NetYour whole network day in one native app.
Netscope is the SSH workspace and network toolbox for macOS. Sessions, tunnels, file transfer and 33 diagnostic tools, in one private Mac app.
Free beta. Requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26. Signed and notarized by Apple.
Built for people who spend the day asking "is it DNS, the path, the cert or the subnet?"
Network engineers, sysadmins, MSP technicians and homelab people who live in terminals. Netscope puts the terminal and the toolbox in the same window, so one answer leads to the next.
One app instead of ten
Terminal, session library, file transfer, tunnels and diagnostics side by side. A traceroute hop hands off to Whois, a host to SSH.
Made for the Mac
SwiftUI on macOS 26 with Liquid Glass. Full keyboard control, dark mode, Shortcuts actions. Not a cross-platform port.
Built for real gear
Legacy SSH algorithms when an old switch needs them, serial consoles, Telnet, login scripts and highlighting for interface states.
Private by design
No account, no analytics, no tracking. Secrets live in the macOS Keychain and your library stays on your Mac.
Every device, one workspace.
Your sessions in a real library, the terminal that goes with them, and the file transfers and tunnels you need alongside.
A library, not a list
Folders carry defaults that every session inside inherits: user, port, key, algorithms, theme, logging.
- Folder colours, status dots for open sessions, multi-select, drag and drop, Get Info with ⌘I
- Quick Connect from the sidebar:
user@host:port,telnet://andserial:// - Jump hosts up to three hops, and fallback addresses tried in order
- Tabs you can reorder; titles that follow the prompt and show activity
- Import your sessions from SecureCRT, folders included
core-sw01
Get Info ⌘I
| Host | 192.0.2.11 · fallback 192.0.2.12 |
| Via | jump.example.net → mgmt.example.net |
| User | admin · from folder Core |
| Auth | ed25519 key in Keychain |
| Algorithms | modern · inherited |
| Log | ~/Logs/core-sw01-{date}.log |
| On connect | terminal length 0 |
Work on many devices at once
Split panes with any mix of sessions, and type into all of them when you mean to.
- Side by side and stacked, in any combination
- Broadcast typing to several panes, with per-pane exclusion
- Run a command on many hosts, compare the results side by side, export them
- Command snippets with templates and colours: built-in sets for Linux, Cisco IOS / IOS-XE and Docker, plus your own
14:02:11.482 CET Fri Nov 7 2025
core-sw01#
14:02:11.490 CET Fri Nov 7 2025
core-sw02#
Neighbor V AS State
198.51.100.2 4 64497 12
14:02:11.503 CET Fri Nov 7 2025
dist-sw01#
Tunnels that come back
Saved SSH tunnels with local, remote and dynamic forwards. They reconnect on their own after sleep or a network change.
- Live status per forward, and a retry you can see
- Open a terminal on a running tunnel's connection, with no second login
- SOCKS for the browser, local ports for the tools, remote ports for the box that cannot reach you
Files beside the shell
An SFTP file manager next to the terminal, on the same connection.
- Browse, rename, change permissions, drag to and from Finder
- Transfer queue with resume; SCP fallback for devices without SFTP
- FTP and FTPS client for the rest
- configs—drwxr-xr-x
- c9300-universalk9.17.12.04.SPA.bin1.2 GB-rw-r--r--
- running-config.bak48 kB-rw-------
- vlan.dat4 kB-rw-------
- crashinfo_RP_00_00_20251107.txt212 kB-rw-r--r--
Connection failed during key exchange
The server offers only algorithms that are off by default. Nothing was sent to the server beyond the algorithm lists.
| Server offers | diffie-hellman-group1-sha1, diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 |
| Netscope offers | curve25519-sha256, ecdh-sha2-nistp256, diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 |
| Host key | ssh-rsa (SHA-1) · server does not offer rsa-sha2-256 |
A terminal that understands network gear
Modern SSH by default. When a fifteen-year-old switch only speaks the old dialect, turn it on per session or per folder, and get told exactly which side offered what when it still will not connect.
- SSH, Telnet and serial consoles in the same tabs; Ed25519, ECDSA and RSA keys generated or imported
- Keyword highlighting for interfaces, up/down states, errors and addresses. Display only, never changes the bytes
- Login scripts (expect/send) for consoles that need a nudge; a per-session initial command
- Paste review: multi-line pastes open in a sheet first. Check for unbalanced quotes, broken heredocs or stray tabs, and set a line delay for slow devices
- Session ended? Press Return or ⌘R to reconnect. Search the scrollback, copy on select, paste with middle-click
- Per-session logging with timestamps, and terminal recordings you can replay in the built-in player
Tools for every layer.
33 network tools, each a keystroke away. Press ⌘K in the app, or type below to try the same search.
Monitor while you work
Background monitoring of hosts, paths and certificate expiry. A menu bar extra shows sparklines, and you get a notification when something changes.
Made for the Mac
Every command has a shortcut. Turn off the modules you do not use and the app gets as small as you want. Shortcuts actions and netscope:// links for the rest.
- Open anything⌘K
- Quick Connect⌘N
- Get Info on a session⌘I
- Reconnect⌘R
- All shortcuts⌘/
Your data, your Macs
Sync the library through a folder you choose: iCloud Drive, Dropbox or a NAS. Sessions, folders, snippets and tunnels merge per item; conflicts are listed, never overwritten. Keys stay per Mac. Back up the whole library to one file, and lock the app with Touch ID.
No accounts. No analytics. No tracking.
Passwords and keys are stored in your Mac's Keychain. Your session library stays on your Mac, or in a folder you choose to sync.
The app only contacts the hosts you connect to and the public services a tool names on screen, such as the speed test or the public-IP lookup. Read the full policy.
Free to start. One purchase for everything.
No subscription. The tools are free for everyone; Pro adds the workspace features for people who live in the app.
Free
During the beta, everything is unlocked.
- All 33 network tools
- SSH, Telnet and serial Quick Connect
- Up to 5 saved sessions
- Keyword highlighting, logging, recordings
Pro
Everything in Free, unlimited. Family Sharing included. Price to be confirmed at launch.
- Unlimited saved sessions, folders and jump hosts
- Split panes, broadcast and multi-host commands
- Tunnels, SFTP, FTP and the built-in servers
- Background monitoring and library sync
Connect. Organise. Troubleshoot. Prove it.
Netscope 0.1.0 beta for macOS 26 on Apple silicon. Signed with our Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without warnings.