See what’s connected. Know when something changes.
Network Radar turns your Mac into a practical network scanner and monitoring tool. Find unfamiliar devices, troubleshoot connection problems and keep a clear record of your network—at home or at work.
Click Scan to get started, then explore the devices Network Radar discovers. From a quick check of your Wi-Fi network to ongoing server monitoring, the tools you need are in one place.
DISCOVER YOUR DEVICES
View IP, IPv6 and MAC addresses, manufacturer and model details, DNS, Bonjour (mDNS) and NetBIOS names, open ports and response times. See when a device was last detected, and use the Bonjour browser to explore advertised services.
MONITOR AND RESPOND
Monitor devices for changes in availability and keep a history of observations. Set up rules to show a notification, send an email or play a sound—for example, when an important server stops responding. Choose how much ping and log history to retain.
KEEP YOUR NETWORK ORGANIZED
Give devices meaningful names, custom icons, types, vendor names and notes. Use folders and smart folders to organize your network. The grouped All Hosts view brings together matching devices from different scans while keeping each entry’s status, settings and history separate. Missing discovery details can come from matching entries in other scans.
PUT NETWORK TOOLS TO WORK
Run Ping, Port Scan, Traceroute and Whois without switching apps. Wake compatible devices with Wake on LAN, or put configured Macs to sleep, restart them or shut them down.
MORE WAYS TO WORK
• Create scans with custom IP ranges.
• Associate scans with networks and refresh or monitor multiple scans.
• Open a device’s configured service by double-clicking its entry.
• Build workflows with actions for the Shortcuts app.
• Import CSV files to add hosts or update device details edited in a spreadsheet.
• Transfer saved scans and custom icons between Macs with NETRADR exports.
• Export to NETRADR, XML, CSV, TXT or PDF; import NETRADR, XML and CSV files.
The information available depends on your network and the devices’ responses. Wake on LAN and remote commands require compatible devices and suitable network settings. Sleep, restart and shutdown commands for Macs require Remote Login (SSH) and configured credentials.
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Reliable Software Utility
B-Drive
Works as described - I’ve been using for several years. It has gotten better over the years at recognizing new devices. I use it in conjunction with a Firewalla device to identify devices and segment my network for better security… I wish it was easier for home users to manage network security and that more products would be user friendly to people who aren’t professional network admins. This piece of software is a step in the right direction, but it still requires some familiarity with networking protocols and conventions.
Barely Useful
buddy.b.moore
This app would have actually been useful if it included a packet sniffer, sometimes called a network monitor. This capability already exists in Mac OS and Linux variants as the TCP dump command but the output is not very easily readable or searchable. Network professionals need the aability to capture network traffic from different points on a network including client hosts. We need the ability to filter on a specific address and see exactly the packets being sent to or from that address, where they are going, what port they are using, what protocol they belong to, ie, TcP, UDP, SMB, RDP, and so on. I had the impression this app perhformed that function but I was mislead by the description. The only thing this app does is catalogue your network hosts and tell yo uwhich ones are online or offline at the moment. AppleS Remote Desktop app does everything this one does granted for a higher price but also includes masively expanded functionality. At the least this app could have included a packet sniffer for network monitoring but it does not and such is hardly useful at all.
Developer Response
Hi there and thanks for your feedback. I am now working on integrating a packet sniffer for one of the next updates of Network Radar. RegardsDaniel
Crashes, slow, functions do not work.
stevey500
Attempting to use this as an IT technician in our small/medium sized environment. Scans are taking up to 45 minutes and that is fine but it crashes consistantly without any crash-report window at all, it just disappears and closes. (update, the developer notified me to say that they were receiving crash reports with data, I was never told this was even happening within the interface at all.) Running on latest release of Catalina and an older High Sierra workstation. I can’t seem to get this application to report vendor name of devices in results, many of the fields that are disabled by default do not work. The performance of this application seems a bit like a step back to the days of Java applications- it’s laggy and resource heavy. Others like lanscan is extremely lightweight, fast, and immediately resolves vendor names.
Developer Response
Hi Steve,Thanks for your feedback. I've got your crash reports. They are being sent in the background without user interaction needed. Network Radar version 2.8 will be released very soon. It will most likely fix the issue that causes the crash as well. If not, please send me a short notice to support@witt-software.com.Thanks for your patience.RegardsDaniel
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TX Allen
This is a great tool for keeping an eye on diverse networks. You can start quick and grow it to something complicated. It is nice to have one view of everything that is up and/or down when a client calls you and tells you that something isn't working.
FIX: Fixed an issue that prevented network scans and pings from receiving replies, leaving devices shown as cached or offline.
Version 3.2.2
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Information
Seller
Daniel Witt
Size
18.3 MB
Category
Utilities
Compatibility
Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.5 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
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