Network Scanner
Fast, privacy-focused network scanner to discover devices on your local network
Usama Iqbal Network Analyzer
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Description
Network Scanner is a fast, lightweight, and privacy-focused tool for discovering and analyzing devices on your local network.
<b>Key Features:</b>
• Fast network scanning to discover all devices on your WiFi network
• Detailed device information including IP address, MAC address, and hostname
• Port scanning to identify open ports and running services
• Device type detection and categorization
• Material Design 3 interface with modern, intuitive UI
• Refresh for quick rescans
• Customizable scan settings
<b>Privacy First:</b>
• No ads or tracking
• No analytics or data collection
• No external internet connection — all traffic stays on your local network
• All scanning happens locally on your device
• Minimal permissions requested
• 100% open source (GPL-3.0)
<b>Perfect For:</b>
• Network administrators monitoring their home/office network
• Tech enthusiasts exploring their network setup
• Troubleshooting network connectivity issues
• Discovering unauthorized devices on your network
• Finding IP addresses of network devices (printers, cameras, smart home devices)
<b>Permissions Explained:</b>
Network Scanner only requests permissions essential for network scanning:
• Network access - To communicate with devices on your network
• WiFi state - To check if you're connected to WiFi
• Location (not used for tracking) - Required by Android for WiFi scanning
Network Scanner is completely ad-free, tracker-free, and respects your privacy. All code is open source and auditable.
What’s new (1.1.6)
• Fixed device type misidentification (TVs, media servers, printers, desktops)
• Fixed scan cancellation showing a spurious error instead of stopping cleanly
• Fixed a race condition that could lose devices during a scan
• Added Italian translation
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
- Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
- Wi-Fi stateRead information about the Wi-Fi connection.
- CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE
- NEARBY_WIFI_DEVICES
- Precise locationDetermine the location via GPS.
- Approximate locationDetermine the location via the network.
- app.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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