Bytesweep 2.0.2: notch pages, Tools and a bigger Monitor

Bytesweep 2.0.2 is the biggest update to the Mac app since 2.0. The panel under the notch now has a live tile for every reading, and each tile opens its own page. Monitor gains Sound, Bluetooth, Browsers, Screen Time and Containers, and you can set your fans by hand. The menu bar card does more too.

The notch

A tile for every reading. CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, Battery, GPU, Temperature, Containers, Servers, Sound, Bluetooth, Browsers and Screen Time, each live. Containers appears when Docker is installed.
Every tile opens a page. Click a tile for its detail page: charts, the apps using the most, and the controls that belong there, such as the output device and per-app volume on Sound, or fan speeds on Temperature. Open in Bytesweep takes you to the matching Monitor tab.
What's playing. The song or video that is playing, with play, pause and skip, from Music, Spotify and most other players.
A Tools tab. Shelf holds files you drop on the notch so you can drag them out later, and compresses images and PDFs, zips, moves or trashes them. Clipboard keeps a searchable history of what you copied; it is off until you turn it on, skips passwords and anything copied from a password manager, and never leaves your Mac. Claude Code shows how many tokens you used today and this week, read from Claude Code's own logs on your Mac; nothing is sent anywhere.
Make it yours. In Settings → Notch, choose which tiles show and in what order, how long hovering waits before the panel opens and closes, which display carries it, and a keyboard shortcut that opens it. With the shortcut, the arrow keys move between tiles and Return opens one.
Out of the way in full screen. On a display without a notch, the thin strip at the top centre steps aside while an app is full screen and comes back with the menu bar.

The notch is still off until you turn it on in Settings.

The menu bar

Quit an app from the menu bar. Point at one of the busiest apps and click the button that appears. Option-click force quits. Apps that are part of macOS are never offered.
Why the fans are on. When the Mac is warm or its fans spin up, a line names the apps keeping the processor busiest. macOS does not measure heat per app, so Bytesweep says busiest, not the cause.
Uptime and memory pressure as a percentage, under the bars.
Keyboard control. Arrow keys move through the card, Return opens, Escape closes.
A glass background, if you prefer it to the solid one (Settings → Menu Bar).
Global shortcuts for the menu bar card and the main window, off until you record one.

Monitor

Sound. Output and microphone devices with their volume, the apps using the microphone, and a volume for each app that plays sound. Turn one app down without touching the others; Bytesweep remembers each app's level. Per-app volume needs macOS 14.2 or later.
Bluetooth. Connected and paired devices with their battery levels, including AirPods and their case, and Connect and Disconnect.
Browsers. Each open browser's CPU and memory, split into pages, extensions, graphics and the browser itself, and a list of its open tabs you can close. Tabs carry no figures of their own, because macOS does not say which process draws which tab.
Screen Time. Which apps you had in front, hour by hour, for up to 30 days. Idle and locked time do not count, and it stays on your Mac.
Containers. Running Docker containers with their ports, CPU and memory, and Restart and Stop.
Fan control. On the Thermal tab, leave each fan on Automatic or set a speed. Fans always go back to automatic when you quit Bytesweep, when the Mac sleeps and when it restarts. Some Macs do not allow fan control, and Bytesweep says so.
What keeps your Mac awake. The Battery tab lists the apps holding off sleep right now, and why.
Energy per app. Processes shows an estimated power figure for each app, from macOS's own power model.
Your units. °C or °F, network speed in bytes or bits, and app CPU as a share of the Mac or of one core.
Show in Dock, for anyone who wants Bytesweep in the Dock and ⌘-Tab, and a 12-hour range in History's charts.
Dev Servers can force stop a server that ignores Stop, or stop a whole project at once.
On battery, with only the menu bar or notch open, Bytesweep reads the Mac half as often to save power.

Coming to Windows

The same ideas are on their way to Bytesweep for Windows in its next Microsoft Store update: a top bar at the top centre of the screen and a tray panel whose readings each open a detail page, a Sound page with a mixer that remembers each app's volume, Bluetooth, Browsers, Screen Time, what's playing, and the Tools tab with Shelf, Clipboard and Claude Code. Fan control, energy per app and the apps keeping the computer awake stay Mac-only.

Languages

All of the new text is translated into the app's 14 languages.

Upgrading

Bytesweep 2.0.1 installs 2.0.2 for you: choose Check for Updates in the Bytesweep menu. Your licence key, settings and Undo history carry over.