PeakHour 6 - Real-time network monitor for Mac w/ detailed WiFi insights

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! 🙏