Here

Which country are you on the internet right now?

A tiny macOS menu bar app that answers that question, always. Flip a VPN, hop WiFi, toggle Clash — Here tells you at a glance where your traffic actually leaves from.

What you see

The pill lives in your menu bar: flag + a two-letter region tag (🇺🇸 CA, 🇯🇵 TK, 🇸🇬 SG…). The outline switches to a dashed border the moment the latency probe says the network's actually broken. When egress can't be verified (airplane mode, IP service unreachable), the pill flips to a random flag + OO — an honest "I don't know" instead of a stale lie.

Click the pill for the popover above:

• Location — big copyable IP, mini Maps preview, ASN + ISP, local time.
• History — recent egress changes as a flag chain with "time ago" labels.
• Latency — rolling 30-probe bar, color-coded green / yellow / orange / red.
• Throughput — on-demand download speed test (Cachefly / Cloudflare / custom URL).

Smart enough to keep up

• Catches every meaningful network change — WiFi hops, VPN up/down, Clash "system proxy" flips. The widget rechecks on a 5-second loop (30s while the display is asleep), so a node switch lands in your menu bar within one tick.
• One lookup per change. No retry storms — a single attempt per tick (at most one fallback hop if the primary provider is down). Fails fast, respects your sanity.
• Flag follows the geographic country, not the ASN country. A VPN registered in HK but serving a Taiwan node shows 🇹🇼, not 🇭🇰.
• Self-updating. Daily check against GitHub releases (Never / Once a day / Once a week, your call) — when there's a new build it nudges you with the release notes and a one-click jump to the download.

Install

Grab the latest .dmg from Releases → drag Here into Applications → first launch: right-click → Open (the build is unsigned).

• macOS 15 Sequoia or later
• Apple Silicon + Intel — universal binary, any Mac that supports Sequoia

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/koalaauto/here-macos.git
cd here-macos
open Here.xcodeproj       # Cmd-R to run, Cmd-U to test

Or CLI:

xcodebuild -project Here.xcodeproj -scheme Here build
xcodebuild -project Here.xcodeproj -scheme Here test

Credits

• IP + location data from ipwho.is (primary) and ip.guide (automatic fallback since v0.33.0) — both free, no auth, one JSON call each. Thank you.
• Flag art from flagcdn.com — rectangular PNGs, public-domain.

Architecture, conventions, and gotchas live in CLAUDE.md.

License

MIT