... 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? Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @jason_scott8  easy to overlook is exactly what made it a bug and not a nitpick the name was accurate on every row it showed up on, which ...

... 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

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.10 , the readability release. It now works harder to tell you what each device actually is instead of leaving you staring at hex addresses and port numbers. Know what's on your network - Plain-English identity a device with no friendly name now leads with what it is "Netgear Router Web service" instead of a bare IP. The address steps back to the subtitle. - More services recognised more of what a device announces now feeds ... ... identity, so more boxes read as what they are at a glance. The Service inspector see what's actually running - Open a device's General tab and Netfox

... Stacy Wycoff(@stacywycof83995): The shift that helped me was leading with a genuine question or observation about the problem, then only mentioning what I built if someone actually asks. People notice quickly when a post exists to get attention versus when it exists because the person is genuinely thinking about the problem. The founders whose promotion never feels salesy are usually the ones who would still write that same post even if they had nothing to sell. Comment from Stacy ... ... sources full of useful data, but turning that into clean CSV/Excel/JSON is slow, unclear, and often too technical. Same with website scraping risk audits the interesting problem is not buy an audit, it s: Do you know what bots, competitors

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.9.1 a small polish release that squashes a couple of things you might have noticed and makes a few corners nicer to read. Fixed - No more flicker always-on devices that stay quiet on the network (your router, some smart-home gear) used to blink offline and back in the list, and even logged phantom "went offline / came online" entries in their History. They sit steady now. More readable - Printers, by name HP, Epson and Brother ... ... label instead of a cryptic server string. - Tidy service details a device's web page info (model, serial, build) now reads as a clean list in the port details, instead of one dense, hard-to-parse line. Update via Netfox

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.9.0 here's what's new since 0.8: Refresh the website and docs : https://netfox.app Notch HUD - A Dynamic-Island-style overlay grows out of your MacBook's notch with live device, risk, public-IP and traffic readouts a discreet pill that expands when you reach for it. - Four layouts: Horizontal, Vertical, Panel, and the Super Island a tabbed dashboard (Devices Risk Traffic Alerts) where clicking a row jumps straight to that device's detail. - Open ... ... login. - Knows more vendors and ports out of the box. Polish - Steadier device list brief network blips no longer make devices flicker in and out. - The colored menu-bar icon is now the default. - Settings: new layout Update via Netfox

... Namecheap, mostly living in React/TypeScript/Next.js, Go and SwiftUI. outside the day job i build and maintain a bunch of open source: octoscope a terminal dashboard for GitHub (Go + BubbleTea) FinderGit a native macOS git-aware file browser (SwiftUI) Netfox a macOS network monitor for your LAN, no cloud/telemetry WP Bones a framework that brings Laravel-style dev to WordPress plugins ~25 Mantine UI component extensions for React funny thing after all these years: the tools that stick are still ...

... everyone Netfox 0.8.0 is out, and it ships something that came straight from this community: a Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoint. Huge thanks to @angsak6 you asked us to expose Netfox

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.7.0 . Here's what's new: Netfox

... tips about Sparkle too! Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): signing is such an underrated step that first-launch gatekeeper warning scares off more users than you d think. went through the exact same thing with my macOS apps (FinderGit, Netfox). if you haven t yet, notarization + a stapled ticket kills the warning even offline, and Sparkle makes updates painless. congrats ...

... everyone Netfox 0.6 is out, and it's the one where the whole app got a new face. Netfox

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.4.2. Here's what's new: Dev-server ports in the scan Netfox

... Netfox 0.5.0 just shipped, and it's the release that makes the menu bar the place to watch your network plus the port scanner finally checks the ports you care about. Live traffic, one click away . The menu bar popover now charts your Mac's download and upload over the last minute a filled curve for down, a line for up, live readouts next to them. It samples for the whole life of the app, so the chart opens already ... ... Comment from Mario H. Wissa(@mario_wissa): no version for humble PC users??? :) Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @mario_wissa  Hey Mario, thanks for the interest! Right now I don t have access to a Windows machine, so Netfox

... everyone Just shipped Netfox 0.3.3. No new features this round a focused polish pass on accuracy, privacy, and reliability based on real usage. What's better: Security that tells you what actually matters - The Security view now clearly separates devices that expose a service from the ones genuinely at risk. A device serving plain HTTP but also offering HTTPS is no longer lumped in with the insecure ones each service shows exactly how many of its devices carry a real ... ... finding. - Plaintext admin pages on alternate

... works: the What's New panel now appears after every update, patches included not only the big feature releases. [ ] Dismiss it and you can always pull it back up from Help What's New. Grab it via Netfox Check for Updates . What would you like to see next? The menu bar's only getting started Comment from Burcu Melek(@burcumelek96): Thanks for the quick fix! Netfox

... everyone Shipped Netfox 0.3.4 a focused polish release, and the in-app What's New panel is reachable again. What's better: Wi-Fi "Grant Access" now takes you straight to the Location settings, and the window comes to the front instead of opening behind the app, so granting access works in one go. Security devices you haven't scanned yet show a proper shield in their risk badge (no more missing icon). Alerts if a port closes and later ... ... fresh heads-up after a short cooldown, so a returning exposure doesn't slip by quietly. What's New the What's New panel is reachable again from the Help menu, anywhere in the app. Update via Netfox