# PCAPdroid - network monitor

Android app · by Emanuele Faranda · Tools

Topics: VPN, Developer tools

PCAPdroid - network monitor has 944,282 installs (+5.2% a month, measured over 46 days), rated 4.5 from 1,809 ratings, \#5,959 of 242,279 in Tools.

## Figures

- Installs: 944,282
- Rating: 4.5 · 1,809 ratings
- Price: Free
- In-app purchases: yes
- 7-day growth in installs: +9,928 (+1.1%) (+14,570 over 10.3 days)
- 30-day growth in installs: +45,165 (+5.2%) (+69,297 over 46 days)
- Rank: #60,811 of 2,925,785 Android listings with an install count (down 1,847 since 2026-11-03)
- Rank: #5,959 of 242,279 in Tools

## Is PCAPdroid - network monitor safe?

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- Listed on Google Play.
- Made by Emanuele Faranda; developer website listed: emanuele-f.github.io.
- On Google Play since 2019-10-26. Last updated 2026-09-20.
- Rated 4.5 from 1,809 ratings.

## Reviews

- Ratings by stars: 5★ 75% · 4★ 14% · 3★ 4% · 2★ 0% · 1★ 7% (1,795 ratings)

## 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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Source: https://storetally.com/android/com.emanuelef.remote_capture  
As of 2026-11-12, from the StoreTally census.