Changelog

Make the notch light any colour you like.

New

• Pick a colour for the notch light in Settings › Notch › Light: slide along the spectrum, type a hex code, and set its intensity and how much white it mixes in. Four memory keys keep the colours you use most.
• The status dot, the line under the notch, the activity animation, alerts and the waveform all take the colour you pick. App Colour brings back Tattle's own.

A much smaller, much faster History, and a PIN to lock it.

New

• Lock History and the Map with a PIN in Settings › Firewall › History. Letters, digits or both, at least four characters. Tattle asks for it when it starts and again after your Mac sleeps or locks, and keeps an encrypted summary so History appears the moment you unlock it.
• Forgot the PIN? Your Mac's password or Touch ID removes it. Your history stays.

Changed

• History takes about a quarter of the space on your Mac: every connection is kept, with names stored once instead of on every row. The first launch after updating converts it once, in the background; History says so while it works.
• History opens and searches in a fraction of a second, even with millions of connections kept.

Tidier switching between notch apps.

Changed

• With the Switcher style, the dots for each app sit in a row of their own under the notch, so they no longer crowd the Block All, window and settings buttons in the open pill.
• The Connections, DNS and Blocked tabs in the pill have a cleaner look.

Connections now show the effect of a rule the moment you make it, and Tattle shares the notch with more apps.

New

• Connections shows what happens from now on: after you allow or block something, or change the mode, a row that would now be treated differently says so straight away ("Blocked from now on"), and the details pane leads with the rule that decides it. Before, nothing changed until the app connected again.
• Sharing the notch is open to other notch apps that support it, not only Polytopic's: any app signed with a Developer ID or from the Mac App Store can take turns at the notch with Tattle. To keep one out, right-click it in the list in Settings › Notch.

Fixed

• Only the copy of Tattle in Applications opens at login. Another copy on your Mac, such as an old download, can no longer take over the login item.
• Removing the network extension also removes Tattle's DNS proxy configuration, so nothing is left behind.
• Block All in the main window's toolbar is now its own button and highlights on its own when you click it.
• Memory that Tattle held on to after closing some windows and the assistant's send preview is now released.

The first release of Tattle: see which apps on your Mac connect where, and decide what they may reach.

See

• Every connection is listed under the app that made it, with its host, port and data, and a plain sentence on why it was allowed or blocked.
• Point at the pill around your Mac's notch for the newest connections, DNS lookups and blocked connections, with Allow and Block on each row. When something is blocked, the pill says so briefly.
• History keeps connections and data per app and per host on your Mac, 30 days by default. The Map shades the countries your connections went to, with blocked ones hatched.
• Alerts tell you when an app's code signature changes or an app opens an unusual number of connections.

Decide

• Three modes: Allow and watch blocks nothing, Ask asks at the notch about each connection no rule covers, and Lockdown lets through only what you allowed. Block All stops everything until you turn it off.
• Rules by app, domain, address, port, protocol, direction, or local network and internet, for good, for an hour or until the app quits. Each one reads as a sentence.
• Essentials keep name lookups, joining networks, Bonjour, the clock and Tattle's own updates working in Ask and Lockdown.

Also

• Encrypted DNS, off until you turn it on: lookups go over HTTPS or TLS to a resolver you choose, with blocklists you subscribe to.
• An assistant that explains connections, writes summaries and suggests rules. It is off until you pick a provider, and it shows exactly what it will send before it sends anything.
• A setup walkthrough on first launch, three palettes or your own two colours in light or dark, and export and import of your rules and settings.
• Every Mac gets 14 days with everything included. After that, Tattle needs a license key.