Free NetBalancer AlternativesTop Network Monitors and other similar apps like NetBalancer

The best free alternative to NetBalancer is GlassWire. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to NetBalancer and 13 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to NetBalancer are Fort Firewall, NetSpeedMonitor, Net Bar and CacheGuard Gateway.

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  1. GlassWire icon
     152 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.

    67 GlassWire alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  2. NetSpeedMonitor icon
     61 likes

    NetSpeedMonitor is a lightweight Network Monitoring Toolbar for your Windows Taskbar designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista or Windows 7. With NetSpeedMonitor you can monitor the current speed (up- and downstream) of your Network...

    42 NetSpeedMonitor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Net Bar icon
     5 likes

    Displays real-time network download and upload speeds in the macOS menu bar with detailed Wi-Fi and latency stats, customizable appearance, unit options, no data collection, fully open source, and a native interface for seamless local monitoring.

    44 Net Bar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. CacheGuard Gateway is a free and open-source Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and a Quality of Service (QoS) platform designed to optimize WAN traffic. To obtain a CacheGuard Gateway appliance, download CacheGuard-OS and install it on...

    134 CacheGuard Gateway alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
     
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    CacheGuard Gateway vs NetBalancer Comments
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    This is an OS, not an application.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • CacheGuard Gateway is Free and Open SourceNetBalancer is Paid and Proprietary
    • CacheGuard Gateway is Privacy focused and LightweightNetBalancer is not according to our users
  5. L7 Filter icon
     3 likes

    L7-filter is a classifier for Linuxs Netfilter that identifies packets based on application layer data. It can classify packets as Kazaa, HTTP, Jabber, Citrix, BitTorrent, FTP, Gnucleus, eDonkey2000, etc., regardless of port.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Wonder Shaper icon
     8 likes

    A bandwidth limiting and traffic prioritization tool for linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. SterJo NetStalker is innovative and FREE security software able to detect all authorized and unauthorized connections to your computer and send you alert for each new connection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Datapath.io icon
     2 likes

    Datapath.io is a network performance management tool which automates the process of performance optimization.It scans global internet infrastructure to find the fastest,least expensive network path with the least packet loss and optimized bandwidth.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Murus is a frontend for the OS X PF network firewall. From basic filtering to advanced proactive options, Murus allows to easily configure a complex network setup dragging and dropping icons and moving sliders and selecting checkboxes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Speed Limiter application can simulate slow TCP/IP connections. All connections from that machine will go trough this app or you can configure only your application to use it as a proxy.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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