Outbound 1.0.12
Outbound 1.0.12 brings a redesigned Assistant you can talk to, and adapts to the Mac it runs on: on Macs with 8 GB of memory, in Low Power Mode, when the Mac is hot or short of memory it runs its visuals efficiently, and Settings shows what each feature costs.
New
- A redesigned Assistant: suggestion cards to start from, a new question box, and one answer per question. While it works it says what it is doing (reading your records, checking every figure); then the checked answer writes itself in, followed by its chart and cards. No drafts change in front of you.
- Past Assistant conversations show the whole question and when you asked it.
- Suggested questions are answered instantly from this Mac’s records, and Assistant answers about data always give amounts of data.
- Accurate data amounts: Outbound no longer counts the same bytes twice. Per-app data can never add up to more than your Mac’s network interfaces actually moved (amounts recorded before this update may read high).
- The Assistant reads today’s and this week’s data from the same records as Analytics, so the two always agree.
- Dictation in the Assistant: speak your question and it is turned into text on this Mac. The microphone is on only while you dictate, and its level shows inside the stop button.
- Year in Review plays like a story: each page advances on its own, pauses while you read or share, and Space plays or pauses.
- Setup now asks how Outbound should balance visuals and memory, and explains what each choice means on your Mac.
- An automatic performance mode. On Macs with 8 GB of memory or less, in Low Power Mode, when your Mac is hot or short of memory, Outbound draws its visuals less often, keeps the globe simpler and rests the floating globe. Protection never changes, and your own settings come back when the condition clears.
- Settings › Labs › Performance: choose Automatic, Always efficient or Always full quality, see why Outbound chose what it did, and see each feature’s memory, graphics and energy use.
- A Dots map style for the Network Monitor: the world drawn without map tiles, using a fraction of the memory of the full map. It is shown automatically while Outbound runs efficiently, unless you picked a style.
Improved
- Assistant answers quote data as “17.9 GB”, never as a raw number of bytes, and their maps use the Dots style while Outbound runs efficiently.
- The narrow Network Monitor hides the map’s style and zoom controls, and Analytics opens faster.
- Connections travel the globe and the map at an easier pace, on a natural spring.
- A cleaner window: a tighter Overview header, the Analytics overview with its details on request, quieter Review rows, and the status pill moves aside when the sidebar is hidden.
- The Network Monitor uses far less CPU while it sits open, and Analytics uses less memory.
- Written overviews show large counts with separators, as 742,378.
- When macOS runs short of memory, Outbound lets go of everything it can rebuild.
- Less work for every connection your Mac makes: the connection list no longer copies a connection’s history each time it is used again.
- The menu bar meter lets macOS group its wake-ups with other apps’, and the Dock globe is a still picture between refreshes.
Requires macOS 14 or later on Apple silicon or Intel. Signed with Developer ID and notarised by Apple. You’ll need a licence key. See pricing.