PeakHour 6
Real-time network monitor for Mac w/ detailed WiFi insights
Details
- External ID
- 1249776
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- PeakHour 6
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 91
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.982788112037631
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
Description
PeakHour 6 is a real-time network monitor for your Mac. Its on-device AI Advisor grades your connection from A+ to F and explains it in plain English. Plus Wi-Fi Intelligence, ISP and router details, speed tests and outage alerts. No account needed.
Enrichment
- Theme
- focus timers and task planners
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- network and wifi monitoring tool for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building PeakHour requires low-level macOS system programming (CoreWLAN, network packet sniffing/BPF, SNMP/UPnP protocol implementations, routing table queries) and native Swift/Objective-C OS integration that AI coding assistants struggle to reliably produce.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native macOS app built in Swift/AppKit interacting with macOS private/system APIs such as CoreWLAN framework for WiFi channel/RSSI metrics, libpcap or NetworkExtension for local packet inspection, and custom SNMP/UPnP/Bonjour discovery daemons to poll residential gateway routers. Additionally, it integrates on-device LLM evaluation (Apple Foundation Models or quantized Llama via llama.cpp/MLX) to generate real-time diagnostic summaries based on active latency and throughput telemetry.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 75 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 76 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
- WiFi Health Check · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MBReviews Test Lab · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- MacMonitor · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DeviceWatch · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- I built a macOS tool for network engineers · hn · 2026-02-10 · 243 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- NetSpeed · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Network Monitor · hn · 2025-11-24 · 156 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- INFRAON NMS · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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