Hotspot Meter is a free macOS menu-bar app that shows exactly how much data each Wi-Fi network and phone hotspot uses. See live download and upload speeds, track session and per-network totals, review usage history, and get an alert before reaching your data cap. Everything runs locally on your Mac: no analytics, no accounts, and no personal data collected or transmitted.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I’m Mikey, the maker of Hotspot Meter.
I built it because macOS makes it easy to see which network you’re connected to—but surprisingly difficult to see how much data that connection is actually using. That becomes a real problem when you’re tethering through your phone, using hotel Wi-Fi, or working on any connection with a data cap.
Hotspot Meter lives quietly in your menu bar and gives you:
⚡ Live download and upload speeds
📊 Session and per-network usage totals
🕘 Usage history for every network
🔔 Alerts before you reach a chosen data limit
📱 Automatic tracking for hotspot connections
Privacy was just as important as the feature set. Everything is calculated and stored locally on your Mac. There are no accounts, analytics, trackers, or remote servers, and no personal data is collected or transmitted.
The app is completely free to download and use.
I’d love to hear how you currently keep track of metered connections—and what would make Hotspot Meter more useful for you.
Website: https://hotspot-meter.loam.sk/
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id676...
About Hotspot Meter on Product Hunt
“A private data-usage meter for your Mac menu bar”
Hotspot Meter launched on Product Hunt on July 24th, 2026 and earned 120 upvotes and 21 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. Hotspot Meter is a free macOS menu-bar app that shows exactly how much data each Wi-Fi network and phone hotspot uses. See live download and upload speeds, track session and per-network totals, review usage history, and get an alert before reaching your data cap. Everything runs locally on your Mac: no analytics, no accounts, and no personal data collected or transmitted.
On the analytics side, Hotspot Meter competes within Productivity, Privacy and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 680.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Hotspot Meter performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Hotspot Meter ?
Hotspot Meter was hunted by Michal Ferák. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Hotspot Meter including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Michal Ferák