Alternatives to Lansweeper
Network discovery and IT asset inventory platform. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Lansweeper
Network discovery and IT asset inventory platform.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Lansweeper.
Open-AudIT
An agentless network discovery and IT inventory tool with configuration change tracking and compliance reporting.
Open-AudIT offers agentless discovery, hardware and software inventory and change tracking through a self-hosted web interface, with the free edition limited to 100 devices.
Domotz
Cloud-managed network monitoring and management for IT teams looking after devices across many sites.
Domotz moves to cloud-managed monitoring across many sites with remote troubleshooting, but it is a paid service with no free tier and data passes through the vendor.
Qualys Community Edition
Free, cloud-based edition of the Qualys security platform for asset discovery and vulnerability assessment.
Qualys Community Edition combines asset discovery with vulnerability assessment in a cloud console, but the free edition covers only a small number of IPs and stores scan data with Qualys.
NetBox Community
Document network devices, addresses and connections on your own server.
NetBox Community is an Apache-2.0 self-hosted record of intended network state, documenting devices and addresses rather than discovering them automatically.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Fing
Network scanner that identifies the devices on your network.
LAN Orangutan
Lightweight network scanner with persistent device labels.
Nmap
The network mapper: find out which hosts are up, which ports are open and what is listening on them.
Advanced IP Scanner
Scans a home or office network and lists every device with its name, MAC address and shared folders.
SoftPerfect Network Scanner
A multi-threaded IPv4 and IPv6 scanner that finds network devices, open ports and shared folders.
NetAlertX
A self-hosted network scanner that discovers devices on your networks and reports changes.
