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CLUSTER BAR-MACOS-MENU · 25 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-13

macOS menu bar network tools

This cluster comprises macOS menu bar applications for network monitoring, link routing, firewall control, and related utilities. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders are freesnitch and MySpeed-MacOS (both 5 stars), with Tunnelful at 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 18OCT 2026: 5
JAN 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 1 indie · 1 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21ProxyNodeSpeed0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu-bar network monitor that displays current proxy node and speed, with on-demand latency and bandwidth tests.
  2. 22Internet-speed-reader0★1 mo—hobbymacOS menu bar app that shows live network download and upload activity and runs on-demand speed tests.
  3. 23netbar0★1 molivehand-codedindiemacOS menu bar app that shows live network up/down speed, Wi-Fi details, and session statistics with an interactive sparkline.
  4. 24StatsFlow0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar system monitor fork adding per-application network traffic display.
  5. 25ironbar-script-net-bin0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceMonitors network speed and displays it in the Ironbar desktop bar.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.