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Discovery
Discovery
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Discovery free download for Mac

Discovery

Version 2.1.0

Browse available Bonjour network services.

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Discovery overview

Discovery (formerly Bonjour Browser) is a utility that displays all of the Bonjour services available on the local network or on Wide-Area Bonjour domains. Use it to debug your latest program, detect computers connected to your network, or just keep tabs on what services are available. Perfect for network admins or developers.

This application is the successor to the venerable Bonjour Browser.app.

Features:
  • Browses for services on local or remote domains using Bonjour
  • Automatically detects all available local domains and services
  • Displays information about each service, including domain name, IP address(es), and TXT record

What’s new in version 2.1.0

Updated on Nov 08 2021

Version 2.1.0:
  • Discovery has been updated for Apple Silicon.
  • As usual, this version also includes an updated set of service type names.

Information

License

Free

Size

7.5 MB

Downloads

111107

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • OS X 10.12 or later
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signalprocessor
signalprocessor
Mar 18 2013
1.5.6
5.0
Mar 18 2013
5.0
Version: 1.5.6
Thanks for providing such a great tool for developers, I use this tool daily. If you're ever considering an update- a PAID update- it would be useful to be able to see which network interface certain records are being published to, and some of the other mDNS flags available such as local-only, unicast, p2p, and AWDS, etc.
uce-hole
uce-hole
Dec 17 2012
1.5.6
4.5
Dec 17 2012
4.5
Version: 1.5.6
So Simple, so effective.
Tonyboy
Tonyboy
Apr 15 2009
1.5.6
5.0
Apr 15 2009
5.0
Version: 1.5.6
Bonjour Browser is a great little tool for debugging various network problems (e.g. with a printer, Airport Express, etc...). I use it often in my job as a sysadmin, as well as at home, when troubleshooting my home network. A killer addition to this utility would be an accompanying command-line tool, similar to dig, but for mDNS. `mdig Fallout.local.` To my knowledge, no such tool exists for the Mac.
Ricardo-Batista
Ricardo-Batista
Mar 8 2009
1.5.6
5.0
Mar 8 2009
5.0
Version: 1.5.6
Most Excellent! A must have application for any developer who needs to use network services. And for the curious user, this app can even help you troubleshoot your mac and see if some app is actually working or not, you can also discover things running in the background of your mac you had no idea where running. Simply Awesome.
Kballard
Kballard
Jun 7 2005
1.5.5
0.0
Jun 7 2005
0.0
Version: 1.5.5
Warning: this build of Bonjour Browser does not appear to actually run on Jaguar. I'm still investigating why this is so. But until I figure out what's going on, if you're using Jaguar, don't upgrade yet.
Guest
Guest
May 25 2005
1.5.3
4.5
May 25 2005
4.5
Version: 1.5.3
AWESOME! Great! Just the app I was looking for! I want a way of finding who else has what rendezvous services on a network... 4 stars for features and ease of use because I would like it to sort by host and tell me what their services are, not by me and sort by service. 5 for value because it's FREE! 5 for stability because it hasn't crashed yet!
Guest
Guest
Feb 11 2005
1.5.3
4.5
Feb 11 2005
4.5
Version: 1.5.3
This app is very useful, if you're not a network/unix expert and you're trying to figure out which ports are used by which applications in order to configure the built-in OS X firewall. In other words: without this app I wouldn't know how to find out.
Guest
Guest
Mar 16 2004
1.5
0.0
Mar 16 2004
0.0
Version: 1.5
Simple, complete, and powerful. I had no idea that so many services were announced via rendezvous. This utility makes it simple to see the network services of other macs on the network are configured.
Guest
Guest
Dec 13 2003
1.3.2
4.5
Dec 13 2003
4.5
Version: 1.3.2
cool and it's free
Guest
Guest
Dec 8 2003
1.3.1
4.5
Dec 8 2003
4.5
Version: 1.3.1
*** AWK ! *** This app is too perfect to be true. Apple has this great technology, which is %100 completely useless without this app. This should be part of the basic sytem install? What on earth is Apple doing????? THIS APPLICATION RECCOMMENDED FOR EVERYONE. (who is not a networking genius) Thank you!
Guest
Guest
Nov 21 2003
1.0
4.5
Nov 21 2003
4.5
Version: 1.0
Most excellent. Very useful, simple, good interface.
winonafonda
winonafonda
Nov 12 2020
5.0
Nov 12 2020
5.0
Version: null
signalprocessor
signalprocessor
Mar 18 2013
5.0
Mar 18 2013
5.0
Version: null
uce-hole
uce-hole
Dec 17 2012
4.5
Dec 17 2012
4.5
Version: null
Tonyboy
Tonyboy
Apr 15 2009
5.0
Apr 15 2009
5.0
Version: null
Ricardo-Batista
Ricardo-Batista
Mar 8 2009
5.0
Mar 8 2009
5.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
May 25 2005
4.5
May 25 2005
4.5
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Mar 16 2004
4.8
Mar 16 2004
4.8
Version: null
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