Netfox 0.5 is out — your whole network now lives in the menu bar 🦊📈

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 full of history. No setup, no special permissions.

🔍 Custom ports. The security scanner has always walked a curated catalog of well-known ports. Now you can extend it: add your own TCP ports with labels (9281 = Next.js dev) and every scan checks them — manual or scheduled. Your labels show up everywhere: device details, the Services view, alerts. That dev server you forgot was reachable across the LAN? Now it shows up by name.

🦊 A menu bar icon that behaves like a native one. New monochrome fox glyph by default — it adapts to light and dark menu bars and inverts when the popover opens, just like the system's own icons. Miss the colour fox? One click in Settings brings it back, instantly.

⚡ Always fresh. Discovery now runs for the app's entire life, not just while a window is open. Close the main window for days — the popover still shows your network as it is right now.

❤️ About + Support. A new window gathers version info, quick links, the project's sponsors, and other apps from the developer. Shown once at launch, easy to turn off, always available from the app menu.

Everything stays on your Mac — no cloud account, no telemetry, LAN-only probing.

⬇️ Download: https://netfox.app

📝 Full release notes: https://netfox.app/docs/release-notes

🗺 What's next (Wi-Fi diagnostics is up): https://netfox.app/docs/roadmap

If you try the new traffic chart or the custom ports, I'd love to hear what you think — and what port labels you ended up adding 👇