Sixgree: six degrees of your LinkedIn. Scan the people you know, then the people they know, and see everyone out to six degrees: ranked, mapped, and the shortest way in to each.
Sixgree runs on a Mac, and now on Windows and Linux too (beta). All downloads.
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macOS 13.5 or later · Windows 10 or 11 (beta) · Linux (beta)
One click maps everyone you know. Paced, kept under daily limits, and it stops cleanly if LinkedIn pushes back.
Scan a friend's circle and their people join your map. A few friends, and hundreds of people are one introduction away.
See who is worth reaching, and who can introduce you. Every person ranked S to D, out to six degrees, with the way in drawn.
150 connections in the sample that ships with the app lead to 598 people one introduction away.
Learn how it worksLinkedIn gives you a list. Sixgree gives you the map: who you know, who they know, how much each of them can open up for you, and the shortest way in to anyone.
One button maps everyone you know. It reads slowly, keeps to daily limits, and stops cleanly.
How scanning worksScan a connection's circle and everyone they know joins your map. Each one is a bridge into a new crowd.
How bridges workEveryone in tiers, S to D, out to six degrees. Power ranks how far someone can open doors, not who they are.
How the tiers workSeparation's slider runs from the rarest ways in to the most mutual. The score meter finds who is worth it.
How Separation works
It can feel cold to score people by their employer and title. But your network is your net worth, and you deserve to see it. Power ranks reachability, not people.
Just starting out
Scan your few friends' circles and the map opens up: everyone they know, ranked, one introduction away.
Already well connected
Thousands of connections, drawn: the quality of each, the clusters they form, and what the whole thing is really worth.
Climbing
Separation lists the most powerful people two steps away, and which of your connections are mutual with each.
Founders, and co-founder hunters
Scan one founder's circle and the Power Index lists every founder in it. Faster than whoever is hunting the same people.
The scanner
Every scan button works in one click, and each one is tested and held to the same rules.
1,098 automated tests · 33 releases since
Scanning uses your own LinkedIn account, and LinkedIn may restrict accounts that automate it. The honest risk. Rather not? Import LinkedIn's own CSV instead.
LinkedIn is where your connections live, and its search is good at finding one person. It isn't built to show you the whole shape.
| What you want | Sixgree | LinkedIn's own search | Spreadsheets and CRMs | Network tools (SocNetV, Gephi) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your connections, from LinkedIn's export | Yes: drop in Connections.csv |
Yes: it's where they live | Yes: import the CSV | Partly: as nodes, with no ties between them |
| Everyone two steps away, ranked, with who can introduce you | Yes: Separation and Insights (needs a scan, or the sample) | Partly: search 2nd-degree people, and see mutual connections on each | No: the export holds 1st degree only | If you bring the ties yourself |
| Who only one of your connections reaches | Yes: for every scanned circle | Not shown | No | Partly: brokerage measures, on data you bring |
| A score per person, with the working shown | Yes: title × company, and the formula is open | Not shown | Your own formulas | General centrality measures |
| Your network by company and industry | Yes: Paths | Partly: filter a search by company | Pivot tables, by hand | Partly: by any attribute you import |
| A layout you can tune, and a replay by date | Yes: the Galaxy's physics lab (experimental) | No | No | Yes: many layouts, and Gephi's timeline |
| Any network, any data, research-grade statistics | No: LinkedIn networks only | No | Any data, few network tools | Yes: what they're built for |
| Runs on your computer, with no account | Yes | No: an online service with your account | Varies: most CRMs are online | Yes: desktop apps |
| Price | Free, MIT licence | Free, with paid plans | Free to paid | Free, open source |
Something here out of date, or unfair to another tool? Open an issue and it'll be put right.
Yes. No paid tier, no account and no trial. Sixgree is open source under the MIT licence, and every line is on GitHub.
Anyone on LinkedIn who wants to see their network rather than scroll it: people starting out with a handful of connections, people with thousands who want to see what they add up to, climbers looking for peers at the top, and founders looking for other founders, or a co-founder.
No. There is no Sixgree server. Your network is one folder on your computer, and the app goes online only when you ask it to: LinkedIn while you scan, GitHub when you check for an update. Why local-first.
It might, and we say so plainly. Scanning uses your own account in a Chrome window you sign into. It reads slowly,
keeps to daily and monthly limits, and stops at the first sign of push-back. If you'd rather take no risk, import
LinkedIn's own Connections.csv or try the sample. The details.
Each person gets a power score from their title and their company, and the tiers group those scores: S is the top. Power ranks reachability, not people: it estimates how many doors someone can open, never what they're worth. The formula is open.
A bridge is a connection whose circle you've scanned: everyone they know joins your map, two steps from you. Scan circles further out and the map keeps going, out to six degrees.
macOS 13.5 or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel, signed and notarized by Apple. Windows 10 or 11 and Linux are in beta. All downloads.
Watch
From a few connections to six degrees.
Eight tools on one map of your network. All of them free, all of them on your computer.
Also: The Scan page leads with scanning · LinkedIn usage moved from Settings to the Scan page · Six Degrees is now Sixgree
Also: The Mac app is signed by Blake Burford and notarized by Apple: no more Open Anyway
Also: Auto: one press sends someone a connection request for you · A scan that stopped partway says so, on the person's card and on the Scan page · The tabs sit on the header's line, and the notch hangs from them
The Galaxy is a force simulation. The physics lab hands you its controls: what each slider does, the Clusters preset, colour by, find, and a replay of your network by the day you connected that you can save as a video.
Sixgree keeps your network in one folder on your own computer. What that means in practice, what the app contacts and when, and the protections that come with running on localhost.
How the optional Sixgree scanner paces itself, the daily and monthly budgets it keeps to, why it stops at the first push-back, and what the risk to your LinkedIn account really is.
Start with your own network, build a few bridges, and see how far six degrees really goes.
Sixgree: six degrees of your LinkedIn. Not affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn.
