Widgets
The Outbound and Outbound World desktop widgets, their sizes and what each shows.
Outbound ships two desktop widgets: “Outbound”, your protection status at a glance, and “Outbound World”, traffic from the monitor’s time range on a dotted world map. Add them by right-clicking the desktop and choosing Edit Widgets, or in Notification Center. The background agent publishes their data through local files.
Outbound
Section titled “Outbound”The status widget is offered in the small, medium and large sizes. Its description in the gallery: “Whether this Mac is protected, what was blocked, and which apps use the network most.”
Small: a status badge (a shield, tinted mint when protected, amber when something needs attention, red when protection is off) beside the mode name, the status headline such as “Protected” or “Paused”, a large count of blocked connections, and the allowed count with the number of apps that went online.
Medium: the same badge, headline and mode, plus a ring chart of the connections in the snapshot with the total in the middle, a “Top Apps” list of up to three apps with icon and data or connection counts, and sent and received totals when available.
Large: the ring chart at full size with a legend for Allowed, Blocked, Sent and Received, up to four top apps, and a “Recently Blocked” list naming the host and the app for up to two recent blocks.
The headline tracks the app’s own status: “Protected”, “Paused”, “Needs approval”, “Reconnecting”, “Protection off”, “Not installed”, “Filter settings unreadable” or “Filter not answering”. It can also show “Waiting for the filter”, “Saved, but not applied” or “Unblock held”.
Outbound World
Section titled “Outbound World”The world widget is offered in the medium and large sizes. Its gallery description: “Where your Mac’s connections went, on a live world map.” It draws the dotted world with up to 12 of the busiest located places in the monitor’s time range, with the protection state on top and a line naming the countries in play, such as “4 countries · Ask mode”; if none of the located places has a country name, the line counts places instead.
The world widget draws a still map; its packets do not animate.
How fresh the data is
Section titled “How fresh the data is”The background agent checks the snapshot every 20 seconds. Unchanged data can skip a write for up to 60 seconds. It normally requests a widget reload no more than once a minute, but a change in protection-status category can request one sooner.
The widget requests another timeline after five minutes. At ten minutes old, the snapshot becomes amber with the title “Status unknown” and mode line “Open Outbound to check”. Closing the main window does not stop the background publisher; if publishing stops, the last snapshot becomes stale after that interval.
The data travels through the shared app group folder as a snapshot file with small icon images; your connection history itself stays in Outbound’s own storage.