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RAMKeeper for Mac

Menu-bar memory monitor that names the app actually holding your RAM.

$19.00
In English
Version 1.0.0

RAMKeeper overview

RAMKeeper is a menu-bar memory monitor for Macs with 8-24 GB of RAM. It answers the question Activity Monitor makes hard: which app is actually holding the memory?
What it shows
  • macOS's own memory pressure, green / yellow / red, with a live sparkline and swap usage.
  • Memory attributed per app, not per process. Browser and Electron helpers are grouped under the parent app, so a wall of unnamed "Helper (Renderer)" rows becomes "Google Chrome, 34 processes, peak 4.2 GB".
  • Current usage next to the peak for the session, so an app that has already ballooned and come back down is still visible.
  • Known repeat offenders are tagged automatically.
What it can do (PRO)
  • Focus Mode suspends a batch of heavy background apps in one click. They stop allocating and stop competing for CPU, and because their pages go untouched they become the first thing macOS compresses out. Exit and everything resumes exactly where it was: nothing is quit, nothing is lost.
  • Gentle restart asks an app to quit normally, so it gets a chance to save, then reopens it. This is the action that genuinely hands memory back.
  • Guardrails come first. The app in the foreground and system processes are never touched, and every action asks before it acts.
What it will not do
  • RAMKeeper does not invent a "memory cleaned" number. Suspending an app does not instantly free its memory, and the app says so rather than claiming otherwise. Every action records what macOS reported before and after, so when an action did little, the log says it did little.

What's new in version 1.0.0

  • Per-app and per-renderer memory attribution, with current vs. session peak.
  • Memory pressure header with live sparkline, compressed and swap readouts.
  • Pro: Focus Mode (suspend and resume a batch of background apps), freeze and resume a single app, and gentle restart.
  • Action history recording what macOS reported before and after each action.
  • Universal binary (Apple silicon and Intel 64), signed with a Developer ID, notarized and stapled.

RAMKeeper for Mac

$19.00
In English
Version 1.0.0
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Derekcurrie
Derekcurrie
Aug 29, 2026
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Aug 29, 2026
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There are FREE and PRO versions: "The free direct build already shows you what is eating your memory — per app and per renderer process, with current vs. peak. Pro is the half that acts on it."
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