Arcs from home
Each destination gets an arc from your location. Packets travel along it as data flows: blue for download, orange for upload.
Your Mac’s connections on a world map
Watch where your data goes: arcs from your home to every server your apps talk to, with traffic flowing along them in real time.
Illustration of the Map view.
Sized by traffic
Destinations pulse with a size that grows with the bytes exchanged, so the busiest places stand out.
Countries, then cities
A sidebar ranks countries and cities by traffic. Click a city and the map flies there.
One app at a time
Right-click an app in the list and choose Show on Map to highlight that app’s destinations.
Local devices too
Connections to your router, printer or other LAN devices are counted in the sidebar under Local network, since they have no location.
Lookups stay on your Mac
Locations come from a database stored on your Mac. No address is ever sent to a lookup service.
How it works
The map shows the same connections as the list. Each remote IP is looked up in a location database file on your Mac, built from public data with ipgeodb or imported as an .mmdb file. Lookups take microseconds and never leave the machine.
Your home location comes from your Mac’s time zone, so the app needs no location permission. Right-click the map and choose Set Home Here to change it.
A caveat: IP geolocation is approximate. Big networks such as Cloudflare, Google and AWS use the same addresses in many places (anycast), and an address often maps to where the network is registered rather than the server you reach.
Questions
How accurate are the locations?
Usually right to the country and often to the city, but not always. CDNs and cloud providers announce the same addresses from many places, so a connection to a nearby server can appear wherever the network is registered.
Does the map send my connections anywhere?
No. Locations come from a database file on your Mac. The map makes no network requests.
Why do so many connections land in Virginia or California?
Many cloud services are registered to big data-center regions, such as Ashburn, Virginia. That’s where the address is registered, which isn’t always where the server you reach is.
Can I change my home location?
Yes. Right-click anywhere on the map and choose Set Home Here, or reset it to your time zone’s location.