Packet Capture Alternatives

Packet Capture is described as 'Packet capture/Network traffic sniffer app with SSL decryption. Not that feature rich yet, but it's a powerful debugging tool especially when developing an app' and is a network analyzer in the network & admin category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Packet Capture for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best Packet Capture alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Packet Capture are mitmproxy, InterceptSuite , tcpdump and NetworkMiner.

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  1. Edgeshark icon
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    Discover and capture container network traffic from your comfy desktop Wireshark, using a containerized service and a Wireshark plugin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  2. SmartSniff icon
     13 likes

    SmartSniff is a packet sniffer that capture TCP/IP packets and display them as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP) or as hex dump (for non-text base...

    37 SmartSniff alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. TcpLogView icon
     3 likes

    TcpLogView is a simple utility that monitors the opened TCP connections on your system, and adds a new log line every time that a TCP connection is opened or closed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4.  7 likes

    Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation program. It is able to forge or decode packets of a wide number of protocols, send them on the wire, capture them, match requests and replies, and much more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. zAnti icon
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    Zimperium's zANTI is a mobile penetration testing toolkit that lets security managers assess the risk level of a network with the push of a button.

    7 zAnti alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. Packetyzer icon
     6 likes

    Packetyzer provides a Windows user interface for the Ethereal packet capture and dissection library. Ethereal is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. iwScanner icon
     7 likes

    iwScanner is a wireless scanner for linux with an easy to use graphic interface.

    41 iwScanner alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Ostinato icon
     4 likes

    Ostinato is a network packet and traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI. It aims to be "Wireshark in Reverse" and thus become complementary to Wireshark. It features custom packet crafting with editing of any field for several protocols: Ethernet, 802.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Debookee icon
     2 likes

    Debookee is the simplest & most powerful network traffic analyzer for macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10.  2 likes

    Log all traffic on your network card. Analyze and parse network packets. Capture transmitted files and passwords.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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