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title: "Little Snitch alternative for Mac: Kilobat vs Little Snitch"
url: "https://kilobat.app/little-snitch-alternative"
description: "Kilobat vs Little Snitch: an honest comparison. Little Snitch is a full network firewall: per-connection rules and alerts, traffic history, a destination…"
---

Kilobat vs Little Snitch

# A Little Snitch alternative for Mac.

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. Little Snitch Mini is its simpler sibling. Here is how Kilobat compares.

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

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

## Side by side

| Job | Little Snitch | Kilobat |
|---|---|---|
| Per-app blocking | ✓ | ✓ Pro |
| Connection prompts | ✓ Per connection | ✓ Pro, once per new app |
| Destination rules and blocklists | ✓ In depth | ✓ Pro |
| Traffic history | ✓ | ✓ Pro |
| Connection map | ✓ | ✓ Pro globe |
| Wi-Fi diagnosis, radar and speed tests | — | ✓ |
| Data budgets for hotspots | — | ✓ Pro |

Little Snitch details are from [Objective Development’s own documentation](https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html), as of October 2026; we haven’t benchmarked it. Corrections welcome at the support address.

## Which should you choose?

### Choose Little Snitch if

- You want to approve or deny every new connection, not just every new app.
- You need the deepest firewall rules on macOS.

### Choose Kilobat if

- You want to be asked once per new app, or not at all with profile-based blocking.
- You care about data use and Wi-Fi quality as much as privacy.
- You want an open-source CLI and MCP server.

## Pricing

See [Little Snitch’s site](https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html) for current pricing. Kilobat is free, with Pro for $19 once.

[See every comparison →](https://kilobat.app/alternatives)

## Get your network out of the dark.

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

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