# Vitals changelog Canonical page: https://vitalsmac.com/changelog Every release of Vitals, the Activity Monitor alternative for Mac, and what changed in it. Newest first. Updates install from inside the app. ## 1.3 (2026-10-02) Vitals in ten languages, apps pinned to the top, ⌘F from any tab, and power figures for Macs without a battery. - New: Vitals in your language. German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese, in the words your Mac already uses. Vitals follows your Mac’s language. To use another one for Vitals only, add Vitals under Applications in System Settings → General → Language & Region. - New: Pin an app to the top. Right-click an app in the window and choose Pin. It stays at the top of every list, whatever the sort, until you unpin it. - New: ⌘F from any tab. Press ⌘F in the window to find an app. On a tab without a list, such as Overview, Vitals opens Memory with the filter ready. - New: Choose where the window opens. Overview, the tab you used last, or any tab you like, in Settings → General → Open Window On. - New: Power on Macs without a battery. A Mac mini, iMac or Mac Studio shows what the whole Mac draws in Temperature & Fans, and any Mac can show it in the menu bar. - Improved: A shorter Settings. General has fewer lines: the details appear when you hold the pointer over a setting. A Language section says which language Vitals is in and how to change it. ## 1.2.1 (2026-09-30) Quit apps and stop containers from the dropdown, control your fan speeds, and a Vitals that uses less battery. - New: Quit any app from the dropdown. Hover over an app and a close button appears. Click it and Vitals asks before quitting. If the app doesn’t respond, you can force quit it. Containers get a Stop button the same way, in the dropdown and in the Containers tab. - Experimental: Control your fan speeds. In Temperature & Fans, each fan can stay on automatic or run at a speed you choose, within the limits the Mac allows. Your setting is kept across restarts and sleep, and every fan returns to automatic when Vitals quits. Needs Full System Metrics. Tested on an M2 so far; on M3 and M4 Macs the first change takes a few seconds. If a fan won’t change speed, write to hi@vitalsmac.com. - Improved: Uses less battery. When nothing is open, Vitals checks the Mac half as often on battery, updates network use and saves its history less often, and reads the graphics chip with less work. - Fixed: A rare crash in the background, when macOS reported an impossible network number for a process. Vitals now ignores numbers like that, and removes any it recorded before. ## 1.2 (2026-09-29) See inside your browser and Docker, and find what keeps the fans on and the Mac awake. Vitals itself is lighter. - New: Inside your browser. Click Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Arc or Dia to see its memory and CPU split into tabs, extensions, graphics and the browser itself. Slack, VS Code and similar apps are split by window. - New: A Containers tab. Every Docker container with its memory, CPU, network and ports, in the window and the dropdown. - New: What’s keeping the fans on. When the Mac runs hot, Vitals names the apps behind it, with Quit beside each and Force Quit for one that doesn’t answer. - New: What’s keeping the Mac awake. The Battery tab lists the apps holding sleep off, why, and for how long. - New: Keyboard shortcuts. Open the dropdown or the window from any app. Set them in Settings → General. - New: Actions for the Shortcuts app. Get a reading or the busiest app, open Vitals, or show the dropdown from your own shortcuts. - New: The microphone in Sound. Its device and level sit beside the output, and Vitals says which apps are using it. - New: More for the menu bar. A compact size for small screens, memory pressure in place of memory used, and upload beside download. - Improved: A lighter Vitals. In the menu bar it uses less than half the CPU it did, and less memory. A window that is covered or closed costs next to nothing, and an open one about a quarter less. - Improved: The inspector makes room. Click an app and the charts move over instead of being covered. - Improved: The dropdown by keyboard. Tab moves through its tabs, ⌘1 to ⌘0 jump to one, and Esc closes it. - Improved: Rankings by the hour. The top apps of the last 1, 12 and 24 hours now count those hours, not whole days. - Improved: The filter finds a process by its real name as well as the name it is shown under. - Experimental: Power per app on Intel Macs. Intel Macs showed no power per app. They now show an estimate. It has not been tested on many Intel Macs, so if the figures look wrong or stay empty, write to hi@vitalsmac.com. - Fixed: In Sound, a row stays in place while you drag its slider, and the mixer’s own devices no longer appear in the device menus. ## 1.1.1 (2026-09-27) The mixer remembers each app’s volume. - Improved: The mixer remembers. An app’s volume and mute now survive quitting Vitals and restarting the Mac. Set Chrome to 30% once, and it is 30% the next time it plays sound. ## 1.1 (2026-09-27) A menu bar, dropdown and window you arrange yourself, plus Sound and Bluetooth tabs. - New: A menu bar that’s yours. Every readout can be its own item: a value, a graph, or both, with or without its icon and caption, ⌘-dragged into any order. Disk joins the readouts, and Temperature can follow the CPU, the GPU or the hottest sensor. - New: Sound and Bluetooth tabs. Sound has the Mac’s output and a volume slider for every app with sound open. Bluetooth lists every connected device, lowest