[Update] 9 months ago I posted Actvt here and you tore it apart. I listened and want to tell you what changed.

Last September I put Actvt in front of you all here, It's a menu-bar system monitor app for Mac, the kind of thing you glance at to see and close what's actually eating your CPU, GPU and memory resources without keeping Activity Monitor open all day (and if you run AI coding agents like Claude or Codex, it shows you what those sessions are doing and costing). It got 60-something comments, and honestly most of them were people (rightly) telling me a subscription for a menu-bar system monitor was a bad idea, especially with free, open-source options like Stats and RunCat around. I got defensive in the replies, which I regret. I went back through every comment and spent the last few months acting on them. Here's the honest before/after of the problems you raised and what I did. "Yearly sub, seriously?" / "it should be one-time." Fixed. Core Mac monitoring is free forever (CPU, GPU, memory, network, ports, Activity Monitor integration, AI-agent monitoring with a rolling 72-hour history). A one-time fee unlocks unlimited custom animations and the only thing the subscription buys is unlimited all-time history for AI-agent sessions and the agent metrics/spend Dashboard. So nothing core is paywalled monthly; the sub is purely for power users who want full Access to the AI agent Analytics. "Memory reading is wrong, it shows 99% when Activity Monitor shows 70%." You were right. I was counting cached (reclaimable) memory as used. Fixed it and the readings now match Activity Monitor. "The animated icon is distracting." Fair. I added calmer built-in Lottie icons in the free tier, so you can swap the busy default for something minimal (and if you want, import your own). Comparison vs the free options you mentioned: Stats / RunCat / iStat Menus are great and I won't pretend otherwise. Where Actvt is different is a free tier that covers the basics and AI-agent session monitoring with on-device PII detection, which none of them do. If all you want is a CPU graph in the menu bar, Stats is an excellent choice. Pricing (plainly): Free $0 forever: CPU/memory/network/port monitoring, menu-bar icon, themes, shortcuts, Activity Monitor integration, AI-agent session monitoring (rolling 72-hr history), on-device PII detection. $9.99 one-time: unlimited custom Lottie menu-bar animations. $7.99/mo (billed annually): unlimited all-time agent-session history + agent metrics/spend dashboard, priority support. Download: https://actvt.io, I'd genuinely like the next round of criticism. What still isn't good enough? For transparency (r/macapps tier 2 guidelines): Actvt is built by Oye Collective (https://oyecollective.com), the team behind ComicVerse on the app store and the open-source Chouette. I'm Tunji, one of the founders and you can find me on linkedIn here. Privacy Policy · Terms