The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

Source: tmog.org
29 points by CarbonNanotubes 9 hours ago on hackernews | 40 comments

Native system metrics BETA2

Your whole machine.
One live view.

TMOG brings the depth of a serious systems console to a native, focused task manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

60 FPSlive meters

SWIFTnative on macOS

WIN32native on Windows

QT 6native on Linux

C++shared system metrics core

The mission

The clarity of Activity Monitor.
The depth of Task Manager.
The speed of a cockpit.

Most system monitors make you choose between approachable and powerful. TMOG refuses the trade-off.

It starts with a dense, click-through Summary: CPU, clock, thermals, GPU, memory, storage, network, energy, and the processes responsible for the load.

Go deeper without leaving the app. Inspect every logical core, combine or separate disks and interfaces, follow a process tree, control services, and browse the Mac's System Report as a native expandable hierarchy.

Every core, honestly

See the silicon
doing the work.

Default logical-processor mode reveals the shape of a workload, not just its average. Performance and efficiency cores are color-coded, kernel time is optional, and the overview keeps frequency, topology, cache, uptime, processes, and threads nearby.

  • Overall, logical processor, and NUMA views
  • Color-keyed utilization traces
  • Instantaneous VFD meter at display cadence
01 CPU / logical processor view
02 Memory / pressure & composition

Memory with context

Not just used.
Accounted for.

Read memory pressure alongside application, wired, compressed, cached, committed, available, and swap data. TMOG separates what is occupied from what is expensive—and makes the trend visible.

  • Live utilization and configurable scrolling history
  • Pressure, compression, cache, and swap
  • Hardware details when the platform exposes them

Make it yours

Your machine.
Your phosphor.

Follow the system appearance, keep TMOG in light or dark mode, or give the entire console a classic green, amber, blue, or monochrome treatment. Color and saturation are yours to tune.

Light Mode

Color · Saturation 7

Dark Mode

Color · Saturation 7

Green Mode

Classic green phosphor

Amber Mode

Warm amber phosphor

Blue Mode

Cool blue phosphor

Mono Mode

Dark · Saturation 0

Native means native

One idea.
Three real applications.

A quick beta note: because this system utility is not yet digitally signed, your computer may ask you to manually approve it before the first launch. That extra confirmation is normal for this beta build.

01 / MAC

Swift + AppKit

A Mac application that behaves like one: native windows, tables, menus, drag and drop, launchd controls, System Report, Apple silicon topology, power, thermal, GPU, and Neural Engine system metrics where macOS makes them available.

Target
macOS 13+

Architecture
Apple silicon + Intel x64

02 / WIN

Native Win32

No browser shell. TMOG uses native Windows controls, process and service actions, logical processor topology, storage and network providers, and the conventions Windows power users already know.

Target
Windows 11

Architecture
x64

03 / LINUX

C++ + Qt 6

A native Qt Widgets application built for Linux desktops, with process and service actions, CPU and device topology, storage and network providers, and direct system metrics from Linux interfaces.

Target
Linux desktop

Display
X11 / Wayland