Pulse Guard - Home Security
WiFi Motion Alarm, No Camera
Only for Mac
Free · In‑App Purchases
Mac
Fewer false alarms: alarms now need real movement, your own iPhone can disarm Guard when you come home, and pets can be ignored.
Pulse Guard turns your Mac into a home security sensor by analyzing WiFi signal patterns. When someone walks through the room, the WiFi signal around your Mac shifts — Pulse Guard notices and raises an alarm. When you're away, you stay in control from your iPhone.
No cameras. No microphones. No cloud servers. Just physics.
HOW IT WORKS
Your Mac's WiFi adapter constantly exchanges signals with your router. A person moving through the room disturbs these signals. Pulse Guard compares the live signal against your room's calibrated quiet baseline and starts an alarm only when it sees real movement.
KEY FEATURES
• Movement-Based Alarms — An alarm starts only when movement is detected. Nearby phones and gadgets on their own never set it off.
• Comes Home With You — Mark your iPhone as Familiar. When it has been away and comes back to your Mac while Guard is armed, Guard switches to Home and cancels the alarm — and tells you on your phone, with one-tap re-arm if it wasn't you.
• Exit Delay & Pet Tolerance — Choose a 30, 60 or 90 second exit delay. Pet tolerance ignores brief disturbances like a cat walking by.
• Escalating Alarm — Pending, Warn, Alert and Critical stages with a siren, adjustable countdown and automatic siren timeout.
• Menu Bar App — Stays quietly in your menu bar. One click to check status, switch modes, or review recent activity.
• Three Protection Modes — Home for everyday use, Away for full protection, Vacation for extended absence.
• Nearby Devices — See Bluetooth devices around your Mac and mark your own as Familiar. Automatic learning is available as an option.
• Room Calibration — A two-minute calibration learns your room's quiet WiFi baseline.
• History & Reports (Pro) — 30-day history, a weekly activity report and CSV export.
• Companion App — Pair with the free Pulse Companion app on your iPhone to see your home's status, switch modes and get one clear notification per alarm — wherever you are.
MONITOR FROM ANYWHERE
Pulse Companion for iPhone lets you check your home's status, switch between Home/Away/Vacation, and receive alarm notifications — all synced through your personal iCloud account. No extra subscription required.
PRIVACY FIRST
Pulse Guard runs entirely on your Mac. No data is sent to our servers — there are none. No account required. Sync uses your own private iCloud database.
GOOD TO KNOW
Detection depends on your room and WiFi. It works best when the Mac is in the room you want to protect. WiFi sensing cannot tell pets from people — use Pet tolerance if you have animals.
REQUIREMENTS
• macOS 14.0 or later
• WiFi-enabled Mac
• Bluetooth for device detection (optional)
• Pulse Companion for iPhone (free, optional)
Privacy Policy - https://umay.dev/pulse_privacy.html
Terms of Use - https://umay.dev/pulse_terms.html
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This update is about trust: fewer false alarms, and an alarm when it matters.
ALARMS NEED REAL MOVEMENT
The alarm used to go off simply because "familiar" Bluetooth devices were nearby — often an iPad that never leaves home, or a neighbour's phone. Now an alarm only starts when WiFi sensing detects movement in the room.
YOUR IPHONE DISARMS GUARD WHEN YOU COME HOME
Mark your iPhone as Familiar under Devices. If it has been away and comes back next to your Mac while Guard is armed, Guard switches to Home and cancels the alarm — and tells you on your phone, with a one-tap "Arm Guard" if it wasn't you. A phone left at home never disarms anything. You can turn this off in Alarm settings.
CLEANER FAMILIAR-DEVICE LIST
Automatic learning had quietly trusted many nearby devices. Those entries are removed once, learning is now off by default, and each familiar device has a one-click Forget.
EXIT DELAY AND PET TOLERANCE
Choose a 30, 60 or 90 second exit delay (default 60). Pet tolerance ignores brief disturbances such as a cat walking by.
CALIBRATION CAN NO LONGER LEAVE GUARD BLIND
A very still room could produce a zero baseline that switched motion sensing off without any warning. The baseline now has a safe minimum, and Guard warns you if you arm it without calibration.
ONE NOTIFICATION PER ALARM
Each alarm now shows as a single notification on your iPhone that updates as it escalates.
The developer, Bugra Gunay, 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
- Bugra Gunay
- Size
- 2.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.6 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- One Year Premium $14.99
- Lifetime Premium $29.99
- Pulse Guard Pro - Monthly $1.99
- Copyright
- © Bugra Gunay

