary

  Each app's usual day, learned on your Mac, and a note when today isn't one: on Overview, in Checkup, on each app's history, and as an alert.

• AvailableYour day

  Any day on the calendar as a timeline: wakes and sleep, busy stretches and slowdowns with their apps, charging, big downloads, alerts, crashes and agent sessions.

• AvailableRewind

  Click any bar in a history chart to see the apps behind that moment.

• AvailableEvery app's own history

  Right-click any app for its last 7, 30 or 90 days: processor, memory, energy and network, time in front, crashes, and the hours of the week it works hardest.

• AvailableAfter an update

  When macOS or an app updates, the days after are compared with the days before, so you know whether the update made it heavier or lighter.

• AvailableCompare any two days

  Two days or two weeks side by side: processor, memory, battery, and the apps that changed the most between them.

• AvailableBeachballs, counted

  Apps that stopped responding: how often, and whether it's getting worse, from the reports macOS already keeps.

• AvailableUnexpected restarts, explained

  When your Mac restarted on its own, the reason macOS recorded, and what was running just before.

• AvailableApp launch times

  How long each app takes to open, and a note when one starts taking noticeably longer than it used to.

• AvailablemacOS's own work, named

  Busy system processes in plain words: Spotlight indexing, Photos analyzing your library, Time Machine backing up.

• AvailableFlagged by macOS

  What macOS itself caught: an app writing tens of gigabytes to disk, going past its processor limit again and again, apps closed because memory ran out.

• ExploringYour month

  A look back at each month: the busiest days, apps that came and went, your agents' hours and the slowdowns.

• ExploringNotes on your history

  Pin a note to any moment, like “installed the new driver”, and see it on the charts and on Your day.

Built for developers

For Macs that run dev servers, containers and coding agents all day.

• AvailableDev servers by project

  Every process listening on a port, grouped by the project folder it runs in, with idle detection and Stop, always after asking.

• AvailableContainers

  Docker, OrbStack, Colima and Rancher containers with their processor and memory use.

• AvailableCoding agents

  Sessions of Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider and others: project, host app, run time, and the cost of everything each one started. Stop a whole session in one step.

• AvailableAgent history

  Each agent's sessions remembered by project: time, processor and peak memory for the week, day by day, and each session on Your day.

• AvailableTalk to your agents

  mactivity mcp lets your coding agent check the Mac for itself, read-only.

• AvailableCapture a moment

  Record every second's figures to a CSV while a build runs or something feels off.

• AvailableA command-line tool

  mactivity top, system, projects, agents, day and unusual, with JSON output for scripts.

• AvailableCatch runaway processes

  An alert when a node, python or similar process sits at a full core or keeps swelling in memory, naming its project and the agent that started it.

• AvailableBuild times

  Every Xcode, Swift, Rust, Go and JavaScript build timed per project, with its processor and memory, so you can see when builds started getting slower.

• AvailableSpace per project

  node_modules, DerivedData, target, Python environments and other build folders sized for each project, with the ones you haven't touched in two months moved to the Trash together, after you confirm.

• AvailableDocker disk use

  Images, volumes, build cache and stopped containers, what nothing uses, and the command that reclaims each, for you to run.

• AvailableHomebrew services

  What brew services started, its ports, memory and processor, when it was last busy, and the command that stops it.

• AvailableSimulators and emulators

  Every iOS Simulator device and Android emulator, what the running ones hold, the ones left running after you closed Simulator, and the space each takes.

• AvailableAgent limits

  An alert when a coding agent's processes hold more memory than you set, or a session runs longer than you set.

• AvailableDev tools left running

  Language servers, file watchers and test runners by project, including VS Code's and Cursor's, and the ones still running after their editor or terminal quit.

• ExploringLinux machines

  Per-machine figures for OrbStack's Linux machines, alongside their containers.

Battery, heat and sleep

Power figures that explain themselves.

• AvailableBattery use by app

  Each app's portion of the battery over a day or a week, and since you last took the Mac off its charger.

• AvailableStay awake on demand

  Hold off sleep for an hour or more, or until you switch it off. It lets go on its own when the battery gets low or the Mac heats up.

• AvailableSleep, explained

  What's stopping the Mac from sleeping, and whether it slept last night.

