Grounded in your data
The model sees what your connection is doing right now — RSSI, band, congestion — and answers against that. Generic Wi‑Fi advice need not apply.
Wifilicious · 2.0
What your Mac knows about Wi‑Fi.
Your Mac already measures all of this. Wifilicious lays it out — signal, speed, history, and Apple Intelligence answers.
Overview
The whole connection, in one window.
Signal, standard, security, live throughput — all on screen at once, updated as the connection changes. The readings your Mac has been keeping to itself.
Now in 14 languages
Hello in every language Wifilicious speaks
14 languages, each one translated by a human — not a machine. Everything speaks: the signal explanations, the AI answers, even the little alerts from macOS.
- English
- Dansk
- Deutsch
- Español
- Français
- Italiano
- 日本語
- 한국어
- Norsk bokmål
- Nederlands
- Português (Brasil)
- Português (Portugal)
- Svenska
- Tiếng Việt
Powered by Apple Intelligence
Your network, answered in a sentence.
Apple Intelligence reads your live connection data and answers in the kind of sentence a friend who knows networking would give you. On‑device, in your language, never uploaded.
A summary on every tab
Each tab ends with a short paragraph of prose — the interesting bit from what's on screen, pulled out for you.
Nothing leaves the Mac
The conversation stays on the machine it started on. No account, no round‑trip to a server, no training set it feeds into.
macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence for Ask and Insights.
Signal
The raw numbers — dBm, SNR, the noise floor.
Green checkmarks are fine until something breaks. When it does, you want the raw numbers — and a definition close enough at hand that you don't have to Google it.
- RSSI
- The signal your Mac is pulling in, in dBm. More negative is weaker; −50 is excellent, −80 is where trouble starts.
- SNR
- Signal‑to‑noise ratio — the gap between your signal and the ambient hash. A quiet channel matters more than a loud voice.
- Noise floor
- The background hiss on your channel. A strong signal over a loud floor still comes through muddy.
- Link rate
- The speed your Mac and router have negotiated for this session. A ceiling, not a guarantee.
- Channel
- The slice of spectrum you're sitting on, plus its width — 20, 40, 80, or 160 MHz.
- Standard
- Wi‑Fi 5, 6, 6E, or 7 — the protocol caps everything else on this list.
Speed
Your Wi‑Fi link, measured honestly.
Most speed tests measure the pipe — ISP to server, Ethernet or whatever. This one runs over the Wi‑Fi hop you're actually sitting on, with download, upload, latency, and DNS, so you can tell the router apart from the carrier. Powered by Cloudflare.
- ~9 MB down, 5 MB up per run. Small enough to run on a whim when something feels off.
- Measures the Wi‑Fi link, not just the ISP. If speed tanks here but the cable side is fine, this is where you'll see it.
- No account, nothing uploaded. What the test finds stays between your Mac and Cloudflare.
Trends
The last hour, the last week.
Seven metrics — signal, link speed, noise, SNR, latency, throughput, channel — sampled continuously and kept locally. Scrub back an hour, a day, or the whole month.
- Time ranges
- 1H – All 1 hour, 6 hours, 1 day, 7 days, or everything
- Metrics tracked
- 7 Connection, signal, link speed, noise & SNR, latency, throughput, channel
- Uploaded
- 0 bytes Every sample lives on your Mac; none of them leave
Menu bar
In the menu bar, or in the window.
A quick read‑out in the menu bar for the "is it fine right now?" question. The full window for every other question. You decide what shows up where.
In the menu bar
Signal quality, link rate, latency — pick from a dozen metrics for the menu bar; the rest live in a popover a click away.
In the window
IPv4, IPv6, BSSID, gateway, MAC, band, country code — every field copy‑pasteable, for the rare moment someone actually asks for a BSSID.
Privacy
The app doesn't phone home.
On‑device
Signal readings, speed tests, AI conversations — all of it computed on your Mac. There's nowhere else for it to go, because there's no server.
No account
No sign‑up page, no email to verify, no lingering identity. You open the app and it works.
No tracking
No analytics, no telemetry, no third‑party SDKs. Crash reports only if you opt in.
macOS gates Wi‑Fi identifiers behind Location permission; Wifilicious asks for exactly that reason. Your location itself is never read or stored.
One purchase, every Mac you sign into.
Wifilicious is on the Mac App Store. No subscription, no upgrade fees.
macOS 15 Sequoia or later. macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence for Ask and Insights.
FAQ
Common questions.
Do I need macOS 26 to use Wifilicious?
No. The core app — Signal, Speed, Trends, Details, menu bar — runs on macos 15 sequoia or later. The Ask and Insights tabs are the exception; those need macOS 26 on an Apple-Intelligence-capable Mac.
Why does the app ask for Location access?
macOS puts Wi-Fi identifiers — SSID, BSSID, signal strength — behind Location permission, and every third-party Wi-Fi app has to ask for it. Wifilicious asks for exactly that reason, and never reads or records your location itself.
Is any of my data uploaded?
No. Signal readings, speed tests, and the AI conversations all happen on the Mac. The only outbound traffic the app originates is the speed test itself — roughly 9 MB down and 5 MB up per run, to Cloudflare.
Can I use it on multiple Macs?
Yes. Apple's Mac App Store license covers every Mac signed into your Apple ID, so one purchase covers the lot.
How is this different from the built-in Wi-Fi menu?
Option-clicking the Wi-Fi menu gives you six or seven readings, frozen in time. Wifilicious keeps dozens — link rate, SNR, noise floor, BSSID, channel width — logs them continuously, runs proper speed tests, and hands the whole lot to Apple Intelligence when you want a second opinion.
Can I customize what the menu bar shows?
Yes. The Settings tab lists around a dozen metrics — signal quality, latency, link rate, throughput, BSSID, DNS, and so on — each with a toggle. Show one, show five, show none; it's your menu bar.