| Website | https://sniffnet.app |
| GitHub | https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet |
Sniffnet just reached 500k downloads! 🎉
What started almost for fun nearly 4 years ago is now installed half a million times worldwide.
Huge thanks to everyone who has used Sniffnet and shared feedback over time helping to get here. 🫶
Sniffnet won’t stop and we already can’t wait for the 1 million mark!
Let’s keep the snowball rolling and make network monitoring comfortable for even more people! 🚀
New domain name and official emails for Sniffnet 📨
Welcome “sniffnet[.]app”, which sounds less awkward than the old “[.]net” and is more fitting for a software project.
We took the opportunity to also setup 3 official mailboxes for the project.
Sniffnet 1.5 is finally out! 🎉
Discover which apps are using your network bandwidth, support custom IP blacklists, and more.
I’m thrilled to officially announce Sniffnet v1.5! This release includes a major new feature that users have been requesting for a long time: support identifying the applications and programs that are using network bandwidth! This is a huge step forward for Sniffnet, allowing you to spot suspicious executables running in...
One of the most annoying programming challenges we’ve ever faced 🤦♂️
In today's blog post, we go through the details of supporting process identification.
If implementing this feature seems like a no-brainer to you, well… read the post and be surprised.
Hey everyone, it’s already been two months since the last blog post! Today I’m back to share some behind-the-scenes about the struggles and development of a new functionality for Sniffnet: process identification, a.k.a. the most requested feature since the very beginning of the project. What’s process identification? With “process identification”...
Did you know that the source code behind Sniffnet is written using RustRover? 🦀
RustRover is an IDE by JetBrains that makes Rust programming more productive thanks to features like context-aware code completion, on-the-fly quick-fixes, and smart refactorings.
Today we’re proud and excited to share that Sniffnet is included in the latest blog post by JetBrains itself, as part of the series “Open Source in Focus”.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/12/12/open-source-in-focus-4-tools-that-keep-systems-running/
Monitoring a remote machine's network activity can be challenging 😫
But, hey — the latest version of Sniffnet introduced webhook notifications as a possible way to address this problem.
Read today's blog post to learn more about it!
Less than a month ago a new version of Sniffnet was released, and among the most notable introduced feature there’s the possibility to forward in-app notifications via webhook. This is useful, for instance, when you are away from your computer and want to be informed about its network activity. Or...
Sniffnet 1.4.2 is here 🥳️️️️
The most relevant additions are the ability to forward in-app notifications to a custom webhook URL, and the possibility to freeze packet captures.
Moreover, from now on the app is also built and shipped for Windows ARM64 architectures.
Sniffnet version 1.4.1 is out 🎉
Enhanced filtering capabilities with support for BPF syntax, support for monitoring the 'any' interface on Linux, and extended configurations persistence are just some of the new features introduced with this release.
This is also the first version to be shipped as an AppImage for Linux, and to have a digitally signed installer for Windows.
