Apps, not processes
Nine hundred processes folded into the sixty apps they belong to, with their real icons. Chrome is one row, not forty.
For macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon
Your Mac,
unhogged.
The Activity Monitor alternative that tells you, in one sentence, what's slowing your Mac down — and fixes it in one click. Previewed first, measured after.
- One payment
- 3 Macs
- 14-day refund
- No account
Launch price for the first 200 buyers.
That's the real Unhogged interface, running in this page. The numbers are made up; the app isn't. Installed, it reads your Mac instead.
Every screen, before you buy — the real ones. On a computer, you can use it live.
Pulse01 / 14
How your Mac is doing, in one sentence — and the one thing worth doing about it.
- —A verdict with its fix, then everything else that needs you
- —Live tiles you choose and order
- —A share card of how your Mac is doing
Up top
Where you'll see it most.
Unhogged lives in the menu bar. Keep it to the dot grid, put your readings beside it in one item, or give each its own — a number, a live graph, or both. The stray dot lights up when something needs you.
Live: pick readings, switch the layout, open the dropdown.
FinderFileEditViewGoWindowHelp
CPU 14%RAM 71%52°Tue 9:41
The verdictAn answer,
An answer,
not a dashboard.
Most monitors hand you forty numbers and leave the rest to you. Unhogged reads them for you: one sentence about how your Mac is doing, the app to blame, and the button that fixes it. Then it checks its own work.
- Spots leaks, hogs, heat and forgotten servers on its own
- Shows exactly what a fix will touch before it runs
- Never touches macOS's own processes
UNHOGGEDnow
Google Chrome's memory keeps climbing
Up 1.47 GB in 49 minutes. Restarting it gives the memory back.
- 1NoticedSteady growth — usually a leakNow 4.3 GB and climbing.
- 2PreviewedRestart Google Chrome31 processes, same windows reopen. Expected back: 1.2 GB
- 3Measured0.0GB came back · expected 1.2
What's inside
Everything your Mac is doing, in the words you'd use.
Charts that name the culprit
Every peak is labelled with the app that caused it, and a lane under each chart shows who was on top, minute by minute.
Fixes that prove themselves
Quit, restart, stop a server, free a port. Each is previewed and identity-checked first, then reported as expected against measured.
Your AI agents, by project
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor and Ollama, shown by project and branch with estimated cost and how long each has sat idle.
Servers & ports
What's on :3000, answered. Every dev server with its live connections, and a stop button for the forgotten ones.
Thermals
Every temperature sensor on the chip and the fans, read straight from the hardware — no helper, no admin password.
Audio and accessories
Turn one app down without touching the rest, see which app is using the microphone, and check AirPods left, right and case.
A month of memory
Thirty days of history per app: what used the processor, the RAM and the battery, and when it happened.
The menu bar, your way
Readings in one item or one each — as numbers, live graphs, or both — beside a mark that lights up when something needs you.
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- ✓ no account, no tracking
- ✓ nothing runs as root
- ✓ history stays in a folder you own
- ✓ one request: the licence check
It reads everything. It tells no one.
No account and no analytics, and it never reads another app's environment variables — where API keys live. The only thing it sends is your licence key.
Why switch
What the free monitor can't tell you.
Activity Monitor and Task Manager show you numbers. Unhogged reads them, says what's wrong, fixes it, and remembers the last month.
