Installed by Apple
Reviewed, signed and updated through the App Store, inside the standard sandbox that comes with it.
The same monitor, kept inside Apple's sandbox
This build of Core-Monitor is reviewed and delivered by Apple. It reads and displays; it never writes to hardware. If fan control matters to you, the direct download is the build to use instead.
Exactly what the sandbox allows
App Store rules shape this edition, so the boundaries are written down plainly instead of left implied.
Included
- Overall CPU activity and per-core load
- Memory usage and pressure
- Network throughput and startup disk usage
- Battery status, thermal state, uptime and load averages
- Local weather, only after you grant location access
- SwiftUI dashboard and a menu bar extra
Left out, by design
- Privileged helper and background services
- Fan control and any hardware writes
- Direct sensor access and private frameworks
- Touch Bar overlays and custom widgets
- Shell commands and self-updating
WeatherKit, on request
The weather card asks for location only when you turn it on. Decline, and the rest of the app runs unchanged.
Nothing collected
No account, no analytics, no advertising code. The privacy policy is a short read on purpose.