Internet Utilities for MAC
25 free Mac apps in Internet Utilities, including yt-dlp, ForkLift, and R2Drop. Each app page lists its version, size, macOS requirement and what’s new, and the download button leads to the developer’s official source.
25 apps
- yt-dlpyt-dlp is a free, open-source command-line program that downloads video and audio from YouTube and thousands of other websites. You give it a web address in Terminal and it saves the video, the audio only, or a whole playlist or channel, in the format and quality you choose. yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, is developed by a large group of volunteers, and is released into the public domain under the Unlicense.Internet Utilities
ForkLiftForkLift is a dual-pane file manager and file transfer client for Mac. It shows two folders side by side, so you can copy and move files between them, and it connects to remote servers and cloud storage as easily as to your own disks: SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, SMB, AFP, NFS and more. It can compare and sync folders, rename many files at once and preview almost any file. ForkLift is made by Binarynights.Internet Utilities
R2DropUploading a file to Cloudflare R2 usually means opening the Cloudflare dashboard or using a command-line tool. R2Drop makes it part of the Mac: right-click a file in Finder and choose Send to R2, drop files on its menu bar or Dock icon, or pick files and folders from a window. Uploads run in a background queue with progress, retries, pause and cancel, and the public URL is copied for you when they finish.Internet Utilities
LanGuardLanGuard is a free, open-source menu bar app that turns Wi-Fi off the moment a wired network link goes up and switches it back on when you unplug. By default macOS keeps Wi-Fi running even when your Mac is docked over Ethernet, which leaves a second network route active and can send traffic out the wrong connection. LanGuard handles the switch for you. It acts only on plug and unplug moments, so if you turn Wi-Fi back on by hand while docked, it stays on until you next unplug the cable.Internet Utilities
WhatRouteWhatRoute is a network diagnostic utility for the Mac. Its main job is traceroute: it shows each router your data passes through on its way to another computer. It can also ping, run Domain Name Service queries and Whois lookups, and monitor the traffic to and from your Mac. A geolocation service places the routers on a world map, so you can see the geographical path your packets take across the Internet, and a selected area can be opened in Apple Maps or Google Maps for a closer view.Internet Utilities
RheaRhea is a small status bar utility for the Mac that makes sharing files and links quick. Drag a file onto its menu bar icon and Rhea uploads it to your Dropbox, copying the link to your clipboard while the upload carries on in the background, so you can paste it right away. Drag a web link onto the icon instead and Rhea shortens it. Both actions also work from the dropdown menu when a file path, file URL or web address is already on your clipboard. Its developer compares it to CloudApp and Dropshare.Internet Utilities
SSH Tunnel ManagerSSH Tunnel Manager is a lightweight menu bar app for managing SSH port forwards on the Mac. Instead of typing ssh -N -L commands in Terminal and forgetting which tunnels are running, you set each tunnel up once in Settings and switch it on or off from the menu bar. It is written in native Swift and AppKit and uses the SSH that comes with macOS, with no bundled binaries.Internet Utilities
HoleberryHoleberry is a native menu bar app for people who run Pi-hole, the network-wide ad blocker. It puts your Pi-hole on the Mac menu bar, so you can check blocking status and query stats, pause blocking, and handle blocked domains without opening the Pi-hole web interface. The menu bar icon shows your Pi-hole's health at all times, and the menu shows total queries and blocked domains. When a page fails to load because Pi-hole blocked it, Holeberry detects the current tab in Safari, Orion, Chrome and Chromium browsers, Firefox, Zen and others, and unblocks that exact domain with one click, so the rest of your network stays protected.Internet Utilities
WiFi LensWiFi Lens is a native Mac app for understanding the Wi-Fi around you. It scans nearby networks across the 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz bands, charts channel occupancy, scores congestion and recommends channels for your region. For each network you can inspect the PHY generation, channel width, 802.11k/r/v support and WPA3, and for your own connection the IP, gateway, DNS, MAC, transmit rate and security summary. A roaming test monitors handoffs between access points, a heatmap compares occupancy per band, and AP Radar helps you track a selected access point by signal strength, with optional audio feedback.Internet Utilities
VPN BypassVPN Bypass is a menu bar app for macOS that decides which traffic goes through your VPN. You pick the services and domains that should skip the VPN, or the few that must use it, and the app keeps the routes right as the VPN reconnects and addresses change. It is meant for full-tunnel VPN clients that send everything through the tunnel, which can stall streaming and break AirPlay or Chromecast.Internet Utilities
Progressive DownloaderProgressive Downloader is a download manager for Mac that splits a file across several connections to use the full width of your internet connection. You can pause and resume tasks, limit how many downloads run at once, and let the app sort files into groups by type or source. When a link fails, its mirror search looks for another source.Internet Utilities
Transmission Remote GUITransmission Remote GUI is a native SwiftUI app for controlling a Transmission BitTorrent daemon from your Mac over its RPC protocol. It does not run the BitTorrent engine itself: that stays on your server, so you need a running transmission-daemon with RPC enabled. The app is a modern, from-scratch reimagining of the classic transgui, written independently in Swift without code from other projects.Internet Utilities
