Blip Stats vs NVTMonitor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blip Stats
Monitor your Mac's system performance with this lightweight utility. It provides detailed insights into CPU, memory, network, disk, GPU, battery, and thermal data directly from your menu bar. Offers built-in speed tests and traceroute functionality.
- Real-time CPU, memory, and network monitoring
- Detailed disk and GPU utilization
- Battery health and thermal data
- Top processes by CPU and memory usage
- Built-in drive speed tests and traceroute
- Shortcuts app integration for automation
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Blip is a featherlight system monitor that lives in your menu bar. One click shows everything happening inside your Mac — CPU load, memory pressure, disk activity, network speeds, and more. No clutter, no subscriptions, no bloat. Why people love Blip: Blip makes everything your Mac is doing visible without getting in the way. It polls every two seconds, uses about 42 MB of memory, and weighs roughly 2 MB on disk. Most system monitors use 200+ MB and ship features you'll never touch. What you get: CPU — Total usage bar in your menu bar. Click for per-core utilization, user/system/idle split, load averages, and P-core and E-core counts. Memory — Usage percentage at a glance. Drill into total RAM, active/wired/compressed/app breakdown, swap, and memory pressure. Network — Live connectivity in the menu bar. Tap for up/download speeds, bandwidth since boot, interfaces with IPs, VPN detection (Tailscale, WireGuard), tap-to-reveal public IP, and a history chart. Disk — Every mounted volume with space used and free, real-time read/write speeds, data transferred since boot, and a live I/O history chart.* GPU — Apple Silicon GPU utilization, renderer name, core count, and a historical chart. Optional menu bar readout.* Battery — Charge, health, cycle count, temperature, time remaining, charging status, power source, and condition.* Fans & Thermals — RPM per fan with min/max ranges, plus CPU and GPU temperatures read straight from the SMC. Shows "fanless Mac" gracefully on MacBook Air.* Top Processes — Top 5 by CPU and memory, with app icons and delta-based measurements that match Activity Monitor.* System — Mac model, macOS version, uptime, thermal state, and Blip's own memory footprint so you can verify it stays tiny. Metrics marked * need hardware-level access. Install the free Blip Helper companion app to unlock them, at github.com/blaineam/blip. Test and automate: Speed tests built in — benchmark any mounted drive with uncached sequential write/read plus random-read IOPS, and measure network throughput against OpenSpeedTest's public server or your own. Run a live traceroute (MTR) with per-hop loss and latency, mapped hop by hop. Shortcuts support — Get System Metric exposes 37 live metrics as chainable numbers. Run speed tests, start or stop a traceroute, open the Traceroute Map, and read or change Blip's settings — from the Shortcuts app. Designed to stay out of your way: Two menu bar layouts, horizontal or stacked. Hover any row for a live sub-panel. Customizable colors: category, monochrome, or your own — plus label toggles, optional colorization at high usage, and launch at login. Built right: Written in Swift with strict concurrency and zero external dependencies. Apple Silicon native, notarized by Apple. Blip Bench: Measure what your machine can actually do. Blip Bench scores CPU (single and all cores), memory bandwidth and latency, GPU, and Neural Engine throughput in fixed reference units — one scale shared by every Mac, iPhone, and iPad running Blip. The full profile adds a sustained phase showing how much performance thermal limits take back, against live fan and temperature data. Now on iPhone and iPad: Blip Stats 2.0 is one free app across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The iOS app brings live device cards with drill-in details, Blip Bench, dual-curve speed tests with idle vs under-load latency and per-activity connection grades, ping and traceroute with an offline GeoIP hop map, disk speed tests, Home Screen widgets, Shortcuts, and one-file stats snapshots.
NVTMonitor
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NuVolta Monitor 是由伏达半导体推出的专业电池管理系统(BMS)监测应用,通过USB连接BMS设备,实时采集并可视化展示电池核心参数,适用于电池组生产、测试及运维场景。 【核心功能】 ● 电池健康度(SOH) 实时显示电池健康百分比与状态评估,直观了解电池老化程度。 ● 电量监测(SOC) 精准显示剩余电量百分比,配合电量进度条一目了然。 ● 循环次数 记录电池充放电循环次数,评估电池使用寿命。 ● 温度监测 实时监测电池温度,高温自动预警,保障安全运行。 ● 电压与电流 显示电池组总电压和电流数据,掌握电池组工作状态。 ● 电芯电压 以柱状图展示各电芯电压分布,快速识别异常电芯。 ● 异常信息记录 自动记录过充、过温、过流等异常事件,含时间戳与数值详情,便于故障追溯。 ● 生产信息管理 支持读取和写入生产信息(厂家、型号、生产日期、序列号等),满足生产线数据录入需求。 【适用场景】 - 电池组生产线质检与数据写入 - BMS功能验证与调试 - 电池组运维与故障排查 - 电池性能评估与寿命分析 【连接方式】 通过USB线缆连接iOS设备与BMS硬件,即插即用,数据实时刷新。 伏达半导体 — 智能电池管理,安全高效可靠。
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NVTMonitor at daily against Blip Stats's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Blip Stats ships an update every 3 weeks, NVTMonitor daily. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blip Stats | NVTMonitor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Blaine Miller | 骥 王 |
In-app purchases
Blip Stats
No in-app purchases
NVTMonitor
No in-app purchases









