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Bilan: your Mac's health at a glance
A maintenance utility should answer two questions straight away: is my Mac doing well? and what has the app actually done for me? Bilan is MacNeat's dashboard. It runs no scan: it continuously reads the state of the system and the log of operations already performed, then presents the essentials on a single page. Health, storage cleaned, time saved, recommendations: everything is quantified, and every number is explained.
Mac health, refreshed every 5 seconds
The Health card shows an overall status on three levels, Excellent, Good or Needs attention, together with your Mac's model. Three circular gauges update live:
- Memory: memory pressure, more meaningful than plain "used" memory;
- CPU: processor load, with the number of cores;
- Disk: how full the startup disk is.
On a laptop, the Battery line shows the charge level and the cycle count. Values are read again every 5 seconds, without starting anything. To go further (temperatures, fans, SSD condition, battery capacity), see the Mac health page.
Storage cleaned: what was really freed
Bilan adds up the space freed by every operation recorded in the journal: an all-time total and the figure for the current month. A breakdown shows where the gain comes from, based on the originating module:
- System: what Éclair and Clarté free up (caches, logs, temporary files, local snapshots);
- Personal: what Archipel, Panorama and Nimbus free up (duplicates, large files, downloads, cloud storage);
- Apps: what Catalogue frees up (uninstalls and leftovers).
Simulated or undone operations are not counted: if you put a file back, it leaves the total. A startup disk gauge at the bottom of the page shows the free space remaining.
Useful recommendations, not alarms
Recommendations are calculated from your Mac's actual state and your history. Bilan shows up to four at a time, and a counter flags the rest. Examples of real messages:
- only a few gigabytes are left on the startup disk;
- memory pressure is high;
- no maintenance task has run for more than a week;
- the last security check was more than two weeks ago;
- suspicious items are waiting for your review;
- the battery has accumulated many cycles and should be monitored.
Clicking a recommendation opens the relevant module. When everything is fine, Bilan simply says so: nothing to recommend, your Mac is in good shape. For a regular, reasonable routine, read our Mac maintenance guide.
Time saved: a transparent estimate
Instead of showing a flattering number out of nowhere, Bilan publishes its method:
| Action | Time counted |
|---|---|
| Each megabyte freed | 1 second (manual sorting avoided) |
| Each maintenance task run | 2 minutes |
Freeing 3 GB (3,000 MB, or 50 minutes) and running 5 maintenance tasks (10 minutes) therefore adds up to about an hour of manual work avoided. It is an estimate, presented as such, and simulated or undone operations do not count. The page also gathers the security scan history (checks run by Rempart and Éclair, with the number of threats found and a button to start a check) and activity counters: scans performed, items removed, operations logged.
Principles: local, readable, honest
- Local data: Bilan reads the system and the journal on your Mac; nothing is sent to build the dashboard.
- Optional anonymous statistics: if you turn them on in your account settings, once a day the version, macOS, model and total space freed, never paths or personal data.
- Shortcuts: a card leads to Nimbus for large files and duplicates in your cloud storage.
- Apple silicon and Intel, same dashboard.
- Actions started from Bilan follow MacNeat's rules: Trash, journal, undo, license required to delete (7-day free trial).