Microverse

macOS system monitoring with elegant desktop widgets and automatic updates

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Screenshots

Desktop Widgets

Battery	CPU	Memory
System Glance	System Status	System Dashboard

App Interface

Overview	Battery Details
CPU Monitoring	Memory Analysis

Features

System Monitoring

• 🔋 Battery health, cycle count, and time estimates
• ⚙️ Real-time CPU usage and core details
• 🧠 Memory pressure and breakdown
• 📊 System health overview with insights

Interface

• 6 desktop widget styles (simple to comprehensive)
• Menu bar integration with alien icon
• Tabbed interface (Overview/Battery/CPU/Memory)
• Adaptive refresh rates for performance

Design

• Glass effects with light/dark mode
• <1% CPU impact, <50MB memory
• Semantic colors (🟢 Battery, 🔵 CPU, 🟣 Memory)

Installation

Download Latest Release

1. Download Microverse.dmg
2. Drag to Applications
3. Security: System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway"
4. Look for 👽 icon in menu bar

⚠️ Important: macOS Security Permissions

When you first launch Microverse, macOS will block it because it's not from an identified developer.

1. Double-click Microverse → You'll see "can't be opened"
2. System Settings → Privacy & Security
3. Scroll down → "Microverse was blocked from use"
4. Click "Open Anyway" → Enter password → "Open"

This is one-time only. After this, Microverse launches normally.

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/ashwch/microverse.git
cd microverse  
make install

Requires macOS 11.0+

Usage

Menu Bar: Click 👽 icon → Overview/Battery/CPU/Memory tabs
Desktop Widgets: Enable in Settings → 6 styles available
Widget Positioning: Drag anywhere on desktop

Tech Stack

• SwiftUI with async/await
• IOKit & mach for system monitoring
• Swift Package Manager modular architecture

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Follow the existing code style
4. Submit a pull request

See docs/ for technical details.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Free and open source forever. ✨

👨‍💻 Author

Ashwini Chaudhary - Creator and maintainer

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built with ❤️ for the macOS development community
• Inspired by the need for elegant, performant system monitoring
• Design philosophy focused on clarity and elegance
• Engineering approach emphasizing performance and efficiency

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Contributors

Thanks to all the contributors who have helped make Microverse better:

• @ashwch - Project creator and maintainer
• @napender - Bug fixes and improvements

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⭐ If Microverse helps you monitor your system, please star the repository to show your support!

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