PingGrapher
The heartbeat of your network
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
See exactly when your network hiccups. Live latency graphs, subnet sweeps, and per-hop traceroute, running quietly in your menu bar. Nothing leaves your Mac.
PingGrapher turns your network into something you can actually see.
It continuously measures round-trip latency to any host and graphs it live, with color-coded zones that make problems obvious at a
glance — green when things are healthy, amber when they're marginal, red when they're not. Dropped packets show as full-height
red bars, so loss is impossible to miss.
FOUR WAYS TO WATCH
• Host Ping — continuous latency to a single host, with a scrolling history you can scroll back through
• Ping Sweep — scan an address range and see which hosts are alive, with a heatmap of the whole subnet
• Traceroute — a live view of every hop between you and a destination, updating continuously
• Service Check — for hosts that block ICMP, time a TCP handshake or an HTTP request instead
MEASUREMENTS THAT MEAN SOMETHING
Average, minimum, maximum, and 95th-percentile latency. Packet loss. Jitter measured as mean inter-packet delay variation. And a
connection-quality score based on the ITU-T G.107 E-model — the same approach VoIP engineers use to judge whether a line is good
enough for a call.
Latency thresholds follow ITU-T G.114 guidance by default and are fully adjustable, so the zones mean whatever "good" means for
your connection.
BUILT FOR THE MENU BAR
A live readout sits in your menu bar so you can see your connection's state without switching apps. Alerts fire when a host goes
unreachable, loss crosses a threshold, or latency spikes.
PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION
No accounts. No telemetry. No analytics. No backend of any kind. PingGrapher contacts the hosts you tell it to and nothing else —
if you monitor nothing, it talks to nothing. Every measurement stays on your Mac.
Native Swift and SwiftUI throughout, sandboxed, and universal on Apple silicon and Intel.
Ratings & Reviews
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Version 1.1 is an accuracy and stability release, drawn from a full review of the 1.0 code.
- Dropped packets now appear in the second they actually happened. A lost ping was previously recorded when its timeout fired, about a second late, so it was drawn on top of the next successful reply.
- A traceroute run that ends early is recorded as a loss rather than a completed path, so a partial run no longer trims real hops or reports an intermediate router's time as end-to-end latency.
- Saved traceroute paths and ping sweep results are kept indefinitely, so a target left switched off for a week still redraws its last known state instantly.
- History is pruned on a timer instead of only at launch, and the database now returns freed space to the disk rather than only ever growing.
- Switching between targets no longer carries scroll position or follow mode across, so every graph opens live at the newest sample.
- The interface keeps updating while you resize or drag the window.
- Clicking the target you are already viewing takes you from the Overview back to its detail view.
- Database errors are reported in the log instead of failing quietly.
The developer, iThing Software, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Robert Pickering
- Size
- 775.3 KB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 PingGrapher
