Features
Taskglass tells you what's slowing, heating or draining your Mac, and what to do about it. Every card below is the app's own interface, with simulated numbers.
macOS 14+6 MBOne-time purchaseUp to 3 Macs
Helpers sit under the app that launched them, so Chrome is one row with one honest total, not forty lines of “Helper (Renderer)”.
612 processes grouped into 341 rows. Helpers live under the app that owns them.
321 more rows, all idle. The numbers here are simulated.
Click the icon or press ⌥⌘T from anywhere for CPU, memory, heat and power. Taskglass keeps running there after ⌘Q.
Plain English for 214 macOS processes: what it is, why it's busy and what to do. The “Is this safe?” badge reads the code signature.
WindowServer
Apple · Part of macOS · PID 401
Part of macOS
Signed by Apple. This is a genuine part of macOS.
Draws every window, menu and animation you see on screen, and routes your clicks and keystrokes.
Don't quit this
Force quitting WindowServer instantly logs you out and closes all your apps, so unsaved work is lost.
Smart alerts for runaway CPU, memory that keeps growing and heat. Quit the culprit right from the notification.
Slack is using a lot of CPU
now92% of a core for 5 min. This drains battery and heats your Mac.
Simulated. The real alert appears in Notification Center.
CPU, memory pressure, temperature and power for the last 30 days. Taskglass marks the moments that matter, so you can see what spun up the fans during a call.
CPU · last 24 hours
Today, 2:12 PM
Your Mac is running hot
zoom.us was screen sharing while Chrome played video.
Drag across the chart, or use the arrow keys.
Real per-app power on Apple Silicon, not an “energy impact” score. See what drained the battery since you unplugged, and your battery's health.
Google Chrome used 60% of the energy your apps used since you unplugged.
CPU, GPU, SSD, battery and more on Apple Silicon, with fan speed alongside. No admin rights needed.
Pressure is what slows a Mac, not “used” memory. The RAM Advisor turns 30 days of it into one answer: is your memory enough?
What's really using your 16 GB, and whether you need more.
macOS has room to spare. High "used" memory is fine: macOS keeps files cached so apps open faster.
16 GB is enough for how you work.
You hit memory pressure 2% of the time, usually when many heavy apps are open together.
How much data is moving, and which apps are writing to your SSD.
How much data is moving, and which apps are writing to your SSD.
Type a few letters to jump to any app or process, then inspect it or quit it.
⌘KTry it: type “slack” or “mds”.
Also included
Quit an app or a single process from the Explain panel. Parts of macOS are protected, so you can't break your Mac by accident.
An optional read-only helper measures macOS's own processes, like WindowServer and kernel_task, exactly. It can't change or quit anything.
Native Swift, a 6 MB download. About 0.2% CPU in the background and ~2.5% with the window open.
Updates install from inside the app, and a short “What's new” sheet shows what changed.
No account and no analytics in the app. It goes online only to activate your license and check for updates. Read the privacy policy
The app follows your Mac's language, or pick one in Settings › General › Language.
One license covers up to 3 Macs, with every 1.x update and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Launch pricing: 100 left at $5, then $9
