Glint keeps CPU, memory, disk, and network live in your menu bar — never a window to open, never a process list to hunt through. And not just this Mac: your laptop, the mini, the Linux box in the closet, all in one place.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Sandboxed · No ads, no analytics, no tracking
Most monitors compete on more — more modules, themes, sensors. Glint ships one good default and a footprint you can measure.
One sensible default — no theme picker, no config to tweak. CPU, memory, disk, and network as live sparklines that read as fast as the macOS clock.
Your desktop, your laptop, the mini under the desk, the Linux box in the closet — flip on publishing and each one shows up in a single view. Synced through your own iCloud; no server of ours in between.
Free tools display; they don't warn. Glint reads the kernel's own memory-pressure and thermal signals and tells you before your Mac chokes — so you catch it early, not in Activity Monitor after the fact.
TIGHT → PRESSURETap the CPU or Memory row to fly out the top processes for that resource. Spot the hog, quit it, or jump to Activity Monitor — without ever leaving your menu bar.
glint-cli is a free, open-source (MIT) terminal monitor for Mac and Linux — the same refined stats over SSH, plus the ability to publish any box into your fleet.
--json snapshotGlint holds well under 1% of a single core — barely a rounding error while your Mac does the real work. You won't feel it in your battery, your fans, or your frame rate.
Most monitors just claim to be efficient. Glint publishes the number — measured, multi-trial, and open to check. Run it yourself.
% of one CPU core — Glint sits in that first sliver. Measured on a busy M4 Pro; lighter on a typical machine. The number's there in the open, if you ever want to check.
Buy the app and it's yours — every feature the platform allows, from the moment you install. No tiers, no in-app paywall, no recurring charge.
The terminal monitor for your Macs and Linux boxes.
The menu-bar monitor — sandboxed, and installed in one click.
The same app, run outside the sandbox for per-process depth.
Two builds, one price — the only difference is how deep macOS lets each one reach, never a paywall. Buy one and the other is free. Feeling generous? The Direct build has an optional supporter price. No subscriptions, ever.
A monitor watches your machine all day. Glint is built so that's never a reason to worry.
Process and system data is local. Fleet sync is your own iCloud — 828 runs no server in the middle.
No ads, no analytics, no telemetry. Crash reporting is opt-out and anonymous.
App Sandbox, SMAppService only — no legacy privileged-helper hacks. Public APIs, App Store-clean.
Built and shipped by 828 TECH LLC — a named, real entity. The CLI is open source; read the code.
The App Store build runs in Apple's sandbox — the safe, locked-down default — which doesn't include the system-wide process list. Per-process drill-in and quit need that list, so they live in the Direct build, which runs outside the sandbox. It's a technical difference, not a paywall: both are the same $10, and buying one gets you the other free.
Well under 1% of a single core at idle (~0.7% measured on a busy M4 Pro; less on a typical Mac). We don't ask you to trust the number — the benchmark is open and reproducible. Run it yourself.
No. Glint is a one-time $10 purchase, fully unlocked from install. Fleet and sync are included — there is no recurring charge, ever.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. The free glint-cli also runs on Linux.
The glint-cli terminal monitor is fully open source (MIT). The menu-bar apps are closed source, but they're built by a named entity, sandboxed, and use only public APIs.
Soon — we're putting the final pieces in place for the Mac App Store. Drop us a line below and we'll tell you the day it lands, and nothing else.
Glint is coming to the Mac App Store. Want a heads-up the moment it ships? That's the only email you'll ever get.
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