• AvailableHeat and fans

  Sensor readings, how fast each fan spins and the thermal state, with an alert if the Mac stays hot.

• AvailableAccessory batteries

  AirPods, keyboards, mice and trackpads, with a warning before one runs flat.

• AvailableBattery health over time

  Capacity and cycle count month by month, and roughly when the battery is likely to reach 80% of its original capacity.

• AvailableWhat woke your Mac

  Each sleep with what ended it: the lid, a key, the network, Bluetooth or a USB device.

• AvailableBattery lost while asleep

  How much charge your Mac used with the lid closed, and what woke it to use it.

• AvailableCharger check

  Plugged in, whether your charger covers what your Mac is drawing, and when macOS is holding the battery short of full.

• PlannedCharging habits

  How long the battery sits at full charge or charges while hot, in plain terms. Advice only: Mactivity won't set charging limits.

• ExploringHeat by app

  Which apps keep your Mac warm, worked out from weeks of temperatures and processor use.

Disk and storage

See what fills the disk, and get space back safely.

• AvailableA map of your disk

  Every folder sized and sorted, colored by kind: system, apps, developer files, your own documents.

• AvailableCleanups that go to the Trash

  Old Messages attachments, device backups, leftover installers, developer caches and more. Nothing is erased; everything you pick goes to the Trash.

• AvailableActivity per drive

  Reads and writes for each drive, and free space on each volume, with an alert before the startup disk runs short.

• AvailableSSD health

  Each drive's own report: wear, spare capacity, data written over its life, and a warning when it reports trouble.

• AvailableWhat grew

  The folders that grew the most since your last scan, so a disk that keeps filling has a name.

• AvailableTime Machine, watched

  When Time Machine last backed up, and a warning when automatic backups quietly stop.

• ExploringDownloads you never opened

  Files that arrived in Downloads and were never opened afterwards.

Network

Connections you can see, without anything leaving your Mac.

• AvailableWi-Fi over time

  Signal through the day or the week, and how long it was weak, recorded each minute you're on Wi-Fi.

• AvailableNetwork changes, logged

  Every switch between Wi-Fi, Ethernet, a hotspot or a VPN, and each drop, with the data used and the apps that used it most. Drops and VPN time show on Your day.

• AvailableA monthly data budget

  Set your plan's allowance and reset day to see what's left, the pace you're on, each app's share, and an alert before you go over.

• ExploringWhere apps connect

  The servers each app talks to, with their names looked up only if you switch that on in Settings.

Security and privacy

What's running, who made it, and what it can reach. Read-only, like the rest.

• AvailableNew startup items, flagged

  An alert when something adds itself to start with your Mac, naming the app, even when it puts itself back after you turned it off.

• AvailableOpen to the network

  The ports other devices on your network can reach, by app, what macOS's own are, and whether the firewall is on.

• AvailableWho made what's running

  Each running app's developer from its code signature, with the ones nobody's name is on set apart.

• ExploringCamera and microphone history

  Which apps turned on the camera or microphone, and when, kept on your Mac.

Everywhere you look

• AvailableMake it yours

  Pick the metrics' colors, including a color-blind safe palette, the typeface and weight of the big figures, and how tightly the cards sit. Drag Overview's tiles and the menu bar window's rows into your own order, and hide what you don't need.

• AvailableYour menu bar, your way

  Text, a live graph or stacked figures, showing the readings you choose, changing color when something needs a look.

• AvailableQuick Search

  ⌃⌥M from any app finds an app, a process or a port like :3000.

• AvailableWidgets and Shortcuts

  Figures and Today so far on your desktop, and readings in your own shortcuts.

• AvailableClean Keyboard

  ⌃⌥K locks every key while you wipe the keyboard, until ⌃⌥K again, Unlock, or five minutes.

• AvailableA year of history

  Keep from a week to a full year, with a calendar of past days and CSV export.

• AvailableEleven languages

  Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish.

• AvailableHomebrew

  brew install --cask mactivity/tap/mactivity installs the app and its command-line tool.

• AvailableControl Center controls

  Stay Awake and Clean Keyboard as controls in Control Center and in the menu bar beside it.

• PlannedLighter still

  Mactivity already idles near a tenth of a percent of one core. We keep trimming it.

• ExploringMore languages

  Swedish, Polish, Turkish and others, as people ask for them.