New in 1.12: Siri, Shortcuts and a Control Center button. • Ask Siri "Is my network OK in Pulse" and hear the verdict, with a small card. The app stays closed. Also: "Ping my router with Pulse", "Check a certificate with Pulse" and "What's my IP in Pulse". • "Pulse my router with Pulse" opens the app and starts watching the path. "Check a service in Pulse" opens a service check. • Every action is in the Shortcuts app: run Check my network from an automation (when you join the office Wi-Fi, say) or the Action button, and be notified only when something is wrong. • Add Check network to Control Center: one tap runs a Health Check, and the verdict arrives as a notification. Tap it to open the run. • Fixed a crash when you tap a Pulse notification, such as a certificate alert. Pulse sends nothing new anywhere.

Pulse 1.11 adds Web check: see where a slow page loses its time. WEB CHECK (PULSE PRO) Type any address and Pulse loads the whole page the way a browser does, in a private session that keeps nothing. It shows a picture of what loaded, then says where the time went: redirects, DNS, connecting, TLS, the server's wait, the download, or everything else the page pulled in. One sentence names the slow part; a bar shows the rest. When iOS hides the network timing for the page itself, Pulse times one separate request to the server, and says so. BY SITE Every request the page made, grouped by site: this site first, then the fonts, scripts, analytics and ads it pulled in, with their share of the time. A size another site keeps private reads "not disclosed", never zero. WHERE YOU LANDED A Wi-Fi login, a cookie wall or a block page can't pass for the real site: the picture shows it, and the verdict says when a page ended on another site. FAILURES NAME THE STEP "Couldn't find…", "Couldn't connect…", or "The certificate isn't trusted on this device", with one tap to the Certificate tool. IN HISTORY Every check is kept, and judged again by today's rules each time you open it.

Pulse 1.10 watches the certificates you check, and warns you before one expires. CERTIFICATE ALERTS (PULSE PRO) Every certificate you check is now watched. Pulse alerts you 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before it expires, at 9 in the morning, and tells you when it is renewed, stops being trusted, stops matching its name, or the server stops sending its intermediate certificate. Re-checks run in the background whenever iOS allows, about twice a day. A captive portal, or a network that inspects encrypted traffic, is recognised and ignored, so it cannot raise a false alarm. Tap an alert to check the certificate again. WATCHING The Certificate tool now shows how many certificates are watched and which expires soonest. Tap it for the full list, most urgent first: tap one to check it again, swipe to stop watching it. The same list sits in Settings, under Certificate alerts, with the switch. CERTIFICATE FIRST Certificate now leads the Look up tools. Certificate, DNS and WHOIS open on an empty field, so nothing is checked that you didn't choose. NO MORE WAITING ON A SILENT HOST A certificate check against a host that never answers now gives up after 10 seconds, instead of waiting a minute or more. EASIER TO READ Amber warnings and figures are a shade deeper, so they read clearly on light backgrounds.

Pulse 1.9 is made for iPhone Duo, and makes Health Check, Dual Pulse and Running now quicker to read. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Stand your iPhone Duo half-open, like a small laptop, and every tool splits at the fold: the path, the graphs and the reports on the standing half, the target, the controls and the keyboard on the flat half, under your thumb. Before you start, the standing half shows every tool and the sessions running now. A row just under the fold takes you back, or straight to the toolbox, from any screen. Open flat, Pulse uses the whole screen, with the toolbox beside your results. WHAT A HEALTH CHECK TESTED Under the verdict, every check is now listed with a dot: green passed, amber a warning, red failed, grey not measured. Each check keeps its place on every run, so you learn where DNS is. Tap a name to jump to its full row, even one folded away under the checks that passed. IPV6 ONLY, SAID ONCE When your router stops answering and every IPv4 name server goes silent, but the IPv6 ones still answer, the verdict now says so in one line: "Working over IPv6 only — IPv4 is not getting through". You used to see two separate warnings. The DNS row names the family too. And on a network with no IPv4 address, the IPv6 name servers are now asked over IPv6, instead of being reported as failed without asking. WHICH SIDE IS WHICH Dual Pulse and every comparison now name each side by what differs ("Wi-Fi (en0)" against "Ethernet (en8)", or "IPv4" against "IPv6") and give it a colour, blue or pink, the same on every card. Each side's figures are single Pulse's own tiles (Cur, Avg, Loss and Jitter, coloured by your thresholds), and a tick marks the better side for Avg, Loss and Jitter. Within 10% is a draw. SWIPE A RUNNING SESSION In Running now, swipe a session left to pause, resume or stop it without opening it. A session that failed swipes away with Dismiss. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND YOUR WATCH The summary a Pulse leaves behind now says it plainly: "18 min · never went bad", or "went bad 2 times · worst 480 ms". A time it went bad is three bad rounds in a row, the moment Pulse alerts you. On your watch, a paused session now says Paused.

