Windows tray utility · .NET 8

Your network,
one hover away.

HoverIP sits quietly in your system tray. Hover over the icon and your current private and public IP address appear instantly — no Command Prompt, no PowerShell, no digging through Settings.

Copyrighted & Trademark licensed · Windows 10 & 11 · free software to use available
hoverip.exe — tray popup
Private IP192.168.1.42
Public IP203.0.113.87

Click an address to copy · auto-hides on mouse leave

watching adapter for changes
< 40ms
hover-to-popup latency
~9 MB
self-contained executable
0
always-on background windows

Why HoverIP

Everything you check ten times a day, in one glance.

01

Instant hover popup

Rest your cursor on the tray icon and a clean, borderless popup appears immediately — no clicking, no waiting on a spinner.

02

Private + public IP, together

Both addresses sit side by side, pulled from your active adapter and a public lookup, refreshed each time you check.

03

Click to copy

Click either address to send it straight to the clipboard. A tooltip reminds you it is one click away.

04

Change detection

A background watcher polls your private IP and fires a balloon notification the moment your adapter gets reassigned.

05

Networking toolbox

Right-click the tray icon for direct shortcuts into the Windows tools you reach for most — firewall, DNS, adapters, and more.

06

Starts with Windows

Toggle startup behavior from the tray menu. HoverIP writes its own registry entry — no separate installer step required.

Right-click

A shortcut to the tools you already reach for.

Right-clicking the tray icon opens a menu of native Windows networking tools — the ones you'd otherwise hunt for through Start menu search.

Advanced Firewall
Command Prompt (Administrator)
Flush DNS Cache
Internet Options
Network Connections
Network & Sharing Center
Resource Monitor
Windows Firewall
Run at Startup
Exit

Under the hood

Built native. No Electron, no runtime bloat.

HoverIP is a small, self-contained Windows Forms app — every piece below ships inside a single ~9MB executable, with nothing installed system-wide.

C#.NET 8Windows FormsNotifyIconAsync NetworkingHttpClientWindows RegistryNative Windows APIs

Requirements

Runs on Windows 10 and 11.

  • Windows 10 or Windows 11
  • .NET 8 Runtime — skip this with a self-contained publish

What's next

Still sharpening the edges.

IPv6 support
Network adapter selection
Dark / light theme
Network usage statistics
Custom popup themes
Microsoft Store release
Optional ad-supported version
Automatic update support

Feedback

Found a bug? Missing a feature? Say so.

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