Real-time network monitor for Mac w/ detailed WiFi insights
PeakHour 6 is a real-time network monitor for your Mac. Its on-device AI Advisor grades your connection from A+ to F and explains it in plain English. Plus Wi-Fi Intelligence, ISP and router details, speed tests and outage alerts. No account needed.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Ed, and I've been building PeakHour on my own for years.
PeakHour lives in your Mac's menu bar and shows you, in real time, what your internet is doing: your Wi-Fi, your router, your ISP and the path out to the wider internet.
The part of v6 I'm most excited about is the new AI Network Advisor. Network tools are great at showing you numbers, but a number doesn't tell you whether your connection is actually fine. The Advisor grades your connection from A+ to F, then explains in plain English what's going on: whether video calls, gaming and streaming will be smooth, and what to look at if they won't. The grade comes from your real measurements, and the explanation is written on your Mac by Apple Intelligence. Your network data never goes to a server to get an answer.
v6 also brings a new Liquid Glass dashboard, Wi-Fi Intelligence (signal, noise, channel, and names you give your access points), rewritten history charts that scroll back through weeks of data, routers that appear on their own, and an alert the moment your internet goes down, plus another when it's back.
A few things I care about: it's a native Mac app through and through, there are no analytics or tracking SDKs and no account to create, and there's a free trial with no signup. After that it's a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, your call.
What's next: deeper device intelligence, and more of the Advisor's reasoning across the app. I'd love your feedback, especially on the Advisor's explanations. I'll be here all day answering everything. Thanks for taking a look! 🙏
About PeakHour 6 on Product Hunt
“Real-time network monitor for Mac w/ detailed WiFi insights”
PeakHour 6 launched on Product Hunt on September 16th, 2026 and earned 91 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. PeakHour 6 is a real-time network monitor for your Mac. Its on-device AI Advisor grades your connection from A+ to F and explains it in plain English. Plus Wi-Fi Intelligence, ISP and router details, speed tests and outage alerts. No account needed.
On the analytics side, PeakHour 6 competes within Mac, Productivity and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 777k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PeakHour 6 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PeakHour 6?
PeakHour 6 was hunted by Ed Lawford. 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.
Ed Lawford
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Ed, and I've been building PeakHour on my own for years.
PeakHour lives in your Mac's menu bar and shows you, in real time, what your internet is doing: your Wi-Fi, your router, your ISP and the path out to the wider internet.
The part of v6 I'm most excited about is the new AI Network Advisor. Network tools are great at showing you numbers, but a number doesn't tell you whether your connection is actually fine. The Advisor grades your connection from A+ to F, then explains in plain English what's going on: whether video calls, gaming and streaming will be smooth, and what to look at if they won't. The grade comes from your real measurements, and the explanation is written on your Mac by Apple Intelligence. Your network data never goes to a server to get an answer.
v6 also brings a new Liquid Glass dashboard, Wi-Fi Intelligence (signal, noise, channel, and names you give your access points), rewritten history charts that scroll back through weeks of data, routers that appear on their own, and an alert the moment your internet goes down, plus another when it's back.
A few things I care about: it's a native Mac app through and through, there are no analytics or tracking SDKs and no account to create, and there's a free trial with no signup. After that it's a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, your call.
What's next: deeper device intelligence, and more of the Advisor's reasoning across the app. I'd love your feedback, especially on the Advisor's explanations. I'll be here all day answering everything. Thanks for taking a look! 🙏