WiAware

WiAware lives in your Mac’s menu bar and tells you, in plain words, whether your connection is good enough for a call. The icon is the answer: a full wave means calls are fine, a broken wave means they may stutter, and a dot means they won’t work. Open the menu to see where the problem is (your WiFi, your router or the internet) and what to do about it. Five minutes before each meeting in your calendar, it checks your connection and warns you if it isn’t ready. During a call, it tells you when an app like Dropbox or iCloud is eating your upload. It keeps 7 days of history, with a CSV export. No account, no analytics, nothing uploaded. For anyone who works on calls from home, a cafe or the office.