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.
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Pulse started as a complaint to my ISP and turned into a project I shipped because nobody else's tool made me happy.
Three things I'm proud of:
1. The app icon is drawn procedurally with SwiftUI's ImageRenderer. There's a separate Swift target in the repo that renders the heartbeat icon at every size and packages it into an .icns. No Sketch round-trip.
2. The auto-traceroute on outage. The moment you go offline, it fires a traceroute and attaches it to the outage record. So you wake up to a timeline of last night's drama, ready to send to your ISP.
3. Pinging two hosts in parallel. Lets you distinguish "your link is bad" from "that one server is bad" — which I find way more useful than a single-target ping.
Free + MIT. No telemetry. Roadmap and "good first issue" backlog in the repo. Happy to answer questions.