Top 15 WiFi Scanner Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

A 802.11 wireless scanner and connection manager for Mac OS X. WiFi Scanner will detect access points and clients in ad-hoc mode if the SSID is being broadcasted. It can be used for wireless site surveys, wireless discovery, and to connect to WiFi networks. The tool reports signal strength in dBm and shows access point BSSID/MAC addresses.

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1. Homedale

Homedale With Homedale you can search for Wi-Fi / WLAN Access Points and monitor their signal strength. Use the detected access points with Google Geolocation and Mozilla Location Service to locate yourself.......

2. PassMark WirelessMon

PassMark WirelessMon WirelessMon is a software tool that allows users to monitor the status of wireless WiFi adapter(s) and gather information about nearby wireless access points and hot spots in real time. WirelessMon can log the information it collects into a file, while also providing comprehensive graphing of signal level and real......

3. Vistumbler

Vistumbler Vistumbler is a wireless network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Features: Find Wireless access points - Uses the Vista command 'netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid' to get wireless information GPS Support Export/Import access points from Vistumbler TXT/VS1/VSZ or Netstumbler TXT/Text NS1 Export access point GPS locations to a......

4. NetSpot

NetSpot NetSpot is a simple and accessible wireless survey tool, which allows collecting, visualizing and analyzing Wi-Fi data.NetSpot can visualize your wireless network by building a visual Wi-Fi map. It will let you see dead zones without coverage and place hotspots (Access Points) correctly. Using the visualized map of collected wireless......

5. AdRem MyNet Toolset

AdRem MyNet Toolset Network diagnostic and troubleshooting tool organizer with GRAPHICAL network map:Scan the local network and automatically create graphical network map of the discovered devices. It can display their IP address, MAC address, DNS Name, Location, Node Name or Type, as well as Operation System and Network Services running on the node.MyNet......

6. ethstatus

ethstatus Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis. It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console task to monitor the network load.......

7. LinSSID

LinSSID LinSSID is graphically and functionally similar to iwscanner (Linux) and Inssider (Microsoft™ Windows®). It is written entirely in C++ using Linux wireless tools and Qt4.......

8. WifiInfoView

WifiInfoView Scans wireless networks in your area and displays extensive information, including: SSID, MAC Address, PHY Type (802.11g or 802.11n), RSSI, Signal Quality, Frequency, Channel Number, and more.........

9. Tower Collector

Tower Collector This app collects GPS locations of GSM/UMTS/LTE/CDMA cell towers and sends them to OpenCellID.org database. It is designed to help map the extent of mobile phone network coverage. It is also possible to collect measurements for private purposes and export them to CSV or GPX files.Some features:• specially optimized GPS......

10. KisMAC

KisMAC KisMAC is an open-source and free stumbler/scanner application for Mac OS X. It has an advantage over MacStumbler/iStumbler/NetStumbler in that it uses monitor mode and passive scanning.KisMAC supports several third party PCMCIA cards - Orinoco, PrismII, Cisco Aironet, Atheros and PrismGT. USB Prism2 is supported as well, and USB Ralink......

11. Debookee

Debookee Debookee is a Mac OS X application which allows you to see what your devices are sending over the network. Along with lots of others functionalities.......

12. Umit Network Scanner

Umit Network Scanner Umit: The Nmap Frontend: Umit was designed to accomodate and run more than one scan at time. Each scan is executed and shown inside a Scan Tab, which has a title and organize every information obtained in the scan result.The Scan Tab tries to facilitate your life, by making the......

13. Advanced Port Scanner

Advanced Port Scanner Advanced Port Scanner is a fast and free port scanner allowing you to quickly find open ports (TCP and UDP) on network computers and retrieve versions of programs running on the detected ports. The program provides easy access to network resources such as shared folders, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RDP and......

14. inViu OpenCellID

inViu OpenCellID collects the GPS coordinates of GSM cell towers for the open source project OpenCellID• sends the collected data automatically or manually to the OpenCellID servers• supports Wi-Fi data transmission• available in four languages: German, English, French, and Spanish• help texts and detailed information on all saved values in all four......

15. Apstra

Apstra The Apstra Operating System (AOS) is a distributed operating system for the data center network. You can deploy AOS across a network infrastructure that comprises a wide variety of name-brand or open network hardware, decoupling your network service design and operations from the lower-level, error-prone, manual workflows required by vendor-specific......