RAMble 1.6.1 — fixes the crash on launch (please update)

If RAMble wouldn't open for you, this is the fix

Every release since 1.4.0 crashed instantly on launch on any Mac that wasn't the machine it was built on. If you downloaded RAMble and saw no icon anywhere, or it seemed to do nothing, this was why — the app died before it could create its menu-bar icon. It was not your Mac, and not Gatekeeper.

What was wrong

The logo was loaded through SwiftPM's Bundle.module, whose generated accessor only checks two locations: the root of the .app (RAMble correctly ships resources in Contents/Resources, so that missed) and an absolute path inside the original build machine's build folder. When neither exists it calls fatalError. That second path existed only on the developer's Mac, which is exactly why this survived testing.

Fixed by removing Bundle.module entirely in favour of a lookup that checks the real locations and falls back to a drawn icon instead of trapping. Verified by reproducing a clean machine: 1.6.0 dies with the reported error, 1.6.1 launches.

Install

1. Unzip, drag RAMble.app to Applications.
2. Run this in Terminal (still needed — RAMble isn't notarized):

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RAMble.app

3. Open it. A welcome window confirms it's running; look for the ram in your menu bar.

Universal (Apple Silicon + Intel), macOS 15+.

Also in this line

• Rain animation with a receding ground plane, splash crowns, wind and lightning that ramp with load
• Clickable meters — click any bar to see which processes drive it, with a Quit button
• Accurate RAM gauge matching Activity Monitor's "Memory Used"

Thanks to the two people who reported this and sent logs — the crash trace is what pinpointed it.

RAMble 1.6.0 — fixes the download experience

If you downloaded RAMble and couldn't open it, or never saw an icon, this release is for you. Three separate causes, all fixed.

Fixes

• Universal binary (Apple Silicon + Intel). 1.5.0 and earlier were Apple Silicon only, so Intel Macs couldn't launch it at all.
• First-run welcome window. RAMble has no Dock icon and no window by design, so a successful launch looked exactly like a failed one. Now you get visible confirmation it's running and a pointer to the menu-bar ram icon. Reopen it any time from menu bar → Welcome / Help.
• Honest install instructions. RAMble is open-source and ad-hoc signed rather than notarized with a $99/yr Apple Developer ID, so macOS quarantines it and Sequoia often claims it's "damaged". Nothing is damaged.

⚠️ Install — please read

1. Unzip and drag RAMble.app to Applications.
2. Run this in Terminal (you almost certainly need it):

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RAMble.app

3. Open RAMble. A welcome window confirms it's running; look for the ram in your menu bar.

Right-click → Open no longer reliably bypasses this on macOS 15+, so use the command. Building from source avoids it entirely — locally built apps are never quarantined.

Also new

• Rain animation: a storm on a receding ground plane — drops land big and bright at the front, small and dim toward the horizon, each throwing a splash crown and ripple. Wind slants the rain and lightning strikes as your gauges climb.
• Clickable meters: click any bar in the desktop meters panel to see exactly which processes are driving it, with a Quit button (⌥-click to Force Quit).
• Accurate RAM gauge: now matches Activity Monitor's "Memory Used" formula.

Requires macOS 15+.

RAMble 1.4.0

What's new

• Independent meters opacity — the desktop meters panel now has its own opacity slider (Settings → Monitoring), separate from the animation's. Faint animation with readable meters, or the reverse.
• GPU-aware inference detection — generation on Apple Silicon runs on the GPU while the server process barely touches the CPU; RAMble now recognizes a loaded model + hot GPU as active inference, so animations and the TOK/S meter react to Ollama/LM Studio generations reliably.
• Slider guardrails — Appearance sliders show live values (85%, 1.0×), warn when opacity or scale would make the overlay hard to see, and a one-click Reset Appearance to Defaults button brings everything back.

Install / update

Existing users: menu bar → Check for Updates… → one click.
New users: download RAMble.app.zip below, unzip, drag to Applications, right-click → Open on first launch.

RAMble 1.3.0

Watch your Mac think. First public release.

Highlights

• Synapse — the flagship animation: a living neural graph with signal pulses cascading between glowing nodes. Run a local LLM and watch it storm.
• Five more animations: Plinko, Galaxy, Water Tank, Motherboard, Factory
• Seven themes, intensity slider (slow drip → full chaos), opacity/scale/FPS controls
• Draggable desktop meters panel (RAM, pressure, swap, CPU, GPU, disk, stress, tokens/sec)
• Bring-to-front mode: float the overlay above all windows, still fully click-through
• Local LLM awareness: Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM — model loads burst, tokens drive firing, generation end ripples
• One-click in-app updates from this releases page
• Native Swift 6 + Metal, Apple Silicon, no Electron, nothing leaves your machine

Install

1. Download RAMble.app.zip below, unzip, drag to Applications.
2. First launch: right-click → Open → Open (community-built app, not notarized).
3. Find the ram in your menu bar.

Full instructions and troubleshooting in the README.