Pulse 1.7 lets you send a Pulse session to someone on another network and compare it with theirs. SHARE A SESSION Share session, on a saved session or the one running, sends a link to Messages, Mail and everything else in the share sheet — tap it and Pulse opens the session — and the file to AirDrop and Save to Files. A running session is sent as it stands and keeps running. Your Wi-Fi name, public IP, place and any AI diagnosis are never in the file or the link, and the names of devices on your home network are removed from the path. What the comparison needs stays: the routers along the way, the networks they belong to and your provider's name. Sharing is free: Pulse itself uploads nothing, the link carries the session itself, and the page it opens on peltriaux.com never sees it. OPEN ONE Tap the link or the file and Pulse keeps it in History as "Shared by" whoever sent it, apart from your own sessions: it is never offered as one of your recent hosts or as a session to continue, and it is not sent to the AI diagnosis. Opening the same session twice, even once as a link and once as a file, keeps one copy. COMPARE WITH YOURS Put it next to one of your own sessions to the same host, or tap Pulse it from here to run one beside it and watch yours fill in live. Two networks part at the first hop, so instead of where the paths part, the comparison shows where the two routes meet (the first router, or the first network, you both pass through) and whether the difference is before that point, on one person's own line, or after it, on the part you share. When the host answers each of you from a different server, it says so and compares the figures alone. Comparing is part of Pulse Pro. The name your sessions go out under is asked the first time you share, and lives in Settings under This device.

Pulse 1.6 marks what your phone did on the timeline, and makes the Pulse screen lighter. MARKS ON THE TIMELINE While a Pulse runs, the chart now marks the three things a phone does that explain a spike on an otherwise steady path: a roam to another access point on the same Wi-Fi, a switch between Wi-Fi and cellular or to a different Wi-Fi network, and a VPN coming up or going down. Each is a dashed line where it happened, with a small symbol. The newest three are named under the chart, a kept session lists them all under Changes, and they go into the CSV and the picture when you export. Compare shows each session's marks in its own colour. The AI diagnosis sees them too, as the kind of change and how far into the run it happened, so it can relate a burst of loss to a roam. The access points' identifiers are not sent. Roams need Location, because iOS reveals a Wi-Fi network's details only with it. Without it, switches and VPN changes are still marked. A LIGHTER PULSE SCREEN The header is one row. The IP version row folds to a caption once you type an address, since a typed address decides its own family. Kept sessions scroll instead of stacking. Your recent hosts lead the suggestion chips. Your devices and the services catalogue share one line under them, each opening its own strip with a tap, and each stays the way you left it. With the timeline folded, the path card ends at its last hop, and a long hostname no longer cuts a hop's loss figure short.

