Main window
TripMode’s main window is where most of your interactions with the app take place. It appears when you click TripMode’s icon in the menu bar and displays the applications list with their individual counter, allowing you to block and unblock them with one click. You can also get a total traffic count on a period chosen among predefined settings. This is also where the manual activation button is accessible. Finally, the action menu gives you access to preferences and help.
The main window changes between two layouts depending on TripMode’s activation state. In the inactive state, TripMode can be used as a Live Monitor, or to look at past usage reports.
Once you click the activation button or if TripMode automatically detects an actively used expensive connection, you will see the the list of applications that are trying to access the Internet and you will have the possibility to allow or block internet access per app.
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Activation button: It enables you to force TripMode on or off, if its automatic detection does not suit your current work. If you manually change this setting, the state of TripMode will be remembered the next time the same connection is used.
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Scheduler button: Appears when scheduled activations are planned and enables you to check the scheduler status or temporarily disable the automation. Option + click gets you directly to the scheduler preferences.
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Action menu: Opens a menu of additional functionalities such as preferences, apps sorting order, reset of the data counter, and access to help. Learn more
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Apps list: Lists all the apps according to the order defined in the action menu. Each app is displayed as an entry with its name, its icon and a check box that enables you to define if the app must be blocked or not. To better differentiate between the blocked and authorized states, the application icon and name are greyed out when it is blocked. Each application entry also displays the traffic counter for this app according to the criteria chosen in the counter selection menu. An horizontal bar will show you the relative data usage of apps compared to the other ones in the list.
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Counter selection menu / Reports: Changes the way how data traffic is counted. You can chose to view the traffic for:
- the current session, since last TripMode activation
- the current day, since midnight,
- the current month, since midnight on the first day of the month. The counted traffic is the amount of data that the apps used while TripMode is active. The choice made here applies both to the traffic counter for each app and the total traffic counter.
When TripMode is turned off, a different set of options appears in the list: the Live Monitor, to see the current data usage of apps, or past data usage reports distributed in two sections:
Total data : The total traffic measured by TripMode on your Mac, regardless if the TripMode switch was turned on or off, for:
- the current day, since midnight,
- the current week,
- the current month, since midnight on the first day of the month. These reports are updated in real time with any traffic happening while they are being viewed. These reports are particularly useful when Live Monitoring is regularly used.
Filtered data : The traffic measured when TripMode’s main switch was turned on, for
- the last session when TripMode was turned on
- the current day, since midnight,
- the current week,
- the current month, since midnight on the first day of the month.
Note: To ensure accurate and comprehensive reports, make sure to have TripMode running at all times and have its “Open at login” setting checked in the preferences. Traffic that happens when the TripMode app is not running will not be counted.
- Total traffic counter: Shows the sum of data traffic of every app for the period chosen with the counter selection menu.
The total can show minute differences with the sum of individual applications counters. This is due to the fact that each application counter is rounded before display to leave a clearer figure but the total is computed using the exact count. Some system-critical apps running in the background are also never blocked and will use data, this may increase the total consumption as reported by you phone.