Release date: 20 Sep 2026

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Ready for macOS 27 Golden Gate

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed UI issue on macOS 27 Golden Gate

Tiny Shield v1.15.1: Require Approval mode 🔒

Release date: 22 Aug 2026

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Introducing the Require Approval Mode: All new connections will be paused. You can decide to block it or allow it.

Tiny Shield v1.14.0: Settings Transfer, Policy Details, and Better Domain Detection ✅

Release date: 13 Aug 2026

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Import and export app settings from the Tools menu.
2. View the Internet Access Policy for each process.

🚀 Improvements:

1. Improve domain detection from DNS traffic.
2. Improve hostname detection for TLS and QUIC connections.

Tiny Shield v1.12.0: Recently Blocked & Menu Bar Enhancements ✅

Release date: 25 Jul 2026

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Introduce the Recently Blocked in the menu bar, so you can quickly see the recently blocked processes and domains
2. Add a button to show the blocked processes and domains in the main table view

🚀 Improvements:

1. Add the Expand All and Collapse All buttons in right-menu context for better usability.
2. Pulse animation in the menu bar icon if a new app or domain is blocked

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Some internal crashes.

Tiny Shield v1.11.0: Signature View and Block All Mode Enhancements ✅

Release date: 09 Jul 2026

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Introduce the Signature view to allow users to see the signature of the process and verify if it's signed or unsigned process.

🚀 Improvements:

1. New UI of the App Detailed Popover
2. Allow List and Block List to the Tool Menu
3. In the Block All Mode: You can override the block/allow decision for Apple-signed processes and DNS queries.
4. Double-click on Process Row will open the App Detailed Popover

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Some internal crashes.

Tiny Shield v1.10.0: Allow All, Block All Mode, and Better Network Graph ✅

Release date: 07 Jun 2026

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Introduceing the: Allow All Mode: A new mode that allows all incoming connections, except the ones that are explicitly blocked. This is useful for users who want to allow all connections by default and only block specific ones.
2. Introduceing the: Block All Mode: A new mode that blocks all incoming connections
3. Allow Apple's apps/binaries to bypass the Block All mode.
4. Allow DNS Query to bypass the Block All mode, so the app can still resolve the domains and show the domain names in the list view and Map View.

🚀 Improvements:

1. Make the network graph more reliable with steadier upload and download numbers.
2. Make Block All stricter and update row actions to match the selected mode.
3. Update the app icon and release files for Tiny Shield 1.10.0.

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Setapp release settings could use the wrong build configuration.
2. Fixed: Some system network processes could show as unresolved or could not be blocked correctly.
3. Fixed: The expanded or collapsed state of the block status in the list view doesn't update correctly when new flows are added.

Tiny Shield v1.9.0: Lifetime Plan & Stability Improvements 🛡️

Release date: 03 Jun 2026

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Introduce the Lifetime Plan: Unlock Tiny Shield Pro with a one-time purchase for lifetime access.

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Internal crash and improved app stability.

Tiny Shield v1.8.1: Fix Traffic Capture Issue 🛡️

Release date: 01 Apr 2026

What's new:

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Tiny Shield doens't capture any traffic after using for a while.

Tiny Shield v1.8.0: Fix Memory Leak, Improve Map View & Menu Bar 🛡️

Release date: 20 Feb 2026

What's new:

🚀 Improvements:

1. Menu bar icon now uses a monochrome style for a cleaner, more native macOS look.
2. Improved the Map View with better visuals and interactions.
3. Added runtime diagnostics for better memory monitoring.

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Critical memory leak that could consume up to 50GB of memory over time.
2. Fixed: Menu bar graph sometimes does not remember its position.

Tiny Shield v1.7.0: Improvement for the Map View 🗺️

Release date: 06 Dec 2025

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Add 'Show in Map' menu item in the menu context, allow users to quickly show the item in the Map View

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Allow to create a new Block Item in the FREE version
2. Fixed: Can't show the right menu context when right-click on the item in the list view

Tiny Shield v1.6.1: Introduce the Map View and HOTFIX for Memory Leaking & App size

Release date: 05 Dec 2025

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Introduce the Map View: A map view that lets you see your Mac's network traffic in real time and where the traffic is coming to

🚀 Improvements:

1. Improve App size by removing the unused files and trim the GEOIP database

🐛 Bugs:

