re:route
re:route entries in your hosts file with one click.
Swap a hostname between Local, Staging, and Prod with one click. See exactly what will change before it's written. Never lose a manual edit.
Download for macOSEvery change, previewed before it's real.
Atomic, timestamped writes. The exact diff is confirmed before anything touches /etc/hosts.
re:route learns your setup — it doesn't fight it.
A first-launch scan finds hand-added entries and lets you choose which to bring under management. Every write after that round-trips everything else byte-for-byte — other tools' entries, comments, and blank lines are left exactly as they were.
A real text editor, not just a form.
A full text view with inline validation — duplicate hostnames, invalid IPs, and shadow-domain conflicts are flagged live.
Nothing is ever really gone.
Every write is versioned. Restore any prior state of your hosts file in one click.
Authenticate once. Switch freely after that.
A small privileged helper daemon does the writes on macOS, so you're not stuck re-entering your password every time you flip an entry.
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