The Best Free Little Snitch AlternativesTop Firewalls & Network Monitors like Little Snitch

The best free alternative to Little Snitch is Wireshark, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Little Snitch and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Little Snitch are Portmaster, GlassWire, LuLu and Fort Firewall.

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  1. Wireshark icon
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    Wireshark is a premier network protocol analyzer used globally in industries and education, offering multi-platform support, deep protocol inspection, powerful display filters, and VoIP analysis. It allows both live capture and offline analysis, supporting various networks and protocols.

    57 Wireshark alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
     
  2. Portmaster icon
     188 likes

    Free, open-source privacy suite monitoring all network activity, blocking unwanted connections, using trusted filter lists for ads and malware, enforcing DNS-over-TLS, providing custom app and global rules, and supporting advanced privacy management.

    36 Portmaster alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. GlassWire icon
     154 likes

    Visualizes real-time and historical network activity, delivers alerts for suspicious behavior and unknown connections, manages firewall rules, reports DNS and system changes, identifies remote hosts, monitors app usage, supports remote monitoring, and detects possible threats.

    69 GlassWire alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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  4. LuLu icon
     53 likes

    Free shared-source firewall for macOS blocking unknown outbound connections unless approved, alerts for unauthorized activity, helps detect malware, blocks OS or app data transmissions, no ads or tracking, audit-ready code on GitHub, enterprise event monitoring.

    17 LuLu alternatives

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    • Mac
     
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  5. Fort Firewall icon
     39 likes

    Standalone firewall for Windows 7 and later featuring flexible rules by application, address, or protocol, wildcards, parent process filtering, SvcHost controls, blocklists, bandwidth graphs, traffic stats tracking, speed limits, and real-time network monitoring.

    40 Fort Firewall alternatives

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    • Windows
     
  6. NetGuard icon
     51 likes

    Offers detailed per-app internet control for Android with no root required, blocks Wi-Fi and mobile connections, supports IPv4/IPv6, privacy-focused, usage logging, system app blocking, tethering support, various notification settings, and material themes.

    41 NetGuard alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
  7. OpenSnitch icon
     43 likes

    GNU/Linux firewall enabling interactive outbound network filtering, outbound application control, blocking of ads and malware domains, centralized GUI node management, input policy configuration, SIEM integration, real-time alerts, and user-level rule customization.

    38 OpenSnitch alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. App Manager icon
     30 likes

    It lists activities, broadcast receivers, services, providers, permissions, signatures, shared libraries, etc. of any app

    31 App Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
  9. AFWall+ icon
     41 likes

    Firewall (iptables frontend), based on DroidWall which is no longer being developed. A paid "donate"-version with more features it advertised within the app.

    23 AFWall+ alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. As soon as you’re connected to the Internet, your apps can send whatever they want to wherever they want, unnoticed by you, because all of this happens invisibly under the hood.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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