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NetMute

Two ways to get NetMute

Same app either way. Pick whichever fits how you buy.

Mac App Store

The simple route

  • Updates install themselves
  • No licence key to keep
  • Apple handles payment and refunds
Open the App Store

Direct download

Version 2.3.10 · 13 MB

  • Invoice with VAT ID, ready for expenses
  • 5- and 10-seat licences for teams
  • Unlocked with a licence key
Download the .dmg

The direct build is signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple. It updates itself too, and the licence key can be moved to another Mac at any time.

Radio Silence vs NetMute

Both firewalls work without pop-ups. Radio Silence switches whole apps off. NetMute blocks the trackers inside your apps, so the apps you need can stay online.

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Which should you choose?

Pick Radio Silence if you want a handful of apps completely offline and nothing else. It does that job with almost no learning curve, and its real-time monitor shows you which apps and background processes are talking. In our view it is one of the tidiest tools for exactly that job.

Pick NetMute if the apps that worry you are apps you still need: a game launcher, a messenger, an editor that phones home. NetMute blocks the trackers inside them without a prompt, grades each app by what it contacts, and adds per-app data limits and hotspot automation, none of which Radio Silence's own site lists. Honest caveats: NetMute is the newer app, and in browsers that resolve names on their own (such as Brave) name-based blocking needs one extra setting; the app's "Where NetMute protects" check measures where blocking works.

Download NetMute free and look at what your apps connect to.

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  • Safari416 kbit/s
  • WebStorm0.7 kbit/s
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Try it: pause an app.

Quiet instead of prompts.

No dialog for every connection. NetMute shows you every app, its traffic and what was blocked, and you step in only when you want to.

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What NetMute does

  • Per-app firewall: block an app completely, or only single destinations inside it
  • Tracker Shield: 300+ curated tracker domains blocked without a prompt (the 50 most active free)
  • App X-Ray: a privacy grade per app, based on what it actually contacts
  • Live traffic per app, down to each domain
  • Per-app data limits, optionally only on a hotspot
  • "On the go" automation, custom profiles and schedules
  • Fail-open by design: if NetMute stops, your connection stays online
  • Free to download; Pro is a one-time purchase: no subscription, no account

Same philosophy, different unit of blocking

Radio Silence and NetMute agree on the most important thing: a firewall should not interrupt you with a pop-up for every new connection. Radio Silence keeps a list of apps that may not go online; add an app and it is cut off, child processes included. Its real-time Network Monitor shows every connection, including helper apps, background processes and daemons, and since version 3.4 it lists inbound and outbound connections separately.

The difference is what gets blocked. Radio Silence is built to switch whole apps off. NetMute can do that too, with one click, but its main job is the finer cut: it blocks the tracking inside an app and leaves the app working. Tracker Shield stops 300+ known tracker domains without asking you anything, and App X-Ray gives each app a privacy grade based on what it actually contacts.

What that difference looks like on a real Mac

A real example from the developer's own Mac (7 to 22 September 2026): GeForce NOW contacted 59 domains. Two of them were tracking endpoints: feedbacks.telemetry.data.nvidia.com and events.telemetry.data.nvidia.com. NetMute blocked both, without a prompt, and the app stayed online. With an app-level blocklist the choice is all or nothing: GeForce NOW online with its telemetry, or offline entirely.

Over 30 days on the same Mac, NetMute stopped 2,701 tracker requests from 64 companies across 33 apps. None of them needed a decision.

What NetMute adds beyond blocking:

  • Quiet Mode: new connections are recorded instead of popping up; you decide the backlog in one pass when it suits you.
  • Rules you can check: every rule shows its hit count, and rules that provably cannot fire are named.
  • Data limits per app, optionally only on a hotspot, plus "On the go" automation that applies your hotspot rules automatically and puts everything back when you leave.
  • Reports over months with CSV export, custom profiles and schedules (Pro).

Licence models compared

Neither app is a subscription. Radio Silence is a one-time purchase with personal and team licences; a personal licence covers all of your own Macs, and according to the vendor, updates have been free so far. The download includes a 24-hour trial with no feature limits, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.

NetMute is free to download and free to use with no time limit: per-app firewall, live traffic per app, Tracker Shield for the 50 most active tracker domains and 5 custom domain blocks. Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks the full 300+ tracker list, App X-Ray, the Privacy Dashboard, reports with CSV export, per-app data limits, profiles, schedules and network automation. No subscription, no account, all updates within the major version.

You can get NetMute from the Mac App Store (Pro as an in-app purchase) or as a direct download with a licence key; the direct purchase also offers team licences for 5 or 10 Macs and a proper invoice with VAT ID.

Ready for full control?

Download NetMute free from the Mac App Store. Pro features unlock via a one-time in-app purchase, no subscription.

Download NetMute from the Mac App Store

Free with no time limit · Pro $12.99 one-time

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