MacPeek RemoteThe tiny utilities
macOS should have built in.
One small menu-bar app with a growing set of focused utilities for finding, inspecting and understanding the things macOS makes hard to see. PortPeek, DisplayPeek, USBPeek, NetPeek, SleepPeek, MemoryPeek, CPUPeek, FileLockPeek, ProcessPeek, DiskPeek, EnvPeek, DNSPeek, SoundPeek and UpdatePeek are available now.
Free & open source · macOS 13+ · Apple silicon & Intel · The app has no account, no telemetry and no cloud
Small tools. One question each.
Pick a Peek to see what it answers. Switch on the ones you want and switch off the rest: a utility that is off does no work at all.
See what's using your ports. Kill it in one click.
The listening ports on your account, the process behind each, and a safe one-click kill.
Know exactly how your displays are configured.
Real resolution, refresh rate and scaling for each connected display.
See what's connected to your Mac.
The USB and Thunderbolt devices macOS lists, and the speed each one negotiated.
Understand your network connection.
Your connection, Wi-Fi signal, router and DNS, plus on-demand ping checks.
Find out why your Mac isn't sleeping.
What keeps your Mac awake, and the history of when it slept and woke.
See whether your Mac is short of memory.
Memory pressure first, then where your RAM goes and which apps use the most.
See how busy your CPU is, and what’s keeping it busy.
Overall and per-core CPU use, thermal state, load and the busiest apps.
Find what's holding a file open.
Find the process holding a file or folder open, and end it safely.
Inspect a process and its relationships.
Command line, listening ports, parent and children, and a safe way to end it.
See which processes are hitting your disk, and how full each drive is.
How full each drive is, and which processes are reading and writing right now.
Inspect and search environment variables.
Search environment variables and walk through PATH, with secrets hidden.
Inspect DNS configuration and resolver behavior.
The DNS servers in use, and whether each one answers.
See your audio devices and control the default output.
Your audio devices and defaults, with volume and mute for the default output.
See macOS, Homebrew and npm updates.
The macOS updates waiting for you, plus outdated Homebrew and global npm packages.
Understand your MacBook battery.
Charge, cycle count and health, as macOS reports them.
Install once. Peek at anything.
Install MacPeek
Drag it to Applications. It lives in the menu bar: no Dock icon, no window.
Choose your utilities
Open Manage utilities to read what each Peek does, what it reads and what access it needs, then switch it on or off.
Peek
Click the icon, glance at the CPU, Memory and Disk rings, pick a utility, and get your answer in seconds.
Private by design.
MacPeek reads information from your Mac to show it to you, and sends nothing to MacPeek. An optional daily update check and a few checks you start yourself use the network. See exactly what each utility reads.
Download MacPeek
Free and open source. Drag MacPeek to Applications and launch it; it appears in your menu bar.
Like MacPeek? Help keep it going.
MacPeek is free and open source. If it saves you time, sponsoring helps keep it maintained and growing. It is entirely optional.