Pulse 1.5 lets you choose IPv4 or IPv6 for a Pulse, and puts your network's state on the Home Screen. IPV4 OR IPV6 Under the host there is a new row: Auto, IPv4, IPv6, Both. Auto is what Pulse always did: the system picks. IPv4 or IPv6 holds the session to that family, so you can tell whether IPv6 to a site is broken or only slow, or keep a family that misbehaves on one network out of the way. Pulse remembers the choice on this device. A forced family never quietly falls back to the other one. If the host has no address of that family, if its only IPv6 address is one a mobile network made up to reach an IPv4-only host, or if this network has no route for it, the session does not start and says which. An address you type in decides its own family. BOTH, SIDE BY SIDE Both watches IPv4 and IPv6 to the same host at once, over the same connection, on the screen Two interfaces uses for Wi-Fi against cellular, with a verdict on which is better. The two sessions are kept as a pair you can compare and export later. Part of Pulse Pro. With IPv4 or IPv6 chosen, Continue offers only a saved session of that family, and Compare names the family when it is what differs. A WIDGET Small, medium and Lock Screen. Is this network OK right now? Pulse's last check of the router and one public host, on the network it was measured on, with how long ago. The app checks whenever you open it and, with Background checks on, whenever iOS wakes it. While a Pulse runs, the widget follows it, and it shows the Pulse's last figures when you leave the app. A check that goes stale turns grey. Tap it to open Pulse with that host ready to start. FIXED A session that fails now shows a button to clear it, on its row and on its screen. Two interfaces no longer picks the phone's internal tunnels, which have no address to measure from. A Two interfaces pair you stop with nothing recorded leaves the list instead of staying as failed.

Pulse 1.4 answers what the other thirteen tools never asked: is the software running on this network actually reachable? And while a Pulse runs, its verdict now sits on your Lock Screen and your Apple Watch. SERVICES A new tool checks sixteen everyday services in four groups: video calls (Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Webex), files (OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox), sign-in and mail (Entra ID, Okta, Google sign-in, Exchange Online, Gmail), and remote desktop (Azure Virtual Desktop / Windows 365, Citrix Cloud, GlobalProtect (Prisma Access)). They sit behind one line on the Pulse screen, each marked with its own colour, and the line remembers your last check. Pick one and Pulse spends about fifteen seconds probing its real endpoints — a STUN request to the media relay, a TCP connect, HTTPS timing down to DNS, TCP, TLS and first byte — and returns a plain verdict: "Calls should be fine", "Sync is slow", "Sign-in unreachable, other services will fail too". One tap starts a Pulse on the worst endpoint it found. WHAT "REACHABLE" DOES NOT MEAN Zoom and Webex report "Reachable, call quality not measured" rather than a verdict on the call itself, because their media servers do not answer a test the way Teams and Meet's do. That is the honest answer, not a missing feature. REMOTE DESKTOP IS DIFFERENT Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 measure their own gateway directly, so that card gets a real verdict on the session: "Should feel responsive", "Expect some lag", "Expect heavy lag", "Can't reach the gateway". Citrix Cloud and GlobalProtect (Prisma Access) earn the same words too, once your organisation's own gateway is known. YOUR OWN SERVICES SharePoint, Okta, Citrix Cloud and your Prisma Access portal are not public endpoints Pulse can already know, so the first check that needs one asks for your organisation's name. What you type stays on your devices and is sent to Pulse's server only inside an Explain this you ask for. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN AND YOUR WATCH While a Pulse runs, its verdict is a Live Activity: on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, and in your Apple Watch's Smart Stack, with no watch app. The phone alerts you when the verdict has been bad for three rounds in a row, and again when it recovers. Leave the app and the card says the session paused; stop it and a summary stays for an hour: "18 min · 2 bad spells · worst 480 ms". Services checks show there too. SETTINGS FOLLOW YOU With iCloud sync on, your settings travel with your runs: the default terminal colour scheme, the Pulse limits, organisation names and how long devices are remembered. What belongs to one device, like its name, stays on it. WHAT IS FREE The service check, its headline and the worst endpoint, and the Live Activity. Pulse Pro adds every endpoint's own figures, your organisation's endpoints checked by name, Explain this, an AI reading of the check, and iCloud sync. TERMINAL A ninth colour scheme, Cyber Wave, with the colours of Warp's theme of that name, down to its gradient. STILL NEW IF YOU ARE COMING FROM 1.2 Devices: a ping sweep of your own subnet, names from Bonjour, names you give that stick, and an opt-in check for open ports. Every check is saved to History with its own filter, and the service catalogue refreshes from Pulse's server about once a day, so a service can be added without an app update.

