iPulse - Monitor Your Device

No ads or other crapware

Using picture-in-picture for the floating gauge box is inspired, and I had to reward it. I would love to see more utility apps adopt this method. Usage has been great. I figured out why this one game bogs down; it maxes out the efficiency cores, no pick up by the perf cores. I confirmed Handoff is indeed handing off audio streaming activity to my AirPlay 2 receiver. Very useful tool to have at the ready.

While not necessarily an app I’ll use every day, it is something that come in handy for troubleshooting or testing. The idea to pipe the display through a picture-in-picture video is clever and I appreciate the little design touches. I can’t wait to see how this app will improve over time!

Only real suggestion I have is tweaking the storage indicator. Possibly color coding the cache files versus app files and documents? Or the internal and external storage as you call it? I read your feedback in another review about freeing up the cache storage. I have an iPhone 13 Pro, I don’t see the freeing of resources in my camera app. Storage is definitely a mystery with iOS. The model Settings values always seem to lag what is really going on. Anything you can provide is helpful. Other

Finally, a simple and elegant app to monitor what's happening in my iPad when it gets warm, or the internet seems slow, or just to reassure me everything is working right.