Nomad Peak
Keep your hotspot for the apps you choose.
Nomad Peak switches on when you join a hotspot and lets through only the apps you allow.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store
Tell me when it's outWindows soon after. Free to watch your data use; blocking is 14 days free, then Pro.
Nomad Peak
On by itself: iPhone hotspot
Personal Hotspot · metered
Apps using the network
196 MB
- BBrowser↓ 182 MB ↑ 9 MB
- MMail↓ 14 MB ↑ 2 MB
- SSystem Update48 blocked
- CCloud Drive212 blocked
- PPhoto Library97 blocked
- BBackup31 blocked
Nomad Peak
On by itself: iPhone hotspot
Personal Hotspot · metered
Apps using the network
196 MB
- BBrowser↓ 182 MB ↑ 9 MB
- MMail↓ 14 MB ↑ 2 MB
- SSystem Update48 blocked
- CCloud Drive212 blocked
- PPhoto Library97 blocked
- BBackup31 blocked
A laptop doesn't know it's on your phone's data.
Your phone saves data on mobile networks. Your laptop doesn't. Tethered to a hotspot it carries on as if it were at home: a macOS or Windows update that can run to several gigabytes, a photo library catching up, a cloud drive uploading last night's files.
By the time you notice, the plan is used up or the connection crawls. Nomad Peak holds all of that back on hotspots, keeps what you need working, and shows you exactly which app used what.
Set it up once. It takes care of the trips.
Join a hotspot
Nomad Peak notices an iPhone's Personal Hotspot on a Mac, or a network Windows marks as metered, and switches itself on. At home it stays out of the way.
Only your apps get through
Each app that tries to connect shows up with a switch. Turn on the browser and your chat app; updates, cloud sync and backups wait until you're back on Wi-Fi.
See where the data went
Megabytes per app for right now, today and this week, with an hourly chart. The hotspot part is marked, so you know what the trip cost.
Small, quiet, and in your menu bar.
- A switch for every app
- The menu lists apps as they connect, with their icon, name and usage. Helpers are folded into the app they belong to.
- On by itself on hotspots
- It turns on when you tether and off when you leave. Switch it off once on a hotspot and it stays off until you disconnect.
- Blocked sites
- Allow your browser and still keep youtube.com or a streaming site off the hotspot. Subdomains are covered too.
- A data allowance
- Set the gigabytes your plan gives you per day or month. Nomad Peak warns at 80% and can stop every app at 100%.
- System essentials stay on
- DNS, certificate checks, the clock and notifications are allowed as a group, so allowed apps keep working while everything else waits.
- Mac now, Windows next
- A menu bar app on macOS, and a tray app for Windows that is on its way. Both decide in the system's own network filter, so traffic you allow isn't slowed down.
What Nomad Peak sees stays on your computer.
To do its job, the filter knows which app opens a connection, where it goes and how many bytes it moves. It never reads pages, messages or files, and it sends nothing anywhere: there is no account, no server and no analytics.
Usage is kept per app in hourly totals for 90 days, on your computer only. Read the privacy policy.
Watch for free. Block when you're ready.
Download
Free
Watch every app's data use, with charts, hotspot detection and allowance warnings. No time limit.
Before a trip
14 days of Pro, free
Start the trial from the app. Everything is unlocked and nothing is charged.
After the trial
$9.99 a year or $24.99 once
Keep Pro with either plan, or stay on Free: watching keeps working, blocking turns off.
| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Watching | ||
| Data use per app: now, today and this week | ||
| Hourly and daily charts | ||
| Hotspot detection | ||
| Data allowance warnings | ||
| Blocking | ||
| Block apps you haven't allowed | ||
| Turn on by itself on hotspots | ||
| Blocked sites | ||
| Stop every app when the allowance runs out | ||
Prices in US dollars; the App Store shows yours in local currency.
Before you install
- Does it slow down my connection?
- No. Nomad Peak decides once, when an app opens a connection. After that the traffic goes straight through the system; it isn't copied or inspected.
- Which systems does it run on?
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. Windows 11 (64-bit) is coming.
- Is there an iPhone or iPad version?
- No. On iPhone and iPad, Apple only lets this kind of network filter run on devices managed by a company.
- What do I need to allow on a Mac?
- The first time, macOS asks you to allow Nomad Peak's network filter in System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions, and then to let it filter network content. Both are one click.
- How do I uninstall it?
- On a Mac, drag Nomad Peak from Applications to the Trash in Finder; macOS removes its filter with it. On Windows, use Settings → Apps → Installed apps.
Something else? Support or hello@calexislabs.com.
Take the laptop. Keep the data.
Coming soon to the Mac App Store
Tell me when it's outWindows soon after. Free to watch your data use; blocking is 14 days free, then Pro.