See the trackers. Choose.

Choose the view and range

By App

The default view. Expand an app to see its servers, companies and last contact. Servers Outbound only labels say “not blocked by Outbound”.

By Company

See connections, last contact, apps that contacted the company and its servers. Show in Trackers opens the company’s catalogue entry and sources.

Time Range

Last Hour, Last 24 Hours, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days or Since Install. Last 24 Hours is the default.

Search apps, companies and servers

Narrow the report by any of the three. Its headline counts Apps, Tracker servers, Companies and Connections.

Sent, where measured appears when byte totals exist. Bytes are measured only for connections the filter saw close since Outbound started. Today in the menu bar is a calendar day, separate from the report’s ranges.

A company label

A database entry checked against the company’s own documentation. Why this label shows its owner, category, whether it sends events or fetches settings, blocking impact and sources.

Possible telemetry

A guess from the server’s name alone. Outbound does not know the company. It is separate from the catalogue matches counted in the Tracking Report.

Companies and Apps

Open Lists › Trackers, then browse either view. Companies are grouped by category. Seen on this Mac marks entries your traffic has reached; search covers names and servers.

Servers and Sources

Read what each server is for and what blocking it would do. Sources show Last checked dates where available. The footer gives the database version and company, server and app counts.

Read the same catalogue from the terminal

• outboundctl telemetry classify example.com labels a host. Add --app with a signing identifier or path to refine the match for one app.
• outboundctl telemetry app, followed by a signing identifier or path, prints the maker’s documented opt-outs.
• outboundctl telemetry info prints the version and counts of vendors, endpoints and apps. These three commands are read-only and each accepts --json.

The label shows the owner, category, sources and what blocking the endpoint would do. It also distinguishes endpoints that send data from those that fetch settings.

A database match is checked against the company’s own documentation. Possible telemetry means the label was guessed from the server’s name alone.

Check what happened to the connection

Why

The destination inspector says what decided the latest connection. When a rule decided it, Show Rule opens that rule.

All matching rules

Decides marks the rule that won. The inspector also reports when other matching rules rank lower.

Change it

Allow or block the destination for that app. When a blocklist blocked it, Allow DEST despite LIST is available.

Company entry

You can open a catalogue company in the Tracker Database from the label. A name-only guess has no company entry to open.

Categories you can block

Analytics

Which features you use and how you move through an app.

Crash reporting

Error and crash reports to the developer’s service.

Logging

An app’s activity logs, sent to a logging service.

Feature flags

Which experiments and flags an app showed you.

Advertising

Ad networks and the services that measure ads.

Attribution

Which ad or link led to an install or sign-up.

Session replay

Taps, scrolls and screens, recorded so a visit can be replayed.

What the switch leaves alone

• Only catalogue endpoints that receive telemetry events and can be blocked without changing how the app works get block rules. Servers that fetch configuration, mix configuration and events, or would degrade or break an app stay labelled without being blocked.
• Diagnostics reports how an app or system runs. Essential covers services an app needs to work. Unknown has no category description. These three categories are not offered for telemetry blocking.
• Apple’s diagnostics are labelled without being blocked. Their opt-out is in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

• Some apps send data through their own domains, which no list can recognise, so this cannot promise that all telemetry is off.
• Outbound never blocks model APIs, sign-in, updates or package registries, because blocking them would stop the app or tool working.

Turn off telemetry for one app

Telemetry…

Open the app’s Turn off telemetry sheet from the Network Monitor or inspector. Seen in Activity lists the companies it contacted, with Show in Tracker Database for known companies.

Turn it off in NAME

Copy the maker’s documented environment variable, config line, command or macOS defaults, or find its in-app setting. Maker’s documentation links appear where available; hosted tools have their own entries.

Block This App’s Telemetry

Block the known servers Outbound can block for that app without breaking it. Generic runtimes such as node and python have no whole-runtime switch, because many programs run inside them.

Apps with telemetry turned off

Per-app blocks stay active when Block known telemetry is off. Remove takes an app off this list. When neither the app nor its hosted tools has a documented opt-out, the sheet says so.

Protection, Trackers Blocked and Review make up today’s score. The Passport, At a Glance and Awards give you other ways to read your activity.

How the score is worked out

When no trackers are classified, the other parts are scaled to 100. A day with protection on, an empty Review and no trackers seen scores 100.

Streak, Passport and yearly figures

Your streak

Days at 70 or more count when you open Highlights. Outbound keeps the day’s best score; a day you do not open Highlights does not count.

Passport

One stamp per country reached since you installed Outbound, out of 195 countries. 52 countries have an illustrated stamp; the others get a plain postmark-style stamp.

At a Glance

This year’s Busiest Day, Trackers Blocked, Apps Contacted Trackers, AI Services, New Apps, Late Night and Data Moved appear when there is something to count.

Late Night and Data Moved

Late Night is the share of connections before 5 AM. Data Moved adds sent and received data for the year.

Awards

Globetrotter

Reach servers in 25 countries.

Tracker Hunter

Block 1,000 connections to trackers.

On a Roll

Keep a score of 70 or more for 7 days in a row.

Night Owl

Make a fifth of your connections between midnight and 5 AM.

Rule Maker

Make your first rule.

AI Explorer

Use 3 different AI services.

My year on the network

Connections, data and apps that went online.

Where it went

Countries reached, with the top five by flag and name.

The apps that talked most

Your top five apps, icons first.

Protection

Blocked connections, how many went to trackers and ad networks, and apps that contacted known trackers.

My rhythm

Your busiest day, the share of connections after midnight and new apps.

My privacy score

Your score and the awards you earned.

Hovering over the story, opening its share sheet or leaving the window pauses playback. Use the arrow keys to go back or forward and Space to play or pause. Show app names on the apps page starts off.

What a card contains

My privacy score

Your score ring, your streak when you have one, and your tracking share for the year.

My network passport

The country count and up to nine passport stamps.

Award earned

The award’s artwork, title and detail.

Preview, then Share

A 9:16 PNG, 1080 by 1920 pixels. Cards contain counts, countries, flags and app icons, with relevant dates and award details. The Year in Review apps page includes names only when you enable Show app names.

• Tracking Report · Tracker Database
• Trackers and telemetry · Telemetry settings
• Telemetry commands
• Highlights, Passport and awards · Share cards and Year in Review