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

Download Free for Mac See how it works

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%

Easy Install

Free with no account required for basic use. Runs in the Mac menu bar.

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, pointpoint, and solve lag, disconnections, and re-routes so you stay on top of the leaderboard.

Automatically monitors the apps and networks you're using

Explorer graph view showing LAN latency, jitter, latency shift, and packet loss over time

Explorer Pro

See the spikes instead of wondering if they exist

When the problem is intermittent, Explorer shows failure details across loss, latency, jitter, and other metrics, for services and paths you were using.

Breakdown Details view showing Internet sub-segments, AS topology, a current trace, and active app endpoints

Details Pro

The Internet, Revealed

Intelligent path traces break down LAN, ISP, Transit, and AppNet segments, and suppress false ICMP results.

Active endpoints are auto-detected, and Pro brings endpoint pinning for dedicated monitoring.

Timeline

Never wish you had started a ping

Breakdown is already watching, so the troubleshooting data you need is always there.

Evidence Reports

Give support evidence, not anecdotes

Detailed evidence reports center on the issue you select, providing detailed trace, network, Wi-Fi, endpoint, and other valuable data.

View sample evidence report

Network Monitoring for AI agents

Breakdown's built-in local MCP server gives Codex, Claude, Hermes, and other AI agents access to historical and current network health, recent issues, app usage, route details, and Breakdown's own analysis info.

See how agent access works

Breakdown gathering and reviewing network and endpoint evidence for an AI-powered analysis

Breakdown settings showing the local MCP server enabled and ready for AI tools

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.

Breakdown Recent Issues view marking an active Zoom connection degradation as Widespread

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 noticably 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 (no personal data) so users can be aware of broader outages. Opt out at any time.