Kilobat

Echolocation for your network. 🪩 See which apps use your data. Stop background hogs on hotspots and capped plans. Find out why the internet is so slow.

[Kilobat @kilobat_app]

https://t.co/Q81Y3bipPM is a Mac app for people whose internet isn't a given.

- Block apps from eating your hotspot
- Set data budgets per network
- See Wi-Fi quality and latency
- Keep your Mac awake
- CLI + MCP server, so your agents can use it too

Crafted with ❤️ by @seifip

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Kilobat 1.26: when one service is slow. It compares your big downloads from GitHub, iCloud, Steam, npm and more, then checks the status page and traces the route to tell an incident from a route problem or a busy line.

https://t.co/JW7negOjvj

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Kilobat 1.20: after an SSH, Mosh, Screen Sharing, Parsec or AnyDesk session, it says how often typing lagged or the screen froze, and why. If the network was the cause, it suggests Mosh.

1.21: optional product analytics, off by default.

[Kilobat @kilobat_app]

Kilobat 1.25 times DNS on every network you join, yours vs Cloudflare, Quad9 and Google, and says which is fastest there. With Pro it switches only after a resolver wins on three different days. Plus guides for 86 routers.

[Kilobat @kilobat_app]

Kilobat 1.20: after an SSH, Mosh, Screen Sharing, Parsec or AnyDesk session, it says how often typing lagged or the screen froze, and why. If the network was the cause, it suggests Mosh.

1.21: optional product analytics, off by default.

https://t.co/JW7negOjvj

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Kilobat 1.15: is it them or me? When a service fails on a fine line, Kilobat checks its public status page. 70+ services, plus Claude, Codex, Cursor and other AI providers part by part. CLI: kilobat down

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Kilobat 1.19: router check-up. It learns what's normal for your router, says when it's been slower three days running, and tells you whether restarting actually helped.

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1.13: hotel and café Wi-Fi sign-in pages show in the menu even when macOS's sheet doesn't, and Pro warns 5 minutes before you get logged out.

1.14: Send later holds big uploads until you're on an unmetered or faster network.

https://t.co/JW7negOjvj

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Kilobat 1.9, made for Starlink: ground-station ping, live throughput, alerts and a sky map of what's blocking the dish. Read-only; it never changes the dish. CLI: kilobat starlink.

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Kilobat 1.12: a VPN kill switch. If the VPN drops, the internet is blocked until it's back, even with Kilobat closed. Plus a one-click leak check for DNS, IPv6 and other traffic.

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Kilobat 1.8 follows your Focus: switch profile, hold sync apps or pause updaters while a Focus is on. Everything goes back when it ends.

https://t.co/JW7negOjvj

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Kilobat 1.4 speaks Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, French and German. New share card, This place: a Wi-Fi report for the café or coworking space you're in. It never shows the Wi-Fi name.

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Kilobat 1.7: Speed › Game servers pings every data center for CS2, Dota 2, Deadlock or Fortnite and shows your best region, with jitter and loss. 1.11 grows it to 15 games and pings the server of your current match.

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Also in 1.3: agent runs via the agents' own hooks, a stutter test for spikes speed tests average away, a provider report (PDF) of 24h or 7 days of measurements, an OBS streaming overlay, and per-app counting through Clash/Surge proxies.

https://t.co/JW7negNLFL

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Kilobat 1.3: mark each network Metered or Unmetered. On metered, Kilobat switches to Travel and pauses updaters like Google Updater, Microsoft AutoUpdate and App Store downloads. Budgets reset daily, weekly or on your renewal day.