Outbound for Mac
About Outbound
I make Outbound on my own and sell it through Engaze Digital Marketing Private Limited. It’s an outbound application firewall for the Mac: you choose which apps can connect, and to which hosts.
What Outbound does
Outbound asks when an app opens a connection you haven’t made a rule for, and remembers your answer. You can allow an app and still block the hosts it uses for analytics. The monitor shows which apps connect, where and how much, on a map or a globe. There are profiles, blocklists, a command-line tool called outboundctl, and for managed Macs an HTTPS rule feed and audit export. It needs macOS 14 or later and runs on Apple silicon and Intel. The features page has the full list.
Who it’s for
People who want a say in what their apps send, without blocking the apps outright. And Mac administrators who need the same rules on many Macs, a way to lock them and logs they can send to a SIEM; the IT page covers that side.
How I built it
Outbound filters with Apple’s Network Extension content filter. macOS hands each new connection to Outbound’s system extension, which checks the app and destination against your rules and allows it, blocks it or asks you. There’s no kernel extension, and version 1 installs no DNS proxy. Rules, settings and connection history are stored on your Mac. The security page lists everything the app connects to and how releases are signed, and the privacy policy says what the app and this site store.
How I sell it
A licence is a one-time purchase: $39 USD for a personal licence on 2 Macs ($29 for the first 50 sold) or $59 USD for a family licence on 5. There’s no account to create and no subscription. There’s no trial; instead, you can get a full refund within 14 days of buying. Dodo Payments is the merchant of record and handles the checkout, tax and refunds. Teams licences are one seat per Mac, billed yearly, with a quote within 2 business days. Details are on the pricing page and in the terms.
What I’ve shipped
The changelog lists each public version with its date, newest first, and there’s an RSS feed. Before 1.0, Outbound went through private 0.x development builds that were never offered for download. I kept their notes in the changelog anyway, as a record of how it was built.
Where another app suits you better
The comparison pages say so when it does. LuLu is free, open source and runs on Macs older than macOS 14. Little Snitch runs in a demo mode you can try before buying; Outbound has no trial. Radio Silence blocks whole apps quietly, with no pop-ups, for $9. If one of those fits how you work, use it.