WiFi Explorer Alternatives for Linux

WiFi Explorer is not available for Linux but there are a few alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Kismet, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to WiFi Explorer and four of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to WiFi Explorer are iwScanner, netsniff-ng and sparrow-wifi.

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Kismet
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Free • Open Source
Linux
36 Kismet alternatives
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.
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Terminal-based
WiFi Signal Measurement
iwScanner
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Free • Open Source
Linux
34 iwScanner alternatives
iwScanner is a wireless scanner for linux with an easy to use graphic interface.
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netsniff-ng
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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netsniff-ng is a free, performant Linux networking toolkit. The gain of performance is reached by zero-copy mechanisms, so that on packet reception and transmission the kernel does not need to copy packets from kernel space to user space and vice versa.
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Network Scanner
sparrow-wifi
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Sparrow-wifi has been built from the ground up to be the next generation 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wifi spectral awareness tool. At its most basic it provides a more comprehensive GUI-based replacement for tools like inSSIDer and linssid that runs specifically on linux.
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Graphical interface like wifi explorer
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