PCAPdroid - network monitor

Emanuele Faranda

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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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Ratings and reviews

Love the app. Wish you could grip search through all the packets in order to find a particular string. Also, how come there's sometimes unknown applications sending traffic? you know you could do to improve this app significantly? Make it so that the viewable interface of the list of connections can be sorted like a spreadsheet. so you'd have a column for the amount of data or packets that you could tap at the top and it would sort connections by which app is sending the most data.

loved it so much, i bought the malware detection and no root firewall. A one and only simple yet powerful tool for paranoid Information Security professionals who know there's no escaping from emerging threats. Developers were also kind enough to respond promptly to a slight memory issue i was facing, and the issue was gone after applying recommended settings by the devs. Thanks a lot for the support.

PCAPdroid is an amazing tool that gives you an ultimate insight into exactly what various installed applications on you device are sending and receiving. It's very easy to use, requires no complicated setup, and seems to capture everything. The UI is simple enough, but it also has the ability to export pcap files which can then be opened in any capture viewer, like Wireshark. All in all, this app is awesome both for beginners and pros, it's well built, 5/5 would recommend!

What’s new

- Android 17 support: the "Nearby devices" permission is now required
- New Capture List view
- Implement app isolation (Firewall)
- Add settings import/export
- Mitm addon v2.3 (mitmproxy 12.2.3)
- New translations: BN, FR, HI, JA, KO, MS, UR, VI
- Bug fixes and dependency updates