Who Is On My WiFi App Reviews

This app was "insanely" great. It is very good to detect the people who are connected to your wifi. It is also good to know their IP address n MAC address. This app really helped me.

This app was great, but with the 1.1 release it has been hanging on me constantly. I need to Force Quit it often. And unfortunately there’s still no way to export a report of your WiFi devices and MAC addresses.

A functional application that does what it says. Need icons for network devices such as IP cameras and NAS disks. The ability to export network devices would be a fine enhancement.

I like that the types of devices are identified and I like the simplicity. I don’t think it works if someone is spoofing your MAC address and that’s something I need. My disappointment is that I have to force quit this application in order to get the wheel to stop turning more often than not. I fill in the names of the devices and they disappear Still some bugs to work out.

There were 8 devices detected, 7 unknown. One was my iPhone, another my iPad. I had to go to those devices and compare WiFi addresses to those listed on the display. There are still 5 “unknowns”. I have to go to all possible devices to find what is attached to my network, and compare WiFi addresses. So this app just shows a list of WiFi addresses and offers no information as to what they are. Not quite useless, but close.

I worked OK, but took to long to figure out the unknown devices were really mine. It would have been usual to instruct the user where to find the wi-fi address on my devices. Once I figured this out, I think it will work well for my needs.

Changed my search engine settings in chrome without asking.

This is made to scan your wifi/wired network. It’s of most benefit to those with wifi who aren’t sure they’ve fully secured their network and want to look for intruders. You’d set up a wifi network, or join a wifi network, with your Mac, and then you scan the network using this tool. You then label all of the computers [say, ‘Joe’s Macbook’ and ‘Jim’s iPad’] you recognize, plus any additional networked items (routers, networked TVs, networked media players, network attached storage, etc.) you recognize, and then you can save and quit the application. After that point, from time to time, you’ll re-run the application and then let it run in the background, scanning your network (it scans everything, wired and wifi - anything it can hit on your own subnet) and then it will list and identify any new devices. You can then either mark the new device(s) as known (if you know what they are, and ‘trust’ them) or leave them as unknown. (If it’s unknown, assumedly you’d want to do some research and figure out who or what unknown item is on your network…) The program ships with a database of MAC addresses, so it can make a good guess at the manufacturer [a Macbook would be labelled ‘Apple’, an Amazon Echo would be labelled ‘Amazon’] for perhaps 75% of the items it’s likely to find on your network; for the rest, it will show as ‘Unknown’ and you can do a bit of googling to find a web page with a more modern MAC address database. One improvement: For a later version (I reviewed 1.1.1) to ship with a more comprehensive MAC address database so more manufacturers are identified automatically. Other than that, no obvious issues, flaws, or room for improvement that I see.

It’s simple and basic yet it’s iffy with El Capitan. It worked better with 10.10

The App does what it’s suppose to do and will give you the wifi address of all devices connected to your network. Could be better though if it came with the option to block devices from connecting like in windows version.

needs update! was fine in Yosemite, now its annoying when it glitches in El Capitan. pleae update!!

I had an IP camera that would connect to my network but was always changing its IP address (static wasn’t working so the DHCP was overriding), and this app helped me track it down. Thanks!

The app is pretty simple, clean interface, but stops at doing the scan. Unless I’m missing something, I could not figure out how to edit the information to begin to “verify” those devices that I know. You can mark it “known”, but if you come back 30 minutes later you’ll never remember why you marked it “known”.

While this app does not do much automatically for you, it is still a very helpful tool in determining what is on your network and pinpointing which device is which. In the “inspector” window (on the right when selecting a specific device from the list of found items) it shows you a ot of helpful details. Perhaps the most helpful for me was the Manufacturer detail. Only 2 or 3 out of the 15 or so devices that were curently connected showed “unknown”. The majority of the rest were pretty obvious like “Apple”, “Belkin” or “Samsung”. You can label each item with your own description which helps by process of elimination if you are trying to pinpoint a device. If left with a few unknowns, just unplug a device known to be connected, but yet unidentified, and and re-scan to see which one disappeared. Overall with a little effort this app helped me label all the devices on my network and I’m not sure how else I would have done that. It might be nice if the app would guess certain devices to give you a little more of a head start, but it’s fine that it doesn’t.

On start-up, this app tells which devices are using your internet and includes the router. It can identify some of them by manufacturer but not all. So, like many reviewers say, you need to identify which are which. The good thing is that once you identify a device, you can type in a description such as “My I-Pad” and choose the kind of device. In this case, tablet. After you have your devices identified, you can always check to see if an unknown device is using your network. So, yes, you have to spend time to set it up. It took me about 20 minutes to identify eight devices by turning them off and on. After that, it’s done and you don’t need to just wonder if your neighbors or someone else is logged in as well.