Pulse — Your internet, in real time
A tiny native macOS network monitor. Lives in your menu bar.
Pulse — Your internet, in real time launched on May 5, 2026 with 3 votes, #3,449 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
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.
A native macOS network monitor that lives in your menu bar. Continuous ping, jitter, packet-loss and outage tracking with auto-traceroute, speed tests and a dashboard you actually want to look at.
A menu bar monitor that tells you the truth. Continuous ping, jitter, packet loss and outage tracking — with auto-traceroute the moment things break, and a dashboard you'll actually open. Pings every 30s–5m. Lives in the menu bar so you see status at a glance, never in the way. Two hosts pinged in parallel so you can tell your link from that one server . Jitter and packet loss baked in. Every outage is logged with a traceroute, ready to export as a CSV that ends the "looks fine on our end" conversation. Glassy gradient cards. Live status hero. Branded charts with gradient fills. The throughput shows your last networkQuality run, the latency trend shows both monitored hosts, and the outage…from altuzar.github.io
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