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Work · July 28, 2026

NetPulse

A local Mac network monitor that lives in your menu bar

What it does

NetPulse is a native Mac utility for seeing how busy your connection is, which app is using it, and whether your VPN is active. It shows live speeds in the menu bar or a floating panel, HTTPS response time, request failure rate and latency stability across three targets—not ICMP packet loss—exit/local/real public IP, and per-app traffic. Daily, weekly and monthly totals stay on the Mac. No account, ads, analytics or subscription. $1.99 once on the Mac App Store.

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