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macpow tracks Apple Silicon power in terminal tree

macpow is an open-source Rust TUI for Apple Silicon Macs that monitors real-time power consumption and system health in the terminal. It reads directly from macOS hardware interfaces like IOReport, SMC, IORegistry, and Mach APIs to show SoC power breakdowns, temperatures, frequencies, per-process energy, and related metrics without requiring sudo. It was featured in the GitHub Trending Today #30 roundup as a developer productivity pick.

// ANALYSIS

Strong niche utility with real signal for Mac power users, especially anyone trying to diagnose thermals, battery drain, or process-level energy use on Apple Silicon.

–Direct hardware reads make it more useful than a generic “activity monitor” clone.
–No sudo requirement lowers friction and makes it easy to run constantly.
–The tree-style TUI and JSON mode give it both interactive and scriptable value.
–Best fit is engineers and tinkerers on Apple Silicon, not a broad consumer audience.
–The product is mature enough to be practical, but still specialized enough that most people will only care if they already know they need this.

// TAGS

macosapple-siliconterminaltuipower-monitoringrustopen-source

DISCOVERED

3d ago

2026-04-08

PUBLISHED

3d ago

2026-04-08

RELEVANCE

5/ 10

AUTHOR

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