We’re releasing Tapped, a native macOS network dashboard that shows you exactly where your computer is talking — which apps, which destinations, how much data, and for how long.
The gap it fills
Most people have no idea what their Mac is doing on the network. You could fire up Wireshark, but that’s a firehose of raw packets aimed at network engineers. You could check Activity Monitor, but its network tab is minimal. Tapped sits between the two: enough depth to be useful, enough clarity to be approachable.
How it works
Tapped doesn’t install kernel extensions or use a custom network stack. It orchestrates the tools already on your Mac — lsof for connection mapping, nettop for bandwidth, and tcpdump for packet capture — and presents what they find in a clean, visual dashboard with six tabs:
- Overview — live bandwidth meters, traffic history, and top destination organizations
- Apps — per-process traffic breakdown showing which apps use the most bandwidth
- AckAck — long-running connections that have been open for more than 10 seconds
- Destinations — accumulated history of every unique destination each app has contacted
- Packets — real-time packet capture with BPF filter support
- NetFlow — visual traffic flow summaries with CSV export
It also lives in your menu bar for a compact, always-visible summary of connection count and bandwidth.
Free and Pro
Tapped is free to download and use. The Overview, Apps, and AckAck tabs are always available. A license unlocks the Destinations, Packets, and NetFlow tabs, plus CSV export.
Why visibility matters
This is a defensive visibility tool, not a firewall or blocker. The idea is simple: you can’t make informed decisions about your network without first understanding what’s happening on it. Tapped helps you build a mental model of what “normal” looks like so you can spot when something is off.
Every app on your Mac is making network connections — some expected, some surprising. Tapped makes them visible.