What's new in Unhogged

• Preferences: a Text size setting: Automatic, 85%, 100%, 115%, 130% or 150%.
• Window: ⌘+ and ⌘− make everything larger or smaller; ⌘0 goes back to Automatic.
• Window: Automatic changes as you move the window between your MacBook's screen and an external display.
• Thermals: each part of your Mac (performance cores, efficiency cores, graphics, Neural Engine, chip, storage, battery, logic board) has its own card with its temperature, a Normal, Warm, Hot or Off state, and how close it is to its limit.
• Thermals: a sentence at the top says whether your Mac is running cool and whether macOS is slowing it down.
• Thermals: select a part to see its sensors by name; "Show chip names" reveals the chip's own names.
• Menu bar: while the window is open, Unhogged has full menus: View (text size, sidebar, full screen), Go (every screen, ⌘1–⌘9), Window and Help.
• Pulse: redesigned as an overview of your whole Mac, in fixed rows: what's happening (with its fix), Processor and Memory with a chart each, then Storage, Battery, Thermals and Network, then what needs you, your AI agents and the apps using the most, then Graphics, Audio, Accessories, Servers & ports and Today.
• Pulse: each tile shows its state in a word when it needs attention (Busy, Tight, Low, Almost full, Warm, Hot, Throttling, Mic on, Forgotten). A hidden screen's tile is left out and its row closes the gap.
• Pulse: a Today tile shows how much memory Unhogged freed today, the busiest app, and the last fix.
• Processes: common macOS and developer processes say what they are in a sentence, such as mds_stores ("Spotlight indexing your files") or kernel_task ("macOS itself…"), when you expand an app or open its drawer.
• What's new: after an update, a short sheet shows what changed, with a link to each thing. Open it again from Preferences › About.

• All screens: text is larger. Nothing is smaller than 11 points, and body text matches macOS's 13.
• All screens: grey secondary text is darker in light mode and brighter in dark mode, so it's easier to read.
• All screens: pages use the width of a large window instead of a narrow column in the middle.
• External displays: text, icons and charts are larger automatically: 130% on a standard-resolution monitor (most 27" QHD screens), 115% on a large Retina display such as a 5K.
• Small windows: a large text size shrinks to the largest size that fits, and returns when the window is made wider.
• All screens: interface text uses the Mac's own font, SF Pro. Numbers keep Unhogged's monospaced figures.
• Charts: every chart is simpler. A line above it says what it shows ("Average 22% · Peak 57% at 3:45 PM, Claude Code"), the plot has only a few gridlines, and hovering explains any moment in words, including which app was using the most.
• Charts: lines grow in when a chart appears and numbers count to their new value. Turned off when Reduce Motion is on.
• Charts: a rare burst no longer flattens the rest of a chart; it runs off the top and the summary still gives the true peak.
• Charts: small charts are drawn to scale, so a steady reading looks steady instead of every wobble looking like a spike.
• Window: while a screen loads, its outline shows instead of an empty pane, and the window opens at your text size straight away.

• Thermals: graphics, the Neural Engine and the camera processor showed 30°C while switched off. They now show Off.
• Thermals: sensors had Apple's internal names (PMU tdie1, pACC MTR Temp Sensor9) and five identical "gas gauge battery" rows. Each now has a plain name, such as P-core 3 or Battery sensor 2.
• Menu bar dropdown: the most urgent problem was listed twice, as the headline and again under Needs You. The headline now has its own button and the list starts with the next problem.
• Charts: on some screens a chart could push the page wider than the window, so it scrolled sideways.
• Accessories: the AirPods "Right" battery label was cut off.

• Updates: when a new version is ready, a notification says so once (if notifications are on), with a link to what's new.
• Settings: a settings file from 1.0.2 opens in 1.1 with your choices kept, Automatic text size, and the What's new sheet shown once.

• Window: on macOS 26 Tahoe the window had no Dock icon, so you couldn't switch back to it from the Dock or with ⌘-Tab. The icon now shows while the window is open.

Overview

• Verdict: one sentence on how your Mac is doing, and the one thing worth doing about it, such as Free 1.2 GB safely.
• Apps, not processes: about 900 processes grouped into the 60 or so apps they belong to, each with its real icon.
• Insights: warnings for sustained CPU, memory that keeps climbing, disk and network bursts, idle dev servers, forgotten sessions, leftovers, duplicate MCP servers, low disk, heat and battery drain, each with its evidence and a button.
• Fixes: quit, restart, stop, free a port and clean up. Each is previewed first, checked against the exact process just before it runs, and reported afterwards as expected against measured.

AI tools

• Agents: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor and Ollama sessions, each tied to its project and branch.
• Agents: how long each session has been quiet, and its estimated cost.
• Agents: a close button that refuses while an agent is still working.
• Servers & ports: which app is on each port ("What's on :3000?"), with live connection counts.

Screens

• Pulse: your chosen readings at a glance.
• Processor, RAM, Storage, Traffic, Graphics, Power: live and historical readings for each.
• Charts: every peak is labelled with the app that caused it, and a lane under each chart shows which app was on top over time.
• Timeline: 30 days of history.
• Thermals: every temperature sensor and fan, and which app was hogging when it got hot. No helper or admin password needed.
• Audio: output and microphone devices, with volume and switching.
• Audio: each app's own volume, remembered per app (macOS 14.2 or later).
• Audio: which app is using the microphone right now.
• Accessories: Bluetooth devices and their batteries, including AirPods left, right and case, with a warning before one runs out.

Make it yours

• Menu bar: readings in one item or one item each, shown as a value, a live graph or both.
• Sidebar: hide screens you never use.
• Pulse: choose and order its tiles.

• Install: opening Unhogged from the disk image while it was already running moved the running copy to the Trash and brought the old version forward. The running copy is now quit first and replaced properly.

• Licence: one payment, no subscription. A licence works on 3 Macs, with a full refund within 14 days.
• Licence: a refunded key that's switched back on unlocks the app again without spending another of your 3 Macs.
• Install: signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple.
• Install: opened from the disk image, Unhogged offers to move itself to Applications and ejects the disk image.
• Open at login: listed by name in System Settings › Login Items, where you can switch it off.
• Updates: Unhogged checks twice a day and installs a new version when you choose, from Preferences › About or the menu bar dropdown.
• Privacy: no account and no analytics. Two network requests only: the licence check and the update check.
• Performance: samples every 2 seconds while you're looking and every 5 seconds while you're not.

• Graphics: per-app GPU use isn't shown, because macOS doesn't make it available to other apps.