Snitch
Ranked 4 of 8 network diagnostic tools by recommenders
Free terminal tool that shows ss and netstat style connection data in a TUI, and people note it is actively maintained. One reviewer reported an install error via go.
Free terminal tool that shows ss and netstat style connection data in a TUI, and people note it is actively maintained. One reviewer reported an install error via go.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 91%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 10 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Terminal UI that looks nice
“I like the TUI, connection monitoring is perfectly handled by a TUI!”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat” “Name can be friendlier, tui looks nice!”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat” Maintained ss/netstat replacement
“the installed cli at least looks and behaves like I expected from this HN post”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat” “an actually maintained terminal utility for viewing ss/netstat data”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat” Expected to be useful
“this will be a useful tool as part of that journey”
Comment from 20 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: Snitch – my Mac talked to 347 servers in one idle hour, so I built this” “this is going to be really useful”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat” Cool look and demo
“The demo recording-as-code seems cool”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat” “This looks cool - will check it out!”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Name could be friendlier
“Name can be friendlier, tui looks nice!”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat”
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See all 8 network diagnostic tools, rankedWhat people said
10 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“this will be a useful tool as part of that journey”
“the installed cli at least looks and behaves like I expected from this HN post”
“an actually maintained terminal utility for viewing ss/netstat data”
“this is going to be really useful”
“Name can be friendlier, tui looks nice!”
“When attempting to install through go: ... I get this error message”
“snitch is written in Go, which doesn't use the libc functions”
“I like the TUI, connection monitoring is perfectly handled by a TUI!”
“This looks cool - will check it out!”
“The demo recording-as-code seems cool”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.