Usage User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience64.9% of reviews
Neutral11.5% of reviews
Negative experience23.6% of reviews

~ Based on 356 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Usage Safe?

Usage - Device Monitor appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Usage is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 240 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

91.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 240 App Store ratings for Usage.

Is Usage Legit?

Usage - Device Monitor appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Usage is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

W APP

This app allowed me to see the activity as my laptop has no LED indicators and it is actually better.

Free is Good - Pro not worth it

This is a great menu bar app to show a summary, but the Pro version brings very little for the price.

I was recommended this app as a less resource hungry version of iStat Menus, but it’s not comparable. The free version shows you CPU activity, memory usage, network activity and disk space used. All this is visible as tiny graphs from the menu bar, clicking this presents a summary screen with a little more detail.

I was expecting was to be able to click those graphs and see more detail such as which apps are using the CPU, network and network connections, but that’s just not here. You can see how memory, CPU and network has changed over time, again on tiny graphs, but there’s no detail.

There is a version 3 in the works and if this bring the ability to see metrics in much more detail it will be worth it as it’s a very well presented app.
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Indicators are all white

Since the last update, the widgets are broken and show all white filling the whole graphic.

Looks nice, not perfect in execution

I have both the Mac and the iPhone version. They each can take a surprisingly long time to update on the status of their device. More significantly, the synch across iCloud seems flaky … sometimes one device shows outdated info on the other device for many hours. Documentation and in-app support is virtually non-existence. I am waiting on email support.
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Not working properly

Not doing anything

Pro?

I have paid for lifetime pro. it only upgrades on ONE MacBook. I cannot get it to upgrade to pro on any other device despite the documentation saying devices aren’t limited. The ‘Upgrade to Pro” shows on every copy, and clicking the $34.99 button does nothing… but the $24.99 took more money and Usage still tells me I should Upgrade to Pro.
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Wonderful

Its amazing to see network and memory usage over a small icon on top tray of my Mac OS screen.

Response from developer

Thanks for the review! 🤩

One of my Top 10 Mac Widgets!

Very useful, reminds you when you go low on resources, such as disk space, RAM. The only thing I miss is RAM memory pressure and GPU realtime history

Great support and really good product

I was having a Pro subscription sync issue between devices. Oleh was SUPER responsive and resolved the matter quickly and easily. I’ve been a satisfied paid user for the past 18 months and would recommend to anyone. A+

Great app

This app does what it’s intended to do well. The pro version is 100% worth the few bucks and I love that it’s a one time fee. Support is great as well, I was having an issue on one of my macs (user error) and the dev was quick to help me.

Purchased the All platforms but can’t use it

It’s super buggy you can pay all patforms and the app will still ask you to upgrade

A must have!

Very useful app. Thank you!

Not updated enough

BE WARY. M5 not supported for graphics etc even though m5 has been out over 5 months. Update fixed

Missing fan data

Don’t see any fan/fan speed data despite the app notes saying it should be reporting. If its there, maybe make it less hard to find?

Incredible, Incredible, Incredible

All the most useful elements of the day to day all in one bar. I used to always try and figure out how much disk space I had left, but now it’s all available at a glance. Incredible. I didn’t even know I had this problem until Usage solved it for me.

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Network usage does not work

Got new phone. Network usage doesn’t work and iCloud backup seems to combine both my old and new phone with one backup??

Cannot install Helper

After downloading and running the UsageHelperInstaller.pkg file, during the installation process, the message "Installation failed." appears and the installation stops.

Response from developer

Please reach out vie email, so I can help you fix it!

Thermal widgets

Thermal widgets don’t work

Nifty little app

Really handy to keep an eye on everything about your computer’s statistics.