battery first. Both are in the window and the dropdown. - New: Arrange everything. Choose the window’s tabs and their order. An Arrange button on every tab shows, hides and reorders its sections, cards, rings and apps. The dropdown has its own tabs and tiles, a Sensors tile, and a List layout. - New: Right-click the menu bar item. Open Vitals, check for updates, Settings and Quit, without opening the dropdown. - Improved: The dropdown on glass. It lets the desktop through, or sits on a solid fill if you prefer. - Improved: Settings, rebuilt. A sidebar of pages, with one Layout page and a live picture of what you’re arranging. - Improved: Click an app, get the window. Click an app anywhere in the dropdown and the window opens on it. - Fixed: CPU and GPU temperatures on M5 Macs, a battery Maximum Capacity that matches System Settings, one History row per app across updates, and a Files & Folders permission that reports its real state. ## 1.0.9 (2026-09-25) Your license stays put, units you choose, and a window that moves. - New: Units you choose. Settings → General: Celsius or Fahrenheit, bytes or bits for network speed, CPU per core or per Mac, each with a live example. - New: Uptime on the CPU card, a memory pressure percentage beside Normal, and the disk’s share used. - Improved: Tabs slide in and their hover glides, charts draw themselves, cards sit lighter. - Fixed: Some Macs were asked for their key again after an update. The license is now read before anything can ask, with a second copy kept on disk. - Fixed: The menu bar item keeps its width and its panel closes when it opens the window. The toolbar no longer jumps or hides the gear. ## 1.0.8 (2026-09-25) Much less CPU with the window open. - Improved: Less CPU with the window open. The window was rebuilding its whole process list every second, even the collapsed parts. It now does less than half the work. ## 1.0.7 (2026-09-25) Projects with many ports, truer figures, and fixes across every tab. - Fixed: Ports wrap under the project’s name instead of running off the window, and the ports macOS hands to helpers are no longer counted as dev servers. - Fixed: Network totals no longer jump after the Mac sleeps, insights fire when they should, and figures read correctly in every language. - Fixed: Every tab lays out at the smallest window, on Macs with many cores too. - Fixed: Smaller fixes across sound, sensors, Settings and the welcome. ## 1.0.6 (2026-09-25) Keep Vitals in the Dock, and a new installer. - New: Show in Dock. Turn it on in Settings → General and Vitals stays in the Dock like Activity Monitor. The menu bar item stays either way. - Improved: A proper install window. Open the download, drag Vitals to Applications, and you’re done. ## 1.0.5 (2026-09-23) Force Quit in Projects, and a way to quit a whole project at once. - New: Force Quit in Projects. Stopping a process, a port or an idle dev server now offers Quit and Force Quit, for the process that won’t quit when asked. - New: Quit a whole project. From its right-click menu or the button under its process list. The confirmation says what it stops and which ports it frees. ## 1.0.4 (2026-09-23) Pasting your license key just works. - Fixed: A key copied from an email could bring a line break or other text with it. The field now keeps the key and nothing else, on one line. ## 1.0.3 (2026-09-22) A way to tell us how Vitals is working for you, and clearer license messages. - New: Write a review. A week in, the menu bar panel asks once how it’s going, and you can write any time from Settings → License. It goes straight to Atta, who makes Vitals, and is only published if you say so. - Improved: License messages now say your key comes by email, name one license server throughout, and tell you who to write to if a license stops working. ## 1.0.2 (2026-09-22) A quicker way to find a lost key, and a clearer note about what activation sends. - Improved: “Find your key” now opens straight on the page where you enter your email to get your key again. - Improved: The note under the license key field names everything activation sends: your key, this Mac’s name and an anonymous ID. Nothing about what you run is ever sent. ## 1.0.1 (2026-09-22) The first public build, for Apple silicon and Intel. - New: Intel Macs. Vitals runs natively on Intel as well as Apple silicon. - New: A welcome screen. It shows your own processes sorting themselves into apps, then asks for your license key. - New: A License tab in Settings. With Deactivate This Mac, for moving to a new Mac. - New: Automatic updates. With Check for Updates in the app menu and in Settings. - Improved: A new app icon. ## 1.0.0 (2026-09-21) The first release. - New: Apps, not processes. Every process grouped under the app it belongs to, with one memory, CPU, energy, disk and network figure per app. - New: Overview and a tab for each. A card per subsystem, and tabs for CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, GPU and Battery. - New: Worth a Look. Told when an app hogs the CPU, keeps growing in memory, or hammers the disk or network. - New: Projects. Processes grouped by the project folder they work in, with their listening ports, and dev servers left running called out. - New: Usage history. The last 12 hours, 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days, with the apps that used the most. - New: A volume mixer. A level for every app. - New: Hardware. Temperatures, fans, volumes and Bluetooth battery levels. - New: A menu bar item. Set up your way, with a pocket version of the app behind it.