WhoSees 0.2.0

What's new in 0.2.0

Block apps, companies and trackers

• Block with one tap while a live view runs: a company, a website or a whole country from its place on the map, or a whole app on Windows and Android.
• Block all trackers and ads: one switch in the new Blocked tab stops every app reaching known tracking, advertising and analytics companies. It goes by website names, and leaves a server address open when an ordinary website shares it, so normal sites keep working.
• Blocking starts with the very first request. WhoSees acts as soon as an app looks up a blocked website, so even an app's first connection to a new tracker is stopped.
• "Blocked" always means blocked. WhoSees only shows something as blocked when blocking was really on in that live view. Otherwise it says the item is on your block list but wasn't blocked.
• Threat alerts can block straight away: Block now stops a dangerous website, and WhoSees keeps blocking it in future live views.
• Nothing stays blocked by surprise. Blocks end when you press Stop, unless you press Keep next to them. Blocked places show a red ring on the map, even when the block stopped an app before it ever connected (on Linux, with the number of attempts stopped).
• On a computer, blocking uses Deep mode: WhoSees adds temporary firewall rules (Windows Firewall; nftables or iptables on Linux) and removes them when you press Stop. If you press Block while Deep mode is off, WhoSees offers to turn it on. On Android it works in every live view.

Save a report (PDF)

• A PDF of everything a live view found: a map, the key findings in plain English, every app with its privacy grade, every company, country and tracker, threats, blocks, and a list of every connection.
• Dark or light style, Letter or A4. Made on your device and never uploaded.
• On a computer: the report button at the top, Settings → Report, or Save a report after you press Stop. On Android, the phone's print screen saves it: choose Save as PDF.

Also

• The top bar fits small windows and phones properly.
• Includes everything from 0.1.2: the Linux AppImage runs without libfuse2, WhoSees makes no network request when it opens, and it never flags its own traffic as suspicious.

Downloads

• Windows 10/11: WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe
• Linux: WhoSees-Linux.AppImage (any distribution; make it executable, then open it) or whosees-fedora.x86_64.rpm for Fedora
• Android 10+: WhoSees-Android.apk (installs over earlier versions and keeps your settings)

Windows will warn you when you run the installer

When you run WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe, Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen. That's expected. Click More info, then Run anyway, and the installer opens as normal.

Why it happens: Windows shows this for any new program that isn't code-signed yet. It doesn't mean anything is wrong with WhoSees, only that Windows hasn't seen it before.

What's being done: WhoSees has applied for free code signing from the SignPath Foundation. Once approved, the installer will be signed, and the warning fades as more people install it.

Check it yourself: the Windows installer is built automatically by GitHub from this repository (the build). To confirm your download wasn't changed, run Get-FileHash WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe in PowerShell and compare it with SHA256SUMS.txt below.

Every feature is free. If WhoSees is useful to you, you can buy me a coffee.

WhoSees 0.1.1

What's new in 0.1.1

• Optional update checks. The first time you open WhoSees it asks whether you'd like it to check for updates. It's off unless you turn it on. When on, once a day it downloads one small file from whosees.app listing the newest version. Like any website visit, our server sees your internet address; nothing else is sent. A short note appears when a newer version is out. Settings → Check for updates.
• Buy me a coffee button next to the settings gear. Every feature stays free.
• Android: fixed connections that finish sending and then wait for a reply. Some uploads could lose their last part, and some apps never got the server's answer. WhoSees now passes everything through correctly.
• Windows: programs that run for a split second are now named correctly in Deep mode, instead of being called "Windows service".
• Phones: the Stop button no longer covers the list when you expand the bottom panel.
• An Open-source licences list in Settings → About.
• A step-by-step user guide with pictures.

Downloads

• Windows 10/11: WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe
• Linux: WhoSees-Linux.AppImage (any distribution; make it executable, then open it) or whosees-fedora.x86_64.rpm for Fedora
• Android 10+: WhoSees-Android.apk (installs over 0.1.0 and keeps your settings)

Windows will warn you when you run the installer

When you run WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe, Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen. That's expected. Click More info, then Run anyway, and the installer opens as normal.

Why it happens: Windows shows this for any new program that isn't code-signed yet. It doesn't mean anything is wrong with WhoSees, only that Windows hasn't seen it before.

What's being done: WhoSees has applied for free code signing from the SignPath Foundation. Once approved, the installer will be signed, and the warning fades as more people install it.

Check it yourself: the Windows installer is built automatically by GitHub from this repository (the build). To confirm your download wasn't changed, run Get-FileHash WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe in PowerShell and compare it with SHA256SUMS.txt below.

Every feature is free. If WhoSees is useful to you, you can buy me a coffee.

WhoSees 0.1.0

The first public version of WhoSees: see, live on a world map, which app on your device sends data, which company gets it, where it goes, and what kind of data it probably is.

Downloads

• Windows 10/11: WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe
• Linux: WhoSees-Linux.AppImage (any distribution; make it executable, then open it) or whosees-fedora.x86_64.rpm for Fedora
• Android 10+: WhoSees-Android.apk (allow your browser to install apps when asked)

Windows will warn you when you run the installer

When you run WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe, Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen. That's expected. Click More info, then Run anyway, and the installer opens as normal.

Why it happens: Windows shows this for any new program that isn't code-signed yet, meaning it doesn't carry a digital signature proving who published it. It doesn't mean anything is wrong with WhoSees, only that Windows hasn't seen it before. Signing certificates usually cost hundreds of dollars a year, which is a lot for a free app.

What's being done: WhoSees has applied for free code signing from the SignPath Foundation, which signs open-source projects. Once approved, the installer will be signed, and the warning fades as more people install it, because Windows builds trust over time.

Check it yourself: the Windows installer is built automatically by GitHub from this repository (the build), never on a personal computer. To confirm your download wasn't changed, run Get-FileHash WhoSees-Windows-Setup.exe in PowerShell and compare the result with SHA256SUMS.txt below.

What's in it

• Live map of where your data goes, which app sent it and which company received it
• Trackers, advertisers and analytics labelled
• What kind of data each app sends, and a privacy report per app
• Warnings about dangerous websites, malware servers and suspicious behaviour
• Runs only while you press Start; nothing leaves your device; no account

Every feature is free. If WhoSees is useful to you, you can buy me a coffee.

Blocking is built but switched off in this version.