Pulse for Mac vs Core Pulse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Pulse for Mac
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Monitor your Mac's system performance in real-time from your iPhone. Pulse for Mac displays CPU usage, GPU usage, temperatures, memory pressure, battery level, and fan speed ā all streamed live over your local Wi-Fi network. Features: ⢠Real-time CPU & GPU usage with temperature ⢠Memory usage and pressure indicator ⢠Battery level and charging status ⢠Fan speed monitoring ⢠Auto-discovery via Bonjour ⢠Portrait and landscape layouts ⢠Keep Screen On option for desk display Requirements: ⢠MacPulse Server running on your Mac (free download at GitHub) ⢠iPhone and Mac on the same Wi-Fi network
Core Pulse
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CorePulse shows your iPhone as a live system console. Real readings. A cyber HUD. Nothing invented. Open the app and the screen comes online: uptime ticking every second, cores lit by count, battery and thermal state drawn as instruments. It is your phone, presented like a diagnostic terminal. MONITOR See what iOS actually reports. ⢠Device model, model identifier, and iOS version ⢠Active processor cores, shown as a count ⢠Physical memory ⢠Storage used, free, and total ⢠Battery level and charging state ⢠Thermal state: Nominal, Fair, Serious, or Critical ⢠System uptime, low power mode, and the current link type CorePulse does not invent CPU load, system memory use, or temperature. If a value cannot be read, it stays unavailable. THREE VIEWS DATA is the full readout. CONSOLE is a full-screen instrument, built around live uptime. FIELD is a lamp display. Its color follows the thermal state, and one row shows how many cores are active. The other lamps are decoration, and they are labeled as such. SESSIONS Start a session before a game, a charge, a video, or anything else. End it when you come back. CorePulse compares the two readings: duration, battery, thermal state, storage, and uptime. History stays on this iPhone. WIDGETS Place a Small or Medium widget on the Home Screen. Each one shows battery, thermal state, free storage, and active cores, with the time of the last update. Widgets refresh on a schedule. They are not a live feed. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No tracking. No upload of device data. Everything stays on this device.
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Verdict
Pulse for Mac and Core Pulse are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Pulse for Mac | Core Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | InGyu Rho | kohei yamane |
In-app purchases
Pulse for Mac
No in-app purchases
Core Pulse
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Pulse for Mac free?
Is Core Pulse free?
Do Pulse for Mac or Core Pulse have ads?
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