PCAPdroid - network monitor
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.
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No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android
AppBrain's verdict
EstablishedLoved by users- Rating on Google Play
- 4.52
- 1,709 ratings
- Installs
- 940 thousand
- Last updated
- September 20, 2026
- Ads
- No ads
- Size
- 6.90 MB
PCAPdroid - network monitor has 940 thousand installs. Users love it: 4.5 stars from 1,709 ratings.
Summary
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 40K 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
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Store listing
By Emanuele Faranda, from Google PlayDescription by Emanuele Faranda Written by the developer, not by AppBrain. Click to read.
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
Safety and technology
Found in the app by AppBrain- Ads
- No ads
- Price
- Free
- Libraries
- 26
- App size
- 6.90 MB
- Content rating
- Everyone
Technologies used by PCAPdroid - network monitor
Releases
Updates seen on Google Play- Version
- 2.0.2
- Launched
- November 2019
- Sep 20, 2026UpdateVersion 2.0.2
- Sep 14, 2026UpdateVersion 2.0.1
- Sep 7, 2026UpdateVersion 2.0.1
- Aug 16, 2026UpdateVersion 2.0.0
- Feb 21, 2026UpdateVersion 1.9.1
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Installs
Tracked by AppBrain- Last 30 days
- 40 thousand
- Per day
- 1.3 thousand
- 30-day average
- Play install range
- 500+ thousand
- Launched
- November 2019
Installs over time
PCAPdroid - network monitor has been installed 940 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 1.3 thousand installs per day.
Rankings
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About the app and developer
About PCAPdroid - network monitor
PCAPdroid - network monitor is a tools app developed by Emanuele Faranda.
Install Statistics
PCAPdroid - network monitor has been installed 940 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 40 thousand times.
User Ratings
PCAPdroid - network monitor is rated 4.52 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.
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