DesktopMonitor App Reviews

I purchased this product as a substitute for istat pro but for my surprise there is no CPU temperature monitoring on it.

looking for more features in the future update.

You cant control the fan speed or anything. Dont waste your money. It just shows you on your desktop the temperature, fan speed, and all the other numbers, but you cannot manipulate any of them. Silly.

Tells you your fan speed and CPU temperature, just as it was designed. Easy to read. Good to have the peace of mind of knowing what if your computer is over heating.

The one thing I bought this for is the one thing it doesn’t do: display CPU temperature. Despite what we’re shown in the example screens. Compounding that, the Appstore link for Desktop Monitor support is broken.

It shows everything except CPU temperature!!!

This app is no longer working on OS El Capitan. Support is dead, Blog page is 404, no tweeting since 2011. It was a good app though, don’t buy it.

Simple and excellent app. PLEASE make 1 option - "hide app icon from dock"! And add it mini-icon to the top bar (where time in MacOs). App icon is really does not need in Dock for Utillites apps. Thanks! Waiting for update with this "hide dock icon" feature.

App keeps crashing, simply doesnt work. I dont know why its impossible to get a refund from the app store in this situation, really unbelievable!

Easy to use. Help to monitor the conditions of the CPU.

this app so simple but so useful，great～～～

This tool is cute and simple. I like it..

This is a great app, simple and useful. Its ture theres some similar ones out there in the market but this one is the simplest one, asks less system resources yet you can get same information. especially good for laptop users.

Display the temperature on desktop is easily than widget. Ability to config text and background color, this applis all kinds of my wallpapers. when the preferences windows active, I can change the frame size, and can eaily drag it anywhere I wanted. This is a great geek tool, it make me start thinking, is the time to give up other software. just give it 4 stars because it is lack of alarm function, I would like to inform me when the temperature grows too high; It is a pity this software can not be set hide the icon in dock when is was running, so I need to modify the plist file manually

The CPU monitor gives completely bogus readings on my computer--always in increments of exactly 25%. E.G. User: 0%, System 50%, Idle 50%, etc. Comparing to "top - o cpu" the values displayed by DesktopMonitor are obviously way off. Maybe its doing some heavy rounding, but rounding to the nearest 25%, if thats what its doing, can hardly be expected to give a precise reading. Since the entire purpose of this app is to monitor such stats, doing so innaccurately makes it next to worthless in my estimation.

Makes my laptop processor work harder (i7 2.8); I looked at system monitor and my cpu fluctuates from 20%-75% when I have no other apps running except Desktop Monitor. I like the useful readouts (measurements were accurate and I compared them with other monitoring apps); but it makes my battery last from 6hrs to 2hrs. I stopped desktop monitor for the meantime; until this issue is fixed. Any further fixes would be definitely be appreciated.

If you want to check if your CPU is over-heating, or how fast your computers fan is turning, this application does what it claims. However, it uses too many resources itself (nearly a GB of memory), and the display is nothing like what you might expect. No, its not the little speedometer pictured, nor the preference panel shown in the ad, just a badly fonted print display barely readable over your desktop background. Unless and until they improve the display, I recommend saving your money.

No GPU information.

I am very surprised by the negative reviews. For the reviewer that says the readout is "barely readable over desktop background", there is an option in the app preferences that allows you to change the color and appearance of the readout, this makes it very readable on any backgound. For the reviewer that says CPU usage is showing in 25% increments, he/she should contact the developer. Maybe the revewer could post what model computer they are using. I have a MacPro desktop and it shows my usage correctly. As for the user that says this app uses a gigabyte of memory, this app is uses 12.1 MB on my computer which I would consider normal. From what I can tell, the above issues are probably related to specific hardware and reviewers need to make the developer aware of these issues so they can be corrected. I am very happy with desktop monitor and highly recommend it.

Its not that much different from the older version, but it did fix the problem of having the last few items cut off. I dont know what some of the stuff is, but its just interesting to watch becasue I have always wondered how hot my computer got. One time my computer went up to 185 F. Its only $1.99, its pretty worth it.