MenYew 1.0.6

A lightweight macOS menu-bar monitor for live system stats, audio, and AI usage — network, CPU, GPU, memory, audio visualizers & meters, and Claude / Codex consumption, all in the menu bar.

Download & install

1. Download **menyew-1.0.6.zip from the Assets** below.
2. Unzip it and drag **menyew.app into your Applications** folder.
3. Open it. MenYew lives in the menu bar (a Dock icon is shown on first launch so you can find it; you can hide it later in Settings → General).
• Signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens with no security warnings.

Requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. Universal — runs natively on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Already running MenYew? You don't need this download — it updates itself (Settings → General → Check for Updates…), as long as it lives in your Applications folder.

What's new in 1.0.6 — new audio modules 🎧

The new modules are off by default (enable them in the Settings sidebar), and each can be packed into the Combined item. The mic-based ones ask for Microphone permission on first use — with a one-click Grant Microphone Access button right in the popover.

🌊 Spectrum: Waterfall style + an Input spectrum

• A fifth visualizer style — a scrolling time × frequency spectrogram, colored by your theme (so 1980s reddens as it gets loud). Per channel in stereo.
• An optional mono Input spectrum from the microphone, shown next to the output. It self-normalizes and pins steady ambient room noise to zero, so only real sound lights it up.

🎚️ Levels — loudness meters

• Loudness (LUFS): broadcast/streaming-standard, K-weighted (ITU-R BS.1770) momentary + short-term loudness with a sample peak, from your system output. "Am I at −16 LUFS?", finally in the menu bar.
• Room Level (SPL): an approximate room sound level from the mic, with an adjustable calibration offset.

🎸 Musician — tuner + key detector

• Tuner: a chromatic tuner from the mic — nearest note + cents sharp/flat, an in-tune band, a menu-bar needle, and a Stability control.
• Key Detector: the musical key of whatever's playing (e.g. "A minor"), from your output.

〰️ Hum Hunter — track down an annoying hum

Finds the single dominant frequency of a steady hum (60 Hz ground loop, coil whine, fan harmonic…), names its note, and guesses the source. Play a matching tone to pinpoint it by ear, or mask it with pink noise. (Honest about it: real room cancellation through speakers isn't possible — that's what ANC headphones are for.)

Also in this release

• The Settings sidebar is grouped into Hardware, Audio, and AI sections.
• Fixed: Claude token totals that were wildly overstated (they were counting cached prompt re-reads).
• Fixed: microphone capture under the Hardened Runtime, and a stray startup tone.

Included modules

• System: Network, CPU, Memory, GPU, Spectrum, Levels, Musician, Hum Hunter, and a Combined item that packs several monitors into one slot.
• AI usage: Claude and Codex — per-account meters and token totals.
• Appearance & settings: global colors/monochrome/interval with per-module overrides, optional labels, a grouped settings window, and export/import of all settings.