# Bondi's roadmap
> Bondi is in alpha now. Trust work is next, then the beta, full launch on 2 February 2027, then compact view, storage map and more.
**Quick answer:** Bondi is in alpha now. Trust work is next, then the beta, full launch on Tuesday 2 February 2027, and the features below after that.
Web page: https://trybondi.app/roadmap/
Bondi is a native macOS system monitor with on-device AI. It tells you why your Mac is slow, in one plain sentence. We're in **alpha now**. **Trust work** is next (developer cleanup, and a page on how Bondi measures), then the **beta**, **full launch is Tuesday 2 February 2027**, and everything after that is listed below. Dates after 2 February aren't set, and the order can change.
## Alpha · now
The app already does the core of Bondi, on this Mac: groups about 1,000 processes into the apps you know, lives in the menu bar, keeps 30 days of history, and tells you in one sentence what's slowing the Mac down. The sentence is written on the Mac. Nothing leaves it.
What's in it today:
- **Why is my Mac slow?** One sentence that names the cause, with every figure checked.
- **Apps, not processes.** Helpers count toward the app that started them.
- **30 days of history** on the Mac, that you can ask questions about in plain English.
- **Warnings** with one cause and one fix. Bondi always asks before it quits, stops or unloads anything.
- **For developers:** dev servers by project and port, Docker containers and local AI models (LM Studio, Ollama), with the memory each holds.
- **Stack,** as far as it's built: editors and IDEs, terminals and what runs in them, databases, virtual machines, tunnels (which local server is public), simulators, API and database tools, and AI agents (Claude, Cursor, Codex and others).
- **Process guide:** notes on 125 macOS processes, with what each is using right now.
- **Volume boost.** Each app has its own slider, from 0 to 300%. At 100% Bondi leaves that app's sound alone. Past 200% is a boost for quiet audio.
- **Who's using the microphone.** Which app has the mic right now, and since when. Bondi doesn't hear or save anything.
- **How Bondi knows this.** Under every sentence, the figures it came from and where they were read.
- **Fix It.** Every safe fix Bondi can see right now, in one sheet. You confirm once; nothing runs on its own.
- **Undo.** After a stop, quit or unload, a short bar to put it back.
- **Quit and Reopen.** For an app that keeps growing in memory. It asks to save as usual.
- **What changed?** When the Mac got slower, and what started then, from this Mac's history.
- **Growth on this Mac.** A line such as "Slack has grown about 1 GB a day this week."
- **What's keeping the Mac awake.** Which app is holding it or the screen on, and since when.
- **Slowed down to cool.** When macOS slows the chip to cool it, Bondi says so.
- **Fan boost:** cooler on demand, never slower than the fans already were.
- **Menu bar** using about 0.3% of one CPU core while it waits.
- **Tab shortcuts.** ⌘+ and ⌘− move to the next or previous tab. ⌘1–⌘8, ⌘9 (Sound) and ⌘0 (Stack) jump straight to a tab. They work in the window and the menu bar.
- **First run:** seven short steps. Where Apple's on-device model runs, the AI is on by default.
There's no buy button yet. [Join the beta](https://trybondi.app/beta/) to try it first, or [sign up on the homepage](https://trybondi.app/#signup) for launch news.
## Before the beta
What's left before testers get a signed build: **developer cleanup** (known caches to the Trash, one at a time), and a public page on **how Bondi measures** (Activity Monitor's terms, within 5% of Activity Monitor) with a promise: Bondi is updated within 48 hours of every macOS release.
How Bondi knows this, Undo, Quit and Reopen, What changed?, and growth already ship in the alpha. A shareable report of this Mac ships in V1, after the beta.
## Beta · soon
The beta is a signed, notarized build you can run on a second Mac without a warning: automatic updates, an uninstall that takes the helper with it, and light mode. A small group of testers will use it for a week before anyone can buy.
[Join the beta](https://trybondi.app/beta/) if you want to try it first.
## Launch · 2 February 2027
Tuesday **2 February 2027**, 8 am Pacific. You can buy Bondi from trybondi.app. A **14-day free trial** with every feature, **no credit card required**. Then a one-time purchase for one Mac, with no subscription. The first 250 licenses are **$9.99**; after that, **$24.99**. We'll say so before the price rises. Students pay **$9.99** at launch, then **$12.99**, by emailing support from a .edu address. Updates and the on-device AI are included. Paddle handles payment, tax and the receipt. A license can be moved to another Mac.
## After launch
These are planned. None of them has a date yet.
### After launch, compared
How the planned items sit next to Activity Monitor, iStat Menus, Stats and Vitals. Bondi's column is **Planned**: none of these has a date, and the order can change.
Swipe to see Activity Monitor, iStat Menus, Stats and Vitals ›
| Feature | Bondi | Activity Monitor | iStat Menus | Stats | Vitals |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Customizable menu bar | Planned | — | Yes | — | Yes |
| Stats in the notch | Planned | — | — | — | Planned |
| Storage map | Planned | — | — | — | Planned |
| Safe cleanup (to Trash) | Planned | — | — | — | Planned |
| Disk activity per drive | Planned | — | Yes | — | Planned |
| Rules that propose then ask | Planned | — | — | — | — |
| Start a project and a port registry | Planned | — | — | — | — |
| Which tab is playing | Planned | — | — | — | — |
| MCP server (off by default) | Planned | — | — | — | Yes |
| Arabic, right-to-left | Planned | — | — | — | — |
"—" means we couldn't find it on that app's own website (apple.com, bjango.com, github.com/exelban/stats and vitalsmac.com), checked on October 20, 2026. **Yes** means that site says it ships. **Planned** means that site lists it as coming. The groups below are Bondi's list.
