Why limit yourself to your small screen on the phone? Run PCAPdroid – network monitor, an app by Emanuele Faranda, best experienced on your PC or Mac with BlueStacks, the world’s #1 Android emulator.
About the App
PCAPdroid – network monitor by Emanuele Faranda is a privacy-friendly, open-source tool that empowers you to monitor and analyze the network connections of apps on your device. Curious about how your apps are behaving? You’ll get detailed insights into every connection they make. The app cleverly simulates a VPN to capture traffic without needing root access, and it processes everything locally to ensure your data stays secure.
App Features
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Connection Logging & Analysis: Examine connections from both user and system applications. Ever wonder which app is reaching out to remote servers? Now you can see it all!
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Data Extraction & Inspection: Drill down into details like SNI, DNS queries, HTTP URLs, and even remote IP addresses. Inspect full connection payloads, whether as hexdumps or text.
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Traffic Decryption: Decrypt HTTPS/TLS traffic and export SSLKEYLOGFILEs for a deeper dive.
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Customized Monitoring: Need real-time data? Dump traffic to a PCAP file, download it via your browser, or stream it live to a remote receiver.
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Real-Time Anomalies Detection: Create custom rules to filter traffic and spot abnormalities with ease.
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Enhanced Security (Paid): Use the firewall to block specific apps or domains and detect malware threats with third-party blacklists.
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