PCAPdroid - network monitor

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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