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Last updated on: 2026-10-07
Android Apps > Tools > PCAPdroid - network monitor
App profile · Tools · Data updated 2026-10-07
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PCAPdroid - network monitor

by Emanuele Faranda · Free · Version 2.0.2

“No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android” the developer's tagline

Availability On Google Play since November 2019
Rating on Google Play
4.50/5
1,678 ratings
At a glance AppBrain's trailer of this app, made from our data
Rating
4.50
1,678 reviews
Total installs
900
thousand
Installs, last 30 days
43
thousand
Best rank
–
not in the top lists
Last updated
September 20, 2026
2.0.2
AppBrain's verdict EstablishedLoved by users

PCAPdroid - network monitor has 900 thousand installs. Users love it: 4.5 stars from 1,678 ratings.

PCAPdroid - network monitor is made and published by Emanuele Faranda. AppBrain is an independent app data site and isn't affiliated with Emanuele Faranda. The app name, icon, screenshots and description belong to Emanuele Faranda and are shown as published on Google Play.

About PCAPdroid - network monitor

“No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android”

Emanuele Faranda, on Google Play

PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly, open-source Android network monitor that analyzes and blocks app traffic without root, exporting PCAP dumps for deep offline analysis. It pairs TLS decryption and HAR export with local, VPN-like capture for on-device analysis, earning solid user acclaim with 500,000+ total downloads and 43K in the last 30 days.

Pros & Cons

  • Open-source and privacy-focused
  • No-root, VPN-like traffic capture
  • Comprehensive per-app traffic logging and data usage summary
  • PCAP export, TLS decryption, and HAR export
  • Some advanced features are behind a paid tier (firewall, malware detection, PcapNG)
  • Requires broad network-related permissions to function effectively

PCAPdroid - network monitor is a tools app developed by Emanuele Faranda.

Install Statistics

PCAPdroid - network monitor has been installed 900 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 43 thousand times.

User Ratings

PCAPdroid - network monitor is rated 4.50 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.7 thousand ratings.

App Information

PCAPdroid - network monitor is freely available from Google Play. The app size is 6.90 MB. The latest version available is 2.0.2. The last update was on September 20, 2026.

Technical Requirements

The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since November 2019.

Description by Emanuele Faranda (from Google Play)
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.

Join the international PCAPdroid community on Telegram or on Matrix.

Recent changes:
- Fix leaked connections listener causing IllegalStateException
- Fix out-of-memory crash on large pcap files load with full payload enabled
- Harden settings import
- Minor fixes and improvements
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Price Free
Total installs 900 thousand
Recent installs 43 thousand
Rating 4.50 based on 1.7 thousand ratings
Ranking Not ranked
Version 2.0.2
App size 6.90 MB
Number of libraries 26
Suitable for Everyone
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Screenshots

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PCAPdroid - network monitor has been installed 900 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 1.4 thousand installs per day.

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Comments on PCAPdroid - network monitor for Android

★★★★☆ Abhishek M · Oct 21, 2025
Very useful and helpful. A small feature request-right now when I export the log, only request url and some related info is included in the file, not possible to save the entire request and response data for every request into single file. Saving each request and response takes too much effort since the app that I'm inspecting makes too many requests and It's very hard to open each and save the request and response. If you need more info, I'll write an email once you respond.
★★★★★ Abdul Raheem · Aug 13, 2026
One of the best apps to monitor services. I use this app to find out which servers are using in games.
★★★★☆ GOKUL BEHERA · Jul 29, 2026
I tried downloading it through the MITM add-on, but it didn't work. Could you please guide me on what I should do next?
★★★★★ 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.
★☆☆☆☆ Skateboardings · Jan 7, 2026
Doesn't sniff the packets I need half the time.
★☆☆☆☆ 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.
★★☆☆☆ Suresh Dora · Sep 17, 2025
Hey can I can sip request data like incoming call log request.
★☆☆☆☆ Noorsidah Salim · Aug 5, 2026
I did not download this app...pls look into this matter.someone hack my phone.

Google Play Rankings for PCAPdroid - network monitor

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Technologies used by PCAPdroid - network monitor

15 permissions · 26 libraries
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Trust & Safety: PCAPdroid requests extensive network permissions (e.g., ACCESS_LOCAL_NETWORK, INTERNET, FOREGROUND_SERVICE) to monitor traffic on-device. It is an open-source, privacy-focused app that processes data locally on the device, aligning with its on-device analysis approach.
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