# macmade/Hot

Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues.

Repository: https://github.com/macmade/Hot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hot
Homepage: https://xs-labs.com/en/apps/hot/
Language: Swift
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: mac, thermal, status, cpu, throttle, throttling, limit, macos, menubar, app
Last push: 2024-07-27T21:51:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2169, "days_push": 767, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3032, forks 124 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:38.956093+00:00)

## What it is
Hot is a macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit caused by thermal throttling, along with CPU temperature and thermal pressure. It supports both Intel Macs (speed limit, scheduler limit, CPU count) and Apple Silicon (thermal pressure, sensor graphs).

## Use cases
- check if my mac cpu is throttling
- monitor cpu temperature on macos
- see thermal pressure on apple silicon
- menu bar app to show cpu speed limit
- diagnose why my macbook is slow when hot
- view mac sensor readings in a graph

## When to choose
- you want a lightweight native macOS menu bar utility for thermal/CPU monitoring
- you need to diagnose thermal throttling on Intel or Apple Silicon Macs

## When to avoid
- you need full system monitoring (RAM, disk, network) like iStat Menus
- you are on Linux or Windows

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, developer-tools
- domain: operating-systems, hardware, developer-tools, monitoring
- platform: -
- tags: menu-bar, cpu-temperature, thermal-throttling, apple-silicon, system-monitoring, macos

## Member repositories
- macmade/Hot (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:38.956093+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:29:47.773732+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/macmade/Hot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:38.956093+00:00, sha e997445ac9f9)
  - homepage: https://xs-labs.com/en/apps/hot/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:44:40.664877+00:00, sha 2214100e4798)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.