PCAPdroid - network monitor is a tools app developed by Emanuele Faranda.
Download Statistics
PCAPdroid - network monitor has been downloaded 860 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 29 thousand times.
User Ratings
PCAPdroid - network monitor is rated 4.48 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.6 thousand ratings.
App Information
PCAPdroid - network monitor is FREE to download. The APK download size is 6.89 MB. The latest version available is 2.0.0. The last update was on August 16, 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: - 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
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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.
★★★★☆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.
★★★★★Λᴢғᴀʀ· Nov 9, 2025
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.
★★★★☆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.
★★☆☆☆Suresh Dora· Sep 17, 2025
Hey can I can sip request data like incoming call log request.
★☆☆☆☆Ausi Ngamale· Jan 31, 2025
I don't understand anything because I have read your user guide but nothing important matches to my expectations, .make it to be used by begginers of ethical hacking issues. Poor app🙄🙄
★☆☆☆☆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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