Sharp Lynx (was SystemPal)

About this app

Sharp Lynx keeps your Mac's vitals one glance away. Formerly SystemPal — same app, same developer, rebuilt from the ground up with a new name, a new design, and far more of your Mac on screen. If you owned SystemPal, this is your update. Pick the stats you care about and they live in your menu bar — CPU, GPU, memory, temperature, battery and network, updating every second. Click for a detailed popover, or open the full dashboard when you want the whole picture. MENU BAR, YOUR WAY • Choose exactly which metrics appear, and drag them into the order you want • Two-line labels so you never have to guess which number is which • Compact spacing to fit more in a crowded menu bar • Give the menu bar its own theme, independent of the app A DASHBOARD THAT ACTUALLY TELLS YOU SOMETHING • CPU — live load with a stacked user/system chart, per-core bars split into Performance and Efficiency cores, and 1/5/15-minute load averages • GPU — utilization and temperature • Memory — used, plus the App / Wired / Compressed / Free breakdown • Network — download and upload on opposite sides of the axis, so a busy upload never hides a busy download • Storage — capacity per volume and live read/write I/O • Battery — charge, health, cycle count and power draw • Top Processes — sort by CPU or memory PER-COMPONENT DETAIL PAGES Dedicated pages for CPU, GPU, Memory, Storage, Network, Battery and Sensors, each with a large live chart and the numbers that matter. SIX THEMES, LIGHT AND DARK Multi-color (a semantic color per metric), Dual, Mono Amber, Mono Gray, Mono Blue and a clean Light theme. The Mono Gray menu bar adapts to your wallpaper exactly like macOS's own menu bar items. TEMPERATURES AND FANS macOS doesn't expose thermal sensors or fan speed to sandboxed App Store apps. Sharp Lynx reads them through the free Sharp Lynx Helper, a small companion you download separately from our website — the app will prompt you and can start, stop and update it for you. Everything else works without it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No analytics. No network requests. Everything is measured on your Mac and stays on your Mac. Built for Apple Silicon Macs, running macOS 14 or later.

Fixes, from a round of auditing the whole app plus reports from you. • "Pause sampling when idle" in Settings did nothing at all — the setting was being overridden before it was ever read. It now works, so with every window closed Sharp Lynx samples only what your menu bar is showing • Temperatures can be switched to Fahrenheit everywhere. Almost every reading in the app was built with °C baked in, so the setting only ever changed the menu bar • When the helper is running but has stopped sending readings, Sharp Lynx now says so and offers to restart it. It used to say the helper "isn't running" and offer a Start button that could not do anything • The menu bar popover explains when temperatures are unavailable instead of quietly leaving them out • A fan whose sensor can't be read is no longer reported as "Off" • Storage: capacity and free space now describe the boot volume rather than whichever drive happened to sort first — an attached external drive could be labelled as this Mac's disk • Readings that haven't arrived yet show "—" instead of a made-up 0. On launch the app briefly claimed 0% CPU, 0 B/s and 0 GB of memory • Disk write is one colour throughout, and the CPU card's figures are one size again Temperatures and fan speed still come from the free Sharp Lynx Helper 1.1 or newer, downloaded separately. Everything else works without it. Sharp Lynx was previously called SystemPal — same app, same developer.

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1. First observed Aug 4, 2026 · 7:40 PM Free