Instatus Out

We all know the feeling of depending on any given online service only to find out that it's currently down or unavailable.

Sadly, there's not much one can do in situations such as these except wait, and that is probably the most annoying part: waiting and constantly checking the respective service's status page.

Even though it might seem insignificant, Instatus Out is an app capable of helping you better organize your time and work.

Instatus Out is a well-designed cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux) and open-source app that allows you to monitor services directly from your computer's system tray, without any sort of sign-up or prior configuration.

Not only that, but the app is also capable of notifying you once a selected service either has problems or is completely unavailable, and this is where the usefulness of the app really lies.

The app features various popular online services which can be picked from the provided list within the app. These include GitHub, Dropbox, Zoom, Slack, Docker, Unsplash, Reddit, Airtable, Atlassian, Asana, Basecamp, Bitbucket, and many many others.

The status of any selected entry can be checked with a single click on the app's tray icon. However, if you want more details, simply click the name and the app will open the official service status page in your browser.

To conclude, Instatus Out is a very useful and well-designed app that should come in handy to a wide range of users, from dev teams to singular users who usually rely on online services to get work done.

It allows you to check the state of your favorite services, as well as get notified when they change their status, without ever getting in your way. As if the fact that it's open-source and available for all major platforms wasn't enough, the app also looks rather amazing with both its two GUI themes (light and dark).