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PingStatus for Mac

Monitor your internet connection.

$4.99
In English
Version 2.1.2
3.0
Based on 1 user rate

PingStatus overview

PingStatus is a menu bar app that will monitor the health of your internet connection and provide notification when health has changed.

What's new in version 2.1.2

New
  • Jitter Sensitivity Settings — Adjust jitter detection sensitivity in Settings → Thresholds. Choose Low (50ms), Medium (30ms, ITU-T standard), or High (15ms) presets, or enter a custom value.
  • Disable Jitter Monitoring — A new toggle lets you turn off jitter-based health evaluation entirely. Jitter is still measured and displayed, but won't affect connection health status.
  • DNS Failure Detection — PingStatus now distinguishes between a target being unreachable and DNS resolution failing. The status bar and notifications report "DNS Failure" specifically rather than a generic error. A critical notification is sent with guidance to check your DNS settings.
  • Corporate Wi-Fi Compatibility — Networks that block the macOS system DNS resolver are handled automatically via direct DNS fallback, so monitoring continues uninterrupted.
  • Graph State Change Toggle — Show or hide state change markers on the history graph with a new "State Changes" checkbox.
  • Load Earlier Log Entries — Scroll to the top of the Log window to load historical entries from disk without leaving the app.
Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed recurring false unhealthy/healthy oscillations caused by a single raw socket failure permanently switching to CLI mode. Three consecutive failures are now required.
  • Fixed log window scrollbar disappearing when scrolling up; trackpad scrolling is now smooth.
  • Raw socket mode now resets after system wake instead of remaining stuck in CLI fallback mode.
  • Fixed CLI ping timeout flags on macOS that caused unreliable results in fallback mode.
  • Fixed TCP ping timeouts leaving orphaned background tasks, causing recurring UnobservedTaskException log errors.
  • Fixed stale jitter and reachability diagnostics after network changes such as LinkDown → LinkUp recovery.
  • Fixed a locale bug in the CLI ping parser that could misread valid responses as timeouts on non-English systems.

PingStatus for Mac

$4.99
In English
Version 2.1.2
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3.0

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stew-1
stew-1
Oct 26 2016
1.6
3.0
Oct 26 2016
3.0
Version: 1.6
If trust is an issue, the other two alternatives (PingMenu and IconPing) are both open source and on github,.
GymW
GymW
Oct 14 2016
1.4
0.0
Oct 14 2016
0.0
Version: 1.4
User beware. This app has no instruction, no contact info for the developer--Nothing. The website is blank with no information or email address - i.e. no support of any kind an no resources to report bugs. Since it is at version 1.4 one would assume it has had other releases at earlier times. Other than being on the Apple Store, their is no assurance of accountability or that this is not some form of malware or a personal data collector. I can't vouch for its usefulness or operation as I personally have strong reservations about installing it on my computer for the reasons above.
stew-1
stew-1
Oct 26 2016
3.0
Oct 26 2016
3.0
Version: null