WiGLE Alternatives

WiGLE is described as '(or Wireless Geographic Logging Engine) is a website for collecting information about the different wireless hotspots around the world' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are nine alternatives to WiGLE for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux apps. The best WiGLE alternative is Homedale, which is free. Other great apps like WiGLE are Vistumbler, beaconDB, Kismet and openBmap.

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  1. Homedale icon
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    With Homedale you can search for Wi-Fi / WLAN Access Points and monitor their signal strength. Use the detected access points with Google Geolocation and Mozilla Location Service to locate yourself.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Homedale is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to WiGLE.

    • Homedale is the most popular free alternative to WiGLE.

    • Homedale is Free and ProprietaryWiGLE is Free and Open Source
  2. Vistumbler icon
     30 likes

    Vistumbler is a wireless network scanner and mapping utility designed for Windows Vista and above

    24 Vistumbler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Vistumbler is the most popular Open Source alternative to WiGLE.

    • Vistumbler is Free and Open SourceWiGLE is also Free and Open Source
  3. beaconDB icon
     3 likes

    an in-development wireless geolocation database with public domain data dumps - alternative to Mozilla Location Services

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • beaconDB is the most popular Web-based alternative to WiGLE.

    • beaconDB is Free and Open SourceWiGLE is also Free and Open Source
  4. Kismet icon
     19 likes

    Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and (with appropriate hardware) can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic.

    36 Kismet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
    • Kismet is the most popular Linux alternative to WiGLE.

    • Kismet is Free and Open SourceWiGLE is also Free and Open Source
  5. openBmap icon
     5 likes

    Radiocells.org is a community project to collect informations on cell tower and wifi base stations and bring them on a map.

    12 openBmap alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
    • openBmap is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to WiGLE.

    • openBmap is Free and Open SourceWiGLE is also Free and Open Source
  6. RottenWifi icon
     1 like

    Rotten WiFi is public wifi and 3G Watchdog. We help to find the best public wifi places & avoid rotten one. Use Android, iOS or Web apps. We measure not only technical data, but also client satisfaction level using Net Promoter Score (NPS).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. G-MoN icon
     2 likes

    G-MoN is a Wardriving scanner to collect and map all received wifi access points. It is also a 2G/3G netmonitor and field test drive tool for radio planning engineers.

    1 G-MoN alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  8. NetMonster collects, shows and stores information about nearby cell towers. Each tower has its unique set of identifiers and NetMonster will show you them.

    13 NetMonster alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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