Hot

Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues.

From macmade·Updated June 15, 2026·View on GitHub·

Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues. The project is written primarily in Swift, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2020. It has gained significant community traction with 2,981 stars and 116 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: app, cpu, limit, mac, macos.

Latest release: 1.9.4

July 10, 2024View Changelog →

Hot

About

Hot is macOS menu bar application that displays the CPU speed limit due to thermal issues.

Differences between the Intel and Apple Silicon versions

On an Intel machine, Hot will display the CPU temperature, CPU speed limit (throttling), scheduler limit and number of available CPUs.
By default, the menu bar text will be colorized in orange if the CPU speed limit falls below 60%.

On Apple Silicon, these informations are not available.
Along with the CPU temperature, Hot will display the system's thermal pressure.
The menu bar text will be colorized in orange if the pressure is not nominal.

A graph view for all sensors may also be displayed on Apple Silicon.

Sensors

License

Project is released under the terms of the MIT License.

Repository Infos

Owner:          Jean-David Gadina - XS-Labs
Web:            www.xs-labs.com
Blog:           www.noxeos.com
Twitter:        @macmade
GitHub:         github.com/macmade
LinkedIn:       ch.linkedin.com/in/macmade/
StackOverflow:  stackoverflow.com/users/182676/macmade