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Watchman
A lightweight, Open Source Network Monitor for Windows & Mac
Watchman shows which apps are using your internet, even when they run quietly in the background. It also tracks live download and upload speed, CPU and RAM usage, traffic history, connection health, M-Lab speed tests, CSV export, and a compact taskbar widget. Local-first, no account required.
Hey Product Hunt, I built Watchman because I kept running into the same problem on my own PC: I could see that my internet or system was slow, but I didn’t know what was happening in the background.
Sometimes an app was using bandwidth quietly. Sometimes Windows felt slow and I wanted to know whether it was my CPU, RAM, network, or some background process. I wanted one simple place to answer: what is using my data, what is running, and what is affecting my PC right now?
So I built Watchman: a local-first Windows app that shows per-app network activity, live download/upload speed, traffic history, CPU and RAM usage, connection health, speed tests, CSV export, and a compact taskbar widget.
- Is the app activity view useful? - Is the taskbar widget helpful? - What would you want me to improve next?
Thanks for checking it out.
About Watchman on Product Hunt
“A lightweight, Open Source Network Monitor for Windows & Mac”
Watchman was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #73 on the daily leaderboard. Watchman shows which apps are using your internet, even when they run quietly in the background. It also tracks live download and upload speed, CPU and RAM usage, traffic history, connection health, M-Lab speed tests, CSV export, and a compact taskbar widget. Local-first, no account required.
On the analytics side, Watchman competes within Windows, Analytics, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 239k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Watchman performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Watchman?
Watchman was hunted by Rayhan Hosain. 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 Watchman including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Rayhan Hosain
Hey Product Hunt,
I built Watchman because I kept running into the same problem on my own PC: I could see that my internet or system was slow, but I didn’t know what was happening in the background.
Sometimes an app was using bandwidth quietly. Sometimes Windows felt slow and I wanted to know whether it was my CPU, RAM, network, or some background process. I wanted one simple place to answer: what is using my data, what is running, and what is affecting my PC right now?
So I built Watchman: a local-first Windows app that shows per-app network activity, live download/upload speed, traffic history, CPU and RAM usage, connection health, speed tests, CSV export, and a compact taskbar widget.
- Is the app activity view useful?
- Is the taskbar widget helpful?
- What would you want me to improve next?
Thanks for checking it out.