TCP Viewer Alternatives

TCP Viewer is described as 'Real-time macOS tool captures, filters, and analyzes network packets with Wireshark-grade detail, supporting PCAP/PCAPNG files, protocol filters, and grouped traffic' and is a network analyzer in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to TCP Viewer for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best TCP Viewer alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TCP Viewer are PortKiller, tcpdump, TCPView and CurrPorts.

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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.

    58 Wireshark alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Arch Linux
    • Flathub
    • Fedora
    • FreeBSD
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
     
  2. PortKiller icon
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    Advanced multi-OS desktop tool for monitoring and managing local TCP ports, identifying bound processes, watching ports for notifications, handling Cloudflare Tunnels, filtering and pinning, managing Kubernetes port-forwards with logs, plus real-time process termination.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. tcpdump icon
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    Command-line packet analyzer for monitoring, capturing, and filtering network traffic in real time. Supports TCP/IP protocols, pcap file export, BPF syntax, timestamped outputs, and works on UNIX-like systems with both wired and wireless interfaces.

    30 tcpdump alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. TCPView icon
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    Displays active TCP and UDP endpoints, including local and remote addresses, connection states, and owning processes. Provides real-time color-coded updates, adjustable refresh, IP resolution, and options to close connections or export data for analysis.

    17 TCPView alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  5. CurrPorts icon
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    Displays all open TCP/IP and UDP ports with full process details including name, path, version, creation time, and user information. Supports closing connections, killing processes, marking suspicious ports, exporting data in multiple formats, and portable operation for network monitoring.

    26 CurrPorts alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. TcpLogView icon
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    TcpLogView is a simple utility that monitors the opened TCP connections on your system, and adds a new log line every time that a TCP connection is opened or closed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Proc Net Monitor is the FREE software to monitor & analyze the Network activity of all running Process on your system.

    It shows all open network Ports (TCP/UDP) and active Network Connections for each process.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. PortsMonitor icon
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    PortsMonitor is a system utility for monitoring system TCP/IP network connections by application, and connections' status. With Search Expression support, you can filter connection with preferred conditions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9.  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...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. TCPEye icon
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    TCPEye is an easy-to-use monitoring application that will display a list of all network processes. It sports all the features of "netstat" command and adds some options of its own as well as some third party online tools for IP tracing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. TcpView For Linux. Touch screen friendly design graphical network connections viewer for Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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