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The Activity Monitor alternative for Mac that groups every process under the app it belongs to, keeps 30 days of history, alerts you when an app misbehaves, and lives in the menu bar.
Loved by 690+ Mac users$5 one-time payment14-day refund30-day historymacOS native menu bar app
Opportunity score
48/100
A well-executed small utility with strong positioning and SEO content, but limited revenue per user and intense free/paid competition make it a modest standalone business unless expanded aggressively.
Founder verdict
MAYBE
Vitals is a polished, well-positioned Mac utility with clear differentiation, but its one-time $5 pricing and crowded market make it a modest standalone business rather than a high-growth startup.
What is Vitals?
Vitals is a native Mac utility that replaces the default Activity Monitor with app-level process grouping and 30-day performance history. Instead of showing roughly 1,000 individual processes, it shows about 60 apps, making it easy to see which app uses CPU, memory, energy, disk, network, GPU, battery, sound or Bluetooth. The product is sold as a one-time $5 purchase with a 14-day refund, and the landing page uses an interactive simulated demo plus strong comparison content against Activity Monitor, iStat Menus and Stats. Revenue, growth and team size are not publicly disclosed. The product is clearly built for Mac users who find Activity Monitor noisy, especially developers, local AI builders and founders running lots of helper processes.
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