Snitch
See every connection your Mac makes â 100% local
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Snitch shows every outbound connection your Mac makes, in real time â live map, per-app attribution, offline GeoIP. One idle hour: 347 servers across ~17 companies (158 Google's). Zero telemetry, loopback-only API, AGPL-3.0, EN/FR. Little Snitch blocks; Wireshark dumps packets; Snitch shows the map.
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PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Privacy
- GitHub
- Security
Similar launches
See all 148 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The live map and UI are straightforward, but accurate per-app attribution of network connections on macOS and an offline GeoIP database require low-level OS networking knowledge and licensed data.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a native macOS app (Swift/SwiftUI) that maps sockets to processes, using tools such as nettop or lsof or NetworkExtension, plus an offline GeoIP/ASN database such as MaxMind with proper licensing. The hard parts are reliable process attribution with the right entitlements and handling macOS privacy and code-signing requirements.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 148 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #88 of 149 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 350 days after the earliest competitor.
- Snitch · github · 2026-10-01 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Snitch · hn · 2026-10-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- NetworkMonitor · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Portlivo · ph · 2026-10-20 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- NetCurb: Mac Data monitoring · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MacMetric · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- NetBlocker · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Focus Firewall · ph · 2026-09-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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More details
- External ID
- 1283280
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Snitch
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- Open Source, Privacy, GitHub, Security
- AI summary
- local network connection monitor for mac users
- Manually corrected
- No