NetMute · Privacy Firewall

See & block app connections

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

See every company your Mac talks to, silence trackers in one click — and cap data per network when you travel. Local-only, no account, no subscription. Your Mac talks to hundreds of servers you never chose. Advertisers, analytics firms, data brokers — quietly, every day. NetMute shows you exactly who, on a live world map, and lets you silence them with one switch. Everything runs on your Mac. No account. No VPN. No subscription. WHERE YOUR DATA GOES A live map of every country your apps reach, with arcs from your Mac to each destination. See at a glance how far your data really travels — eleven countries in a quiet week is normal. APP X-RAY Open any app and see every domain it contacts, ranked by frequency and sorted into analytics, advertising, fingerprinting, telemetry and first-party. Each app earns a Privacy Grade from A to F. Block what leaks, keep what the app actually needs. PRIVACY DASHBOARD Your overview ranks the companies reaching for your data and breaks them down by category — the full picture, every time you open NetMute. TRACKER SHIELD Known tracker domains, blocked across every app on your Mac. Free silences the 50 loudest offenders; Pro unlocks the full list plus optional Hagezi and EasyPrivacy community lists. NetMute flags the rare domain an app genuinely needs, so blocking never quietly breaks it. PROFILES One click swaps your whole setup — which apps may connect and which domain groups are blocked. Build groups like Social, Streaming or News once, then assign them to Work, Focus or Travel. DATA LIMITS Cap data per app, for your whole Mac, or on one network only. Set a tight limit for a phone hotspot and a looser one for café Wi-Fi. Hit the cap and NetMute holds the line — perfect for tethering and roaming. MADE FOR TRAVEL Heading abroad? A Travel profile silences background hogs, caps roaming data and shows which apps burned your gigabytes on every network — hotspot, hotel Wi-Fi or tethering. NETWORK AUTOMATION Assign a profile to each Wi-Fi. Join your hotspot and NetMute locks things down; back home it opens up again — automatically, every time. SCHEDULES Time-based rules: silence social apps overnight, switch to a Work profile during office hours. DOMAIN BLOCKS Block a single domain everywhere, or only on mobile networks. Always means always — across every app on the Mac. REPORTS Every byte accounted for, with a weekly breakdown and the world map. 90 days of history, kept on your Mac only. FOCUS MODE Link a profile to a macOS Focus. Do Not Disturb on, distractions off. LOCAL-FIRST PRIVACY NetMute uses Apple's Network Extension framework — the same APIs Apple's own privacy features run on. No VPN, no proxy, no account. Your network activity never leaves your Mac. The optional community tracker list fetches signed public files; nothing about your usage is ever uploaded. FREE AND PRO NetMute is free to download. Free shows you everything — the map, live monitoring, per-app blocking and the 50 most common trackers silenced. Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription, and unlocks the full Tracker Shield, App X-Ray grades, per-network Data Limits, Schedules, Focus integration, unlimited Profiles with domain groups, and 90-day Reports. WHO BUILT THIS NetMute is a one-person project, built in Munich. Mail support@balane.tech with anything — bugs, requests, awkward wording. Every message reaches me directly. REQUIREMENTS macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Universal (Apple Silicon and Intel). PRIVACY NetMute collects no personal data and runs no servers of its own. See the in-app Privacy Policy for details. TERMS OF USE Use of NetMute is subject to Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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2.2.2 • Bug fixes throughout NetMute — Privacy Dashboard and Tracker Shield included. • Performance improvements for a lighter, faster menu bar.

Version 2.2.2

The developer, Jonas Hoettler, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Accessibility

The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More

Information

Seller
  • Jonas Hoettler
Size
  • 3.7 MB
Category
  • Utilities
Compatibility
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
English and 46 more
  • English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
  • © 2026 Balane GmbH
  • Developer Website
  • Privacy Policy

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