Easy day. Love this for us.
Hey, Product Hunt The pea is free to try, and every download includes 14 days of Pro.
A macOS menu-bar pea with opinions
Your Mac has
a temperature.
And a suspect.
Fans spinning up? Battery draining? Laptop warming your lap? Sweatpea lives in your menu bar, sweats when your Mac works hard, and names the app that's doing it. Then it asks you both to take a break.
Free forever · every download includes 14 days of Pro
Chrome41%
Docker18%
macOS12%
Me0.1%
Easy day. Love this for us.
Simulated CPU
12%
Chill
The live bit
This is your menu bar now.
Drag the load. The pea does the rest: face, line, culprit, note. It's the same app you'll be ignoring in meetings.
Warm · running warm
Just a little glow. Totally fine.
CPU
41%
Today’s grade
B · 82
Memory
12.0 / 16 GB
Storage
412 / 494 GB
Who's making me sweatof the whole Mac
Google Chrome
Every tab and extension is its own little process. Lots of tabs, lots of heat.
19%
Docker
Containers run inside a Linux VM. It takes as much CPU as you give it.
10%
WindowServer
Draws everything on screen. Animations, many windows and extra displays keep it busy.
6%
No suspects
Nobody's bothering me right now. Enjoy it.
01 Shares are of the whole Mac, not one core.
02 Helpers are grouped under their app.
03 The pea is not the problem.
The blame
It doesn't just show a number. It names names.
Activity Monitor tells you a percentage. Sweatpea tells you it's Chrome, that every tab is its own little process, and that you could maybe close a few.
- Helpers grouped under the app that owns them.
- Terminal tools named by what they are:
node,claude,yes. - macOS gets its own row, with its busiest parts explained.
- Quit with a pretty-please confirmation. Ignore the noisy ones.
- When the Mac is full rather than hot, it names the app holding the memory.
“Google Chrome is doing this to me 😰”
Google Chrome
Every tab and extension is its own little process.
31%
Docker
Containers run inside a Linux VM.
17%
WindowServer
Draws everything on screen.
12%
Spotlight
Indexing your files. It calms down once it's caught up.
6%
The vitals
Hot is one problem. Full is the other.
When your Mac drags without breaking a sweat, it's usually memory or a disk that's nearly full. Sweatpea shows both, names the app holding the most memory, and tells you which folder quietly grew.
- Live memory and storage in the popover, with pressure and swap only when they matter.
- When the Mac is cool but full, the pea blames the app hogging memory instead.
- Peak today and the biggest apps by memory, one click away.
- Pro: what changed since this morning, yesterday and a week ago, and how much Downloads, Desktop and Documents grew.
- Read on your Mac every few seconds. Nothing leaves it.
“Google Chrome is holding 3.8 GB. That's why I feel full.”
Memory
14.1 / 16 GB
Storage
412 / 494 GB
Memory by app
Google Chrome
3.8 GB
Docker
2.1 GB
What changed · since yesterday Pro
Downloads+6.2 GB
Desktop+340 MB
Documentsno change
The faces
One pea. Twenty moods. Zero subtlety.
Chill, warm, sweating, meltdown. Napping, side-eye, confused, celebrating. The menu-bar face changes with your Mac, so you can read the room without opening Activity Monitor.
Just a little glow. Totally fine.
Who opened 40 tabs?
I am becoming soup.
Do not disturb.
I can hear you typing.
I can't read your Mac right now.
All rested. Come back whenever.
Twenty states in the app, including the ones that only show up when you're on a call, typing during a break, or the sampler stops answering.
The breaks
Breaks, but make them passive-aggressive.
After an hour of use — you pick the interval — the pea yawns and asks for two minutes. It naps while you're away, gives you side-eye if you type, and wakes up happy when you're back.
- No prompts on calls, in full-screen apps or during quiet hours.
- Also asks after 20 minutes of sustained sweating, even if the timer hasn't run out.
- Snooze 15 minutes, or say not now. It keeps count.
0:10
Two minutes. You, me, and no keyboard.
10-second demo · the real nap is 2 minutes
The receipts
A week of sweat, turned into something shareable.
Sweat Wrapped is your week in one card: hours sweating, meltdowns, the apps responsible, breaks taken. Share it, save it, or send it to the person who told you to close some tabs.