What the list shows
Apps with every helper folded in, real icons, one figure each
Activity Monitor: Every process — about 900 rows, dozens of them Chrome helpers
Task Manager: Apps, with their processes underneath
Tells you what's wrong
One sentence, the app to blame, and what to do — leaks, hogs, heat, forgotten servers
Activity Monitor: Numbers only
Task Manager: Numbers only
Fixing it
Quit, restart, stop, free a port — previewed first, then measured: expected against what came back
Activity Monitor: Quit or force quit a process
Task Manager: End task
History
30 days of every reading, per app — charts you can zoom and question
Activity Monitor: Live graphs; 12 hours of battery
Task Manager: 60-second graphs; app totals
AI coding agents
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor and Ollama by project, with cost and idle time
Activity Monitor: Filed under Terminal or node
Task Manager: Filed under a terminal
Dev servers and ports
What's on :3000, by project, with the idle ones called out
Activity Monitor: Not shown
Task Manager: Ports live in a separate Resource Monitor
Temperatures and fans
Every sensor on the chip, and fan speed
Activity Monitor: Not shown
Task Manager: GPU temperature only
Per-app volume and the microphone
A level for each app, and which app is listening — in the same place
Activity Monitor: Not in Activity Monitor
Task Manager: In a separate Volume Mixer
Always in view
Your choice of readings in the menu bar, as numbers or live graphs
Activity Monitor: The Dock icon can show a CPU graph
Task Manager: A CPU meter in the notification area
Price
$3.99 once, for three Macs
Activity Monitor: Comes with macOS
Task Manager: Comes with Windows
Unhogged✓ yes · – partly · ✕ no. Activity Monitor in macOS 26 and Task Manager in Windows 11. Unhogged runs on Macs; the Windows column is for anyone switching.
Light on your Mac
A monitor that doesn't become the hog.
In the menu bar
~0% of one core
sampling every 5 s
Memory
0MB
all of its processes together
Energy
0mW
while you're not looking
Running as root
0helpers
nothing extra to install
Measured on an M1 MacBook Pro running the release build, averaged over a minute.
Pricing
Three Macs. One payment.
No subscription, no account. Buy it once and it's yours.
UnhoggedLifetime licence$3.99once
Launch price for the first 200 buyers — then it steps up as licences sell:
- $3.99#1–200NOW
- $5.99#201–500
- $9.99#501–1000
- $19.99#1001+
- Every feature, and updates included
- One key for 3 of your Macs — move it any time
- Changed your mind? Full refund for 14 days
- No account, no subscription
macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple siliconCheckout, tax and receipts by Polar
Questions
Asked before buying.
Something else? Write to prateekrawat33@gmail.com — you'll hear back from the person who builds Unhogged.
Is it really $3.99, once?+
$3.99 is the launch price for the first 200 buyers; after that it steps up to $5.99, $9.99, then $19.99. Whatever you pay, you pay once — no subscription, the licence doesn't expire, and updates are included.
What does “three Macs” mean?+
One key activates Unhogged on up to 3 Macs you use. To move it to a new Mac, deactivate the old one in Preferences › License, or free it from your purchase page.
What if it isn't for me?+
Ask for a refund within 14 days of buying, from your purchase page or by email, and you get the full amount back. The licence stops working when the refund goes through.
Does it send my data anywhere?+
No. Everything Unhogged learns about your Mac stays on your Mac. Its only network request is the licence check — your key and your Mac's name, sent when you activate and every few days after. No account, no analytics.
Does it need an admin password or a helper?+
No. Unhogged measures every process, including macOS's own, without installing anything that runs as root.
Which Macs does it run on?+
macOS 13 Ventura or later, on Apple silicon. Per-app loudness needs macOS 14.2 or later.
Why does turning one app down ask for System Audio Recording?+
That's the permission macOS uses for any app that passes another app's sound through a volume control. Unhogged scales the sound on its way to your speakers; nothing is recorded or kept.
How is it different from Activity Monitor?+
Activity Monitor lists processes. Unhogged reads them for you: it groups helpers under their apps, spots leaks, forgotten dev servers and idle AI sessions, says what to do in one sentence, and does it — then shows what came back.
I lost my licence key.+
It's on your purchase page, along with the download. Use the link in your receipt email, or “Your purchase” at the bottom of this page.
Stop guessing what's slowing your Mac.
$3.99 once for 3 Macs. 14 days to change your mind.