WhatCable
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
5recommend
3warn against
May 1, 2026first mention
Aug 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Check this for more details on Windows (original author's repo)”
“on Macs you can also use the WhatCable app”
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“I cannot recommend enough https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable”
“it seems like it will easily beat my previous strategy of plugging things in randomly”
“Props to @sleepingNomad here, who has done 16 releases in the last 7 hours”
Caveats and dissent
“Wontfix for Intel Macbooks”
“when the menubar mode doesn't seem to add anything”
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“There's an issue on Github for this now”
“There's an issue on Github for this now”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- item 47972511 6 mentions
- WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do 3 mentions
- I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them 2 mentions
- I'm a USB-C Maximalist 2 mentions
- The USB Situation 1 mention
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All comments 14
“Check this for more details on Windows (original author's repo)”
“it comes with a headless CLI binary (no GUI libraries needed)”
“I came here to ask the same thing.”
And two linux ports: https://github.com/Zetaphor/whatcable-linux https://github.com/abrauchli/usbee
“on Macs you can also use the WhatCable app”
“I cannot recommend enough https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable”
“it seems like it will easily beat my previous strategy of plugging things in randomly”
“Probably can't tell you anything about the other end of the cable though.”
“Wontfix for Intel Macbooks”
“Props to @sleepingNomad here, who has done 16 releases in the last 7 hours”
“when the menubar mode doesn't seem to add anything”
...And claude fixed it already https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/commit/7a3ad1363aea1adbd9b6b21f679edce18a2098bf
“There's an issue on Github for this now”
“There's an issue on Github for this now”