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Devices on your network

Who's on your Wi-Fi?

Your network has a guest list, and you should get to read it. Pulse inventories every device it can see, identifies the maker behind each one, and tells you when someone new shows up.

Devices on your network: router plus identified devices by manufacturer

Real screenshot from the current release — addresses blurred. Click to zoom.

An inventory that names names

Each device is identified by the manufacturer encoded in its hardware address — the smart TV, the thermostat, the mystery box that turns out to be the vacuum. Give devices your own names and Pulse remembers them per network.

A heads-up when someone new joins

Pulse baselines the devices it has seen on each of your networks. Turn on alerts and a newcomer raises a quiet card — useful at home, illuminating on a network you share with strangers.

The router tripwire

The nastiest LAN attack is someone impersonating your router to sit in the middle of your traffic. If the gateway's hardware identity suddenly changes — the classic ARP-spoofing fingerprint — Pulse treats it as the serious event it is.

Under the hoodPassive by default: Pulse reads the Mac's own neighbor table — no packets sent. Optional device naming uses Bonjour (asks for Local Network permission), and the active probe is off until you enable it per network. All baselines stay on your Mac.

Read your network's guest list.

Devices on your network is one of eighteen tools in the free download. 9.5 MB, notarized by Apple.

Keep exploring: Network activity · What you broadcast · all 18 tools