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The Little Snitch Network Monitor shows you where your Mac connects to on the Internet. You decide what you want to allow or deny.

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For more than 20 years, Little Snitch has been keeping a watchful eye on your privacy, letting you know whenever an app wants to connect to the Internet. It has become the number one Network Monitor and Personal Application Firewall for the Mac.

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Connection Alert

Whenever an app wants to connect to the Internet, Little Snitch shows a connection alert, so you can allow or deny the connection. No data is transmitted without your consent.

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Silent Mode

With Silent Mode, new connections are automatically allowed at first. So you won’t get interrupted and you can make your final decision later at your leisure.

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Unhide your Mac’s secret network activity with Little Snitch Network Monitor

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Track the Trackers

Track connections from your Mac to servers worldwide.

Network Monitor – Details

Dive Deep

Discover details such data volumes, server locations or ports and protocols.

Network Monitor – Traffic Insight

Real-Time Insight

Analyze your Mac’s network activity in real time.

Network Monitor – Create Rules

Take Control

Allow or block connections with a single click.

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Versatile Hierarchies

Group connections in different hierarchical arrangements, by app, domain or country and clearly see which apps are connected to whom and where.

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Network Monitor – Analyze
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Analyze like a Pro

The redesigned interactive traffic chart provides fascinating insights into your Mac’s current and past network activity. Discover communication patterns and unusual data transmissions over a period of up to twelve months.

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Search Smarter

Find connections by app, hostname, country, city and more using versatile search tokens.

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Essentials at a glance

The Little Snitch Control Center resides in the menu bar and shows the current network activity, recently denied connections, lets you control operation modes and more.

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Quick Controls

Switch to Silent Mode, or change the currently active profile.

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Network Activity

See your Mac’s recent network activity, and what was blocked.

Blocklists

Easier than ever.

Choose from a curated list of blocklists, organized by topics, and activate them with just a few clicks.

Little Snitch – Blocklist Topics

Daily updates ensure that your blocklists are always on spot.

With support for IP-based blocklists!

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Built-in Little Snitch – DNS Encryption Icon DNS Encryption

Keep your browsing activity private and secure.

Anyone can see which websites you visit by spying on your DNS requests.

But not with Little Snitch!

Little Snitch encrypts your DNS requests and uses trusted DNS services such as Quad9 to keep your browsing private and secure. Requests are encrypted using DoH, DoT, or DoQ.

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The sound of connections

Pushing all your senses.

Get acoustic notifications for selected network connections. Listen to your Mac connecting to particular servers, even when you’re not looking at the screen.

Select from a fun variety of built-in notification sounds, some of which are modulated depending on the amount of data transmitted.

Little Snitch – Sound Rules

You decide what your Mac is allowed to do on the network

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Decide

Decide which apps connect where and limit access to specific servers, domains, ports, or protocols.

Organize

Subscribe to rule groups, or create Profiles, and switch between them automatically.

Tidy Up

See when rules become invalid, or redundant as being covered by other rules, and even get suggestions for new rules.

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Rule Groups

Organize your rules in groups, either locally on your Mac or subscribed from a remote server, and switch them on or off with a single click.

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Find everything. Easily.

List all recently used rules, or show deny rules only by using the new quick filters build-in right into the search field.

Application Groups

Create rules that apply to all macOS or Simulator processes.

Usage Statistics

See how often your rules were applied.

Bidirectional Rules

Create rules covering both outgoing and incoming connections.

And so much more

Command Line Utility

Control at your Fingertips

Change settings, export rules, respond to alerts, or log all deny / allow events, right from the command line.

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Automatic Profile Switching

The perfect rules for every situation

Connect to a new Wi-Fi, choose a profile, and Little Snitch will switch automatically next time.

Identifier Based Rules

Cryptographic process identification

Processes are identified based on their cryptographic code signature, regardless of their file path*. This makes them resistant against moving or renaming apps.

* Identification based on file path still available via dedicated option.

Network Monitor – Search Smarter
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Want to see Little Snitch in action?

Download your 30-day free trial* today.

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* Without a license key, Little Snitch runs in demo mode, which provides the same protection and functionality as the full version. The demo runs for three hours, and it can be restarted as often as you like. The Network Monitor expires after 30 days. Turn it into a full version by entering a license key.

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