Little Snitch For Mac

Little Snitch For Mac Overview

Once you are connected to the Internet, applications can potentially send whatever they want, wherever they want. Most often they do this in your favor. But sometimes, such as in the case of tracking software, Trojans or other malware, they don’t. But you don’t notice anything, because it all happens unnoticed under the hood. Little Snitch makes those internet connections visible and gives you back control!

Little Snitch For Mac Features

Alert Mode
Whenever an app tries to connect to a server on the Internet, Little Snitch displays a connection alert, allowing you to decide whether to allow or deny the connection. No data is transferred without your consent. Your decision will be remembered and automatically applied in the future.

Quiet Mode
If you’re new to Little Snitch, you might be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of notifications from apps wanting to connect to the Internet. The all-new silent mode has been redesigned from the ground up to make them easy to handle. This allows you to turn off all notifications for a while and make all decisions later, with just a few clicks, in one go.

The world of network connections
Network Monitor is your window to the world of network connections. View your Mac’s network activity from three perspectives—a list of apps and servers, a network of connections around the world, and an hourly history of data traffic.

Server, where are you?
Have you ever wanted to know where in the world your data is being sent? Network Monitor shows the location of all the servers your Mac is connected to on an interactive world map. Animated connection lines provide a clear view of data currently being transferred and blocked connections.

What’s New in Little Snitch 5
A beautiful new design, improved traffic statistics, an all-new command line interface, simplified drag-and-drop installation, and full compatibility with the latest versions of macOS set Little Snitch 5 apart from its predecessor.

Redesigned Filtering Engine and User Interface
Little Snitch 5’s development focus was on integrating the new network filtering technologies introduced by Apple in macOS Big Sur. The core filtering engine has been rebuilt from the ground up to replace the previous kernel extension-based approach, which is no longer supported by macOS.

Additionally, Little Snitch has been adapted to the operating system’s sleek new design language with great attention to detail. New design features such as a prominent search bar and a newly structured sidebar go beyond aesthetic choices and add a level of simplicity and intuitiveness to the user interface.

Drag and drop installation Many users have been looking forward to the simplified drag and drop installation. Now you no longer need to restart your computer to install or update Little Snitch.

Improved traffic monitoring
Little Snitch now effectively collects connection information in the background. Collecting this information no longer requires running the Network Monitor application, resulting in reduced memory and CPU consumption.

The improved monitoring system is now able to store traffic information for the entire year, and not just the last hour, as before.

Command Line Interface
System administrators can now configure various program settings through the command line interface, making Little Snitch scriptable for the first time.

This interface now also offers the ability to report network connections in a log format for detailed and comprehensive traffic analysis.

File Information

Year of release : 2024
Version : 5.7.4
Developer : Objective Development
Developer website : https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Platform : Intel/Apple Silicon Universal
Interface language : English
Tablet : Present

System Requirements

macOS 11 and later