Wavebug

Know what your Wi-Fi is doing.

Wavebug sits in your Mac's menu bar and shows signal, speed and delay as they happen. When a call stutters, you can see why.

Buy for £3.99 £3.99 once · macOS 14 or later
Home 5G
Wi-Fi 6 · 5 GHz · Ch 44
Excellent
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84.3Mbps
UPLOAD
12.6Mbps
SIGNAL STRENGTH 1 hour
NOISE
-91 dBm
SNR
39 dB
LINK RATE
1201 Mbps
THROUGHPUT Down Up

Wi-Fi or your provider?

Wavebug times the trip to your router and to the internet separately, so you know which one is slow.

Find the good spot

Watch signal strength change as you move the laptop or the router, and keep what works.

Evidence, not a hunch

Run a speed test whenever you like, or on a schedule. Every result is kept, ready for the next call to your provider.

A minute ago, or all year

Graphs cover anything from the last minute to all time. Point at any moment to read the exact value and when it happened.

SIGNAL STRENGTH 24 hours
-51 dBm · Excellent
14:32
LATENCY Last minute
Your Wi-Fi is fine; the delay is from your provider
INTERNET
96 ms
ROUTER
1.8 ms
JITTER
6.2 ms
LOSS
0%

The numbers behind a bad call

Delay, jitter and dropped packets are what make video freeze. Wavebug measures all three, then tells you in plain words whether your Wi-Fi or your provider is to blame.

Guests join with a glance

Show a QR code and a phone's camera does the rest. No reading the password off the back of the router.

Join Home 5G
WPA2 Personal
Sample Wi-Fi QR code with the Wavebug mark in the centre
Point a phone's camera at the code to join.

ALSO IN THE BOX

Quiet alerts

A nudge when signal drops, delay climbs or the connection goes. Off until you want them.

Your menu bar, your call

Show speed, signal or ping beside the icon, or just the icon.

Four themes, seven fonts

Frosted (which follows your Mac's light or dark mode), Midnight, Light, or Black and Chrome.

Snapshots worth sharing

Copy a tidy card of your connection or a speed test. Addresses and your network's name are left out.

Light on your Mac

With the panel closed, Wavebug does almost nothing.

Private by default

No account and no tracking. Your history stays on your Mac.

Wavebug app icon

Pay once. Keep it.

£3.99, no subscription. For Macs running macOS 14 or later.

Buy for £3.99