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Picosnitch VS darkstat

Compare Picosnitch VS darkstat and see what are their differences

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Protect your privacy, see which applications make network connections

darkstat logo darkstat

darkstat is a packet sniffer which runs as a background process, captures network traffic...
  • Picosnitch Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-23
  • darkstat Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-01-28

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Picosnitch and darkstat)
Monitoring Tools
28 28%
72% 72
Network Monitoring
100 100%
0% 0
Performance Monitoring
0 0%
100% 100
Firewall
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, darkstat seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Picosnitch mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Picosnitch yet. Tracking of Picosnitch recommendations started around Jan 2023.

darkstat mentions (3)

  • Any open source equivalent of Fing/Fingbox?
    I have a Ubiquiti Ethenret and WiFi network and their software will give me the discovery capabilities, and my custom OpenBSD router gives me the traffic inspection features (using Darkstat). Source: over 2 years ago
  • Data Usage
    A friend of mine is a tech wizard, and he hooked me up with a home built router that uses pfSense, which comes with a program that does what you're asking for - darkstat. Source: about 3 years ago
  • Anyone monitoring outgoing traffic?
    I do have darkstat monitoring traffic on my egress interface. I also block access to UDP port 53 from untrusted hosts (I will change it to silently redirect to my official unbound DNS servers later). Source: over 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

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nload - Monitor network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time

Portmaster - Is a Privacy Modular Privacy App which includes a "DNS over TLS" feature as well as an "Application Firewall".

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ntop - ntopng High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection ntopng is the next generation version of the original ntop, a network traffic probe that monitors network usage. ntopng is based on …

LuLu by Objective-See - LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall that aims to block unauthorized (outgoing) network...