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NetCheck
Know your internet is actually working, not just your Wi-Fi
NetCheck sits quietly in your menu bar as a single dot — green when you have internet, grey when you don't. A lightweight menu bar app for macOS.
Hey everyone — I'm Tulon, the developer behind NetCheck.
macOS shows Wi-Fi bars, but there's no built-in way to know if the internet is actually working — not just the local network. Most existing tools for this are paid, and the free ones feel cluttered or outdated. I wanted something minimal, so I built it myself.
There was also a more specific trigger: I use Claude Code (Anthropic's AI CLI tool) for development. When a long AI task is running in the background, a dropped connection can silently break the whole session — and you only find out when it's too late. I needed a persistent indicator always visible in my menu bar.
NetCheck is that indicator. A single dot: green means really online, grey means you're not. It launches at login so it's always there — you never have to think about it. Lightweight probe on a timer, notifications when the connection drops or restores, and a live response time meter when you open it.
Built entirely with Claude Code — pair programming where the AI is very fast and never gets tired. The core came together in a single day. After using it myself for a while, I thought — why not share it?
It's free, no ads, no account, no dock icon.
Curious: has anyone run into edge cases with this — VPNs, corporate proxies, captive portals? I'd love to know how it behaves on different setups.
And if there's a macOS problem you've always wished someone would solve — drop it below. Always looking for the next thing worth building.
— Tulon | metulon.com
About NetCheck on Product Hunt
“Know your internet is actually working, not just your Wi-Fi”
NetCheck was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. NetCheck sits quietly in your menu bar as a single dot — green when you have internet, grey when you don't. A lightweight menu bar app for macOS.
On the analytics side, NetCheck competes within Mac, Productivity and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 771.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how NetCheck performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted NetCheck?
NetCheck was hunted by Tulon. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of NetCheck including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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