---
title: "Kilobat compared: Mac network app alternatives"
url: "https://kilobat.app/alternatives"
description: "How Kilobat compares with TripMode, Little Snitch, LuLu, WhyFi, PeakHour, WiFi Explorer, NetSpot, iStat Menus, Fing and more, and which to choose."
---

Compare

# Kilobat compared.

Honest comparisons with the Mac network apps people use today, and when each one is the better choice.

[Download for Mac ↓](https://kilobat.app/downloads/Kilobat-1.9.0.dmg)

```
brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat
```

## App blocking and data use

- [TripMode](https://kilobat.app/tripmode-alternative): TripMode blocks apps from using the internet on hotspots and capped plans, with live per-app traffic, usage reports, data limits, profiles and a scheduler.
- [Little Snitch](https://kilobat.app/little-snitch-alternative): Little Snitch is a full network firewall: per-connection rules and alerts, traffic history, a destination hierarchy, blocklists, encrypted DNS, network-based profiles and a CLI.
- [Radio Silence](https://kilobat.app/radio-silence-alternative): Radio Silence quietly blocks whole apps from the internet and shows a real-time list of connections, without prompts.
- [LuLu](https://kilobat.app/lulu-alternative): LuLu is a free, open-source firewall that alerts you to outgoing connections and lets you allow or block each process.

## Connection diagnosis

- [WhyFi](https://kilobat.app/whyfi-alternative): WhyFi is a menu-bar app that pinpoints whether a problem is your Wi-Fi, router, provider or DNS, with DNS switching, captive-portal detection and a radar.
- [PeakHour](https://kilobat.app/peakhour-alternative): PeakHour monitors your router, provider and the internet over time, records outages, reads SNMP and UPnP router counters, and tracks speed and responsiveness.
- [Pulse](https://kilobat.app/pulse-alternative): Pulse monitors two targets, keeps an outage timeline, runs traceroutes automatically and sends alerts with cooldowns.
- [PingPlotter](https://kilobat.app/pingplotter-alternative): PingPlotter traces the route to a host over time to find where latency and loss start, on desktop and for remote troubleshooting.

## Wi-Fi analysis

- [WiFi Explorer](https://kilobat.app/wifi-explorer-alternative): WiFi Explorer is a detailed Wi-Fi scanner: channel graphs, network capabilities, vendors, saved scans and annotations.
- [WiFi Signal](https://kilobat.app/wifi-signal-alternative): WiFi Signal shows your Wi-Fi connection quality in the menu bar and notifies you about connection events.
- [NetSpot](https://kilobat.app/netspot-alternative): NetSpot runs Wi-Fi site surveys on floor plans and produces heatmaps for planning coverage.

## Menu-bar stats

- [iStat Menus](https://kilobat.app/istat-menus-alternative): iStat Menus puts highly customizable system stats in the menu bar: CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors and more.
- [Stats](https://kilobat.app/stats-alternative): Stats is a free, open-source system monitor for the macOS menu bar.

## Devices on your network

- [Fing](https://kilobat.app/fing-alternative): Fing Desktop discovers and monitors devices on your network, with security tools.
- [Network Radar](https://kilobat.app/network-radar-alternative): Network Radar lists devices with details and Bonjour services, keeps a change history, and offers ping, traceroute, Wake-on-LAN and exports.

## Connections

- [Netiquette](https://kilobat.app/netiquette-alternative): Netiquette is a free, open-source viewer for the sockets each process has open, with addresses, ports, states, JSON and a CLI.
- [Sniffnet](https://kilobat.app/sniffnet-alternative): Sniffnet is a free, open-source, cross-platform traffic monitor with interface selection, domains and ASNs, notifications and packet capture.

## Terminal tools

- [bandwhich](https://kilobat.app/bandwhich-alternative): bandwhich is an open-source terminal tool that shows bandwidth by process, connection and remote host.

## Same spirit, different job

- [Mole](https://kilobat.app/kilobat-vs-mole): A native Mac cleaner with an open-source CLI. Kilobat is Mole for networking.

## Use these alongside Kilobat

These do a different job. Kilobat doesn’t replace them, and some of its commands hand off to them.

- [Charles](https://www.charlesproxy.com/overview/): HTTP proxy for inspecting web requests.
- [Proxyman](https://proxyman.com/): HTTPS capture, decryption and mocking for developers.
- [Wireshark](https://www.wireshark.org/): Packet analysis. Kilobat can capture a bounded .pcap to open in it.
- [Airtool 2](https://www.intuitibits.com/products/): Wi-Fi frame capture.
- [Nmap](https://github.com/nmap/nmap): Network scanning. `kilobat discover` uses it when installed.
- [iperf3](https://github.com/esnet/iperf): Bandwidth testing. `kilobat lan-test` uses it.
- [Trippy](https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy): Combined ping and traceroute in the terminal.
- [NetworkLight](https://github.com/holgerkrupp/networkLight): Menu-bar wrapper for Apple’s networkQuality.
- [AdGuard Home](https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome): Network-wide DNS blocking for every device.
- [NextDNS](https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns): Encrypted DNS with filtering. Kilobat can export encrypted-DNS profiles.
- [dnscrypt-proxy](https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy): Encrypted DNS proxy.
- [IPNetMonitorX](https://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ipmx_overview.html): Classic network troubleshooting toolkit.

## Get your network out of the dark.

[Download for Mac ↓](https://kilobat.app/downloads/Kilobat-1.9.0.dmg)

```
brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat
```