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Kilobat compared.

Honest comparisons with the Mac network apps people use today, and when each one is the better choice.

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brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat

App blocking and data use

TripModeTripMode blocks apps from using the internet on hotspots and capped plans, with live per-app traffic, usage reports, data limits, profiles and a scheduler.Kilobat vs TripMode →Little SnitchLittle Snitch is a full network firewall: per-connection rules and alerts, traffic history, a destination hierarchy, blocklists, encrypted DNS, network-based profiles and a CLI.Kilobat vs Little Snitch →Radio SilenceRadio Silence quietly blocks whole apps from the internet and shows a real-time list of connections, without prompts.Kilobat vs Radio Silence →LuLuLuLu is a free, open-source firewall that alerts you to outgoing connections and lets you allow or block each process.Kilobat vs LuLu →

Connection diagnosis

WhyFiWhyFi is a menu-bar app that pinpoints whether a problem is your Wi-Fi, router, provider or DNS, with DNS switching, captive-portal detection and a radar.Kilobat vs WhyFi →PeakHourPeakHour monitors your router, provider and the internet over time, records outages, reads SNMP and UPnP router counters, and tracks speed and responsiveness.Kilobat vs PeakHour →PulsePulse monitors two targets, keeps an outage timeline, runs traceroutes automatically and sends alerts with cooldowns.Kilobat vs Pulse →PingPlotterPingPlotter traces the route to a host over time to find where latency and loss start, on desktop and for remote troubleshooting.Kilobat vs PingPlotter →

Wi-Fi analysis

WiFi ExplorerWiFi Explorer is a detailed Wi-Fi scanner: channel graphs, network capabilities, vendors, saved scans and annotations.Kilobat vs WiFi Explorer →WiFi SignalWiFi Signal shows your Wi-Fi connection quality in the menu bar and notifies you about connection events.Kilobat vs WiFi Signal →NetSpotNetSpot runs Wi-Fi site surveys on floor plans and produces heatmaps for planning coverage.Kilobat vs NetSpot →

Menu-bar stats

iStat MenusiStat Menus puts highly customizable system stats in the menu bar: CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors and more.Kilobat vs iStat Menus →StatsStats is a free, open-source system monitor for the macOS menu bar.Kilobat vs Stats →

Devices on your network

FingFing Desktop discovers and monitors devices on your network, with security tools.Kilobat vs Fing →Network RadarNetwork Radar lists devices with details and Bonjour services, keeps a change history, and offers ping, traceroute, Wake-on-LAN and exports.Kilobat vs Network Radar →

Connections

NetiquetteNetiquette is a free, open-source viewer for the sockets each process has open, with addresses, ports, states, JSON and a CLI.Kilobat vs Netiquette →SniffnetSniffnet is a free, open-source, cross-platform traffic monitor with interface selection, domains and ASNs, notifications and packet capture.Kilobat vs Sniffnet →

Terminal tools

bandwhichbandwhich is an open-source terminal tool that shows bandwidth by process, connection and remote host.Kilobat vs bandwhich →

Same spirit, different job

MoleA native Mac cleaner with an open-source CLI. Kilobat is Mole for networking.Kilobat vs Mole →

Use these alongside Kilobat

These do a different job. Kilobat doesn’t replace them, and some of its commands hand off to them.

CharlesHTTP proxy for inspecting web requests.ProxymanHTTPS capture, decryption and mocking for developers.WiresharkPacket analysis. Kilobat can capture a bounded .pcap to open in it.Airtool 2Wi-Fi frame capture.NmapNetwork scanning. kilobat discover uses it when installed.iperf3Bandwidth testing. kilobat lan-test uses it.TrippyCombined ping and traceroute in the terminal.NetworkLightMenu-bar wrapper for Apple’s networkQuality.AdGuard HomeNetwork-wide DNS blocking for every device.NextDNSEncrypted DNS with filtering. Kilobat can export encrypted-DNS profiles.dnscrypt-proxyEncrypted DNS proxy.IPNetMonitorXClassic network troubleshooting toolkit.

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Download for Mac ↓
brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat