SystemPal Changelog

What's new in SystemPal 5.2

Oct 17, 2016
  • Made the UI look good. Supports macOS Sierra.
  • Supported macOS dark mode!
  • Removed mini music player’s ugly background.
  • Made other minor fixes.
  • The Contact Developer email will have the diagnosis info which does not contain any personal info and helps us solve problems. You can remove it if you don’t want to share it to us.
  • Because the per-process network monitoring does not work well on macOS Sierra, we have removed this feature.

New in SystemPal 5.1 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • Fixed the minor UI issues.

New in SystemPal 5.0 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • Improved display for Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
  • Added an option to disable the auto-clean notification.
  • Added top processes which consume network bandwidth.
  • Added the functionality of terminating a process directly.
  • Added an option to play alert sound when the CPU temperature is too high.
  • Removed the message box about rating.

New in SystemPal 4.1 (Apr 2, 2014)

  • When cleaning memory automatically, SystemPal does not show the popover window any more.
  • Fixed the rare crash when SystemPal cleans memory.

New in SystemPal 4.0 (Jan 23, 2014)

  • Added disk reading/writing status.
  • Greatly increased the speed of cleaning memory. Now it can finish cleaning in a couple of seconds.
  • Fixed the progress bar of mini music player.
  • Disabled auto-hide/show popover windows by default. (The existing users can disable them in the Preferences.)
  • Fixed email address.

New in SystemPal 3.2 (Aug 1, 2012)

  • Fixed the temperature problem on Macbook Air/Pro/Retina Mid 2012 models.
  • Fixed the problem of mini iTunes player. It will show the song and artist only when iTunes is playing.
  • Supports retina display

New in SystemPal 3.1 (Feb 9, 2012)

  • Added a button on Mini Music Player popover window to turn off Mini Music Player.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in SystemPal 3.0 (Jan 13, 2012)

  • Added a mini music player on the status bar. This mini music player controls iTunes to play songs in your iTunes library. It is very convenient to see song name and artist on the status bar. You can also check the album artwork, read the lyrics, rate the song. When you close iTunes, the mini music player will just become a tiny icon.
  • Added a screen shot utility. You can use it to capture mouse selection, capture a window, capture the whole screen. You can save the screen shot to desktop or save to the clipboard. You also have the option to delay 3 seconds before capturing.
  • Added a quick launch for Activity Monitor of Mac OS X.
  • When the popover window shows, you will not lose the focus from the current app any more.
  • When the mouse enters the icon on the status bar, the popover window will show automatically.
  • Revised the UI.
  • Added a menu item to send emails to developer to report bugs or request new features.
  • Fixed a crashing bug.

New in SystemPal 2.3 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • Fixed the memory leak. The previous version of SystemPal consumes more than 100MB of RAM after running for 24 hours. Now this problem was fixed and SystemPal consumes only 10MB of RAM.

New in SystemPal 2.2 (Dec 15, 2011)

  • Displays network status (uploading speed and downloading speed).
  • You can choose the items displaying on the status bar.
  • Supports auto-cleaning memory. If the free memory is smaller than a certain number, SystemPal will begin to clean memory automatically.
  • Optimized code to minimize the CPU time.
  • If your existing app is MemoryTool 1.0, please follow the steps to delete the old app and update (due to a bug of Mac App Store):
  • 1. Quit MemoryTool
  • 2. Open LaunchPad. Push and hold the mouse left button on MemoryTool icon, and then delete this app.
  • 3. Go to Mac App Store -> Purchases. Click the 'Install' button to install SystemPal. (If there is no 'Install' button, click SystemPal icon and then click the 'Install' button under SystemPal icon.)

New in SystemPal 2.1 (Sep 28, 2011)

  • Fixed the wrong memory usage info on a Mac with 8GB RAM.
  • If your existing app is SystemPal 2.0, you can update directly. If your existing app is MemoryTool 1.0, please follow the steps to delete the old app and update (due to a bug of Mac App Store):
  • 1. Quit MemoryTool
  • 2. Open LaunchPad. Push and hold the mouse left button on MemoryTool icon, and then delete this app.
  • 3. Go to Mac App Store -> Purchases. Click the 'Install' button to install SystemPal. (If there is no 'Install' button, click SystemPal icon and then click the 'Install' button under SystemPal icon.)

New in SystemPal 2.0 (Sep 21, 2011)

  • MemoryTool has a new name SystemPal. It displays not only memory usage, but also CPU load, CPU temperature and CPU fan speed. It is the best app to monitor your computer status.