Beacon Wi-Fi Scanner

EarnWorksLabs

About this app

Beacon is a Wi-Fi scanner that tells you what your phone can actually measure — and labels the rest as unknown.

Scan the access points around you. See signal strength in dBm, estimated distance from that signal, radio generation (Wi-Fi 4 / 5 / 6 / 6E / 7), vendor, and whether the network is open, WEP, WPS, WPA2, or WPA3. Same-name radios (Harbor, Harbor-5G, Harbor-6E) group together. A join score (0–100) ranks what is worth connecting to from signal, band, width, security, and 2.4 GHz overlap.

When you are joined:
• Android’s real radio link speed (not an invented “internet speed”)
• Optional download test vs that radio link — so you can see if the ISP is the bottleneck
• Gateway IP, ping, DNS, captive-portal and internet probe
• This phone’s session download/upload, plus a bitrate guess (video-like, audio-like, or browsing). That mix is this device only — not other people on the AP
• Names of devices on your LAN that advertise themselves (printers, TVs, speakers). That is not the router’s full client list

Beacon will not pretend it can:
• Count every user on a network you are not joined to
• Read how many MB a neighbor streamed
• See passwords or decrypt traffic
• Draw a GPS floorplan of your house

Android requires Location (or Nearby Wi-Fi devices) to return Wi-Fi names.

Beacon uses that permission only to scan access points. Scans and history stay on the device. There is no account.
Requires Android 7.0 or later and a device with Wi-Fi.

What’s new

Scan nearby Wi-Fi: signal, security, join score, speed. Honest labels, no fakes.