Pulse 1.3 answers a question the other twelve tools could not: what else is on this network? DEVICES A card on Overview says how many, and a thirteenth tool lists them. Pulse sends one ping to every address on your network and shows what answers: this phone marked This device, the gateway marked Router, and everything else by the name it advertises over Bonjour or the name its address resolves to. Tap a row for its addresses, IPv4 and IPv6, whether it answered the ping, and the services it advertises — AirPlay, printing, file sharing, HomeKit. From there, ping it or open a terminal on it. Search by address or name. Sort by address, by name, or by when a device first appeared. WHEN IT RUNS, AND WHEN IT DOES NOT Every time Overview refreshes, and never more than once every five minutes on the same network. Wi-Fi and wired only, never over cellular, and never on a network wider than a /22. It stops when you leave the screen, and Settings has a switch that turns it off for good. iOS asks for Local Network permission the first time. What it finds stays here: the device list is never part of what an AI diagnosis sends. OPEN PORTS Check one device, or tick several and check them together, for sixteen well-known ports — SSH, telnet, DNS, web, SMB, AFP, RDP, three printing ports and the usual NAS ones. The button says what it is about to do before you press it: "6 devices · 96 connections". It runs one device at a time and stops the moment you tell it to. Results stay on the row with the date they were taken, because open ports change. NAMES THAT STICK Call the box in the cupboard NAS and it stays NAS, through a new address and a new scan. Pulse remembers which devices were there last time, so anything new says New. AND FORGETS THE REST A device Pulse has not seen for ninety days is forgotten, along with its first-seen date and any ports a check found. Change that to thirty days, a year, or never in Settings. A device you have named is always kept, however long it has been away, and any device can be forgotten from its own page. STILL NEW IF YOU ARE COMING FROM 1.0 A terminal. SSH and telnet for the hosts the other tools point at, with a host book, keys kept in this device's Keychain, a row of Esc, Ctrl, Tab and arrow keys above the keyboard, and eight colour schemes per host. A command history, per host and user, searchable, marking what cannot be undone, and never running anything for you. File transfer over SFTP on the connection you are already using, two panes, with a filter on each. WHAT IS FREE The device count, the list, addresses, names, services and the detail sheet. Pulse Pro adds naming a device, memory between scans, the new-since-last-time marker, the port check, and opening a terminal from a device.

Pulse 1.2 is 1.1 with four smaller changes on top. Ten tools measured the network; now there is a terminal for the machine at the end of it. TERMINAL SSH and telnet, for the hosts the other tools point at. A host book with the address, user and port; a password or a key kept in this device's Keychain; or generate a key in the app and paste its public half into authorized_keys. A row of keys — Esc, Ctrl, Tab, the arrows — above the keyboard, pinch to change the font, and eight colour schemes chosen per host so the production box does not look like the lab. A paste of more than one line is shown in full, numbered, before any of it runs. Open a terminal straight from a traceroute hop, or from a device found on your network, in one tap. If that address is already in your host book it opens with that host's user, key and colours. COMMAND HISTORY Every command you ran, per host and user, searchable, and a tap puts one back in the prompt — it is never run for you. A command you have run forty times is one row with a count. Anything that cannot be undone is marked. A coloured stripe down each row says which host it came from. Pin the line that took an hour to work out and it stays whatever else ages out; filters for Pinned and Risky sit under the search field. Long-press a row for an editor that lists its arguments as buttons, so changing an address is a tap rather than a drag on a cursor. Share hands over whatever the list is showing, as plain text, for the ticket that asks what you ran. A line that looks like a password or a token is never recorded, and a password typed at a prompt the shell does not echo is dropped rather than stored. The history stays on this device unless you turn on its own iCloud switch, which is separate from the one for your runs and off by default. EXACTLY WHAT RAN The history is read from what the shell echoes back, which is a good guess and not a transcript: a line edited with the arrow keys or finished by Tab is not recorded, because the shell then ran something Pulse never saw. An optional shell integration — a few lines added to a host's own profile, shown to you in full first and removed again from the same menu — makes that host report each command exactly. Those rows are ticked. FILES File transfer over SFTP, on the SSH connection you are already using: no second login and no second host-key decision. Two panes, this device on one side and the host on the other. Tick what you want and press Download or Upload; each button says how many files it is about to move, and they land wherever the other pane is standing. New folder, rename, delete and sort on both sides, a read-only look at permissions on the host side, and one question for the whole batch if something would be overwritten. A transfer stops if you leave the app, and Pulse says so rather than leaving half a file behind. SESSIONS STAY OPEN Go back to the host list, open something else, come back, and the shell is where you left it. IN THE MEASURING TOOLS Pulse, Ping, Traceroute and Path MTU each reopen on the target they last ran. When the host you asked about never answers, the figures come from the furthest hop that does — and the screen now says so properly. The headline names the host you asked for rather than that hop, the activity ratings say which hop they are about, and the path table counts the hops it actually measured: "8 hops, 22 silent", not "30 hops". NEW IN 1.2 The toolbox opens with the three you reach for first: Pulse, Terminal and Health Check. Each file pane has its own filter — part of a name, or a pattern like *.log. A transfer that skipped a duplicate no longer calls itself complete. A long press in the terminal keeps the keyboard up. WHAT IS FREE The terminal is. Connecting, the host book, keys and passwords, the colour schemes and the paste preview are free and unlimited. Pulse Pro adds sessions that stay open, the command history, file transfer, and opening a terminal from a hop or a neighbour.

