# context-labs/mactop

mactop - Apple Silicon Monitor Top

Repository: https://github.com/context-labs/mactop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mactop
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: apple, apple-silicon, arm64, cpu-monitoring, go, golang, gpu-monitoring, macos, monitoring, terminal, top, asitop, termui
Last push: 2025-12-21T09:17:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 59/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 58, release rhythm 60, longevity 61
- inputs: {"age_days": 865, "days_push": 255, "days_rel": 267, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 8}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2331, forks 53 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:37.784037+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, cli, terminal-ui
- domain: monitoring, developer-tools, hardware
- platform: cli
- tags: apple-silicon, cpu-monitoring, gpu-monitoring, termui, asitop-alternative, system-monitor, command-line, macos

## Member repositories
- context-labs/mactop (main) score 59

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.784037+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 2026-08-30T02:37:58.900324+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/context-labs/mactop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:37.784037+00:00, sha 79e61be26bdb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.