WiAware

Video calls freeze and you can't tell whether it's your WiFi, your router or the internet. WiAware lives in your Mac's menu bar and answers that in plain words. The icon is the answer: a full wave means calls are fine, a broken wave means calls may stutter, and a dot means calls won't work. Open the menu and it shows where the problem is and what to do about it. It also reads your calendar. Your next meeting waits in the menu with a Join button, and five minutes before it starts WiAware checks your connection and warns you if it isn't ready. During a call it checks every few seconds and tells you when another app, like Dropbox or iCloud, is eating your upload. It keeps 7 days of history on your Mac: every drop, network change and call, with a CSV export for when IT asks. No account, no analytics, nothing uploaded. Native SwiftUI, macOS 15 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and notarized. Every feature is free for 14 days, then $14.99 one time for 2 Macs. No subscription.