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Blip v1.5.0 turns the menu-bar monitor into a full diagnostics toolkit — kill runaway processes, trace and map your network path on-device, benchmark your network and disks, and get plain-language optimization tips — all in the same featherlight, open-source app.

✨ New features

  • Optimization recommendations — a dismissable "Suggestion" banner surfaces actionable advice: runaway-CPU apps, high memory pressure / heavy swap, thermal throttling, a nearly-full startup disk, S.M.A.R.T. warnings, low SSD life, and weak battery health. It only ever suggests quitting your own apps — never system services. Highest-severity first; dismissed items stay hidden for 24h (or until the condition worsens).
  • Kill processes from the menu bar — hover any row in the CPU/Memory top-process lists to reveal a quit control (two-click confirm; ⌥ for force/SIGKILL).
  • Live Traceroute / MTR — a continuous traceroute with MTR-style per-hop stats (sent/received, loss %, last/avg/best/worst latency), refreshing ~1×/sec with color-coded loss.
  • Traceroute map (fully on-device) — a "Map" disclosure plots each hop across the world. Geolocation is done entirely on-device from an optional database you download yourself (DB-IP IP-to-City Lite, free for commercial use) — no IP addresses are ever sent to a third-party lookup service. Manage and auto-update it in Settings → Network.
  • Network speed test (OpenSpeedTest) — measures download/upload throughput. Use the public test (driven in the background via OpenSpeedTest's widget, results graphed right in Blip) or point Blip at your own self-hosted OpenSpeedTest server for unlimited, fully-private, interval testing. No reverse-engineered or unsanctioned endpoints.
  • Disk speed test — sequential write/read MB/s plus random-read IOPS using uncached POSIX I/O (F_NOCACHE) — true device speed, not the page cache. Benchmark the boot drive or any external volume.
  • External-drive S.M.A.R.T. — drive health now also reads external SATA/USB SSDs via the ATA/SAT SMART user client, in addition to internal NVMe.

🛠 Fixes & polish

  • Detail panels fit any display and scroll when taller, instead of growing off-screen.
  • Panel state (speed-test results/history, a running Traceroute/MTR session) survives collapse/reopen.
  • Interval speed/disk tests resume after an app restart.
  • Speed-test history charts appear from the very first result.
  • Network totals match Activity Monitor (kernel's since-boot 64-bit counters).
  • S.M.A.R.T. metric tooltips clarify that "Used" can exceed 100% and is distinct from "Spare".

Notes

All features ship in both the free direct-download build and the App Store build — Blip stays fully open-source and free; the App Store copy is a way to support development. Apple Silicon, macOS 14+.

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