# PCAPdroid

PCAPdroid is a Threat Hunting product. It runs on-premises. Pricing is free.

PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly app for tracking, analyzing, and blocking network connections on your device.

Checked October 2026.

## What is PCAPdroid?

PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly open source app that allows you to track, analyze, and block connections made by other apps on your device. It enables you to export a PCAP dump of the traffic, inspect HTTP, decrypt TLS traffic, and more. Features include logging and examining connections made by user and system apps, extracting SNI, DNS query, HTTP URL, and remote IP address, inspecting HTTP requests and replies, decrypting HTTPS/TLS traffic, exporting SSLKEYLOGFILE, dumping traffic to a PCAP file, creating rules to filter traffic, identifying country and ASN of remote servers, and on rooted devices, capturing traffic while other VPN apps are running. Paid features include firewall creation and malware detection.

Tags: PCAP, App Security

## Where it fits in your security program (NIST CSF 2.0)

- [Detect](https://cybersectools.com/guides/building-detect-program-small-team): helps you spot attacks and unusual activity.
- [Respond](https://cybersectools.com/guides/building-respond-program-small-team): helps you contain and handle incidents.

## Quick facts

- Category: [Security Operations](https://cybersectools.com/categories/security-operations) · [Threat Hunting](https://cybersectools.com/categories/threat-hunting)
- Deployment: On-Premises
- Company size fit: Startup, SMB
- Pricing model: Free
- GitHub stars: 3,817
- Website: github.com

## Where it ranks

No shortlist covers this product's category yet. The closest is [Best MDR Solutions for Business](https://cybersectools.com/shortlists/best-mdr-solutions).

## PCAPdroid FAQ

### What is PCAPdroid?

PCAPdroid is a product in the Threat Hunting category. It covers PCAP and App Security.

### What is the pricing for PCAPdroid?

PCAPdroid is free. Download and setup instructions are at https://github.com/emanuele-f/PCAPdroid/.

### What are alternatives to PCAPdroid?

Alternatives to PCAPdroid listed on CybersecTools:

1. [Managed Agentic Threat Hunting](https://cybersectools.com/tools/managed-agentic-threat-hunting) - Managed Agentic Threat Hunting Service (IOC sweeps and hypothesis based hunting) (Commercial)
2. [Arc4dia SNOW](https://cybersectools.com/tools/arc4dia-snow) - Covert proactive threat hunting platform with remote freeze & forensic analysis. (Commercial)
3. [TriagingX](https://cybersectools.com/tools/triagingx) - Endpoint threat hunting, ransomware protection & cloud sandbox platform. (Commercial)
4. [Wraithwatch](https://cybersectools.com/tools/wraithwatch) - AI-driven platform for threat hunting, attack surface analysis & control plans. (Commercial)
5. [Pervade Software OpIndex](https://cybersectools.com/tools/pervade-software-opindex) - Dark web indexing & threat hunting tool covering Tor and other darknets. (Commercial)

Compare all PCAPdroid alternatives at [https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/pcapdroid](https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/pcapdroid)

### What deployment and organization size does PCAPdroid fit?

PCAPdroid is available as on-premises software. It is listed for startups and small businesses. It is free.

## Compare PCAPdroid with similar solutions

- [PCAPdroid vs Managed Agentic Threat Hunting](https://cybersectools.com/compare/managed-agentic-threat-hunting-vs-pcapdroid)
- [PCAPdroid vs Arc4dia SNOW](https://cybersectools.com/compare/arc4dia-snow-vs-pcapdroid)
- [PCAPdroid vs TriagingX](https://cybersectools.com/compare/pcapdroid-vs-triagingx)

All alternatives to PCAPdroid: [/alternatives/pcapdroid](https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/pcapdroid)

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