Sill
Now on GitHub — MIT

Your Mac's load, on the wallpaper.

A wave along one edge of the desktop. Shape is processor load, density is memory, colour is effort — the last quarter of an hour, always in view.

The Sill band drawn along the right edge of a desktop
42% cpu · 71% memory · 3m ago
Download for Mac View source on GitHub macOS 14+ · 1.2 MB · free

First launch will be blocked. That is expected.

Sill is signed with a Developer ID, but it is not notarised — Apple's notary service never saw this build — so macOS refuses to open it until you say so yourself. Once:

  1. Open Sill. macOS says it could not be verified — click Done.
  2. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll to the bottom.
  3. Next to "Sill was blocked", click Open Anyway and authenticate.
  4. Open Sill again. It launches, and never asks again.

Point at the past

Hover any moment on the wave and it reports what the machine was doing then — and names the process, if one was eating it.

Survives your wallpaper

The desktop under the band is measured in slices, so the strands darken over bright patches and lighten over dark ones as they go.

Asks for nothing

No permission prompts, no privileged helper, no admin password. It stops sampling entirely when nothing can see it.

0.26%of one core, idle
13 MBmemory
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1.2 MBdownload
A horizontal Sill band, load ramp