DeskUptime sits quietly in your macOS menu bar, checks your sites every few minutes, and pings you natively the moment one goes down — or comes back.
A tiny status icon shows overall health at a glance. Green means all sites up; click it to see every watchlist.
Downtime alerts and recovery alerts arrive as real macOS notifications. No email to miss.
Checks run from your Mac. The URL list lives in a local file — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Also available as a CLI: deskuptime check runs a round right now and exits non-zero if anything is down — perfect for scripts and CI.
Yes. DeskUptime is a lightweight macOS app that lives in your menu bar and checks any list of URLs on an interval you choose. You get a native macOS notification the moment a site goes down and again when it comes back — with no account and no monthly fee.
No local tool can. Checks only run while your Mac is awake and the app is running — which is exactly how you want it if you are watching your own sites during the workday. For 24/7 coverage you would need a server-side monitor.
You pick per watchlist: every 1, 5, 10 or 30 minutes. A built-in floor of 60 seconds between checks of the same URL keeps you polite to your own server.
Yes. DeskUptime compares each result with the previous status and sends a separate recovery notification, so you know both when something breaks and when it is fixed.
The companion CLI can: deskuptime check https://yoursite.com reports HTTP status, response time and days until your TLS certificate expires. The app covers uptime; the CLI adds certificate and scripting workflows.
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