Apps tagged with 'Packet Sniffer'

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  1. Wireshark icon
     985 likes

    Foremost network protocol analyzer with multi-platform support, deep protocol inspection, VoIP analysis, and extensive file format compatibility.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Fedora
    • FreeBSD
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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  2. tcpdump icon
     60 likes

    Command-line packet analyzer for monitoring, capturing, and filtering network traffic. Supports real-time capture, pcap file export, protocol analysis, and BPF syntax.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    33 alternatives
  3. TCP Viewer icon
     4 likes

    Real-time macOS tool captures, filters, and analyzes network packets with Wireshark-grade detail, supporting PCAP/PCAPNG files, protocol filters, and grouped traffic.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    17 alternatives
  4. NetworkMiner icon
     19 likes

    NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows. NetworkMiner can extract transmitted files and certificates from PCAP files containing HTTP, FTP, SMB, SMB2, TFTP and several other protocols.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Files extracted from a PCAP
    Images extracted from a PCAP
    Details about hosts that have communicated on a network
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    NetworkMiner running in Ubuntu with Mono Framework
    43 alternatives
  5. Kismet icon
     19 likes

    Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and (with appropriate hardware) can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. CloudShark icon
     11 likes

    Streamline network analysis with a secure solution for efficient packet capture. Ideal for operators and IT teams, use on-premise or in cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    17 alternatives
  7. WinPcap icon
     31 likes

    WinPcap is the first successful port of libpcap (originally developed for Unix-like operating systems) for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    5 alternatives
  8. Npcap icon
     4 likes

    Npcap is a packet capture (and sending) library for Windows by the Nmap Project. It implements the open Pcap API using a custom Windows kernel driver alongside our Windows build of the excellent libpcap library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    4 alternatives
  9. PCAPdroid icon
     5 likes

    PCAPdroid is an android app to capture the phone traffic and analyze it remotely (e.g. via Wireshark). The traffic can be easily downloaded from a remote device thanks to the integrated HTTP server, or streamed to a remote UDP receiver.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
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  10. Impacket icon
     1 like

    Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols. Impacket is focused on providing low-level programmatic access to the packets and for some protocols (e.g. SMB1-3 and MSRPC) the protocol implementation itself.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Docker
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
    32 alternatives
  11. Edgeshark icon
     1 like

    Discover and capture container network traffic from your comfy desktop Wireshark, using a containerized service and a Wireshark plugin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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    47 alternatives
  12. SmartSniff icon
     13 likes

    SmartSniff is a packet sniffer that capture TCP/IP packets and display them as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP) or as hex dump (for non-text base...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    39 alternatives
  13. HTTP Debugger icon
     8 likes

    HTTP Debugger captures and decrypts HTTP/HTTPS from any Windows app without proxy setup — HTTP/2, WebSocket, SSE, gRPC and localhost included. Edit and replay requests, modify traffic on the fly, and let an AI assistant read the session over the built-in MCP server.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Live capture of AI agent and browser traffic with WebSocket messages
    Localhost and 127.0.0.1 traffic captured without loopback workarounds
    Incoming requests to a web server running on the same machine
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    One-click local root certificate install for HTTPS inspection
    44 alternatives
  14. Arkime icon
     2 likes

    Moloch augments your current security infrastructure to store and index network traffic in standard PCAP format, providing fast, indexed access. An intuitive and simple web interface is provided for PCAP browsing, searching, and exporting.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  15. ReqRes icon
     2 likes

    ReqRes is an open-source, high-performance, modern native web debugging proxy for macOS. It lets you capture, inspect, modify, and intercept HTTP(S) traffic in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  16.  6 likes

    Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, match requests and replies, and much more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    23 alternatives
  17. Ostinato icon
     4 likes

    Ostinato is a network packet and traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI. It aims to be "Wireshark in Reverse" and thus become complementary to Wireshark. It features custom packet crafting with editing of any field for several protocols: Ethernet, 802.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Main Window
    Selecting Protocols
    Filling in Protocol Data
    13 alternatives
  18. HTTP Analyzer is such a handy tool that allows you to monitor, trace, debug and analyze HTTP/HTTPS traffic in real-time. It is used by industry-leading companies including Microsoft, Cisco, AOL and Google.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  19. WinDivert icon
     3 likes

    WinDivert allows user-mode applications to capture/modify/drop network packets sent to/from the Windows network stack.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    13 alternatives
  20.  3 likes

    tcpflow, a TCP Flow Recorder, is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections (flows), and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis or debugging. A program like 'tcpdump' shows a summary of packets seen on the wire, but...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  21. Native Cocoa app for capturing and analyzing packets. Similar to Wireshark, but with a native interface (and less features). If you don't like the X11 GTK Wireshark, this is your app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    20 alternatives