Now with Liquid Glass · built for macOS

See the heartbeat of your network.

PingGrapher charts round-trip latency to any host in real time — with live latency zones, packet-loss and jitter tracking, and a menu-bar pulse that's always one glance away.

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Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later · Universal — Apple silicon & Intel

PingGrapher — 8.8.8.8
PingGrapher live latency graph for host 8.8.8.8 showing round-trip times with green, yellow and red latency zones

Everything in one window

A focused tool for one job, done right.

No dashboards to configure, no agents to install. Point it at a host and watch the latency unfold.

Real-time latency graph

Every reply plotted the instant it lands — smooth, continuous charting down to sub-millisecond resolution.

Latency zones

Color-banded thresholds — healthy, elevated, critical — make trouble obvious before anyone files a ticket.

Menu-bar pulse

Live round-trip time right in your menu bar. Click for a sparkline and recent history without opening the app.

Packet loss & jitter

Track drops and variance alongside latency — spot the instability a single ping number always hides.

Multi-host monitoring

Watch your gateway, DNS, and remote servers side by side. Add as many hosts as you need to keep an eye on.

Private by design

Every ping runs locally on your Mac. No account, no telemetry — nothing about your network ever leaves the machine.

Real-time graphing

Latency, drawn the moment it happens.

PingGrapher streams every ICMP reply onto a live, scrolling chart. Steady green bars are your baseline; the orange spikes are the outliers you actually care about — instantly visible, never buried in an average.

  • ✓Continuous high-frequency sampling with a smooth scrolling timeline
  • ✓The big current reading stays pinned, so the latest RTT is always front and center
  • ✓Hover any point for the exact timestamp, RTT, and sequence number
Live latency chart with steady green baseline and orange latency spikes

Latency zones

Good, elevated, critical — at a glance.

Set your own thresholds. PingGrapher paints the background in living color so the state of a connection reads from across the room.

Critical> 150 msCalls drop, sessions stall. Flagged red the instant a reply crosses the line.
Elevated50 – 150 msNoticeable lag building up — worth a look before it gets worse.
Healthy0 – 50 msEverything's snappy. The green baseline you want to see.

Always on

Your network's pulse, in the menu bar.

PingGrapher lives quietly in your menu bar with the current round-trip time always showing. Click it for a sparkline of the last few minutes and jump to the full window only when something looks off.

  • ✓Live RTT in the menu bar, tinted by zone
  • ✓A Liquid Glass dropdown with recent history at a glance
  • ✓Optional alerts when a host goes dark or latency spikes
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FAQ

Questions, answered.

What exactly does PingGrapher do?
It continuously pings any host you choose and graphs the round-trip latency in real time. You get a live scrolling chart, color-coded latency zones, packet-loss and jitter tracking, and a live readout in your menu bar.
What are the system requirements?
PingGrapher runs on macOS 13 Ventura or later and is a universal app — native on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Can I monitor more than one host?
Yes. Add as many hosts as you like — your gateway, DNS resolvers, remote servers — and watch them side by side, each with its own graph and zones.
Is my network data private?
Completely. All pinging and monitoring happens locally on your Mac. There are no accounts and no telemetry, and nothing about your network is ever sent to a server.
Can I customize the latency thresholds?
Absolutely. The healthy / elevated / critical bands are fully adjustable per host, so the zones match whatever "good" means for your connection.
Does it keep history?
Yes — PingGrapher retains recent timelines so you can scroll back to see when a spike or outage happened, and export the data when you need a record.

Ready to feel your network's pulse?

Download PingGrapher and put a live heartbeat monitor for your connection right in your menu bar.

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