Buy once instead of Sensei
- Sensei costs
- $29a year. Cindori's annual Sensei Plan for up to 3 Macs, whose battery panel covers similar ground. Their pricing
- Ways out
- 3apps that do the same jobs
- Cheapest to buy
- $11.99iStat Menus, which pays back in 5 months
- Cost nothing
- 1freeware or open source
Read the catch on each before you switch. A one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
 StatsMIT-licensed system monitor with a module for every menu bar readout | FreeOpen source | Fan control is in legacy mode and, in the README's words, receives no updates or fixes |
 iStat MenusThe long-running Mac system monitor, sold outright rather than rented | $11.99Paid upgrades | Weather is a separate subscription once the six months included with a licence run out |
 coconutBatteryBattery health readout for a Mac and for iPhones plugged into it | €12.95This version | The cheaper Plus edition only gets 4.x updates — only the Lifetime Edition covers what comes next |