Installing myNetWorking

Choose your system above. Store versions update through the store, and the files from this site — .dmg, .deb and .rpm — have a Check for updates button in the app. Below you’ll find step-by-step installation, the first launch, how to verify downloaded files and how to uninstall.

Requirements

The app is free, has no ads and doesn’t require an account.

macOS

Mac App Store or .dmg file?

It’s the same app with the same features. The versions differ in how they are installed and updated:

• Mac App Store — recommended. One-click installation, updates through the App Store.

• The .dmg file from this site — for people who don’t use the App Store. The app is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple. You check for new versions with the Check for updates button in the app’s settings.

Install only one of them. Both store their data in the same place, so your service list stays when you switch from one to the other.

Installing from the .dmg file

1. Download the myNetWorking-1.1.0.dmg file with the Download .dmg button above.

2. Open the downloaded file. A window appears with the myNetWorking icon and a shortcut to the Applications folder.

3. Drag the myNetWorking icon onto the Applications folder.

4. Eject the disk image with the eject button in the Finder sidebar.

5. Start myNetWorking from Launchpad or from the Applications folder. macOS asks whether you want to open an app downloaded from the Internet — click Open.

Tip: the system asks this only once, because the app is signed and notarized. If macOS says that the app is from an unidentified developer or is damaged, do not bypass the warning — download the file again and verify its checksum. If that doesn’t help, let us know.

First launch on a Mac

• The app asks for permission to send notifications. Allow it if you want to receive outage alarms.

• On macOS 15 and later, the system may ask for access to the local network. Allow it — without it, myNetWorking can’t check the router, NAS or printer on your network.

• The myNetWorking icon appears in the menu bar. Closing the window only hides it, and monitoring continues. To quit the app, choose Quit in the icon menu or press ⌘Q.

• If you want the app to start with the system, turn on Settings → General → Launch at system startup (macOS 13 or later).

The App Store version updates through the App Store. You update the .dmg version as described in the Updates chapter.

Windows

1. Click the Microsoft Store button above, or search for “myNetWorking” in the Microsoft Store app.

2. Click Get (or Install). The Store picks the version for your processor, x64 or ARM64, automatically.

3. Start myNetWorking from the Start menu.

After the app starts:

• Closing the window hides the app in the system tray, and monitoring continues. Clicking the icon shows the window, and right-clicking it opens the Show window / Quit menu. If you can’t see the icon, click the hidden icons arrow on the taskbar.

• Outage notifications work right away — Windows doesn’t ask for permission. You can turn them off in the Windows settings: Settings → System → Notifications.

• Starting the app again brings up the open window instead of a second copy of the app.

• You turn on launch at startup in Settings → General → Launch at system startup. The app uses a Microsoft Store startup task, so you’ll also see myNetWorking in Task Manager → Startup apps.

• Updates are installed by the Microsoft Store.

Ubuntu and Debian

Not sure which package you need? Check with the command dpkg --print-architecture: amd64 means x64, and arm64 means ARM64. Download the package with the button above and install it with apt, which also pulls in the libraries it needs:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo apt install ./mynetworking_1.1.0_amd64.deb

On an ARM64 computer, use the file name mynetworking_1.1.0_arm64.deb. If your desktop uses another language, the Downloads folder may have a translated name.

You can start the app from the applications menu or with the mynetworking command. Its files are installed in the /opt/mynetworking folder.

• The package does not come from your distribution’s repository, so a graphical installer (e.g. Software in GNOME) may warn about an unknown publisher. Installing with apt is the simplest way, and the checksum confirms that the file is intact.

• Closing the window minimizes the app, and monitoring continues. To quit the app, use Settings → General → Quit myNetWorking, the Ctrl+Q shortcut or Quit in the tray icon menu.

• Starting the app again brings up the open window instead of a second copy of the app.

Tray icon in GNOME

GNOME does not show tray icons out of the box. Ubuntu has a built-in AppIndicator extension for this, and KDE Plasma shows the icon without any add-ons. On Debian with GNOME, install the extension with:

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

On Fedora with GNOME:

sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator

Then log out, log back in and enable the extension, e.g. in the Extensions app.

Without the icon, the app works the same way: you’ll find the minimized window in the dock, on the taskbar or with Alt+Tab.