1. HOTFIX: Memory Leaking from v1.6.0 (deprecated)
2. Fixed: Sometimes, the list view doesn't show the new content

Tiny Shield v1.6.0: Introduce the Map View ⚡️

Release date: 04 Dec 2025

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Introduce the Map View: A map view that lets you see your Mac's network traffic in real time and where the traffic is coming to

🐛 Bugs:

1. Some internal crashes when launch the app

Tiny Shield v1.5.0: Support macOS Tahoe 26 with new Liquid Glass UI

Release date: 30 Oct 2025

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Support macOS Tahoe 26 with new Liquid Glass UI

🐛 Bugs:

Tiny Shield v1.4.1: HOTFIX when updating app onBackground Mode

Release date: 30 Sep 2025

What's new:

🐛 Bugs:

1. HOTFIX: Fixed: Can not update TinyShield when the app is running on Background Mode

Tiny Shield v1.4.0: Performance Improvement

Release date: 19 Sep 2025

What's new:

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Some internal crashes when launch the app
2. Performance Improvement

Tiny Shield v1.3.0: Introduce the wildcard domains & Launch at Logic feature

Release date: 26 Aug 2025

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Introduce the wildcard domains: Allow users to block all subdomains of a domain, for example: `*.google.com` will block all subdomains of google.com, including `www.google.com`, `mail.google.com`, `drive.google.com`, etc.
2. Introduce the "Launch at Logic" feature: Allow users to launch the app at login, and also launch the app when the system is booted.

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: No recorded traffic when the app is launched

Tiny Shield v1.2.1: Hotfix for Blocking Google Chrome

Release date: 18 Aug 2025

What's new:

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Can't block Google Chrome app, because it uses DNS over HTTPS

Tiny Shield v1.2.0: Hotfix for Background Mode & Crash Report

Release date: 07 Aug 2025

What's new:

🚀 Improvements:

1. Setapp-TinyShield will have the Run in Background mode and Crash Report disabled by default.

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Can't shutdown the macOS when TinyShield is running in the background
2. Fixed: TinyShield shows incorrect graph style at launch

Tiny Shield v1.1.1: Hotfix for Background Mode

Release date: 22 Jul 2025

What's new:

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Quit app in Background mode doesn't really close the app. TinyShield is still working in the background
2. Fixed: 'Show App Windows' menu does not reload new recent data
3. Fixed: Uninstall TinyShield will show invalid alert

Tiny Shield v1.1.0: Network Graphs & Background Mode ⭐️

Release date: 19 Jul 2025

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Network Graphs: A live traffic graph that lets you see your Mac's *Download* and *Upload* activity in real time.
2. Background Mode: Keep Tiny Shield running quietly without the main window. It continues monitoring even when you close the app window.

🚀 Improvements:

1. Install Location Warning: If you open the app from outside the /Applications folder, you'll now see a friendly alert so you can move it for proper updates and stability.

🐛 Bugs:

1. Quit Issue on Permission Screen: You can now quit the app normally when you're on the Permission view.

Tiny Shield v1.0.0: Import Block Rules from LuLu, Sort processes alphabetically and by recent activity, Introduce the About Us View ⭐️

Release date: 08 Jul 2025

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Import Block Rules from LuLu
2. Sort processes alphabetically and by recent activity: Much easier to find your process/domains
3. Introduce the About Us View

🚀 Improvements:

1. Improve the UI/UX of the Install Tiny Shield Network Extension

Tiny Shield v0.9.0: Better UI & Fixed some bugs ✅

Release date: 02 Jul 2025

What's new:

🚀 Improvements:

1. Make Windows Toolbar looks like Get API and Little Snitch by using the same style and fullscreen height with Toolbar
2. Make the Setting view like macOS Settings

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: Block all by selecting it in the popup doesn't work
2. Fixed: Jump selection when scroll the main table view

Tiny Shield v0.8.0: Auto-Cleanup for Old data after 30 days, Improve UI when deleting items, Fixed some bugs ✅

Release date: 25 Jun 2025

What's new:

✨ Features:

1. Add Auto-Cleanup for Old data after 30 days

🚀 Improvements:

1. Improve UI when deleting items: Auto select the current item when deleting items

🐛 Bugs:

1. Fixed: When the Main Windows is closed, the app is still observing the network traffic
2. Fixed: Flows Missing After Removing Filter
3. Fixed: Block Status in the main table view doesn't update when we update the block status from the popup

