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A local-first toolkit for network inspection, web diagnostics and data decoding. Two builds: a menu-bar app on macOS and a full app on iOS (with a share-sheet extension).

What’s new

1.0.10 — 2026-07-11

• Settings now has a "Check for Map Updates" button, so the offline country map used for IP lookups can be refreshed with no app update needed.

1.0.9 — 2026-07-03

• ClickFix warnings now stay on screen until you dismiss them, so a dangerous “paste this into Terminal” command can’t slip past while the panel times out.
• Encoded suspicious commands (hidden behind base64) can now be decoded and re-inspected with one click.

1.0.8 — 2026-07-03

• New Suspicious Command detector: Little Eye now warns the moment a web page copies a “paste this into Terminal” command to your clipboard — the ClickFix attack — and flags any command that downloads and runs code from the internet.

1.0.7 — 2026-06-30

• Email bounce notifications now explain why a message failed and whether it will be retried.
• Copy a file and Little Eye now shows what's inside it automatically — cards for the file's contents appear right below the file card, like the formatted JSON of a `.json` file or the preview and details of an image, with no extra click. Prefer just the file details? Turn off "Inspect file contents" in Settings and only the file's metadata is shown.
• Added a Check TLS button on HTTPS links — one click shows the site's certificate, when it expires, whether it's trusted, and the TLS version in use.
• New: compare DNS across resolvers. Pick up to 10 resolvers in Settings → Advanced and a Compare DNS button appears on hostname cards — it asks each one and highlights where they disagree, so you can catch a router or ISP handing back a different address than the public resolvers. Handy for spotting stale caches, split-horizon DNS, or DNS interception.

1.0.6 — 2026-06-26

• New: choose how hostnames are looked up. Under Settings → Advanced you can now send DNS queries straight to a resolver you pick — Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, OpenDNS, or your own address — instead of going through macOS's resolver. The hostname card then shows the authoritative TTL reported by that resolver, which can differ from the value macOS has cached. Off by default; the system resolver stays the standard behavior.
• New: a Data Fingerprint card shows the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, CRC32 and randomness of anything you copy — text, an image, or a file — so you can verify a download against its published checksum. SHA-256 comes in both hex and Base64 (handy for Subresource Integrity). You can turn it off under Settings → Developer.

1.0.5 — 2026-06-24

• The Inspector window now appears in the ⌘-Tab app switcher (and gets a Dock icon) while it's open, so you can flip back to it like any other window. When you close it, Little Eye slips back to being menu-bar-only.
• Fetching a link now shows which TLS version secured the connection, and warns when a site still relies on the aging TLS 1.2 (or older) instead of today's TLS 1.3.
• New: recognises credit card numbers and checks the card type (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, and more), flags known test card numbers, and validates the number itself.
• Hex colors now have one-click Copy HEX and Copy HEX8 buttons alongside the existing copy options.

1.0.4 — 2026-06-17

• Your free trial now starts the first time you use a network-powered lookup — not when you install. If you only use the offline tools, the trial clock never starts.
• A banner at the top now shows where your trial stands, and when it ends gives you a one-click way to buy a license.
• Pro features now show a PRO badge instead of disappearing when the trial ends — locked buttons explain what a license unlocks and link to License Settings.

1.0.3 — 2026-06-10

• Little Eye now comes with a 14-day free trial. Network-powered lookups (domains, IP addresses, fetching links) keep working during the trial; afterwards a license key — entered in Settings — unlocks them again. Everything else stays free.
• Looking up who's behind a domain now also works for country domains such as .de and .nl.
• Fetching a link that returns an image or other non-text file now shows a tidy summary instead of garbled text.

1.0.2 — 2026-06-05

• Opening a copied item for a closer look now keeps its place, so you don't lose where you were.
• Assorted polish and reliability fixes.

1.0.1 — 2026-05-30

• New: recognises email addresses, with a one-click jump to look up the domain or mail server behind them.
• New: check whether an IP address or host is reachable, and trace the path your connection takes to get there.

1.0.0 — 2026-05-21

• First closed-beta release.
• Watches your clipboard and instantly decodes common developer formats: JWTs, URLs, JSON, hex colors, UUIDs, IP addresses, timestamps, and many more.
• Shows where an IP address is located (country) without sending anything over the network.
• Privacy mode lets you switch off anything that would reach the internet.