PeakHour: Internet Monitor
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Description
PeakHour is a serious network monitor for macOS.
Built for everyone from the curious to the network engineer. Watch your connection, your router, and the devices on your network — all in real time.
Slow Zoom call? AI agent crawling through a task? Bandwidth hog at large? Wondering what your ISP is actually delivering? PeakHour shows you exactly what’s happening on your network, the moment it’s happening.
KEY FEATURES
• AI Network Advisor
On-device intelligence grades your connection with a letter score and explains what’s going on in plain English. Powered by Apple Intelligence, private by default.
• Internet Dashboard
A complete real-time view of your network path, from your Mac to your router, ISP, and the wider internet. Latency, throughput, and connection health at a single glance.
• Wi-Fi Intelligence
See how good your Wi-Fi really is, wherever you are. PeakHour shows you when your signal is weak, when interference is slowing you down, and where in the house your Mac connects best — so you can stop guessing why video calls drop or downloads stall.
• Bandwidth & Latency Monitors
Dedicated real-time monitors for any UPnP- or SNMP-capable device on your network — routers, switches, NAS, and more — each with live sparkline charts. Watch traffic patterns develop second by second.
• Monitor Other Macs with PeakHour Enabler
Keep an eye on the family iMac or the office Mac mini. PeakHour Enabler, our free, open-source companion, makes any Mac a monitorable target in two clicks, and PeakHour picks it up automatically.
• Speed Test + Responsiveness
Integrated speed tests pair classic download and upload numbers with the modern Responsiveness Per Minute (RPM) score, so you know your network feels fast, not just fast on paper.
• Always in Your Menu Bar
Live bandwidth, latency, and status right in your macOS menu bar, with a glanceable dropdown dashboard one click away.
• Instant Notifications
Know the second your connection drops, and the second it comes back. Outage and recovery alerts powered by a self-healing probe engine.
• ISP & Router Inspection
Deep visibility into your ISP — public IP, network operator, and geolocation — and your router’s hardware, uptime, and live traffic counters. All without opening another app.
• History Charts
Scrollable bandwidth and latency history with side-by-side download/upload views and color-coded congestion. Spot patterns over hours, days, or weeks.
• Customize Everything
Polling intervals, alert thresholds, menu bar layout, notification rules, monitor cards. Make PeakHour fit how you work.
NEW IN PEAKHOUR 6.1
• PeakHour Advisor in its own window: your grade, checks for calls, gaming and streaming, and the one fix that matters
• A path diagram that shows where a slowdown starts, and each site’s route on a map
• History with your grade every 30 seconds and a log of every speed test
• Speed Test results compared with your Internet plan
• This Mac, Router and ISP cards on the dashboard
• Latency monitors for just the part of the path you choose, or for AI services such as Claude and ChatGPT
PRIVACY-FIRST
PeakHour runs on your Mac. We don’t collect your network data, telemetry, or browsing activity. The AI Network Advisor works on your Mac by default. With Private Cloud Compute on, Apple’s servers receive your measurements but don’t keep them, and your Wi-Fi, Mac and site names stay on your Mac.
PRICING
Try PeakHour free, no signup required. Subscribe for $19.99/year, or own it forever with a one-time $59.99 purchase. PeakHour 4 customers get an automatic 20% loyalty discount.
REQUIREMENTS
• macOS 14.6 Sonoma or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel Mac
• AI Network Advisor requires a Mac with Apple Intelligence support
Have feedback or need a hand? Reach us at [email protected]. Every email is read by a real person.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://peakhour.app/privacy/
What's New
PeakHour 6.1 gives the Advisor a window of its own, and shows you exactly where a slowdown starts. • PeakHour Advisor has its own window with five pages: Your Network, The Internet, Speed Test, History and Report. Open it from the grade, the menu bar, or Window > PeakHour Advisor (⌥⌘A). • Your Network leads with your grade, a plain-English summary and checks for video calls, gaming, streaming and remote desktop. It also shows what your speeds make possible, from video quality to the time a large download takes. • A path diagram shows This Mac, your router, your ISP and the internet, with the latency of each link and where a problem starts. • The Internet puts each site on a map, with its route hop by hop. • History keeps your grade every 30 seconds, even while the window is closed, plus a log of your speed tests, with filters and CSV export. • On macOS 27, turn on Private Cloud Compute to ask the Advisor questions about your network. • The Network Quality test is now called Speed Test. Enter your plan in Settings > Dashboard > Internet Plan, and each test shows the share of your plan you get, and what limits it. • New This Mac, Router and ISP cards: hover over a column on the dashboard, then click to open its details. • New latency monitors start with a choice: ISP to Internet, One Host or Custom. A picture shows the part of the path each one measures, and the site list now includes AI services such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. • Also new: optional Wi-Fi alerts, your own colors for each bandwidth monitor, graphs shared from the main window with a title, legend and scale, and Last 7 Days now includes today. • Turning off the Internet Dashboard now asks whether to remove its monitors. • With an Annual Pass or a free trial, you can now buy the Lifetime License from Settings > About. Thank you for all your feedback on PeakHour 6. Keep it coming, and happy monitoring!
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