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RustNet vs Sniffnet: catalog facts
RustNet	Sniffnet
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, funded by sponsorship.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux
It shows TCP, UDP and QUIC connections with the owning process and detected protocol, sandboxed by default and…	Readable charts and per-host statistics rather than a packet list Exports to PCAP so Wireshark can take over for the detail
It is a young project, and deep packet inspection still needs elevated capture permissions.	Needs packet capture drivers installed, such as Npcap on Windows Not a substitute for Wireshark when you need packet-level detail
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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