Instead of PacketSafari
PacketSafari alternatives
PacketSafari is designed for teams investigating packet captures to answer root-cause, performance, and security questions. Its findings link back to packet evidence, and reports can include frames, filters, streams, timestamps, decoded fields, uncertainty, and next actions. RCA workflows compare healthy and failing traffic; security workflows examine suspicious traffic and affected peers or protocols. Teams can choose managed SaaS in the EU or US, isolated managed SaaS, or customer-controlled on-premises deployment, with API and command-line automation options.
- 1
NETCAP
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3Structured traffic records and investigation modules — NETCAP captures live traffic and turns it into structured records, with Pro investigation tools and editable AI incident reports.
- 2
PacketSnitch
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsLocal PCAP analysis with artifact extraction — PacketSnitch parses captures locally and extracts artifacts such as credentials, files, certificates, and threat intelligence hits.
7.1 Visit site - 3
Scapy
Free plan APILinuxMac+3Free packet manipulation and scripting — Scapy is a Python program and library for forging, decoding, sending, and capturing packets, rather than producing investigation findings.
- 4
termshark
Free plan AndroidLinuxMac+1Terminal-based capture review on remote machines — Termshark provides a terminal interface for tshark, with display filters, stream reassembly, and packet search.
- 5
NetworkMiner
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsExtracting traffic artifacts and building host inventories — NetworkMiner extracts artifacts from captures and can sniff live traffic, while its Professional edition adds broader inputs and exports.
- 6
Sniffnet
Free plan Open source LinuxMacWindowsReal-time traffic monitoring and bandwidth views — Sniffnet monitors Internet traffic with real-time charts, program usage, host details, alerts, and custom IP blacklists.
- 7
tcpdump
Free plan LinuxMacWindowsFree command-line network capture and acquisition — tcpdump is a network monitoring and data acquisition tool built on libpcap, without PacketSafari’s investigation workflows and linked findings.
- 8
Arkime
Free plan Open source APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 9
PcapAI
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+3 - 10
Wireshark
Free plan Open source APILinuxMac+2 - 11
A-Packets
Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 12
BruteShark
Free plan LinuxWindows - 13
CapAnalysis
Free plan LinuxWeb - 14
Colasoft Capsa
Free plan Windows - 15
Malcolm
Free plan APILinuxMac+3 - 16
EtherApe
Free plan Linux - 17
netsniff-ng
Free plan Linux - 18
TShark
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 19
Xplico
Free plan LinuxSelf-hostedWeb - 20
Zui
Free plan LinuxMacWindows - 21
PCAPdroid
Free plan Android - 22
PAL (Pcap Analysis Library)
Free plan Linux - 23
CloudShark
Paid APILinuxSelf-hosted+1 - 24
CommView
Free trial Windows
A different tool may fit better if your work focuses on live capture, extracting artifacts, monitoring traffic, or manipulating packets rather than reviewable investigations. PacketSafari does not capture live traffic. Its SaaS and qualified profiles target up to 1 GB per capture, and the free evaluation covers one qualified RCA or security case; other plans require contacting sales. When switching, consider whether you need structured records, local processing, terminal-based capture review, real-time traffic views, or packet-level findings linked to evidence. Deployment, supported operating systems, and how much analysis you want the tool to perform also matter.
← Back to PacketSafari The whole network packet analyzer software list