woofWoofCPU app icon: a pixel-art dog on teal

woofWoofCPU

The Mac got hot. The fans took off.

A dog that lives in your menu bar and barks at apps eating your Mac.

Download for Mac

macOS 14+, Apple silicon. Free. The dog works for kibble.

Why a dog?

Somewhere in the background, some app was quietly chewing the CPU. Which one? Cue yet another dig through Activity Monitor.
So now a dog does the watching. It never sleeps. Well, it naps. On duty.

Moods

It barked. Now what?

Click the dog. Quit the hog (hold ⌥ to Kill), Snooze it, or Ignore it and let the dog sulk about it.

First launch

Unzip, drag it to Applications. macOS will then refuse to open it, because the dog skipped Apple's notarization paperwork.
Right-click the app → Open. Still grumpy? System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.