GlassWire charges $29–$99/year to show you what's happening
on your own network.
Wireshark is free — but built for network engineers with
patience and a manual.
@GyulyVGC built the third option.
sniffnet — free, beautiful, built for everyone.
38,100 GitHub stars. 401,000 downloads. Built in Rust by one developer.
Here's what it shows you in seconds:
→ Real-time traffic rate chart — incoming and outgoing,
last 30 seconds, live
→ Network hosts dashboard — hostname resolution, not just raw IPs
→ Service and protocol breakdown — see exactly what's talking
and where it's going
→ Filter by adapter, protocol, IP, and port — drill into anything
→ IP blacklist monitoring — get alerted when blacklisted IPs connect
→ Custom notifications — data threshold exceeded, new favorites
activity, blacklisted IP detected — with alert sounds
→ Remote notifications via webhook — integrate with any system
→ PCAP export and import — full capture reports, standard format
→ Pause and resume packet captures — without losing your session
→ Custom themes — TOML-based, plus Dracula, Gruvbox, Nord, Solarized
→ Windows (x64 ARM64), macOS, Linux (AppImage, DEB, RPM)
→ GPL-3.0 licensed — 1,600 forks, v1.4.2 shipped April 2026
You deserve to know what your computer is sending.
Sniffnet makes that knowledge comfortable.
Discovered on OSSphere :
ossphere.dev/GyulyVGC/sniffn…
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