Common Stats

Small type. Small graphs. Nothing else.

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Free forever · Open source · Nothing leaves your Mac · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Native.

The menu bar tints it like the clock, and a click opens a real menu. VoiceOver reads every value.

Graphs that tell the truth.

Monotone curves, so smoothing never invents a peak. Rate graphs show their scale, and hovering reads back any past value.

Yours to arrange.

Show each metric as a value, a graph, or a gauge, whichever suits it, or hide it. Drag to reorder, and pick a density and update rate.

Get started.

  1. Download CommonStats.zip, unzip it, and move Common Stats to Applications.
  2. Open it The first time, macOS says it can't verify the developer: the build is signed but not notarized. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to Common Stats.
  3. Set it up Pick what the menu bar shows in Settings, and turn on Open at login.

Or, from a terminal, with no Open Anyway step: brew install --cask oddurs/common-tools/common-stats or curl -fsSL https://oddurs.github.io/common-tools/install.sh | sh -s -- stats. Every step, with checksums, is in the docs.

More Common Tools.

Common Command Press ⌥Space, type a few letters, press Return: apps, System Settings panes, files, sums, and web searches in one quiet panel. Common Shot Press ⇧⌘2, drag over what you want, and paste it: into a chat, a terminal, a pull request, or a document. Common Bar Moves the menu bar icons you rarely use into folders, clear of the notch, and opens any one of them right where its folder is. Common Keys Fixes words typed on the wrong keyboard layout, for every keyboard macOS has, and keeps each app on the language you write there. Common Color Press ⌃⇧⌘C, click any pixel, and the color is on the clipboard as hex, CSS, SwiftUI, or AppKit, converted correctly from the display’s color space. Common Battery The level, the time left, what the battery is doing, and alerts when it runs low or reaches your charge level. Common Glyph A character, a sticker, an emoji, an animated GIF, or a word: as many as you like, each its own menu bar item.