NetTop
Your network speed, live. And where your data goes.
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See your live network speed and which apps are using it, right from your Mac’s menu bar. NetTop 1.3 adds data usage history by network and app, hotspot detection, data limits with alerts, and weekly and monthly reports with PDF and CSV export. Your history stays on your Mac. Free to download, with optional Pro.
PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 4%) · 0 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 193 launches in network monitoring and diagnostics tools →
Could you build this?
Partial The menu bar UI, history, and reports are vibe-codeable in Swift, but accurate per-app network attribution on macOS requires low-level system knowledge, plus notarization and reliable background operation.
What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/SwiftUI menu bar app that samples per-process throughput (for example by parsing the nettop output or using system networking statistics), stores history in a local database, and adds hotspot detection and PDF/CSV export. The hard part is accurate per-app attribution and low overhead, which requires macOS internals experience. Distribution also needs Apple Developer signing and notarization.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 288 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 289 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 363 days after the earliest competitor.
- NetworkMonitor · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- NetCurb: Mac Data monitoring · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Byter · ph · 2026-10-24 · 96 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- NetSpeed · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Netlink · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Netwie · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Get Net Speed · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Speedtesty.com · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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