WinSight
The facts below are what the maker publishes about WinSight, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From WinSight's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | No account · no paywall · no premium tier · GPL-3.0-or-later |
The facts
Each one read from WinSight's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Application rules
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows 10/11checked 22 Sep 2026
What it does
- Connection alerts
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Firewall
- The per-application firewall uses Windows Filtering Platform and stays in audit-only mode until an elevated operator arms enforcement.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Install requirements
- The default install is per-user, requires no administrator rights, and needs no .NET runtime; the optional firewall service is installed separately.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes WinSight as Windows counterparts to Objective-See's small, single-purpose, open-source security tools for macOS.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- WinSight offers a desktop and tray dashboard, a command-line interface with 28 verbs, and a local read-only MCP server for compatible AI clients.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The dashboard is available in English, French, and Spanish.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Outbound control
- advancedchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Privacy
- The application has no telemetry, analytics, or account; its only outbound connection is an optional, user-initiated VirusTotal hash lookup, disabled by default and requiring the user's API key.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- WinSight is a free, open-source suite of Windows security tools for visibility and control over system activity.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Ransomware detection
- The opt-in ransomware feature uses decoy files and rename, delete-burst, and entropy-on-write heuristics to alert; it does not block ransomware.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Release verification
- Each release provides SHA-256 checksums, an SBOM, and GitHub build provenance, while released binaries are not yet Authenticode-signed.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Rule direction
- outboundchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Security limits
- WinSight is not antivirus or EDR and does not guarantee detection of kernel rootkits, memory-only implants, or every persistence technique.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The FAQ directs users with other questions to open an issue on GitHub and security issues to private GitHub vulnerability reporting.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Supported systems
- WinSight supports Windows 11 and Windows 10 22H2 (build 19045 or later) on x64 and Arm64; 32-bit Windows is unsupported.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Tools
- Its eight tools cover persistence scanning, outbound firewall, startup alerts, ransomware detection, camera and microphone monitoring, connections and DNS, signature verification, and hijack scanning.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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