Fedora

Check the architecture with the command uname -m: x86_64 means x64, and aarch64 means ARM64. Download the .rpm package with the button above and install it with dnf:

cd ~/Downloads
sudo dnf install ./mynetworking-1.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm

On an ARM64 computer, use the file name mynetworking-1.1.0-1.aarch64.rpm. You can start the app from the applications menu or with the mynetworking command. Closing the window, quitting and the tray icon work as on Ubuntu and Debian.

iPhone and iPad

1. Open myNetWorking in the App Store with the button above and download the app. It requires iOS or iPadOS 15.0 or later.

2. When you start it for the first time, allow notifications.

3. If the system asks for access to the local network, allow it — without it, the app can’t check devices on your home or office network.

Important: iOS allows continuous monitoring only while the app is open. In the background, the system runs checks only occasionally — roughly every 15 minutes and with no guarantee. The details are in the Running in the background chapter.

Android

1. Install myNetWorking from Google Play with the button above. It requires Android 7.0 or later.

2. On Android 13 and later, allow notifications when you start the app for the first time.

3. Add your services. As long as at least one of them has monitoring enabled, the notification shade shows the permanent “myNetWorking is monitoring” notification of the foreground service that keeps monitoring going in the background.

Tip: turn off battery optimization for myNetWorking in the app’s system settings (usually in the Battery section; the names depend on the phone manufacturer). After you restart the phone, open the app once to resume monitoring. The details are in the Running in the background chapter.

Verifying a downloaded file

Next to the download buttons for the .dmg, .deb and .rpm files there is a SHA256SUMS link — a list of SHA-256 checksums. It lets you make sure that the file downloaded completely and that nobody has altered it. If your browser displays the list instead of downloading it, save the page as a file named SHA256SUMS.

On a Mac, open Terminal and type:

cd ~/Downloads
shasum -a 256 myNetWorking-1.1.0.dmg

Compare the result with the line for myNetWorking-1.1.0.dmg in the SHA256SUMS file. To check the disk image’s signature and notarization, run this command in the same folder:

spctl -a -t open --context context:primary-signature -v myNetWorking-1.1.0.dmg

A correct result contains the words accepted and source=Notarized Developer ID.

On Linux, save the SHA256SUMS file in the same folder as the package and type:

cd ~/Downloads
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

OK should appear next to the name of the downloaded package.

Uninstalling

macOS

1. If launch at startup is on, turn off Launch at system startup in the app’s settings.

2. Quit the app: Quit in the menu bar icon’s menu, or ⌘Q.

3. Drag myNetWorking from the Applications folder to the Trash.

Your data stays in the ~/Library/Containers/com.miotk.myNetworking folder. To remove it as well, choose Go → Go to Folder in Finder, type ~/Library/Containers and move the com.miotk.myNetworking folder to the Trash (Finder may show it under the name myNetWorking).

Windows

Open Settings → Apps → Installed apps (on Windows 10: Apps & features), find myNetWorking and choose Uninstall. You can also right-click the app in the Start menu and choose Uninstall. Windows removes the app’s data and its startup entry together with the app.

Linux

On Ubuntu and Debian, remove the package with:

sudo apt remove mynetworking

On Fedora:

sudo dnf remove mynetworking

Your data stays in your home folder. To remove it together with the startup entry:

rm -r ~/.local/share/com.miotk.mynetworking
rm -f ~/.config/autostart/com.miotk.mynetworking.desktop

iPhone, iPad and Android

On iPhone and iPad, touch and hold the myNetWorking icon, choose Remove App and confirm. On Android, touch and hold the icon and choose Uninstall, or go to Settings → Apps → myNetWorking → Uninstall. The data is removed together with the app.

Where your data is stored

The app saves the service list, settings, incidents and log only on your device:

• macOS: the ~/Library/Containers/com.miotk.myNetworking folder, which contains the file Data/Library/Preferences/com.miotk.myNetworking.plist — the same for the App Store version and the .dmg version.

• Windows: the private folder of the Microsoft Store package in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\ (the folder name starts with 51520WaldemarMiotk.myNetWorking_).

• Linux: ~/.local/share/com.miotk.mynetworking/shared_preferences.json, and the startup entry in ~/.config/autostart/com.miotk.mynetworking.desktop.

• iPhone, iPad, Android: the app’s private storage, which other apps can’t access.

CSV files go wherever you save them. The privacy policy tells you more about your data.