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context-labs/mactop

mactop - Apple Silicon Monitor Top observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/context-labs/mactop · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

59/100

  • Activity 58
  • Release rhythm 60
  • Longevity 61
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 1
  • age_days: 865
  • days_rel: 267
  • days_push: 255
  • n_releases_24m: 8

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2331 stars · 53 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

mactop is a terminal-based system monitor for Apple Silicon Macs, written in Go, showing CPU and GPU utilization in a top-style interface. The original context-labs/mactop repository now points to the v2 continuation at metaspartan/mactop.

Use cases

  • monitor cpu and gpu usage on apple silicon mac from the terminal
  • terminal alternative to activity monitor for m1 m2 m3 macs
  • watch apple silicon performance counters in a tui
  • check gpu utilization while running ml workloads on a mac
  • lightweight htop-like tool for macos arm64

When to choose

  • you want a lightweight terminal system monitor tailored to Apple Silicon
  • you prefer a Go single-binary tool over Python-based asitop
  • you need quick CPU/GPU/power stats without leaving the terminal

When to avoid

  • you need a GUI system monitor
  • you are on Intel Macs or non-macOS platforms
  • you need historical metrics, alerting, or exportable monitoring data

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

monitoring cli terminal-ui monitoring developer-tools hardware cli apple-silicon cpu-monitoring gpu-monitoring termui asitop-alternative system-monitor command-line macos

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
context-labs/mactopmain59

For agents

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