Pulse — Your internet, in real time

What it does

Most Mac network monitors are either dashboards without outage history, enterprise tools that look like 2010, or Speedtest which hasn't shipped an update in 3+ years. Pulse is what I wanted instead. It lives in your menu bar with a glanceable pulsing indicator and your live ping. The window has a status hero, a latency chart with two hosts side-by-side, throughput chart, network info card, and an outage timeline. Built because every existing tool annoyed me in some specific way. Free forever.

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