At a glance
| Drippy | Stats | |
|---|---|---|
| Live speeds in the menu bar | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public IP | ✓ | ✓ |
| Usage by app, kept by day, week, month | ✓ | — |
| Usage by network | ✓ | — |
| Data cap alerts | Cap, reset day and free hours | — |
| Outage and IP change alerts | ✓ | — |
| Scheduled speed tests | ✓ | — |
| Block apps and domains | ✓ | — |
| CPU, memory, disk, sensors | — | ✓ |
| Price | Paid, see pricing | Free, open source |
| Runs on | macOS 11 or later | macOS 12 or later |
Where Stats is enough
Stats shows upload and download speeds in the menu bar along with a pile of other system readings, costs nothing and the source is on GitHub. If you're on an unlimited connection and just like seeing the numbers move, use it.
What Drippy adds
Drippy records everything it sees. You get today, this week and this month, split by app and by network, and the history survives restarts. Set your cap and reset day and it warns you before you go over, which is the whole point on a hotspot or a capped plan.
It also pings your host to catch drops, runs scheduled speed tests and tells you when your public IP changes, so you can show your provider when the connection was bad.
Questions
Is Stats safe?
It's open source under the MIT license, so anyone can read the code. Its public IP lookup goes through the developer's server.
Is there a free data usage monitor for Mac?
Activity Monitor and nettop show usage since startup for free, but neither keeps history. Drippy keeps it by day, app and network.