Konechi
See in your menu bar whether you're on ethernet or Wi-Fi
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You plugged the cable in, but you are still on Wi-Fi, and nothing on screen tells you. Konechi asks the Mac which connection is actually carrying your traffic and shows it in the menu bar, with a character who is on top form on a cable, doing fine on Wi-Fi and out of energy offline. Click her for the network name, IP address, link speed and live traffic. Turn on a VPN and she adds a padlock while still showing which link does the work underneath. No Dock icon, no account. Free and open source.
PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Niche: macos menu bar utilities · 286 launches, 30 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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Could you build this?
Yes A small macOS menu bar app that reads the active network interface and displays it with a simple animated character is a standard native app task.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 244 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #141 of 245 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 354 days after the earliest competitor.
- NetworkMonitor · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- bastion · github · 2026-10-30 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Snitch · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- OpenSurge for Mac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- VPNonly · ph · 2026-09-14 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- MacAway · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables · hn · 2026-05-01 · 566 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Wireway · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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