Native for macOS · Nothing leaves your Mac
WiFi X-Ray names every device on your network, grades your security A to F, and hands you the exact steps to fix what is wrong — matched to your router brand where it can identify it.
There are about twelve things on your home network right now. You can probably name four. The rest are quietly making decisions about your privacy.
It runs services, opens ports, and ships with defaults nobody revisits. It is also the one device every other device trusts.
The old trick of naming a device by its MAC prefix now returns nothing on most modern hardware. Something else has to do the naming.
Plenty of tools will show you a wall of numbers. Very few will tell you which one matters this evening, and what to press.
No configuration, no agent to install on anything else, no account to create. Open it and press scan.
About thirty seconds after you press scan, every device on the network is listed by name — phones, TVs, speakers, printers, consoles, smart-home gear. Bonjour names and open-port fingerprints do the identifying, so it still works when a randomized MAC address gives up nothing.
One tap grades Wi-Fi encryption, your router's own exposure, unidentified devices, and the Bluetooth around you. You get a letter and a score out of 100, and every point you lost is itemized in plain language.
Each finding opens into steps you can actually follow, using your router brand's own admin address and menu names when it recognizes one. Re-run the audit and the trend line moves. The menu bar monitor keeps an eye on it after that.
One tap grades encryption, router exposure, unidentified devices, and Bluetooth into a single letter with a score out of 100. Every deduction is explained, ranked, and paired with what to do about it.
FreeBonjour names plus port fingerprinting plus a sticky identity cache. It names what MAC lookup alone cannot.
5 free · all with ProWhen it recognizes the brand it gives that brand's admin address and menu path — Netgear, ASUS, TP-Link, eero, and major ISP gateways. When it cannot, it gives clean generic steps instead of guessing.
FreeSee exactly how crowded every channel is around you, then get a recommendation for the one to switch to. 2.4 GHz is free; Pro adds 5 and 6 GHz.
5 & 6 GHz with ProMap the access points around you by signal strength and watch your own connection move in real time.
FreeFind the devices around you accepting connections from anything in range, including the ones you forgot are yours.
FreeDevices and networks out as CSV or JSON, and the whole audit as a readable security report you can hand to someone.
ProFlip one switch and the friendly cards become a sortable table with BSSID, SNR, noise, open ports, latency, jitter, and packet loss. Same app, same scan, more surface area.
Pro view
The score is computed from real observations on your own network — never from a database of averages, and never from anything sent off the machine.
Plenty of Mac apps will show you networks. The gap has always been what to do next.
| Capability | WiFi X-Ray | Typical Wi-Fi analyzer | Typical LAN scanner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nearby network scanning | Yes | Yes | No |
| Device discovery on your LAN | Yes | No | Yes |
| Identifies devices behind randomized MACs | Often, via Bonjour and port fingerprinting | No | Rarely |
| A to F security grade | Yes | No | No |
| Checks the router's own exposure | Yes | No | No |
| Router-brand-specific fix steps | Yes | No | No |
| Bluetooth exposure analysis | Yes | No | No |
| Pricing model | One-time $14.99 | Often $20 to $100+ | Often subscription |
Comparison describes common patterns in the category rather than any single named competitor at a point in time.
No account. No cloud service. No telemetry, analytics, or ads. Every scan, probe, and grade is computed locally and stays on the machine that ran it — which is also why the app can be honest about what it cannot see.
No subscription, no tiers to decode, no upsell on every screen.
The whole point of the app, unpaid.
For people who want the detail and the paperwork.
No. Every scan, probe, and grade runs locally on your Mac. There is no account, no cloud service, and no telemetry. Nothing about your network leaves the machine.
No, and it does not claim to. WiFi X-Ray grades your security posture from real observations — encryption mode, router exposure, unidentified devices, Bluetooth. It is not an intrusion detection system and it is not an antivirus, and an app that promises either on a home network is overselling.
It combines Bonjour and mDNS service names with open-port fingerprinting and a sticky local identity cache. That is why an Apple TV or a printer usually gets a real name even when vendor lookup by MAC address returns nothing at all.
Never. WiFi X-Ray only observes — it reads what your network already broadcasts. Every change it recommends is one you make yourself, in your own router's admin page, with the steps written out.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, running natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel.
A one-time unlock — no device limit, deep and per-device port scanning, 5 and 6 GHz channel analysis, the Pro tables, latency and speed diagnostics, CSV and JSON export, the shareable security report, and new-device alerts. The full A to F audit and the core scanning stay free whether you buy it or not.
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Free to use · $14.99 one-time Pro unlock · No account, no cloud, no tracking