Specification
Everything it does, and nothing it does not.
Every setting, reading and limit in one place, written out plainly, including the things Pinned deliberately does not do.
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Menu barThe part you see all day
Layout
One row or two.
Icon style
Arrows, triangles, dots, letters, or no icon at all.
Directions
Download only, upload only, or both.
Typography
Units on or off. Font size to taste.
Colour
Monochrome, or your own colours per direction.
Sparkline
Optional, inline, beside the numbers.
Idle
Dims when nothing is moving, so a quiet Mac looks quiet.
Width
Guaranteed fixed. The item never jitters as the rate crosses a unit boundary, and never pushes your other menu bar items around.
02
PanelOne click away
Live
Current download and upload rate.
Chart
An opposed area chart: download above the line, upload below. Linear, logarithmic, or a fixed maximum.
Per app
Which process is moving the bytes, ranked and live, sampled at a 3 second floor while the panel is open. An enabled app-rate alert uses a slower 10 second watcher while the panel is closed. No helper, no prompt.
Usage
A usage chart for the current billing cycle, with the share of your cap used and the per-network split.
Totals
This session, and the current period.
Quality
Latency, jitter and packet loss, plus the responsiveness test on a button.
Interface
MAC address, MTU, link speed, IPv4, IPv6 and DNS.
Wi-Fi
SSID, BSSID, RSSI, noise, channel, band, width, security and PHY mode.
Download
Upload
Linear, auto peak
03
AlertsOnly when it matters
Notify me when a value crosses a threshold and stays there for a duration I choose. A one-second dip is not an event.
Watchable
Download speed, upload speed, latency, or how much of your data cap is used.
Cap thresholds
At the share of your cycle's allowance you pick, counted on the cycle, not the calendar month.
Also
Connection lost.
Condition
Above or below a threshold, held for a duration you set.
Cooldown
Every rule has one, so a flapping link cannot spam you.
04
Data usageYour billing cycle, not the month
Session
Since the app started, or since you last reset it.
Period
Daily, weekly or monthly totals.
Cap
Your allowance, counted against the day your carrier's cycle starts, not the first of the month.
Short months
A cycle day of 31 uses 28 February and 30 April.
Projection
The date you reach the cap at your current rate, in a sentence.
Per network
How much went over each network you used.
Rollover
On the real boundary, not a rolling window counted back from now.
05
UnitsBoth camps are served
Unit
Bytes or bits. MB/s or Mbps.
Base
1000 or 1024. Network convention or storage convention, your choice.
06
LanguagesAll of it, not the menus
Localized editions
Thirty locale variants covering Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Everything
Every screen, every alert, every notification, and what VoiceOver reads aloud. Not a translated menu on an English app.
Right to left
Arabic mirrors the whole layout, because macOS does and the app does not fight it.