Easy Install
Free with no account required for basic use. Runs in the Mac menu bar.
See what’s breaking your connection
When calls or cloud apps stall, Breakdown shows whether the problem starts with Wi-Fi, your ISP, or the app.
Free Mac app No login for basic use No proxy or VPN
The silent tour begins with a failing video call. Breakdown identifies the affected network segment, explains a likely root cause, and then shows evidence reports, automatic app monitoring, health history, and detailed path traces. If motion is reduced or video playback is unavailable, the product frame remains visible as a static presentation.
The call is glitching. Everyone has a theory.
Instant Answers
Breakdown gives you the useful answer at-a-glance: Wi-Fi/LAN, ISP path, or App.
LAN 95%
INTERNET 94%
APP EDGE 94%
Auto Monitoring
Breakdown follows the calls, SaaS tools, and app connections you actually use.
Instant Proof
See Wi-Fi, ISP, and App health. Share PDF evidence reports.
Purpose-built for you
The evidence and analysis you need, from simple to in-depth.
Remote professionals
Your calls, SaaS apps, and AI tools rely on a healthy network. Breakdown pinpoints issues and suggests solutions.
Network engineers
Always-on MTR-style traces, AS-path topology tracking, and per-hop metrics run against auto-detected endpoints.
AI agents
Give your agent access to live and historical data via Breakdown's local MCP server.
Gamers
Track, pinpoint, and solve lag, disconnections, and re-routes so you stay on top of the leaderboard.
Automatically monitors the apps and networks you're using
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Explorer Pro
Find the spike in context
When the problem is intermittent, Explorer shows failure details across loss, latency, jitter, and other metrics, for services and paths you were using.
Details Pro
The Internet, Revealed
Path traces separate LAN, ISP, Transit, and AppNet segments while filtering misleading ICMP results.
Breakdown detects active endpoints automatically. Pro adds endpoint pinning for dedicated monitoring.
Timeline
Never wish you had started a ping
Breakdown records continuously, so the troubleshooting data you need is always there.
Evidence Reports
Give support evidence, not anecdotes
Each report centers on the issue you select, providing trace, network, Wi-Fi, app, and endpoint evidence.
View sample evidence reportNetwork Monitoring for AI agents
Breakdown's local MCP server gives Codex, Claude, Hermes, and other AI agents current and historical network health, recent issues, app usage, route details, and Breakdown analysis.
See how agent access works
Community Outage Insights
Know when it isn’t just you
Wonder if that Zoom glitch is affecting your whole team, or if M365 is having an outage? Breakdown compares App and Internet issues with anonymized health signals from participating users, then marks it Regional or Widespread when it’s not just you.
Trusted for Troubleshooting
Runs locally
Breakdown analyzes network metadata and health signals, not call audio/video, message contents, or documents.
Light footprint
Breakdown keeps watch without noticeably impacting your battery. In our tests, it typically uses only 0.5-1% CPU when the dropdown is closed.
Community insights by choice
Community Outage Insights shares anonymized network and service health, without personal data, to reveal broader outages. Opt out at any time.
Professional-grade connection troubleshooting for free
Free gives you automatic answers and recent evidence. Pro adds detailed network observability, graphing, and Internet-path and ASN topology.
Free
$0
- Automatic LAN, Internet-path, and app monitoring
- Automatic app and service discovery
- Recent issues with 7-day history
- Community Outage Insights and Evidence Reports
- AI-powered Breakdown
Download Free for Mac
No account required for basic use.
Pro
Annual · 14% off
$25/mo$29/mo
$300 billed annually after the trial
$29/mo
Billed monthly after the trial
- Built-in network observability and graphing
- Full Details, Diagnostics, and Explorer
- Internet-path and ASN topology diagrams
- Long-term graph history, advanced controls, and pinned endpoints
- Higher limits and smarter models for Breakdown
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7-day free trial. Cancel before trial ends and you won’t be charged.