ElectronMailElectronMail is an unofficial desktop client for Proton Mail. It is not made by Proton. The app aims to give you features that the official web clients in a browser do not have, and it ships with Proton's own web clients built from their source code and packaged inside the app. The main addition is full-text search, which can also scan the body of your emails, along with offline reading through an optional local store kept in an encrypted database file.Internet Utilities
Xtreme Download ManagerXtreme Download Manager, or XDM, is a free, open-source download manager for macOS. It speeds up downloads by splitting them across several connections, picks up broken downloads where they left off and saves videos from streaming sites. A companion browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and other popular browsers hands downloads and detected videos to the app, so you do not have to copy links by hand. The extension talks to the app over a local-only connection.Internet Utilities
ThunderbirdThunderbird is a free and open-source email app for macOS that also manages your calendars, contacts and tasks in one place. All your email accounts live in a single app, so you can handle them separately or read everything in a unified inbox, then filter, search and organize your messages the way you like. Its developers say it is free forever and that it does not show ads in your inbox or make money by reading your email.Internet Utilities
TriblerTribler is a BitTorrent client focused on privacy. It hides who is downloading what with Tor-inspired onion routing, and lets you search for content by keyword and stream from magnet links, all without relying on any central server. Tribler stays fully compatible with BitTorrent, so it works with the torrents you already use. Version 8.4.3 makes things faster and smaller and adds a setting to choose whether torrent information is kept in memory or on disk.Internet Utilities
Flying CarpetFlying Carpet sends and receives files between Mac, Android, iPhone, Windows and Linux, with no internet or cell connection needed. It works like a cross-platform AirDrop: transfer over a Wi-Fi or wired network both devices are already on, or have one device create its own Wi-Fi hotspot for the other to join. It is handy when you have no flash drive, no shared network, or need to move a file larger than 2 GB between different systems.Internet Utilities
MotrixMotrix is a clean, full-featured download manager for HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, magnet links and more. Add a link or a torrent and Motrix downloads it, with per-file selection for torrents, speed limits with several profiles, and sessions that restore your downloads after a restart. A customizable dashboard shows transfer statistics and live activity, and you get a notification when a download finishes. The Motrix Extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox hands browser downloads to Motrix in one click.Internet Utilities
TunnelblickTunnelblick is a free graphical interface for OpenVPN on macOS. It gives you easy control of OpenVPN connections from an icon in the menu bar: install the configuration file your VPN provider, school or company gives you, then connect and disconnect with a click. You can keep several configurations, see the status of each connection, and use the options for network monitoring and IPv6 that Tunnelblick offers to keep your connection behaving as expected.Internet Utilities
SyncthingSyncthing keeps folders in sync between your own computers and devices, directly and privately. Instead of uploading files to a company's cloud, your devices talk to each other, so your data stays on hardware you own. Choose a folder, share it with another device running Syncthing, on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer, and changes are copied across automatically. Syncthing for macOS is the official Mac app: it puts Syncthing in your menu bar with a status icon, opens Syncthing's web interface in your browser, can start at login, and opens shared folders in Finder.Internet Utilities
FinickyFinicky makes sure every link opens in the right browser. Set it as your default browser and it decides, for each link you click in any app, which browser should open it. You might send work tools such as Google Meet or LinkedIn to one browser and social sites to another, or open everything from a work chat in a separate profile. Finicky can also change links before opening them, for example to force HTTPS or remove tracking parameters.Internet Utilities
CyberduckCyberduck is a free file browser for servers and cloud storage. It connects to FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and SMB servers, and to cloud services such as Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint, Backblaze B2, Azure, Nextcloud and many more. Files are shown in a simple browser window, and you can upload, download, sync folders, and edit remote files in your usual text editor. With built-in Cryptomator support, files can be encrypted before they reach the cloud. Cyberduck is made by iterate GmbH in Switzerland.Internet Utilities
qBittorrentqBittorrent is a free BitTorrent client that aims to be a clean, ad-free alternative to µTorrent. It downloads and shares files over the BitTorrent network, with everything you need in one window: a built-in torrent search engine, an RSS feed reader that can download new episodes automatically, sequential downloading, a bandwidth scheduler and a Web UI to control it from another device. It is built on the libtorrent library and the Qt toolkit, and developed by volunteers around the world.Internet Utilities
TransmitTransmit is a file transfer app for Mac made by Panic. It uploads, downloads and manages files on all kinds of servers with a familiar, Finder-like interface: the classics FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3, plus cloud services such as Backblaze B2, Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft Azure, OneDrive for Business and Rackspace Cloud Files. It can sync folders, rename many files at once and keep your sites in sync between Macs with Panic Sync.Internet Utilities