Silicon Info for Apple Silicon

What it does

Silicon info is a tiny menu bar app that allows you to quickly determine if an application is running nativley on an Apple Silicon processor or translated through Rosetta 2. No more digging through menus!

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I love being able to see quickly when an app is running through Rosetta x86 emulation. Someone on Reddit also recommended using Bartender to show the icon only when it's detected an Intel app, which you can do by adding a "Show for updates" entry for this app based on the icon (since the icon changes when it detects the foreground app is x86). I love being able to see quickly when an app is running through Rosetta x86 emulation. Someone on Reddit also recommended using Bartender to show the icon only when it's detected an Intel app, which you can do by adding a "Show for updates" entry for this app based on the icon (since the icon changes when it detects the foreground app is x86). I love…from apps.apple.com

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