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Sindre Sorhus

New app:

Online Check — See whether you are online or not directly in the menu bar

sindresorhus.com/online-check

15 comments
Sindre Sorhus

The app is forever free (without any ads or tracking) and requires macOS 14.

Sindre Sorhus

And you can hide the menu bar icon if you only want the notifications.

Sindre Sorhus

Added a history window in the latest update.

Sindre Sorhus

Added support for running a shortcut (from the Shortcuts app) on online/offline status changes. This enables a lot of cool use-cases. You could, for example, restart your Wi-Fi when the connection goes out. Or you could do your own logging. Or your own notifications.

Jonathan Trott

@sindresorhus nice 😀 How about reporting the length of the outage in the connection up notification?

Kushal Pandya

@sindresorhus nice, auto switching to tethered connection ✌️

Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:

@sindresorhus ah sweet I wanted one of these forever. Any chance to specify my own online target servers if I don’t like the default ones?

Owen 🇦🇺 

@sindresorhus Cool, I’ll probably use this app.

Suggestion - if you could add links to open network and/or wi-fi settings I could probably remove the wi-fi icon from my menu bar and just use this app instead 😊

Sindre Sorhus

@vanitalo Good idea. Will add it in the next update.

Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈

@sindresorhus as a non-mac user, surprised to hear this isn't something already provided by the OS...

sweet app, though! love small utilities like this—focused on one particular thing, nothing more, nothing less :)

podfeet

@sindresorhus Cool! I noticed that if online-check isn’t in the main menu bar but rather in Bartender’s secondary bar, it doesn’t turn red when my Mac is offline. It _does_ turn red when in the main menu bar. Is that expected behavior?

Sindre Sorhus

@podfeet That is unrelated to Online Check and something you will have to contact Bartender support about.

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