Month, year and all-time cards, the Hall of Flame and a roast card are part of Pro.
The price
Free to live with.
$9.99 to remember everything.
Sweatpea is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Every install starts with a 14-day Pro trial — no account, no card.
Free
$0 forever
The pea, the blame and the breaks. The stuff that makes you open it every day.
- The live pea and all four heat states
- Blame, notes and the macOS breakdown
- Breaks, reminders and quiet hours
- A daily grade and a one-minute cool-down
- Live memory and storage, and what's using them
- Sweat Wrapped and a week of history
Pro · launch price
$9.99 once
The memory and the receipts. Everything the pea knows, for as long as you have it.
- Everything in Free
- What changed in memory, storage and folders
- 7-day challenges and the evening check
- Week, month, year and all-time history
- The sweat calendar: every day at a glance
- The Hall of Flame and shareable cards
- Roast cards for your worst offender
- Deadpan and Gremlin voices
- CPU numbers in the menu bar
- CSV export of every day
14-day trial included · licence key by email
Pro is sold by Dodo Payments, our Merchant of Record, which handles checkout, tax and receipts. The app talks to Dodo only to activate and validate your key. No analytics, no account, no usage data. Terms · Privacy · Refund policy
The privacy
Your Mac's business stays on your Mac.
No analytics, no account, no ad SDK. CPU data, app names and history never leave your Mac. The only requests out are a licence check if you buy Pro and a once-a-day update check, and neither carries your data. Privacy policy
No telemetry
No accounts
No ad SDKs
Your Mac
CPU · apps · history
licence check
update check
Dodo Payments
activate · validate
sweatpea.app
appcast.xml
The questions
Questions, answered.
Still curious? The pea is easier to understand than most of your menu bar.
Will it slow my Mac down?
No. In Activity Monitor it uses about 1% of one CPU core (about 0.1% of a 10-core Mac) and around 45 MB of memory. It samples once a second and does almost nothing in between. The apps it blames are the expensive part.
“I can hear you typing” — does it read what I type?
No. It only asks macOS how long it has been since you last touched the keyboard or mouse, the same number the screensaver uses. It never sees which keys you press, and it doesn't ask for Accessibility, Input Monitoring or Screen Recording permission.
Is it safe to install?
Yes. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without any “unidentified developer” warning. It's a 4.8 MB universal app for Apple Silicon and Intel, with no installer and nothing running in the background besides the pea. To remove it, quit it and drag it to the Trash.
What do I need to run it?
macOS 14 or later. It's a menu-bar app, so there's no Dock icon and no window to manage.
What's free?
The live pea, blame, breaks, reminders, live memory and storage, Sweat Wrapped and a week of history. Pro adds what changed in memory, storage and your folders, longer history, the sweat calendar, shareable cards, extra voices and CPU numbers.
Is it a subscription?
No. $9.99 once, at the launch price. The licence key arrives by email after checkout and keeps working offline for 30 days between checks.
Can I use it on more than one Mac?
One licence covers up to 2 Macs at a time. Deactivate one in the app to move the activation to another.
What if I need a refund?
Email support@sweatpea.app within 7 days of buying, from the address you bought with or with your licence key, for a full refund. Dodo returns the money to your card and revokes the key — the app falls back to the free plan on its next check. The full refund policy has the details.
Something's wrong. Who do I write to?
support@sweatpea.app. A human reads it. There is no tracking pixel here to tell them you wrote.
Does it send my data anywhere?
No. Two requests leave this Mac. The licence check sends the key, a device instance id and your Mac's model, never its name. The daily update check asks sweatpea.app for the appcast and carries no identifier, though like any web request the host sees your IP address. Neither ever sends CPU data, app names or usage history.
Does this page count me?
As two numbers: a visit, and a download if you click the .dmg. The page sends a source label (such as a referring site, or direct) and a +1 to Google Firestore, which necessarily sees your IP address. There is no cookie, no identifier, no timestamp and no per-person record — only two totals. Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control turns the counter off.
Why a pea?
Because a progress bar has never once made anyone feel seen. The pea has.
Ready when you are
Put a pea in your menu bar.
It will sweat so you don't have to. Mostly.