![]() At the surface level that is a nice thing for buyers, but we do not live in a utopia and nor any efforts to establish one ever succeeded, so I hope that the dev is and will be making enough money to support and evolve the product, as he has done so far, which, arguably, even from a perspective of the user is more important than saving some bucks. Murus is advertised as buy once for life, and all updates and upgrades will be free. LS has a neat Network Monitor with a world map for visualizing network connections Murus has a neat Simulator to test whether you rule does what you intended it to do, which is especially useful in creation of complex configurations, and for me, the Simulator is more important than the said Network Monitor. Vallum is cheaper ($15 vs $45 for single license), and it allows for more complex rule creation then LS (but Murus dev please take note how LS lists common ports - 21 FTP, 80 HTTP, etc., for easier rule creation for not so technical users). My reference to the Little Snitch in the previous review of Vallum 2 is now obsolete, as the LS 4 is now quite user friendly, but I would still recommend Vallum over the established name and richer looking product that is Little Snitch. I would imagine that the new multiuser, group management, logging capabilities are not that important to a typical user, from my perspective of the label "typical," but all these power-features make Vallum very interesting to corporate entities and advanced users. And, well, it has certainly been polished since the previous major release, and at the same time it has become both more intuitive and even more powerful and nuanced. Due to the new architecture, the old Vallum 2 rules are not imported and this presented me with the opportunity to experience the upgraded rule-creation process. So, Vallum 3 is out with the new core and logic, AFW (Application Firewall for macOS) kernel-based socket filter. Buy once for life, all updates and upgrades will be free.It respects your privacy, it does not phone home or leak any kind of data on the network.It's powerful: create complex setups with jails, mixed rules, temporary rules, at both application- and network-level.One click to install, one click to uninstall It's friendly: it stays in a corner of your Mac's menu bar on top of the screen, it does not pollute your dock and your desktop.Work at both application- and network-level to gain full control of your Mac.Choose between different levels of interactions or run a completely silent firewall.Simple interface, no need for special networking knowledge, everybody can use it.Be notified of hidden network activities, discover what happens behind the scene, throttle bandwidth.Drag and drop apps icons to create firewall rules, run the firewall with one mouse click. ![]() Increase your privacy, intercept apps that leak data on the network, monitor apps integrity.Intercept apps that leak data on the network, drag apps' icons to create firewall rules, run the firewall with one mouse click: Vallum is friendly, it stays in a corner of your Mac's menu bar on top of the screen, it does not pollute your Dock and your desktop, it features a simple interface that everybody can use, and it's powerful because it lets you create complex setups with jails, mixed rules, notification pop-up alerts, and temporary rules, at both application- and network-level interacting with Murus and the macOS built-in PF packet filter. To change Vallum's attitude and interaction level, you just have to play with the very few options available. Just drag an app's icon from the Finder into the main Vallum window to block it. Its default configuration is not intrusive, and it does not require any interaction or specific networking knowledge or skills. Vallum's interface is very simple and is icon-based. It is able to intercept connections at the application layer, and hold them while you decide whether to pass or block them. Vallum is a little tool that helps you monitor and block apps connections and throttle apps bandwidth.
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