Cortex
cortexformac.com- Category
- Productivity
- Rank
- No. 2897Tools index
- Pricing
- Paid
- Type
- APP
- Date
About
Cortex is a macOS system monitor that groups about a thousand processes into the roughly sixty apps you actually run and keeps 30 days of history. It shows Neural Engine power, detects local AI workloads such as Ollama and LM Studio, and includes a model fit advisor comparing a model's memory needs with free memory. Data stays on the Mac. It requires macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon.
Why it made the leaderboard
It gives local-AI developers visibility Activity Monitor lacks: Neural Engine power draw, which apps hold model memory, and whether a given quantized model will actually fit before you try loading it.
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macossystem-monitorapple-siliconlocal-aineural-engineollama
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