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Dev tools · November 17, 2021

Speedy

Fast and accurate speed test in your menu bar

Speedy launched on November 17, 2021 with 97 votes, #444 of 2,925 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

Speedy lets you perform fast, private and real-world accurate speedtests directly from your Menubar through Apple's servers.

Speedy lets you perform fast and private speedtests directly from your Menubar through Apple's servers. In macOS Monterey Apple added a new "networkquality" terminal command which performs a reliable speedtest that matches real world use cases such as videochat more accurately.Read this article by Dan Petrov (https://danpetrov.xyz/macos/2021/11/14/analysing-network-quality-macos.html) for a more i

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