Which country are you on the internet right now?
A tiny macOS menu bar app that answers that question, always. Flip a VPN, hop WiFi, toggle Clash — Here tells you at a glance where your traffic actually leaves from.
The pill lives in your menu bar: flag + region code (🇺🇸 LA, 🇯🇵 TYO, 🇹🇼 TPE…). Border turns red the moment the latency probe says the network's actually broken. When egress can't be verified (airplane mode, IP service unreachable), the pill flips to a random flag + OO — an honest "I don't know" instead of a stale lie.
Click the pill for the popover above:
- Location — big copyable IP, mini Maps preview, ASN + ISP, local time.
- History — recent egress changes as a flag chain with "time ago" labels.
- Latency — rolling 30-probe bar, color-coded green / yellow / orange / red.
- Throughput — on-demand download speed test (Cachefly / Cloudflare / custom URL).
- Catches every meaningful network change — WiFi hops, VPN up/down, Clash "system proxy" flips. The widget rechecks on a 5-second loop (30s while the display is asleep), so a node switch lands in your menu bar within one tick.
- One shot per change. No retry storms. Fails fast, respects your sanity.
- Flag follows the geographic country, not the ASN country. A VPN registered in HK but serving a Taiwan node shows 🇹🇼, not 🇭🇰.
- Self-updating. Daily check against GitHub releases (Never / Once a day / Once a week, your call) — when there's a new build it nudges you with the release notes and a one-click jump to the download.
Grab the latest .dmg from Releases → drag Here into Applications → first launch: right-click → Open (the build is unsigned).
- macOS 15 Sequoia or later
- Apple Silicon + Intel — universal binary, any Mac that supports Sequoia
git clone https://github.com/bikekoala/here-macos.git
cd here-macos
open Here.xcodeproj # Cmd-R to run, Cmd-U to testOr CLI:
xcodebuild -project Here.xcodeproj -scheme Here build
xcodebuild -project Here.xcodeproj -scheme Here test- IP + location data from ipwho.is — free, no auth, one JSON call. Thank you. (Earlier versions used ip.guide; switched in v0.26.0 after consistent VPN-egress mislabelling.)
- Flag art from flagcdn.com — rectangular PNGs, public-domain.
Architecture, conventions, and gotchas live in CLAUDE.md.