THE ACCOUNT PROVIDED The credentials in App Review Information are a sandbox Apple Account. Sign in to the App Store with them on the test device to complete a Pulse Pro subscription and unlock the paid features. Pulse has no sign-in of its own, so nothing inside the app will ask for them. TESTING THE AI DIAGNOSIS This works with or without the subscription: every install gets three free diagnoses. Run a Health Check, then tap "Ask AI about this network" at the foot of the result — or the sparkle icon on any completed run. The first tap shows a sheet describing exactly what is sent and asks permission; accept it and the reading returns in a few seconds. WHAT THE APP DOES Pulse is a network diagnostics tool. It sends ordinary diagnostic traffic — ICMP echoes, DNS queries, TLS handshakes — to hosts the user chooses. Ping, traceroute and path MTU use unprivileged datagram ICMP and need no special entitlement. PERMISSIONS - Local Network: needed to list other devices on the network (the Health Check's "on this network" section) and for the peer-to-peer link test between two of the user's own devices. Please allow it when asked, or those two features will report that they cannot see the network. - Location: used for two things. iOS requires location permission before any app can read the name of the Wi-Fi network it is joined to, which the Overview screen shows. It is also used, at kilometre accuracy, to suggest a place label for a network the user has not seen before ("you look like you're at North Narrabeen") — the user accepts, edits or ignores the suggestion. Coordinates are never stored and never leave the device; the accepted label is saved with the runs and is included in an AI diagnosis. Declining leaves the Wi-Fi row reading "Requires location access" and the label entirely manual. IN-APP PURCHASE Pulse Pro is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly com.peltriaux.networktools.pro.monthly, yearly com.peltriaux.networktools.pro.annual), sold through StoreKit and managed with RevenueCat. It unlocks the AI diagnosis, the link test, Dual Pulse, session comparison, picture and CSV export, and full history with iCloud sync. Free users get three AI diagnoses and seven days of history; every measuring tool is free and unlimited. THE AI DIAGNOSIS Tapping "Ask AI" sends the selected run to a service the developer operates at peltriaux.com, which adds the model key and forwards it to Anthropic. The first time, the app presents a sheet itemising exactly what is sent — the host and hops, the Wi-Fi name, public address, ISP, DNS servers, VPN state, neighbouring devices, the place label, and the measured figures — and the request is only made after the user accepts, from every route that reaches it. peltriaux.com stores none of it — the run is passed straight through and never written to disk there; Anthropic processes it to produce the answer and does not train on it, under their own retention policy. This is described on the privacy page linked from the listing. TESTING PRO The sandbox Apple Account in App Review Information will show the subscription sheet and complete a purchase. If a purchase is not convenient, the three free AI diagnoses exercise the same feature without one, and every other tool is free and unlimited. If an AI diagnosis ever returns "This device couldn't prove it is running Pulse", please tap it once more. The app recovers on its own from a stale App Attest key; the message names the step and Apple's own error code in brackets, which is there deliberately — this app's readers are network engineers. WHY SOME FIGURES MAY LOOK ODD IN A DATA CENTRE On a network where several machines share an address, the Health Check may report "another device is using this device's address". That is the check working correctly, not a fault in the app.