PCAPdroid - network monitor is a tools app developed by Emanuele Faranda.
Download Statistics
PCAPdroid - network monitor has been downloaded 870 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 31 thousand times.
User Ratings
PCAPdroid - network monitor is rated 4.48 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.7 thousand ratings.
App Information
PCAPdroid - network monitor is FREE to download. The APK download size is 6.89 MB. The latest version available is 2.0.1. The last update was on September 14, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play November 2019.
Description
PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly open source app which can track, analyze and block the connections made by the other apps on the device. It can also export a PCAP dump of the traffic, inspect HTTP requests, decrypt TLS traffic and much more.
PCAPdroid simulates a VPN in order to capture the network traffic without root. It does not use a remote VPN server, instead data is processed locally on the device.
Main features:
- Log and analyze the connections made by user and system apps - Get a summary of how much data each app sent and received - Low battery usage for continuous, all-day capture - Extract hosts and IP addresses from DNS, TLS and HTTP - Record the traffic to PCAP files with additional app metadata - Send traffic via PCAP-over-IP for real-time analysis (e.g. on Wireshark) - Decrypt the HTTPS/TLS traffic, extract the URLs and save the SSLKEYLOGFILE - Inspect the HTTP requests/replies and export them to HAR - Identify the country and ASN of the 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 - PcapNG format: makes it easier to export and analyze decrypted traffic
If you plan to use PCAPdroid to perform packet analysis, check out the specific section of the manual.
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Recent changes: - Update maltrail malware blacklist URL - Bump mitm addon to 2.4, fixes decryption with root - Fix firewall not working with always-on VPN when root capture is enabled - Fix null mitm certificate after export on some devices - Other minor fixes - Remove the mitm addon instructions (play policy compliance)
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Comments on PCAPdroid - network monitor for Android
★★★★★Joshua Rowell· Feb 25, 2026
Grate apk love to see you make 2 more for the usb Bluetooth monitor devices like the ubertooth one and one for sub gigahertz monitor for the years stick that would be fun to test out as well.
★★★★★Vivek Ashvinbhai Pancholi· Jun 6, 2025
Good app for cybersecurity constants, network security experts.
★★★★★DJ Chesley· Jan 22, 2026
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.
★☆☆☆☆Tomie Kawakami· Dec 12, 2025
Useless. It doesn't even log the url params or the methods . If its get post and the params. So stupid.
★☆☆☆☆Noorsidah Salim· Aug 5, 2026
I did not download this app...pls look into this matter.someone hack my phone.
★★☆☆☆Suresh Dora· Sep 17, 2025
Hey can I can sip request data like incoming call log request.
★☆☆☆☆Nilam Dhok· Feb 28, 2026
App stops abruptly. Once the app stops abruptly no logs are generated then what's the use of this app then? Please fix the abrupt or sudden app shut down.
★☆☆☆☆Samg381· Nov 16, 2024
Does not leverage root access. Requires a fake VPN to intercept traffic-making it useless for troubleshooting VPN issues.
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