macpow
A real-time terminal UI power monitor for Apple Silicon Macs, showing per-component power draw, temperatures, frequencies, and process energy.
What is macpow?
macpow is a real-time power tree monitor built for Apple Silicon Macs. It solves the problem of opaque power consumption by providing a detailed, terminal-based breakdown of energy usage across the entire System-on-Chip (SoC) and peripherals, using direct hardware readings from macOS interfaces like IOReport and SMC.
Developers, power users, and engineers working on Apple Silicon Macs who need to understand system power behavior, optimize for energy efficiency, or debug thermal and performance issues.
Developers choose macpow because it offers unparalleled depth of hardware telemetry without sudo, provides direct measurements (not estimates) for most components, and presents everything in a fast, interactive terminal interface with features like per-process energy attribution and JSON export.
Overview
💻🔋 Real-time power tree TUI for Apple Silicon
Use Cases
Best For
- Debugging thermal throttling and performance issues on Apple Silicon Macs
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