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ZincWolf MenuBar

Your whole Mac, in the menu bar.

CPU, memory, your AI limits, Git, to-dos and more sit in your menu bar as small live figures and graphs, there at a glance. Click Calendar, Timers or Now Playing for a small, calm panel.

See what it shows

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Available nowOne-time purchase. Every 1.x update free. For macOS 14 or later.

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Features

Every figure, always in view.

Each module is its own small item in your menu bar, made to read at a glance. The figure is right there, so there’s nothing to click.

For developers

Your code and your network, at a glance.

Eight modules for people who build things, each off until you turn it on. They read only this Mac.

Every one of them reads this Mac only and keeps what it reads in memory: nothing is logged or uploaded.

And your day

The rest of your day, up there too.

ZincWolf MenuBar brings the glanceable parts of ZincWolf Island and ZincWolf Dock to your menu bar.

Timers and Keep Awake are shared with ZincWolf Island and ZincWolf Dock, on your Mac only: start a timer in one and it counts down in all of them.

Every day

The small things, one click away.

A note, your to-dos, a stopwatch and more, each off until you turn it on.

Notes, to-dos, countdowns, the stopwatch, the shelf and colours are shared with ZincWolf Island, Dock and Widgets, on your Mac only.

Make it yours

Your menu bar, your way.

Turn on the modules you want, put them in the order you like, and choose what each item shows.

  • Symbol
  • Figure
  • Graph
  • Graph and figure
  • Labelled

Items keep one width as their figures change, so your menu bar never jiggles.

Performance

Light on your Mac.

A system monitor shouldn’t be what slows your Mac down. ZincWolf MenuBar reads only what’s showing, and nothing at all while no one can see the screen.

A menu bar of symbols alone reads nothing but the battery’s charge. Nothing is read while your Mac sleeps, its screen is off or locked, or someone else is using it.

Measured on a MacBook Air with M2 and 8 GB of memory.

Privacy

Your figures stay on your Mac.

Turn a module off and it stops reading at once. Quit ZincWolf MenuBar and its items leave your menu bar.

Requirements

Made for the Mac you have.

Pricing

One price. Yours to keep.

Available now

ZincWolf MenuBar

$19.99 one-time

The same price as every ZincWolf app, paid once. Your license key comes straight away, and so does the download.

Launch offer: buy any two, get one free

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  • Every 1.x update, free
  • macOS 14 or later
  • One Mac
  • 14-day refunds, no questions asked
  • No subscription
  • No account

If ZincWolf MenuBar isn’t for you, you can get a full refund within 14 days, no questions asked. Payments and refunds are handled by Dodo Payments, our reseller and merchant of record. Terms

Meet ZincWolf Island

Questions? Answers.

  • A system monitor for your Mac’s menu bar, and more. Each module, like CPU, Memory or Network, is a small live item in the menu bar, a figure, a graph or both, there to read at a glance. There are modules for developers, like AI Usage, Git and Docker, and for your day, like Calendar, Notes, To-Dos and a stopwatch: 33 in all. Calendar, Timers and the others with more to show open a small panel when you click them.

  • Yes, it’s available now: $19.99, once. Buy it here and download it straight away; your license key comes on screen and by email. Already bought it? Download ZincWolf MenuBar from this page any time.

  • $19.99, once, the same as every ZincWolf app. Every 1.x update is free, there’s no subscription and no account, and a license is for one Mac. It’s sold directly from zincwolf.app, with a full refund within 14 days if it isn’t for you.

  • 33 in all. Overview, CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, Battery, GPU and Sensors for your Mac; AI Usage, Git, Dev Servers, Docker, Ping, VPN, Wi-Fi and Uptime for developers; Calendar, World Clocks, Timers, Keep Awake and Now Playing for your day; and Notes, To-Dos, Countdown, Stopwatch, Shelf, Colours, Appearance, Device Batteries, Reminders, Eject, Sun and Moon and Date. Overview, CPU and Memory are on to start with; turn on any of the others in Settings.

  • Yes. Turn each module on or off, drag them into the order you like, and choose what each item shows: its symbol, a figure, a small graph, a graph and figure, or the figure with its name in tiny capitals beside it. Each module is its own item, so the ones you don’t want simply aren’t there.

  • Yes. AI Usage shows how much of your AI coding tools’ limits you’ve used, Git your repository’s branch and changes, Dev Servers the servers you’re running and Docker your containers, all read on your Mac. Ping, VPN, Wi-Fi and Uptime keep an eye on your network and your Mac.

  • No. ZincWolf MenuBar adds its own items and leaves everyone else’s as they are. To remove one of its items, turn its module off, or hold ⌘ and drag it out of the menu bar.

  • No. With its default items it uses under 1% of one processor core, even with a live CPU graph in the menu bar, and about 12 MB of memory. It reads only what’s showing, and nothing while your Mac sleeps or its screen is off or locked.

  • No. The menu bar’s small graphs show the last minute, from memory. Nothing about your Mac is logged or written to disk; only your settings are saved, along with what you keep in the features you share with ZincWolf Island, Dock and Widgets, like timers, notes and to-dos.

  • Only to check its license and look for updates, and, if you turn on Ping, to send a small echo to the server you choose every 30 seconds. Every figure is read on your Mac and stays there.

  • Yes. The Sensors module shows the processor, graphics and battery temperatures and each fan’s speed, read directly and only read, with no helper and no admin password. It never changes fan speeds.

  • Yes. Its timers, Keep Awake, notes, shelf and colours are the same as theirs, kept on your Mac: start a timer in ZincWolf MenuBar and it counts down in the island and the Dock too. Its to-dos, countdowns and stopwatch are ZincWolf Widgets’ own. Each app works fully on its own.

  • Only for the Calendar and Reminders modules, and only when you turn one on and click Allow, so it can show your next event or what’s due today. Without them, everything else works as before.

  • Yes. The Battery module shows on Macs that have one, and GPU wherever the graphics driver reports its load, which Apple silicon always does. Every other module works on every Mac.

  • Any Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later, with Apple silicon or Intel. On macOS 26 Tahoe its panels are made of Liquid Glass; on Sonoma and Sequoia they’re frosted.

  • Reading your Mac’s temperatures and fans directly needs access to macOS that the Mac App Store doesn’t allow, so ZincWolf sells it directly, as it does all its apps.

Look up. It’s all there.

Live figures and smooth graphs in your menu bar, light enough to forget it’s running. Available now, for $19.99 once.

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