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Iniscape Ping

A tray app for macOS, Windows and Linux that shows whether you are online: a network change appears within about 3 seconds, and a click copies your local IP address.

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Free, including for commercial use.

Iniscape Ping's menu, open from its globe in the macOS menu bar: Online · 23 ms, Copy Local IP, Copy Internet IP, Other Local IPs, Settings, Check for Updates, About and Quit

The pointer on Iniscape Ping's globe in the macOS menu bar, and its tooltip: Online · 23 ms, the local IP address and the internet IP address

What it does

Four connection states

Online, Unstable, Limited or Offline, shown by the globe in the tray.

Where it breaks

The first step that fails: link, address, gateway, DNS or internet.

Changes in about 3 seconds

After a network change or sleep; one lost probe never changes the state.

Local and internet IP

In the tooltip and the menu; a click copies your local address.

Latency and packet loss

The median round trip and the probes lost over the last 5 minutes.

Light on the network

About 4.5 MB a day while online, checks and latency probes together.

Install

Requirements: macOS 12+ on Apple silicon, Windows 10+ on x64 or Linux (glibc 2.28+) on x86_64.

macOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://github.com/iniscape/ping/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell)

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c 'irm https://github.com/iniscape/ping/releases/latest/download/install.ps1 -OutFile $env:TEMP\install.ps1; & $env:TEMP\install.ps1'

Installs for the current user, without admin rights; not code-signed yet. Uninstall

Privacy

No account, no analytics, no telemetry. It checks your connection against Cloudflare and Google servers; the IP lookup and the daily update check can be turned off in Settings.

Support

Bugs and feature requests are tracked on GitHub. Open an issue