Tiny Shield v0.7.0: Better performance and stability for DNS Resolution. Fixed Crashes from Network Extension ✅

Release date: 22 Jun 2025

What's new:

Features:

1. Rewrite how we resolve the IPs -> Domains with better performance and stability
2. Removed Proxy DNS Extension, we don't need it anymore

Bugs:

1. Fixed: Internal Crashes from Network Extension, which cause loss of Internet Connection

Tiny Shield v0.6.1: HOTFIX for Network Extension that causes loss of Internet Connection after awake from sleep

Release date: 20 Jun 2025

What's new:

Bugs:

1. Fixed: Internal Crashes from Network Extension, which cause loss of Internet Connection
2. Fixed: Prevent adding new Block Entry from the Free Version

Tiny Shield v0.6.0: Add Uninstall Menu & Sentry to Network Extension

Release date: 19 Jun 2025

What's new:

Improvements:

1. Add Sentry to Network Extension for crash report.
2. Uninstall Menu: Completely uninstall Tiny Shield, Network Extension, and all related files.

Bugs:

1. Fixed: When filtering the Process Name, new request doesn't append to the Chrome
2. Fixed: It does not show the Permission View after it closed

Tiny Shield v0.5.1: HOTFIX for Network Extension Permission View

Release date: 11 Jun 2025

What's new:

Bugs:

1. HOTFIX: Fixed: After uninstalling the Network Extension, TinyShield doesn't show the Permission View anymore

Tiny Shield v0.5.0: Introduce new Filter, Timeline Filter, Sentry, Setting View ⚡️

Release date: 09 Jun 2025

What's new:

Features:

1. Introduce the Text Filter: You can quickly filter the list of processes by name, domain, path, etc.
2. Introduce the Timline Filter by 5 mins, 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, or 30 days.
3. Add Sentry for crash report
4. Add Setting View and Privacy Tab: You can opt-out the crash report

Tiny Shield v0.4.0: Better Process Info Popover & Menu Context ✅

Release date: 06 Jun 2025

What's new:

Features:

1. Introduce the Process Info Popover
2. Add few useful menu items to the Menu Context, such as Copy Path, Copy Domain, ...

Tiny Shield v0.3.0: Delete Process in the Menu Context

Release date: 05 Jun 2025

What's new:

Features:

1. Support Delete Process in the Menu Context

Improvements:

1. Only fetch data from the last 24 hours

Tiny Shield v0.2.3 (BETA): HOTFIX for Network Extension

Release date: 03 Jun 2025

What's new:

Bugs:

1. Fixed: Tiny Shield does not update Network Extension when new version is updated

Tiny Shield v0.2.2 (BETA): Better performance

Release date: 03 Jun 2025

What's new:

Improvements:

1. Introduce the Process Caching Layer to improve the performance
2. Auto Update at launch

Bugs:

1. Crashed when finding a process by audit token

Tiny Shield v0.2.1 (BETA): Fix some issues

Release date: 01 Jun 2025

What's new:

Bugs:

1. Fix the window size issue
2. Fix crashed when click on Watch Video button on Onboarding View

Tiny Shield v0.2.0 (BETA): Onboarding View & License System

Release date: 01 Jun 2025

What's new:

Features:

1. Introduce Tiny Shield, a lightweight and easy-to-use macOS application firewall.
2. Allow users to block incoming connections from specific IP addresses or ports.
3. Provide real-time alerts and logging of blocked connections.
4. Introduce the Onboarding View to guide users through the setup process.
5. License System
6. Block Tool: Block all incoming connections from specific IP addresses or ports.

Tiny Shield v0.1.2: First release v0.1.2 🚀

Release date: 24 May 2025

What's new:

Features:

1. Introduce Tiny Shield, a lightweight and easy-to-use macOS application firewall.
2. Allow users to block incoming connections from specific IP addresses or ports.
3. Provide real-time alerts and logging of blocked connections.
4. Support easy configuration through a user-friendly interface.

Tiny Shield v0.1.1: First release 🚀

Release date: 23 May 2025

What's new:

Features:

1. Introduce Tiny Shield, a lightweight and easy-to-use macOS application firewall.
2. Allow users to block incoming connections from specific IP addresses or ports.
3. Provide real-time alerts and logging of blocked connections.
4. Support easy configuration through a user-friendly interface.