CLUSTER NETWORK-SIGNAL-NEARBY · 35 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-04-17
Wi-Fi and wireless spectrum analyzers
This cluster includes desktop, mobile, and terminal apps for scanning wireless networks, diagnosing connectivity, and visualizing signal strength, spectrum, and channel congestion across Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, and other RF bands. The dated history spans 2006 to 2026-07, with sporadic early entries and slightly more frequent additions in 2025-2026. Traction is led by wifi-channel-optimizer-tool (8 stars), followed by wifi-analyzer (3 stars) and signal-analyzer (1 star).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 5 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 13 hobby · 3 open source · 4 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01WifiWatch5★4 days—hobbyWindows desktop app that monitors Wi-Fi signal, ping, and channel changes, logs every change, and alerts on disconnects, weak signal, ping spikes, and outages.
- 02ikuai-ap-tool1★16 days—hobbyDesktop app for managing wireless access points on iKuai routers, listing devices, rebooting, editing notes, and auto-refreshing.
- 03macos-network-console1★7 days—hobbyLocal web app that displays Wi-Fi, network interface, connection, and diagnostic information for a Mac in the browser.
- 04wwan-probe1★16 days—Terminal app that monitors LTE signal strength and modem telemetry on Windows WWAN modems with history and downgrade alerts.
- 05wifishow1★22 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS app that scans nearby Wi-Fi networks and displays channel occupancy, signal strength, and bandwidth to help optimize router placement.
- 06smart-campus-wifi-monitor0★9 days—hobbyCampus Wi-Fi monitoring app that collects user speed tests and complaints to show IT teams where and when the network fails.
- 07Eeronaut0★1 day—Self-hosted web app for managing Eero mesh Wi-Fi networks from a local dashboard.
- 08netdebug0★3 days—hobbyLive dashboard that diagnoses macOS Wi-Fi and network connectivity issues without requiring administrator privileges.
- 09mac-wifi-sensing0★13 days—hobbyWi-Fi sensing app that detects room presence and motion from signal strength using a laptop and router, with live 3D visualization.
- 10wireless-nms0★19 days—hobbySelf-hosted wireless network monitoring system that polls campus access-point controllers, tracks AP status, sends offline alerts, and visualizes placement on a map.
- 11MeshCore Signal Tester0★14 daysliveopen sourceReal-time mesh radio signal tester that monitors packets, charts signal quality, and maps received packets by GPS location.
- 12wifi-analyzer3★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyNative macOS Wi-Fi analyzer that displays signal strength and channel information for wireless networks.
- 13wifi-app1★2 mo—ai-builthobbyDesktop application that scans nearby wireless networks and visualizes signal strength, channel congestion, and roaming for network troubleshooting.
- 14signal-analyzer1★1 mo—hand-codedhobbymacOS app that visualizes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio environments, showing per-network details and channel recommendations.
- 15VigilEye-WIDS-project-dashboard0★1 mo—hobbyMobile dashboard that shows wireless intrusion detection alerts, access points, devices, and rules, and starts or stops packet capture on a connected backend.
- 16rigexpert-swift0★1 mo—hobbymacOS application that interfaces with RigExpert antenna analyzers to sweep, calibrate, and measure cable lengths and characteristics.
- 17OpenTrace0★2 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application with a graphical interface that traces network routes and visualizes them on a map for diagnosing connectivity issues.
- 18Network Survey0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app that logs and displays cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GNSS network data.
- 19Recon-WarDrive0★1 mo—Cross-platform wardriving desktop app that scans and maps Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks for Linux and Windows.
- 20wifi-channel-optimizer-tool0★1 mo—Wi-Fi scanner tool that analyzes channel congestion and recommends the least crowded channel for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.