How to uninstall iStat Menus on Mac

iStat Menus has an uninstaller built into the app, and Bjango's help page makes it the way to remove it. If you plan to reinstall later, keep your license key or purchase email first. The steps below cover the official Mac download and the Homebrew cask istat-menus.

Use the built-in uninstaller

Choose iStat Menus › Uninstall from the menu bar, then click Uninstall. Bjango says this works even after your trial has ended, and if you already deleted the app by hand, download it again and run the uninstaller from it (iStat Menus install and uninstall help).

Where iStat Menus keeps its data

In Finder, press Shift + Command + G and check each location that exists. The system-level rows are the ones the Homebrew cask's uninstall step deletes, and they exist only if iStat Menus installed its helper.

Location What it holds What to do
~/Library/Application Support/iStat Menus 7 App data Review before removing
~/Library/Preferences/com.bjango.istatmenus.plist and the other com.bjango.istatmenus.*.plist files Settings Remove once you have kept your license key
~/Library/Logs/iStat Menus 7 App logs Safe to remove
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.bjango.istatmenus.installer, com.bjango.istatmenus.installerhelper Privileged helper files Remove once iStat Menus is gone; needs an administrator password
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bjango.istatmenus.fans.plist A system launch daemon Same as above
/Library/Application Support/iStat Menus 7 System-level app data Same as above

Check the result

pgrep -il "istat menus"
launchctl list | grep -i istatmenus
ls -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/iStat\ Menus\ 7
ls /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools /Library/LaunchDaemons | grep -i istatmenus
  • No output from pgrep means iStat Menus is not running.
  • No output from launchctl list means none of its jobs are loaded in your session; a line naming com.bjango.istatmenus means one still is.
  • ls -d printing "No such file or directory" means that folder is gone.
  • No output from the last line means no iStat Menus helper or daemon file is left; a printed name means it is still installed.

If you installed it with Homebrew

Mole skips --zap when its list reaches unchecked or shared data, or cannot fully be checked, and still cleans the leftovers you selected.

The istat-menus cask's uninstall step unloads five iStat Menus jobs and deletes the two privileged helper files, the fans launch daemon, /Library/Application Support/iStat Menus 7 and /Library/Logs/iStat Menus on every removal, whether or not --zap runs. Its zap list also reaches your own preferences, caches, logs, cookies, web data and a widget container, plus a hidden .iStatMenus item in the Shared folder under Users. That item sits outside ~/Library, so Mole always leaves --zap out for a Homebrew-installed iStat Menus and removes only the rows you selected. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap istat-menus yourself trashes that whole list regardless of what Mole would tick.

brew uninstall --cask istat-menus

What Mole lists

For an officially downloaded iStat Menus:

  • The com.bjango.istatmenus preference files and ~/Library/Logs/iStat Menus 7 are selected by default.
  • ~/Library/Application Support/iStat Menus 7 is listed but not selected by default, because the folder is named after the app rather than its identifier.
  • If the helper was installed, the two files in /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools, the com.bjango.istatmenus.fans.plist launch daemon and /Library/Application Support/iStat Menus 7 are listed but not selected by default. Tick them and Mole asks for your administrator password and moves them to the Trash with the app.

What this test covered

iStat Menus 7.50 was copied to Applications from its official zip and uninstalled on September 21, 2026, with the official Mole 1.15.0 build 282. Only the app was copied and its built-in uninstaller was never run, so no helper was installed and its removal was not observed. The whole review list was ticked, and the app, its empty Application Support folder and its logs were trashed. iStat Menus · iStat Menus Alternatives: Pick the Monitor That Fits