Covering PeakHour

Short

PeakHour is an AI-powered network monitor for macOS that shows you — in real time — exactly what your internet is doing, from your Mac to your router to your ISP.

Medium

PeakHour 6 is a real-time network monitoring app for macOS that lives in your menu bar and gives you a complete picture of your internet connection. Its dashboard visualizes the entire path from your Mac through your Wi-Fi and router to your ISP, while the AI Network Advisor explains problems in plain language. Bandwidth, latency, packet loss, Wi-Fi signal quality, outage history, and speed tests are all tracked continuously — so when the internet feels slow, PeakHour can tell you what, where, and why.

Long

PeakHour 6 is a ground-up reimagining of the network monitoring app Mac users have relied on for years. At its heart is a Liquid Glass dashboard that visualizes your entire connection as a living chain — This Mac, Wi-Fi, router, ISP, and the internet beyond — with per-hop health, latency, and throughput updated in real time.

The headline feature is the AI Network Advisor: ask it why your video call stuttered and it analyzes your live telemetry — latency spikes, packet loss, Wi-Fi congestion, ISP behaviour — and answers in plain English. Wi-Fi Intelligence breaks down signal, channel, and speed; Router & ISP Details surface the upstream environment most utilities ignore; and rich History views make outages, slowdowns, and data usage easy to pinpoint after the fact.

PeakHour 6 requires macOS 14.6 Sonoma or later and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It is available exclusively on the Mac App Store as a free download with a trial; ongoing use is $19.99/year or a one-time $59.99 lifetime license, with discounted upgrade pricing for existing PeakHour 4 customers.