Census
Who's on my Wi-Fi, with the reason when it can't tell
Details
- External ID
- 1257279
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Census
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Every device on your network in one window: name, model, maker, IP, first seen, as a map or a grouped list. New ones get a badge and a notification. When a device can't be identified, Census says why (private Wi-Fi address, asleep, guest-network isolation) and how to check, instead of printing unknown. Runs entirely on your device: nothing uploaded, no account, no location permission. One purchase covers Mac and iPhone, unlimited devices. English and Chinese, macOS 14 or iOS 17 or later.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- network device scanner for home and office wi-fi
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and device catalog are simple, but low-level local network discovery (ARP scanning, mDNS/Bonjour, SSDP, TCP probing) under strict iOS sandbox restrictions requires native networking expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/Objective-C targeting iOS/macOS using Network.framework, POSIX socket calls, and Bonjour/mDNS service discovery. The hard part is reliably probing local subnet hosts and diagnosing why a device is unidentified (MAC address masking, client isolation, asleep vs quiet) while complying with Apple's strict local network permissions. Requires a systems/iOS network engineer familiar with low-level protocol behavior and OS sandboxing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 115 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 116 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- WiFi Health Check · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Mobile No Track · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Been - Your Private Location Log · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- DevicePrint · hn · 2026-01-06 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Whereabouts · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Cafe List · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Phone Guardian - Protect · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Forensic evidence of iOS mesh networking bypassing Airplane Mode · hn · 2026-01-01 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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