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.
NewUnhogged 1.1 is out· See what's new →Your Mac,
Your Mac,
unhogged.
Unhogged tells you in one sentence what's slowing your Mac down, then fixes it in one click. Every fix is previewed first and measured after.
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
Featured on
How it worksAn answer,
An answer,
not a dashboard.
Most monitors hand you forty numbers and leave the rest to you. Unhogged reads them for you. Every problem it finds goes through the same four steps, and you see each one: it notices, explains, fixes, and then proves the fix worked.
- 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.
- 1NoticeChrome's memory keeps climbing2.8 → 4.3 GB in 49 minutes, with its window closed.
- 2ExplainSteady growth with no drop: a leakNot a busy app. Restarting it gives the memory back.
- 3FixRestart Google Chrome31 processes, same windows reopen. Expected back: 1.2 GB
- 4Prove0.0GB came back · expected 1.2
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
What's inside
Everything your Mac is doing, in the words you'd use.
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.
More about your ai agents, by project →Charts in plain words
Every chart says what it shows: the average, the peak and the app behind it. Hover any moment to see who was using the most.
More about charts in plain words →Servers & ports
What's on :3000, answered. Every dev server with its live connections, and a stop button for the forgotten ones.
More about servers & ports →Helpers folded into their app
Nine hundred processes folded into the sixty apps they belong to, with their real icons. Chrome is one row, not forty.
Thermals
Every part of your Mac in plain words, from the cores to the battery, with how close each is to its limit. Read straight from the hardware, no helper.
More about thermals →
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.
More about the menu bar, your way →0
- ✓ no account, no tracking
- ✓ nothing runs as root
- ✓ history stays in a folder you own
- ✓ sends a licence check, and asks for updates
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. Nothing about your apps or your usage ever leaves your Mac.
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.
vs Activity Monitorvs iStat Menusvs Statsvs VitalsAll alternatives
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: Shown only as process names
Task Manager: Filed under a terminal
Dev servers and ports
What's on :3000, by project, with the idle ones called out
Activity Monitor: Open ports per process, via Inspect
Task Manager: Ports live in a separate Resource Monitor
Temperatures and fans
Every part of the Mac against its limit, 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
Activity Monitor 
Unhogged✓ yes · – partly · ✕ no. Activity Monitor in macOS 26 and Task Manager in Windows 11. App names and icons belong to their owners and identify each app; Unhogged isn't affiliated with Apple or Microsoft. 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#201–500NOW
- $9.99#501–1000NOW
- $19.99#1001+NOW
- 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
Already bought it? Download Unhogged
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 one payment?+
Yes. The price starts at $3.99 for the first 200 buyers, then steps up to $5.99, $9.99, then $19.99 as licences sell. 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?+
Email prateekrawat33@gmail.com within 14 days of buying and you get the full amount back. The licence stops working when the refund goes through.
Does it send my data anywhere?+
No. What Unhogged learns about your Mac stays on your Mac. It confirms your licence every few days (your key and your Mac's name) and asks unhogged.com twice a day whether there's a newer version, which carries nothing about you. 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 (M1 or newer). Intel Macs aren't supported yet — if you bought it for one by mistake, ask for a refund. Per-app loudness needs macOS 14.2 or later.
macOS says it “can't be opened because it was not downloaded from the App Store”.+
Your Mac is set to allow App Store apps only. Unhogged is signed and checked by Apple, but sold on its own website. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, and under “Allow applications from” choose App Store & Known Developers, or click Open Anyway there right after the message.
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. Open your receipt email and choose Access purchase, or use “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.