How Bondi looks
- **Compact view.** A less detailed popover for smaller screens: each metric is one row, chosen in Settings.
- **Simple mode.** Fewer tabs if you only want the basics, for example Overview, CPU, Memory, Disk and Battery.
- **Choose which tabs show.** Hide tabs you never use (Neural Engine, Bluetooth, Stack). Overview always stays.
- **Rearrange the layout.** Drag to reorder cards and tabs. Reset Layout puts them back. Keyboard and VoiceOver can move items too.
- **Customizable menu bar.** Every readout can be its own menu bar item, in any order.
- **Stats in the notch.** On MacBooks with a camera notch, live figures in the menu bar space beside it. Off by default, and it never covers other apps' items.
Disk
- **Storage map.** What takes your disk space, biggest first, as blocks and a list: macOS, an app's data, or yours. Caches, old Xcode files and forgotten `node_modules` are named for what they are. Seeing every folder needs Full Disk Access, asked only when you open the map.
- **Safe cleanup.** Known caches (Xcode DerivedData, npm, Homebrew, Docker build cache) and old `node_modules`, one at a time, with a preview. Items go to the Trash so Put Back works. No "clean everything" button. Nothing that belongs to macOS is touched.
- **Disk activity per drive.** Reading and writing for each connected drive, not only the total, and every volume with its free space.
Projects and rules
- **Rules you set,** which propose then ask: for example "stop servers idle for 3 days, ask me first" or "warn me when Chrome passes 8 GB." Nothing is stopped automatically.
- **Start a project:** every server it last ran, in one click.
- **Rules and history per project.**
- **Port registry,** with a conflict warning before a start.
Network and sound
- **Hotspot usage.** When the Mac is on a phone's Personal Hotspot, the Network tab says so and shows data used this session, today and this month, which apps used it, and an alert near a limit you set. The same work prepares Bondi for a Mac with 5G built in.
- **Which tab is playing.** Under Chrome, Safari or another browser, each tab playing audio, with Show and a mute per tab. That needs a small Bondi browser extension (it talks to Bondi on this Mac only, never the internet).
Languages
After launch. English is the language Bondi ships in, and the language of this website, until then.
**Arabic** is the first translation, for the app and for this site, including right-to-left layout. In the app, a Language setting will default to the Mac's language. On the site, Arabic starts with the homepage, the beta page and the one-sentence description, then pricing, the comparison and this page, then the guides. Urdu and Hebrew can follow, reusing the right-to-left layout. Numbers, dates and units already follow the Mac's region.
Stack, still to come
- **Kubernetes.** Local clusters (Docker Desktop, OrbStack, kind, minikube): pods and deployments by namespace, their memory and CPU, read-only first.
- **The long tail.** Lingering build daemons and language servers; Jupyter kernels; LocalStack, Firebase and Supabase emulators; and more frameworks recognised by name.
- **AnythingLLM** and the **Stable Diffusion** web UIs, next to the local AI tools Bondi already shows.
For coding agents
- **MCP server.** Claude, Codex and Cursor can ask Bondi about this Mac: why a build is slow, what's on port 3000, which agents are running. Off by default. An agent never stops anything by itself; Bondi still asks first on the Mac.
Around the app
- **This site's 960/940 frame.** Pages sit in a 960-pixel frame, with 940 pixels of content. Remaining pages catch up when we next work this list.
- **Slimmer header.** The bar keeps Blog, Guide and (on the homepage) Pricing, plus Join the beta. The calculator stays in the footer.
- **Window mock from the running app.** The homepage and `/beta/` window will match Bondi as it looks now (tabs, Overview, Stack). We do that pass when credits are back.
- The rest of the **process guide** on this site (the app explains 125 processes; the site has 21 so far).
- Shareable **[Can my Mac run it?](https://trybondi.app/can-my-mac-run-it/)** results, a link and a preview card per result.
- **Shortcuts** actions, a **Homebrew** cask, and a free read-only `bondi status` command.
- A **shareable report** of this Mac, saved as an image or PDF, made on the Mac and never uploaded (V1, after the beta).
- **Multi-Mac bundles**, so one purchase can cover more than one Mac.
## Questions
### When can I get Bondi?
Bondi is in alpha now. The beta is next, and full launch is Tuesday 2 February 2027, 8 am Pacific. You'll be able to buy a license at launch. [Join the beta](https://trybondi.app/beta/) to try it first, or [sign up for updates](https://trybondi.app/#signup).
### Can I buy it now?
Not yet. There is no buy button until 2 February 2027. The first 250 licenses will be $9.99, then $24.99, one Mac per license, with a 14-day trial and no credit card.
### What's in the alpha?
The working app: grouping, the menu bar, 30 days of history, on-device AI, warnings, developer tools, Stack as far as it's built, the process guide, volume boost (to 300%), who is using the microphone, How Bondi knows this, Fix It, Undo, Quit and Reopen, What changed?, growth, what's keeping the Mac awake, slowed down to cool, Fan boost, and a seven-step first run. It isn't a signed public download yet.
### What's "trust work"?
Developer cleanup is still to come, and a public page on how Bondi measures. How Bondi knows this, Undo, Quit and Reopen, What changed?, and growth already ship in the alpha.
### Will every feature on this page ship?
The 2 February 2027 launch is the date we're working to. Everything after that is planned, not dated, and the order can change. If a feature here is dropped, this page will say so.
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Bondi is a native macOS system monitor with on-device AI. It tells you why your Mac is slow, in one plain sentence. https://trybondi.app/