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📢 Debookee – End of Active Development & License Sales #17
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Dear users,
After years of development, it's time to announce that Debookee is no longer under active development, and we have also stopped selling new licenses.
Debookee was built as a powerful, all-in-one network traffic analyzer, relying on several complex low-level components. Over time, Apple’s macOS ecosystem has become increasingly restrictive, particularly in areas such as:
- Access to low-level network APIs
- System-level privileges and root permissions
- Packet capture and traffic redirection
- Interception and TLS decryption
Debookee integrates multiple external frameworks and tools like Wireshark, mitmproxy, and sslsplit to provide deep traffic analysis capabilities. Unfortunately, these tools rely heavily on low-level access that Apple has progressively limited through stricter security policies, kernel restrictions, and undocumented API behavior.
Changes in macOS security architecture and the evolution of Apple hardware (Intel → ARM, M-series processors) have introduced critical compatibility challenges.
In addition, the complete lack of response to the bug report we filed about the pf firewall in 2022 has widened the gap between us and Apple support, making it increasingly difficult to maintain a stable, working version of Debookee across macOS releases.
Please note that this announcement applies only to Debookee.
Our other application, LanScan, is not affected and continues to be actively maintained and supported.
Given this technical landscape, and in order to avoid any confusion for new users, we’ve decided to stop license sales entirely. Existing users may continue to use the current version, but please note that:
- No further updates are planned
- No official support is provided
- Compatibility with future macOS versions is not guaranteed
Thank you to everyone who supported Debookee over the years — whether you bought a license, sent feedback, reported bugs, or just reached out with kind words.
This project has been an incredible journey — full of technical challenges, late-night debugging sessions, and those rewarding moments when everything finally worked.
I'm grateful for the community that formed around it, and for everyone who believed in a small independent tool trying to do something ambitious on macOS.
With ❤️,
Thomas
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cstodolenak commentedon Aug 21, 2025
Thank you for your effort and devotion to this product over the years. It will be missed.
Paddy132a commentedon Sep 8, 2025
marvellous apps over many years - thanks for the memories and good luck for the future - keep us posted of the next venture
rekster commentedon Oct 15, 2025
That's a shame, I loved your products. I just went to upgrade my NA license from V1 to V2... and saw this notice.
Any chance of providing licenses so I can continue use the product as is? Either way, all the best to you.
debookee commentedon Oct 16, 2025
@rekster Please contact our support@iwaxx.com. Your licenses still work as before. But we can find an arrangement with more Debookee licenses or LanScan In-Apps on App Store (which is still actively maintained and for a looonggg time we hope 😊)
zeekgeek commentedon May 16, 2026
Hey show some love Debooke Devs and open up debooke without having to pay $ for the features since its no longer in development . Free debookee from its 79$ prison ;-). I love that app.. Only Thing you could use to put your Mac Wifi Card into monitor mode that I know of and scan the enviroment.. I love being able to see everything around me without having to drop in a virtual machine running Kali.. Debookee was always the quick and easy solution .. Thanks for years good stuff... God bless
debookee commentedon May 22, 2026
@zeekgeek Thanks for your words. We'll wait at least 1 year after development stop to open the code or push free binary, although it's Intel only at the moment and Rosetta will soon be retired in 2028.
Contact us support@iwaxx.com to understand which licenses you currently have, thanks !