San Diego Institute of Technology

SDIT Tools · Scope · Performance & System Health

Know what your machine is actually doing.

Scope is a lightweight, native macOS menu-bar utility: a quiet icon with small load bars, a compact dashboard of live metrics, and a storage-first view of where your disk actually went.

The whole machine, at a glance.

Battery and power draw, CPU and GPU, memory pressure, network destinations, thermal state — and the storage audit that tells you which files, caches, and forgotten downloads are eating the disk.

Scope lives in the menu bar and stays out of the way: no dock icon demanding attention, no background services, no accounts, no onboarding. Click it for the compact dashboard; open the detail window when you want the deeper story — cleanup candidates, power-hungry apps, active connections, battery health. Deep scans are throttled so the tool that watches your machine never becomes the thing slowing it down. It uses public macOS APIs only, and tells you so.

Under the hood Native Swift · No Electron, no telemetry, no background daemons

You cannot command a machine you cannot see.

Modern computers are deliberately opaque — and a person who cannot tell what their own machine is doing has already surrendered a kind of authority over it.

The Institute teaches that technology should be an instrument under your command, and command begins with sight. Scope is digital literacy in the most literal form: an honest window into the device you use all day, in plain language, with no score to gamify and nothing to sell you. Knowing why the fans spun up, where the disk went, and who your machine is talking to is a small kind of sovereignty — the kind the age of AI will demand in much larger forms.

Source MIT License · Build it yourself at github.com/sandiegotech/Scope
Status In testing · Not yet on the App Store · TestFlight invites by request — write to test it