Cocoa Packet Analyzer Alternatives

Cocoa Packet Analyzer is described as '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' and is a network analyzer in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cocoa Packet Analyzer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and BSD apps. The best Cocoa Packet Analyzer alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cocoa Packet Analyzer are tcpdump, Ettercap, PCAPdroid and SmartSniff.

Cocoa Packet Analyzer alternatives are mainly Network Analyzers but may also be Network Monitors or HTTP(S) Debuggers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Cocoa Packet Analyzer.

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Cocoa Packet Analyzer

Free • Proprietary
Network Analyzer

Native Cocoa app for capturing and analyzing packets. Similar to Wireshark, but with a native interface (and less...

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Wireshark
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
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BSD
Snapcraft
Flathub
Homebrew
Chocolatey
52 Wireshark alternatives
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
- - Wireshark is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Cocoa Packet Analyzer.
- - Wireshark is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Cocoa Packet Analyzer.
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Wireshark Features
Detailed packet analysis
Network Usage History
Support for Android Things
Work Item Tracking
tcpdump
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
22 tcpdump alternatives
tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line. It allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network to which the computer is attached.
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tcpdump Features
Bib Tex Sniffer
Ettercap
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Mac
Windows
Linux
17 Ettercap alternatives
Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks.
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Network Tools
Based on Ubuntu
PCAPdroid
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Android
F-Droid
41 PCAPdroid alternatives
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.
- - PCAPdroid is the most popular Android alternative to Cocoa Packet Analyzer.
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PCAPdroid Features
Traffic Monitoring
HTTP Monitoring
SmartSniff
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Free • Proprietary
HTTP(S) Debugger
Windows
33 SmartSniff alternatives
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...
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1. PortableSmartSniff can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Sockets
tcpflow
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
14 tcpflow alternatives
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...
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Packet Peeper
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Free • Open Source
Network Analyzer
Mac
13 Packet Peeper alternatives
Packet Peeper is a free network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) for Mac OS X.
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MicroOLAP TCPDUMP
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Freemium • Proprietary
Network Analyzer
Windows
10 MicroOLAP TCPDUMP alternatives
MicroOLAP TCPDUMP is a clone of tcpdump , the most used network sniffer/analyzer for UNIX, compiled with the original tcpdump code (http://www.tcpdump.org/), and MicroOLAP Packet Sniffer SDK.
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MicroOLAP TCPDUMP Features
1. PortableMicroOLAP TCPDUMP can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Pirni Pro
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Paid • Proprietary
Network Analyzer
iPhone
24 Pirni Pro alternatives
Pirni Pro is a network security tool designed for iOS, and specifically for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. It is capable of intercepting traffic on a wireless network segment, capturing passwords, and regular expressions entered by the user.
- - Pirni Pro is the most popular iPhone alternative to Cocoa Packet Analyzer.
- - Pirni Pro is the most popular commercial alternative to Cocoa Packet Analyzer.
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Pirni Pro Features
Support for regular expressions
Network Scanner
Filtering
Jailbreak required
AirSnare
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Free • Proprietary
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Windows
35 AirSnare alternatives
AirSnare is another tool to add to your Wireless Intrusion Detection Toolbox. AirSnare will alert you to unfriendly MAC addresses on your network and will also alert you to DHCP requests taking place.
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Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.5, released in May 2006, can be still downloaded from Download.com
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Termshark
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
50 Termshark alternatives
If you're debugging on a remote machine with a large pcap and no desire to scp it back to your desktop, termshark can help!
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Termshark Features
Remote Debugging
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HttpCanary
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Freemium • Proprietary
Network Analyzer
Network Monitor
Android
42 HttpCanary alternatives
HttpCanary supports packets capture and injection. With this app, you can test your mobile Rest APIs very very easy. Besides, HttpCanary provides multiple view browsers, such as raw viewer, hex viewer, preview viewer and so on.
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HttpCanary Features
Traffic Monitoring