Sharp Lynx

Measured, never guessed.

• An app is named only once it holds a clear lead over the runner-up and a real share of the machine — short bursts, a page load or a build, never appear
• CPU is stated in cores, not percentages: three of your twelve cores means something, 320% doesn't
• Sustained load only — a 60-second rolling average across the whole process family, so one busy second never names anyone
• Every estimate says it is one, and says why it might be off

A state, not a score.

The card carries one word for how the machine is coping — comfortable, working hard, under pressure — taken from what macOS itself reports, not from a number we invented.

On a Mac with room to spare it says so and stops. There is no advice, no grade, and nothing to dismiss.

• A broom button on the Memory page, the dashboard Memory card and the menu bar popover — press it anywhere and every window follows along
• A progress ring while it runs, and a measured result when it finishes: how much came back, and how much swap it cost
• Three strengths, from Standard to Maximum, if you want it to push harder
• No restart, no admin password, nothing to configure first

Stronger is not always better, and the app says so. On a 32 GB Mac, pushing past the point where the system starts evicting cost 715 MB more swap and ended with 1.2 GB less free memory than stopping there. The setting exists; the honest note sits next to it.

Click for the detail.

One compact popover with every metric, its own chart, and the top five processes by CPU or memory — plus the app those processes belong to, and the broom, without leaving what you were doing.

• Choose 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 into a crowded bar
• The menu bar gets its own theme, independent of the app window