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Pulse — Your internet, in real time
A tiny native macOS network monitor. Lives in your menu bar.
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.
Maker here 👋
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.
About Pulse — Your internet, in real time on Product Hunt
“A tiny native macOS network monitor. Lives in your menu bar.”
Pulse — Your internet, in real time was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #148 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, Pulse — Your internet, in real time competes within Mac, Open Source, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 225.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Pulse — Your internet, in real time performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Pulse — Your internet, in real time?
Pulse — Your internet, in real time was hunted by Fernando Altuzar. 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.
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Fernando Altuzar