Outbound 1.0.16
Outbound 1.0.16 slides the sidebar and inspector without a stutter, keeps less memory when you are not looking, brings the two-line notch island with its small map back, and gives the Dots map the proportions of the real world.
New
- The notch island shows the app, the country it reached and why on two lines beside a small map of the route, with a hover to open the connection in the Network Monitor. It grows out of the notch, then the words and the map arrive one after another; with Reduce Motion on it simply appears.
- The Dots map style keeps the proportions of the real world in 2D, fitted and centred in the pane, and the 2D | 3D picker now works for Dots too: 3D is the globe.
Faster
- Opening and closing the inspector no longer re-lays the whole Network Monitor on every frame of the slide. The panel slides over the pane, and the pane takes its new width in one step, so the slide runs at full frame rate instead of stalling for up to a quarter of a second.
- Every animation in the app, from a counter ticking to a panel sliding, now uses one shared set of timings, so the app moves the same way everywhere. With Reduce Motion on, each of them crossfades or snaps instead.
- The caches that remember app names, icons, favicons, domain lookups and places are bounded: they keep a fixed number of the most recent entries instead of growing for as long as the app runs.
- Thirty seconds after the last window closes, Outbound releases the memory those caches and the map were using, so the menu bar app settles back to its resting size. Opening a window again rebuilds them as needed.
- The connection log keeps exactly the last five decisions for each app and clears per-hour counts older than a week on an hourly sweep.
Fixed
- The Dots map looked cropped and stretched: it was drawn to fill the pane whatever its shape. It now keeps its proportions.
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.