About

Little Eye is a privacy-first recon and decoding toolkit for macOS that runs quietly in your menu bar, with a companion app on iPhone. Copy an IP address, domain, URL, token or timestamp and you instantly see geolocation, DNS, WHOIS and HTTP details — plus the decoded payload.

It’s built for backend developers, DevOps and platform engineers, security professionals and technical researchers — people who otherwise switch between IP-info lookups, WHOIS services, jwt.io, DNS checkers and epoch converters all day. With Little Eye the information appears at the moment you copy.

Wherever possible, Little Eye consults the original sources directly — DNS, WHOIS, the host itself — instead of routing your data through a third-party website. That saves time, and it keeps sensitive values away from services that have no business seeing them.

It started because copy-paste is one of the most-used developer actions, and most clipboards are dumb. A JWT, an IP, a malformed JSON blob, a base64 string — they all just sit there as opaque text. Little Eye tells you what you just copied, then gets out of the way. The app is small on purpose: no accounts, no syncing, no telemetry. Questions or feedback? Write to support@little-eye.com.

Curious why a cloud-AI engineer built a tool that refuses to touch the cloud? Here's the longer story behind Little Eye.