Stay on the keyboard.
Show the overlay, open the control panel, or switch to compact mode with your own shortcuts. Enable them when you’re ready.
Alt+Shift+XSuggested overlay shortcut
A LITTLE CLARITY FOR YOUR PCYour PC.
Your PC.
In plain
sight.
See what your hardware is doing, while you do your thing. A clear, customizable monitoring overlay for Windows.
Free & open sourceWindows 10 / 11 · x64
THE PULSE PERSPECTIVE01 — 03
Your vitals.
Right where you need them.
Right where you need them.
17 tilesA fuller picture
2 layoutsAs much or as little
0.5–5 secYour refresh rhythm
Open source Yours to look into01 / GET THE FULL PICTURELess guesswork.
Less guesswork.
More insight.
A hot CPU. Full memory. A busy graphics card.
Get the context behind how your PC feels, with the readings that matter to you.
01 / CPU
What’s doing the heavy lifting?
See how hard your processor is working, how hot it’s getting, and the power it draws. Useful context for a long render or a demanding game.
4 available tilesTHE READINGS, EXPLAINEDEXAMPLE VALUES
CPU Usage
47%
Workload across your cores
CPU Temp
91°C
Processor temperature
CPU Clock
3.83GHz
Average core clock speed
CPU Power
43W
Current processor power draw
17 tiles to choose from. Sensor availability depends on your hardware and drivers. Example values above come from the supplied app screenshots.
02 / FEELS LIKE YOURSYour screen.
Your screen.
Your space.
From a full set of tiles to a quiet column of numbers. Give Pulse just the room you want it to have.
NORMAL MODE
A little more detail.
Clear tiles, color cues, and room to read. For the moments you want the whole picture.
Only what matters to you
Choose your tiles and drag them into your own order.
Put it in its place
Snap to a corner, drag freely, or position precisely. Choose your display, too.
Find the right presence
Adjust size and opacity. Fade the background independently of the readings.
03 / LOOK BEYOND THE AVERAGEHigh FPS.
High FPS.
Still stuttering?
A frame rate can look good while a few slow frames interrupt the experience. Pulse puts FPS and 1% Low side by side, so those dips have a number.
Meet your frame-rate tilesFRAME TIMELOWER IS SMOOTHER ↓
The slow frames tell another story.1% Low reflects the 99th-percentile frame time over up to 2,000 frames or 30 seconds, whichever is shorter.
The GPU you meant.
On a laptop or a multi-GPU PC, select the adapter to monitor. Leave it on automatic when you want Pulse to choose.
FPS capture works across GPU vendors with bundled PresentMon.04 / QUIETLY DOING ITS JOBGood software.
Good software.
Nothing to hide.
Your readings stay here.
Hardware monitoring happens on your PC. No account is needed. Pulse contacts GitHub to check for and download updates.
Open by design.
Free to use and licensed under GPLv3. Built on LibreHardwareMonitor, PresentMon, and other open-source projects.
Explore the sourceBuilt to keep going.
Sensor reading runs in a separate process. Pulse can recover from sensor interruptions, and checks update downloads before installing.
READY WHEN YOU AREGet to know
Get to know
your machine.
One small overlay. A whole new perspective.
Download PulseTHREE STEPS TO A CLEARER PICTURE
- 01
Download & install.
Run PulseSetup.exe. The runtime comes with it.
- 02
Let Pulse take a look.
Allow administrator access to read your hardware sensors.
- 03
Make yourself at home.
Pick your tiles, place your overlay, and get back to your thing.