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24 alternatives to Snitch – my Mac talked to 347 servers in one idle hour, so I built this

Real-time network traffic visualizer — see every connection your computer makes. Privacy-first, 100% local. / Visualiseur de trafic réseau en temps réel, 100% local. - aixisstudio/Snitch

Snitch is a real-time network traffic visualizer for Mac that displays every connection a computer makes. Designed for users curious about their system's network activity, it operates entirely locally without sending… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Shows connection alerts when apps are connecting

    2017 · obdev.at · its alternatives →

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    Track if someone is watching you on your Mac

    2015 · obdev.at · its alternatives →

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    picosnitch helps you protect your security and privacy by "snitching" on anything that connects to the internet, letting you know when, how much data was transferred, and to where. It uses BPF to monitor network traffic per application, and per parent to cover those that just call others. It also hashes every executable, and will complain if some mischievous program is giving it trouble.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Per-executable network bandwidth monitoring for Linux

    2022 · elesiuta.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Shows connection alerts when apps are connecting

    2018 · obdev.at · its alternatives →

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    Maintain secure control over your MCP environment

    2025 · mcpsnitch.ai · its alternatives →

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    Simple, Realtime Network Bandwidth Monitor for your Mac.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    2025 · kriztalz.sh · its alternatives →

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    A cool-as-shit dynamic traceroute powered by custom software, married with an informative article about how the BGP routing protocol works and guides the shape of the Internet.

    2023 · how-did-i-get-here.net · its alternatives →

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    A real-time network connection monitoring tool built with Rust and GTK4, displaying active connections with live I/O statistics in a modern graphical interface. https://github.com/grigio/network-monitor

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

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    Native macOS code snippets manager with syntax highlighting

    2020 · snipperapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Snitch▲115

    Your Slack org chart, built by everyone in it.

    Sep 2026 · snitchforslack.com · its alternatives →

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    Monitor & block apps that make unwanted network connections.

    2016 · radiosilenceapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Trace▲254

    A time tracker that visualizes your app activity

    2024 · trytrace.app · its alternatives →

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    Port Kill helps you find and free ports and caches blocking your dev work. - treadiehq/port-kill

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Netler▲107

    Tiny network monitor for menu bar & notification center 🖥📡

    2018 · imagetasks.com · its alternatives →

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    See any network request from your computer

    2018 · getbunk.com · its alternatives →

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    Netwoke▲77

    Where Connection Meets Disclosure.

    Apr 2026 · netwoke.app · its alternatives →

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    Netfox▲95

    Netfox turns raw network data into plain English on your Mac: decode every device, see what it exposes, and catch the services you didn’t mean to leave open. No cloud, no account.

    May 2026 · netfox.app · its alternatives →

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    A simple snippet manager in the menubar

    2018 · snipper.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN - I’m the developer of PingStalker, a macOS utility I built to see what’s really happening on the LAN/WLAN. I live in the CLI, but when it came to discovery and monitoring, I found it limiting. So I built a GUI that brings my favorite tools together in one place. PingStalker started because I wanted to know if something on the network was scanning my machine. I also wanted quick access to core details—external IP, Wi-Fi data, and local topology. Then I wanted more: fast, reliable scans using ARP tables and ICMP. As a Wi-Fi engineer, I couldn’t stop there. I kept adding ways to…

    Nov 2025 · pingstalker.com · its alternatives →

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    Snitch▲86

    SSL Certificate Monitoring and Alerting

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Snip▲220

    A simple single line code/commands manager

    2019 · snip.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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