Porrter iconPorrter

See what your Mac
is really doing.

Porrter lives in your menu bar, opens into a full window, and tells you, in plain words, what is heating your Mac, filling its memory or keeping it busy. And what to do about it.

Download for Mac
Free · macOS 14+ · updates itself
It's the real app. Click any page in the strip
The Porrter window: a strip of live page previews on the left, the verdict that the Mac is warm because of Google Chrome, six readings and a table of the apps using the Mac

Or just a glance, from the menu bar.

Click the Porrter icon any time for the verdict, your six readings and the busiest apps. It lives up there all day and barely touches your CPU.

It's the real app. Click around
Porrter's Overview: your Mac is warm, Google Chrome is the main cause, with CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk and battery

Why is my Mac so hot?

Porrter reads your Mac's temperature and power, names the app or the charger behind the heat, and tells you what to do about it.

Your Mac is warm: chip at 81 °C, Google Chrome is the main cause, fast charging adds heat

Your Mac at a glance

CPU, memory, graphics, network, disk and battery, each with the last hour drawn out. Hover any chart to see a moment. The numbers match Activity Monitor.

Six cards for CPU, memory, GPU, network, disk and battery, each with a chart of the last hour

Plain words, not process names

Chrome's 49 helper processes show up as one Google Chrome. "mds_stores" shows up as Spotlight, with a note that it stops by itself. Quit what's safe to quit.

Busiest apps list with Spotlight explained in plain words

Built for developers too

Every local server, grouped by project and branch, with its port and real memory. Docker containers included. Open, stop or restart any of them.

Local servers grouped under their project and branch with ports