Menu Bar System MonitorPrivacy Policy
Last updated: October 24, 2026
1. Summary
Menu Bar System Monitor ("App") shows your Mac's CPU, memory, network, GPU, disk and battery readings. It has no network access, no account, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting. Everything it reads and keeps stays on your Mac. We, the developer (Richard Pham), never receive any information from the App.
2. What the App reads
Only figures about the Mac itself, through public macOS interfaces:
- Processor load (total and per core), memory use and memory pressure, swap use.
- Total bytes sent and received by the Mac's network interfaces (amounts only, never what is sent).
- GPU load, disk free space and disk read/write speed.
- Battery charge, charging state, capacity, cycle count and power draw.
- The App's own CPU and memory use.
The App does not read your files, documents, contacts, location, camera, microphone, screen contents, keystrokes, clipboard or browsing data. In the Mac App Store edition macOS does not let it see other apps' usage at all.
3. What the App keeps, and where
- Preferences (menu bar items, refresh rate, alert thresholds, overlay settings), in the App's sandbox
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~/Library/Containers/com.richardpham.systemmonitor. - History: one-minute averages of the readings above for the last 7 days, in a database in the same container. Older entries are deleted automatically. Deleting the App deletes them.
- Widget data: the latest readings, in a file in the App's group container, so the widgets on your desktop can show them.
4. Network connections
None. The App is built without the network entitlement, so macOS does not allow it to connect anywhere. Purchases of Pro are handled by Apple through the App Store; we receive no payment details, only Apple's anonymous sales reports.
5. Permissions
- App Sandbox with one extra entitlement, App Groups, to share the latest readings with the App's own widgets.
- Notifications (asked only when you turn on an alert), to tell you about memory pressure, low disk space, low battery or a lost connection. Alerts are created on your Mac.
- Open at login (only if you turn it on), registered with macOS.
6. This website
system-monitor.richardpham.com is a static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views without cookies and without identifying you. Cloudflare may process your IP address to deliver and protect the site. We set no cookies.
7. Children
The App collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
8. Changes and contact
If what the App does changes, this page will be updated and the date above changed. Questions: support@richardpham.com.