For months, years even, I’ve seen the cries echo across the internet: "My Mac is slow!" "Logi Options+ is eating all my memory!" And I've seen it firsthand. Just check my Activity Monitor. One minute, Logi Options+ is behaving itself at a respectable ~167 MB (see attached screenshot – a rare moment of sanity). The next? It's gorging itself on 3GB, 4GB, sometimes even north of 4GB of RAM. Four. Giga. Bytes. For a mouse and keyboard utility! That's not a feature; that's a hostile takeover of your system resources.
Let's put this into perspective, because numbers don't lie. When you buy a new Mac Mini, moving from 16GB of unified memory to 24GB costs you an additional $200 (screenshot attached). Think about that. Apple charges you $200 for 8GB of their fancy, integrated, high-performance unified memory.
Meanwhile, Logitech's software is casually consuming half of that, or more, for free. Or rather, not for free, but for the cost of your machine's performance, your battery life, and your sanity as you constantly force-quit and restart their bloated app just to get your computer to breathe again.
This isn't a minor bug. This is a fundamental flaw that's been unaddressed for far too long. It's a memory leak of epic proportions, turning what should be a utility into a resource-guzzling monster. And what's the solution offered by Logitech? Crickets, mostly, or vague promises of future fixes that never quite stick. Users are left to suffer, or find their own clumsy workarounds.
Here's my modest proposal, and I don't think it's unreasonable: Logitech basically owes every user affected by this egregious RAM leak $100.
Why $100? Because if 8GB of unified memory costs $200, and Logi Options+ is regularly hogging half that amount (4GB), then they are effectively costing you half of what you'd pay for a legitimate memory upgrade – without providing any actual benefit. They're making your expensive computer perform like it has less RAM than it actually does. They are degrading the user experience to the tune of a tangible, calculable cost.
This isn't just about software; it's about responsibility. When you sell a product that relies on companion software, that software should enhance, not cripple, the user experience. Logitech has sold millions of devices that rely on this software. The accumulated cost of this memory leak to its user base, in terms of lost productivity and frustration, is immense.
So, Logitech, it's time to put your money where your memory leak is. Either fix your damn software so it doesn't act like a RAM vampire, or start sending out some compensation. A $100 credit for every registered Logi Options+ user experiencing these issues seems like a fair starting point. After all, if they can't manage their memory, maybe they can manage a refund.