StatsBar: System Monitoring App Reviews

Dont get me wrong - it’s a great app that does everything well. It has a fatal flaw, as reported by others: after a day or two running, it locks up the entire system. Not a big deal if you shut yourcomputer down every day, but I don’t so it is useless to me until it is fixed. If they fix this annoying issue, I’ll gladly give it 5 stars.

I bought it for $1.99 when it was on sale. 5 stars! it does exactly what I want and it was cheap.

I like to know whats going on with my computer to keep it running at optimal performace. This app is my eye in the sky!

Take a look at the temperature indicator, it’s stays at 87 degrees. Other than that, nice app.

I dont see this app in the list of start-up items, and when I set the preferences for it not to start up with the computer, it ignores that preference and just resets itself to start with the computer.

I have the app Clean Memory installed which shows just memory stats. Having app Statsbar installed, in addition to Clean Memory or as a replacement which is even better, gives more helpful stats on a drop down menu. The drop down menu also has the clean memory module as well. This app is worth installing or replacing Clean Memory.

App constantly spams the user asking for ratings and to join their mailing list. Unacceptable for a paid app and super annoying in their free apps. Free doesn’t mean you get to SPAM your users all the time.

I wasn’t sure what I was going to get, for my money, since the primary program “Memory Clean” was free. I do like the new interface the widget works well. Even the new interface for cleaning the RAM, is just a click away. If your computer is your business (like mine) than you’ll appricate this app.

Hello! I’m using the notification widget and found many bugs: 1) Regarding memory usage always is on 97-99% but is not truth. 2) Sometimes shows cpu usage 101% or 105% how can be this good? Please fix the bugs and i will give 5 starts

I have the StatsBar anchored to my desktop on my 27” iMac running Yosemite 10.10.2 and love having the CPU, Memory, Disk and Network info handy at a glance. After running for about 2 weeks, have not seen any issues. Recommended.

I like having this app. operating on my MacBook Air because it provides so much useful info. regarding the condition and performance of my computer. It does not occupy a lot of room on my screen and provides real-time stats.

I have been using Memory Clean for a few months, and it’s become an important tool to improve system performance due to memory leaks, etc. (I’m using a basic MacMini late 2012 version, Yosemite OS) I recently upgraded to StatsBar and I especially appreciate the ability to set a threshold for the minimum amount of free memory you want to have. I’ve set my threshold at 700MByte and then Memory Clean runs automatically anytime my available RAM drops below that figure. V. happy to recommend this app for low price, stability, and genuine improvement in performance while running efficiently in the background. I was about to purchase more RAM but for now I’m holding off since this app seems to resolve most of my problems. Obviously this is a much lower cost option for use in my basic system. Bill

I agree with MacLife. “outrageously useful MenuBar App”. i Love all of FlipLab Apps for Macs.

At the time of this review, I am running under OS X 10.10.2 on a MacBook Pro 15.4” Retina. This application installed and is running in fine order. However, upon configuration, I did notice one small bug. Where you enter the numbers for the threshold of memory dump (for the lack of better terminology), the numerical value that I was trying to enter would not stay put. The number 5 (five) was stuck in the first position and could not be cleared out. This, in itself, was not that big of a deal. I certainly liked the “free memory” function along with the very friendly UI. Very easy app to setup and use. I am running this utility beside N Stats and all is looking real nice in my Notification area. 5 stars for this one :)

I want a refund, waste of money! Look at other reviews most are spam reviews. Look elsewhere, trying a couple different apps. Why so low, it a huge app that takes up space on your desktop not discreat and on the toolbar.

StatBar works reasonably well on my 4 GHz Retina 5K iMac running OS X 10.10.4, except thet the HD usage display has never worked correctly. I have the internal 3TB drive and an external 3TB Time Machine drive. Both have about 400 GB of data space used and 2.6 GB of free space. StatsBar shows the correct display on the horizontal bar-graph, but the numaric display always reads “ Free: 3TB/Total 3TB” for either drive which is obviously incorrect. The Disc Usage selector arrrows also show “3/3” drives while the computer has only (2) drives attached. For some reason it shows a third “drive” labeled as a website address that’s 100% full. I have no cloud drive or any other on-liine storage enabled, so don’t know what it’s detecting.

Standard, simple, functional. Although there were some opt-ins, which were kind of expected this app is mostly great. I just wanted to see my data flow and possible some other main stats of my laptop. This app dose all that and a little more both written and graphically. This developer seems to have about covered it in terms of basic stats, and that’s what I really wanted. Just don’t opt-in, check prefrences, and set app to your liking. Although some of us at first hunt for this the basic rule is find it in your Applications area, or alternatively it can be opened within the App Store once purchased/ downloaded. All and all well done.

When this app description said it could run in the Menu Bar I assumed it could show CPU, RAM, Disk I/O, and network stats in the Menu Bar. It doesn’t; all you can show in the Menu Bar is Memory Pressure (in GB or %) and/or an icon to get to the rest of the stats. This is still handy but it would be much nicer if EACH of the four stats could be configured to show up in the Menu Bar. Otherwise it’s a very nice app, handy to have for monitoring system resources. The only other thing missing that I can think of is a simple button to launch Activity Monitor for more details. One GREAT feature is you can set a threshold for Free Memory and if that threshold is crossed, this app will “auto-clean” to recover some memory for you. Pretty handy!

Overall a super useful application for getting a quick glance of what’s going on. Not as powerful as some of the other applications out there like iStats, but it’s a fraction of the cost and not as complicated. While it includes “Clean Memory” functionality, I’m not 100% certain it’s as efficient as the dedicated Memory Clean application, but it still does quite nicely. The only annoying thing is that anytime my computer goes to sleep, the pinned location for the dropdown does not stick. Also at certain times when cleaning memory, I cannot get rid of the dropdown window until the memory cleaning process has been completed. Great application, you really can’t complain for $2.99. A few bugs still but they’re getting there!