v1.2.0 — Self-updates and macOS

MultiPath v1.2.0 — self-updates, and macOS

Updates from inside the app

• Settings → Updates → Check: if there's a newer version, MultiPath shows what's new and waits for you to click Install and restart
• Signed: every update is checked against a key built into the app before it's installed; a download that doesn't check out is never installed
• Optional check at start (off by default): only tells you on the main page, never installs on its own
• Works with the Windows installer, the Linux .deb and AppImage, and macOS
• Checking only asks GitHub for latest.json; nothing about you or your PC is sent

macOS (Apple silicon)

• The same popup, below the menu bar icon; Wi-Fi, Ethernet and USB-tethered iPhone or Android (NCM)
• macOS asks for an administrator password each time you turn it on: a small helper adds the adapter, routes and DNS, and removes them again when you turn off or the app quits
• Ad-hoc signed, not notarised: the first time, open it once, then click Open Anyway in System Settings → Privacy & Security (on macOS 14 and older, right-click → Open also works)

Also new

• A colour for every network: two Ethernets or two Wi-Fi networks no longer share one colour in the ring, the list and Connections
• Hide unavailable networks (Settings → App): unplugged cables and networks that aren't connected leave the list
• Much less memory with many connections: idle connections hold a fraction of the memory, and connections an app has closed end at once (was 1 GB+ with thousands of connections)

Install

• Windows: run MultiPath_1.2.0_x64-setup.exe, open it from the tray and allow the admin prompt
• Debian / Ubuntu / Kali: sudo apt install ./MultiPath_1.2.0_amd64.deb
• Other Linux: make MultiPath_1.2.0_amd64.AppImage executable and run it with sudo
• macOS: open MultiPath_1.2.0_aarch64.dmg and drag MultiPath to Applications

Coming from 1.1.0, install 1.2.0 by hand once; later versions update from the app. After an update on Windows, MultiPath comes back in the tray: turn it on again and allow the admin prompt.

Note: a single connection — one download, a video call or a game — still only gets one network's speed. Apps that open many connections get the combined speed.

v1.1.0 — Linux support

MultiPath v1.1.0 — now on Linux

MultiPath runs on Linux as well as Windows, from the same code. Everything the Windows app does — the tray popup, balancing, health checks, the connections list — works the same way on a Linux desktop.

Linux

• Same app, same popup: a 360 px flyout in the corner of the screen, from a tray icon
• All your networks: Wi-Fi, Ethernet and USB-tethered Android or iPhone, told apart by name and driver
• No root needed: the .deb grants the two network permissions it needs at install time, so turning on never asks for a password
• Which app uses which network: read from /proc, like the Windows version
• Start on login, through a desktop autostart entry
• Clean off switch: the adapter, routes, DNS and system settings all go back to normal, even after a crash

Tested on Kali (XFCE) with Ethernet plus a tethered phone, and in a network lab: two 10 Mbit/s links give 18 Mbit/s across 8 connections, split 50/50. A dead network is dropped in about 15 s, its connections close, and apps reconnect through the other one.

Fixes for both Windows and Linux

• A network that loses internet is taken out of rotation in about 15 s instead of 30 s
• When a network drops, its connections are closed properly, so apps reconnect through another network instead of hanging
• A connection that stalls on one network is retried on another after 5 s
• DNS lookups that ask several questions at once no longer get cut short

Install

• Windows: run MultiPath_1.1.0_x64-setup.exe, open it from the tray and allow the admin prompt
• Debian / Ubuntu / Kali: sudo apt install ./MultiPath_1.1.0_amd64.deb
• Other Linux: make MultiPath_1.1.0_amd64.AppImage executable and run it with sudo (an AppImage can't hold the permissions itself, so the .deb is the better choice where you can use it)

Requires: Windows 10/11 (64-bit) or a 64-bit Linux desktop with systemd, and two or more networks.
Note: a single connection — one download, a video call or a game — still only gets one network's speed. Apps that open many connections get the combined speed.

v1.0.0 — Initial Release

MultiPath v1.0.0

First release. Use Wi-Fi, Ethernet and USB-tethered phones at the same time on Windows. Built with Tauri v2 and Rust, fully local.

• Combine networks: two 10 Mbps networks give about 20 Mbps for speed tests, YouTube, downloads and browsing
• Smart balancing: each new connection goes to the network with the most free speed
• Health checks: networks without internet are skipped until they recover
• Tray popup: live speed and share for each network, switch networks on or off
• Connections view: see which app uses which network
• Settings: adaptive weighting, keep sites on one network, IPv6, DNS, start with Windows
• Clean off switch: Windows goes back to normal when MultiPath is turned off

Install: run MultiPath_1.0.0_x64-setup.exe, open it from the tray and allow the admin prompt.
Requires: Windows 10/11 (64-bit) and two or more networks.
Note: a single connection (one download, a video call or a game) stays at one network's speed.