WinSpeed

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Why WinSpeed

• Always visible. Live download and upload speed sits on the taskbar next to the clock, on Windows 10 and 11, light or dark.
• Featherweight. One ~250 KB exe, about 20 MB of RAM, near-zero CPU. No runtime to install, no admin rights.
• More than a meter. Speed test, hour-by-hour data history, data-cap alerts, latency and offline notifications.
• Yours to shape. Units, labels, fonts, colours, layout and position are all adjustable, and every change applies instantly.
• Private. No telemetry, no ads, no account. Your data stays in plain-text files on your PC.

Features

📊 Taskbar meter

• Download / upload, combined, or both plus total
• Stacked or single-line layout
• Auto bytes (KB/s, MB/s) or auto bits (Kbps, Mbps), or any fixed unit
• 1024 or 1000 multiplier, standard, compact or IEC labels
• Custom labels, fonts, colours and background opacity
• Mini graph, ping and offline dot on the meter
• Drag anywhere, lock it, click-through, floating mode
• Hides during full-screen games and videos

⚡ Speed test

• Download, upload, ping and jitter in about 25 seconds
• Multi-stream test on Cloudflare's global network
• Live gauge, result history and CSV export
• Run on a schedule with --run-speedtest

📈 Data usage

• Recorded per hour and per adapter
• View by hour, day, month or year, for any date range
• Filter by adapter; drill down month → day → hour
• Bar chart, totals, daily average, CSV export

🔔 Limits & connection

• Monthly and daily data limits with your billing day
• Notifications at your warning level and at 100 %
• Latency, jitter and packet-loss monitoring
• "Connection lost / restored" notifications
• Public IP, ISP and location on request
• Privacy mode masks IP and MAC addresses

And the details that matter

• Smart adapter counting: VPN and virtual adapters (WireGuard, OpenVPN, Hyper-V, WSL, Docker…) are skipped automatically so traffic isn't counted twice. You can also pick adapters by hand.
• Welcome screen: three quick choices on first run, and you're done.
• Light and dark theme that follows Windows.
• Live-speed tray icon, global hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+N), configurable click actions.
• Portable mode: run from a USB stick with everything in one folder.
• Export and import settings; all settings in a readable settings.ini.
• Daily update check via GitHub releases (can be turned off).

Install

1. Download WinSpeed-Setup-x.y.z.exe from the latest release and run it. No admin rights needed.
2. The meter appears on your taskbar. Right-click it for the menu; double-click to open WinSpeed.

Prefer not to install? Grab WinSpeed-Portable-x.y.z.zip, unzip and run WinSpeed.exe.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may ask you to confirm: More info → Run anyway. Every release is built from this repository by GitHub Actions and ships with SHA256SUMS.txt.

Requirements: Windows 10 (version 1607 or later) or Windows 11, on 64-bit, 32-bit or ARM. Nothing else to install: WinSpeed is a single exe with no extra DLLs.

Documentation

The user guide covers installation, every setting, units, the speed test, data limits, the command line, portable mode, privacy and troubleshooting.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/anand34577/winspeed.git
cd winspeed
./build.ps1        # → dist\WinSpeed-Setup-x.y.z.exe, dist\WinSpeed-Portable-x.y.z.zip

Needs the .NET SDK 8+ (and Inno Setup 6 for the installer). See Building from source.