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pro

Pro is not on sale.

Everything plottypus 1.0.0 shows is free, and live readings stay free. Pro is a plan for 1.1: history and automation on top of the live view. This page describes it before it exists, so you can judge it.

free and pro

What you get, and what is only a plan

Free, in 1.0.0 today

  • Every live reading: system, CPU, GPU, ANE and DRAM power, clocks, battery, heat, fans, per-process energy and GPU.
  • The full process table: tree, details card, signals, renice and the pid-reuse guard.
  • Both surfaces, all 10 built-in themes, the settings page and all three key profiles.
  • --json, --json-stream, --diagnose, doctor and --demo.

No trial, no nag screen, and nothing that stops working after a week. A reading that plottypus can take is never behind a licence.

Also coming in 1.1, free

  • the timeline for the current session (H)
  • alerts while the dashboard is open
  • replay of a recorded session (plottypus replay)
  • a status line for tmux, SketchyBar or Starship (plottypus line)

Pro, planned for 1.1

30 days of history
The timeline reaches back a month instead of one session. Scrub to any slice and a blame card names the apps that used the most CPU, energy and memory in it.
Alerts in the background
A LaunchAgent that runs without sudo watches for heat, memory pressure, a runaway process or a nearly full disk, with the dashboard closed.plottypus agent install
Energy reports
Energy by app, system energy, peak power and temperatures with when they happened, and time spent at 95 °C or more.plottypus report today|week|month
Recording
Write a session to a compact file that survives a crash. Replaying one stays free.plottypus record
Exporters
Prometheus metrics on 127.0.0.1, and saved history as CSV.plottypus serveplottypus export --csv
Theme pack
Seven more themes, your own theme files, and an importer for btop themes.plottypus theme import

None of this is in 1.0.0. Later in 1.x: a sustained performance test.

price

The planned price

Planned: $9 at launch, then $12, one-time, three Macs, all 1.x updates.

There is nothing to buy yet, so this site has no buy button.

licence

An offline licence file

Pro will unlock with a small TOML file signed with Ed25519. plottypus checks the signature against a public key built into the binary, on your Mac. No account, no activation server, no phone-home: the check never touches the network.

A missing or invalid file means Free, and license status says why. A 1.x licence works on every 1.x release.

A licence file can be copied to someone else's Mac, and plottypus has no way to notice. We accept that. Your name and email are in the file and license status prints them, which is enough for software at this price.

The commands already ship in 1.0.0. The licence format and every check are in the licence docs.

licence commands
plottypus license add ~/Downloads/plottypus-license.tomlplottypus license statusplottypus license remove

why it waits

Why Pro waits

We'll sell Pro when the free version has earned it.

A paid tier on day one asks you to trust software you haven't run. The free release has to prove its numbers first, on more Macs than the one M5 Pro it was measured on. Once enough people use it and trust what it shows, Pro goes on sale.

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Where to watch for it