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AetherSwitch 1.0.0

Build 2026092701 · · Apple silicon · macOS 14+

First official production release: ultra-lightweight status bar monitor and essential quick toggles built exclusively for Apple silicon. 100% native Swift 6, zero external dependencies, verified by a 6-hour endurance stress test.

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5-Column Menu Bar System Monitor (Aligned with Stats)

  • Five fixed columns in the menu bar: CPU overall load, Apple Silicon GPU core load, RAM percentage, SSD storage usage, and bi-directional real-time network throughput.
  • SF Pro Semibold monospaced layout with dynamic threshold alerts (cyan, amber, red), crystal clear against any light or dark wallpaper.

4 Essential Instant System Toggles

  • Keep Screen Awake: Driven by native IOKit power assertions (IOPMAssertion) with zero background scripts, safely releasing assertions upon app termination.
  • Hide Desktop Icons: Instantly conceal desktop files for clean screencasts, keynote presentations, and screen sharing.
  • Toggle Hidden Files: Show and hide dotfiles in Finder with one click, streamlining developer workflows.
  • Dark Appearance: Seamlessly toggle macOS system-wide Dark and Light appearance.

4 In-Depth Hardware Telemetry Views

  • CPU Telemetry: Real-time multi-core utilization topology, Efficiency/Performance core bars, rolling history wave, and 1m/5m load averages.
  • GPU Telemetry: Designed specifically for Apple Silicon M-series unified memory architecture, with proprietary Peak-Hold decay smoothing to eliminate 0% stutter; includes Renderer/Tiler loads and display refresh rate (FPS).
  • RAM Telemetry: Native Mach kernel memory pressure gauge, 4-segment memory ring (App, Wired, Compressed, Free), and top memory consumers.
  • Disk IO Telemetry: Real-time read/write bidirectional bandwidth waveforms and root mount storage breakdown.

Production Quality & 6-Hour Endurance Verification

  • Completed 6 hours of continuous unattended monitoring (720 cycles) on a physical Apple Silicon machine.
  • Zero crashes, zero memory leaks, zero UI hangs (latency consistently under 200ms).
  • Adaptive power scheduling: deep-sleep GPU and multi-core polling when collapsed, maintaining background CPU ≤ 0.1% and idle footprint ~15MB.
  • Signed with official Apple Developer ID and fully verified under Hardened Runtime security policies.

Download and verify

AetherSwitch-1.0.0-arm64.dmg

SHA-256

4508b06b921aafe8e65903ed97ab8775000923c735a3a577f678037fb09b7321

After downloading, run this in Terminal and confirm the output matches:
shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/AetherSwitch-1.0.0-arm64.dmg