PCAPdroid - network monitor

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4.4
962 reviews
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Rated for 3+
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About this app

PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly open source app which lets you track, analyze and block the connections made by the other apps in your device. It also allows you to export a PCAP dump of the traffic, extract metadata and much more!

PCAPdroid simulates a VPN in order to capture the network traffic without root. It does not use a remote VPN server. All the data is processed locally on the device.

Features:

- Log and examine the connections made by user and system apps
- Extract the SNI, DNS query, HTTP URL and the remote IP address
- Inspect HTTP requests and replies thanks to the built-in decoders
- Inspect the full connections payload as hexdump/text and export it
- Decrypt the HTTPS/TLS traffic and export the SSLKEYLOGFILE
- Dump the traffic to a PCAP file, download it from a browser, or stream it to a remote receiver for real time analysis (e.g. wireshark)
- Create rules to filter out the good traffic and easily spot anomalies
- Identify the country and ASN of remote server via offline db lookups
- On rooted devices, capture the traffic while other VPN apps are running

Paid features:

- Firewall: create rules to block individual apps, domains and IP addresses
- Malware detection: detect malicious connections by using third-party blacklists

If you plan to use PCAPdroid to perform packet analysis, please check out the specific section of the manual.

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Updated on
Apr 20, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.4
920 reviews
Lonely Wolf
April 27, 2024
Handy, but has a big issue right now: it misses some of the connections, making the app inaccurate. Some connections are not captured or logged, tested with my simple app that loads mutiple URL's at the same time, they all load but PCAPdroid doesn't show at least half of them.
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Emanuele Faranda
April 29, 2024
Hello, try to clear the target app cache, most probably it's caching data and not generating the traffic
K Green
March 24, 2024
Doesn't work. It's giving false results plus I paid for extra features to even just capture the data. Again, doesn't work. Don't waste your time. It's logging an app's activity I've never had and my friend who does left awhile ago. But that's all it's logging and you can't save the data. I paid for the feature to do so and it didn't work. I believe this is a scam app and gave it all kinds of access so I'll probably be robbed soon. F y'all fr.
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Emanuele Faranda
March 25, 2024
Hello, some apps in android devices are pre-installed by the vendor, so this may explain why you see unexpected apps. I suggest to start from https://emanuele-f.github.io/PCAPdroid to learn the basics. You can record the traffic to a PCAP file and then open it afterwards, which is a free feature btw. The app is an open source project, stay assured
John Grobbelaar
April 3, 2024
yup! this app works great. I love that you can target specific apps, which makes filtering a breeze. it captures a complete trace including payloads. 10/10 would recommend
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What's new

- Add toggle for auto-reconnection on third-party VPN termination
- Fix uninstalled apps not removed from app filter
- Fix broken PCAP file loading feature
- Add IPv6 bytes stats (credits: myzhan)