... Netfox 0.29.0 is out Until now the Wi-Fi tool could tell you your channel was busy or your signal weak and then send you off to the menu bar to do something about it. Not anymore: Join from Netfox

... Netfox's Wi-Fi tool puts a padlock beside every network: green and closed when the traffic is encrypted, red and open when it isn't. Version 0.29.0 added a third case, Enhanced Open (OWE): a network you join without a password whose traffic is still encrypted. It deserves the green lock, and the join sheet tells you so. A day after shipping it, I filtered the list to "No password" and saw two networks with a green closed padlock ... ... name, was a neighbour's smart vacuum showing its setup hotspot. Its radio didn't even do 802.11n, and it was supposedly speaking a protocol from 2018. system_profiler SPAirPortDataType agreed with my suspicion: Security: None . Netfox

... Netfox 0.25.0 is out - https://youtu.be/6B3Se8eDzNY This one is about feel: the numbers now arrive instead of just appearing On macOS 26+, the Overview's cards are glass, each in the colour of the tool it opens The menu bar panel too: glass cards over a softly lit backdrop, a violet Open Netfox

... Netfox 0.26.0 is out This one is about telling the truth about ports A device asleep during the scheduled scan or Scan All no longer rewrites its ports: a silence keeps each port's last answer, with its time. No more risks vanishing while a laptop sleeps, and no more "port opened" alerts when it wakes up A device whose every port reads Filtered: a silence, not an answer One risk reading everywhere: the menu bar, the notch, the Overview ... ... Security now agree, and OK turns green only once every device Netfox

... Netfox 0.27.0 is out This one is about names A device that announces no name now shows the one it answers to on your network: three rows of "Apple, Inc." become your Mac, your iPhone and your iPad, each with its own icon An Apple device Netfox

... Netfox 0.28.0 is out - https://youtu.be/_E3OsO35dbI?si=... This one is about telling devices apart A Mac on a cable and on Wi-Fi is one row now, not two. Its other connections live in its details, each with its own ports and history A device that changes its private Wi-Fi address stays on its row when it answers to the same name An Amazon Echo gets its name and a speaker icon from what it answers, and an Electrolux ...

... Netfox 0.24.0 is out The release notes were always inside the app, translated and offline you just could not read more than one of them. Now you can Help Release Notes opens the whole release history, newest first In your language, offline, no trip to the website A dot on whatever arrived since you last opened it, so skipped updates don't go unread The oldest ones, from before Netfox

... Netfox has always found devices by listening. This release lets it ask. Your network has things on it that never say a word. A printer asleep. A camera that only ever talks to its own cloud. A Pi you set up in March and forgot. They are powered on and perfectly reachable, and until now Netfox

... everyone Small release, but it's the kind I find interesting: nobody broke this one. It broke by itself, the day macOS 27 shipped. Netfox tells you which operating system a device runs by reading a number the device advertises about itself. That number was supposed to track one thing, and it turns out it tracks another the two just happened to agree for every release up to macOS 26. This year they stopped agreeing. So the table that turns ... ... precisely the broken state. One of them even asserted that the next macOS was unknown, so it would have passed by agreeing with the bug. There's now a check that asks the Mac it's running on whether Netfox

... everyone Netfox 0.21.0 is out, and it is mostly one feature plus a confession. Port 445 now tells you which version of file sharing a device actually speaks. File sharing is the port on your network most likely to be running something it shouldn't. So Netfox

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.20.0 and this one adds something the app structurally could not do before. The server you forgot you started A test run finishes, you close the terminal, and something it started is still holding port 3000. Netfox

... everyone Netfox 0.22.0 is out, and it is about one thing: the window finally behaves when you tile it. It used to refuse to go narrower than 960 points. So if you put it beside the thing you were actually working on, its right edge went off the screen. It was an app you opened, glanced at, and closed It now goes down to 500 340 and instead of squeezing the same layout into less room, it changes shape. Below ...

... Netfox 0.19.0 is out: the certificate card Every home network has a few TLS services nobody looks at until a browser refuses one: the NAS, the printer, the router's own page. Netfox

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.19.1 The certificate card now says how a port is talking, not just who it is. From the same handshake that reads the certificate, it shows the TLS protocol version and cipher a port negotiated and flags an obsolete version, or a key exchange with no forward secrecy. It's clear about the limit: one server's answer to a single negotiation, never the full set it supports. Each device's own OS. A device ... ... answers. The same read also gives Apple devices a steadier model than their advertised name. And a quiet fix to a latent race in the link panel. Free, universal, signed and notarized. macOS 15.6+. https://netfox.app Update via Netfox

... everyone New module shipped, and it answers one question without a terminal, a router admin page or a speed test: is my connection the problem, or is it something past my door? The Link panel on the Netfox Overview the wired half, the radio with its headroom and its rate, the error counters, and the first-hop split What the cable negotiated, against what it could have. A 10-gigabit port that settled for 1 Gb/s is not broken ... ... nothing in macOS tells you it happened. Netfox

... everyone Every Wi-Fi tool shows you numbers. Signal, noise, a channel number, maybe a chart. Then it leaves you there because the numbers were never the question. The question is is my Wi-Fi the problem? Netfox 0.17.0 answers it in a sentence. The Wi-Fi tab: a plain-English verdict, the three numbers behind it, and every channel in the band Four answers, and two of them want opposite things The Wi-Fi looks fine the channel ... ... security measure. It isn't: the devices that already know the network announce its name while they look for it. You've made it harder for you to join and no harder for anyone else to find. Netfox

... They come from your own file, and this text ends up in screenshots. Free, notarized, macOS 15.6+: https://netfox.app Curious what other people's hosts files look like mine is mostly archaeology at this point What would you want Netfox to make readable next ...

... Netfox 0.16.5 is out and the bug I fixed wasn't the bug I filed. Yesterday I logged this against my own app: sometimes the main window can't be reopened. Window Netfox

... Netfox 0.16.0 is out and this one finds what a network scan structurally can't. Here's the blind spot. Netfox

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.14.0 , and this one started with a bug report I couldn't stop thinking about. I turned on my Apple TV and it wasn't in the list. Except it was sitting there as a phone , with no manufacturer, under the name I'd given it years ago. Here's why, and it's a nice little lesson in how device discovery actually works: An Apple TV announces the same services a Mac and a HomePod ... ... announce. Its name was "Living Room", which tells you nothing. So every clue Netfox

... Netfox 0.13.0 the endpoint that refuses to be careless Netfox

... Netfox 0.15.0 is out https://netfox.app This one answers two questions a network monitor should be able to answer and Netfox

... everyone Netfox already told you which ports are open on your network. 0.12.0 lets you see what's actually answering read-only, all on your Mac. A built-in web viewer Tap an open web port and the device's own page router, printer, NAS opens right inside Netfox

... Netfox 0.11.2 is out! Now speaking 7 languages Portuguese and Dutch join in. Netfox

... Just shipped a big one: Netfox is now fully localized. New languages: Italian French German Spanish (alongside English) and it follows your Mac's system language automatically, no setting to flip. Localized end to end: Every screen Overview, Wi-Fi, Devices, Security, Optimization, Settings Device identities, security findings, Wi-Fi details, alerts, timeline The menu bar popover and the notch HUD Even the macOS permission prompts Also: the notch HUD quick view now shows only your currently-online devices ... ... your Mac's language is one of the new ones, you'll see it the moment you update. Update via Netfox