Wire Goose
Free · macOS 12 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · Version 1.0.0, 21 MB
Wire Goose is a network monitor that shows which apps send your data to companies at home and which send it to external ones, so you can see where it really goes and test the privacy promises apps make under laws like GDPR (in the EEA) and CCPA (in the US).
Every lookup happens on your computer. Wire Goose makes no network connections of its own.
The window
Sample data. Click Location or Jurisdiction to flip the map.
Wire GooseSearch apps or countries
Server location
Operator jurisdiction
Data out
Data in
EEA, your home region
Operator jurisdiction: where the operator's parent company is headquartered
Traffic Totals
Updates with all filters. Currently showing the last 3 days selected above.
Sent 7.4 GBReceived 66 GB
Live
Showing right now
The menu bar
Sample data. The six bars are the last six jurisdiction balances: home below, abroad above.
Last sent toUnited StatesGoogle
Today, 74% of what you sent went to US-based operators.
Most active
BBrave BrowserUS 58%
TMicrosoft TeamsUS 96%
CChatGPTUS 100%
Open Wire Goose
- Every app with live traffic, out and in, and a pill saying where its data goes.
- A world map with your data as moving pulses, out in amber, in in teal.
- Location or Jurisdiction: where the servers are, or where the companies running them are based.
- The split of what you sent: your home region against the rest.
- Thirty days of history, and every pane filters to the days you pick.
- A live meter in the menu bar.