MenYew 1.1

Current2026-08-30
Download MenYew 1.1macOS 13+ · Universal

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-1.1.zip** from menyew.concepthouse.com.
  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).

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. From 1.1 the update feed is served from menyew.concepthouse.com.

What's new in 1.1 — per-app lists for GPU and Spectrum

🎛 GPU: top apps by GPU time

The GPU popover now lists the apps actually working the GPU, ranked by real GPU time and shown in milliseconds per second. The figure is absolute rather than a percentage because a Mac running several command queues at once can genuinely bill more than one GPU-second per second — a percentage would read "140%" and mean nothing.

It reads the accelerator's own per-process clients, so there is no helper process, no subprocess, and no permission prompt. An empty list is a real answer: nothing is doing per-process GPU work.

🔊 Spectrum: who's playing

The Spectrum popover now lists the apps sending audio out. A playing app is solid and sorts to the top; one that stops greys out, holds its place for fifteen seconds, then leaves — so a track change doesn't make rows flicker.

It reads playback state only and never taps the audio, so it triggers no permission prompt. Needs macOS 14.4 for the underlying API; below that the section says so instead of vanishing.

🌐 Updates now come from menyew.concepthouse.com

MenYew's downloads and update feed have their own home. Copies running 1.0.6 or earlier still update from the old feed and will pick 1.1 up from there; from 1.1 onward the app checks the new site.

Previously, in 1.0.6

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.