Ping

A macOS menu bar app that shows your network latency and packet loss at a glance.

• Live ping latency and packet loss in the menu bar, updated every second
• Red dot indicator when latency or packet loss exceeds your thresholds
• Statistics with 5-minute, session, and all-time views
• Configurable host, latency threshold, and packet loss threshold
• Launch at login
• Zero dependencies

  12ms (0%)          <- menu bar
  ┌─────────────────┐
  │ Settings...   ⌘,│
  │ Statistics      │
  │─────────────────│
  │ Quit Ping     ⌘Q│
  └─────────────────┘

Download the latest release and unzip to /Applications:

curl -L https://github.com/Tomaas/Ping/releases/latest/download/Ping.zip -o /tmp/Ping.zip && unzip -o /tmp/Ping.zip -d /Applications

Or grab Ping.zip from the Releases page.

Open Ping.xcodeproj in Xcode and run (⌘R). Requires macOS 14+.

The app runs as a menu bar item with no dock icon.

Push a version tag to create a new GitHub Release automatically:

git tag v1.x.x
git push origin v1.x.x

A GitHub Actions workflow builds the app and uploads Ping.zip to the release.

Pings the configured host once per second using /sbin/ping -c 1. Parses the response time from stdout. Tracks a rolling 10-ping buffer for the menu bar packet loss display, and accumulates stats for the statistics view.

MIT