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Best Wi-Fi Analyzer & Monitor
Only for Mac
£19.99
Discover, monitor, and troubleshoot wireless networks with WiFi Explorer.
Quickly identify channel conflicts, signal overlapping, or configuration problems that may affect the connectivity and performance of your home, office, or enterprise wireless network.
Get an insight into the network details: name (SSID), MAC address (BSSID), device manufacturer, signal strength (RSSI), noise, channel, band, security configuration, supported data rates, 802.11 information elements (IE), and much more.
• Suitable for home and small office networks
• Easy-to-use, intuitive user interface
• Graphical visualization of the Wi-Fi environment
• Supports 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz frequency bands as well as 20, 40, 80, 160, and 320 MHz channels
• Supports Wi-Fi 4, 5, 6, 6E, and 7
• Works with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be networks
Also:
• Signal quality ratings based on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
• Accurate conversion from dBm to percentage (%) for more straightforward analysis and optimization
• Detailed description of information elements (IE) advertised by the access point for advanced troubleshooting
• Export metrics and network details to CSV file format
• Save results for later review and analysis
• Access point name discovery (if supported)
• Editable column for labels or annotations
• Selectable and sortable columns
• Adjustable graph timescales
• Quick filtering
• Customizable colors for easily tracking particular networks
• Full-screen mode and split-view support
• Comprehensive help
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Notes:
• Requires a Mac with built-in Wi-Fi (external Wi-Fi adapters are not supported).
• Requires a Mac with built-in Wi-Fi 6E for scanning networks on the 6 GHz band.
more Great app for checking out wifi issues and which channel to set your router to by seeing what your neighbours are using. Also good for working out poor wifi spots in your house by taking the macbook to various rooms in the house. Helped me work out that I improved wifi reception in the bedrooms by moving the router downstairs to an outside wall rather than where it was which was an inside wall near the house centre which was rather counter intuitive as the distance was increased until I worked out it also meant that the line of sight of wifi signal was going through less brick work due to the reduced angle.
Great app for checking out wifi issues and which channel to set your router to by seeing what your neighbours are using. Also good for working out poor wifi spots in your house by taking the macbook to various rooms in the house. Helped me work out that I improved wifi reception in the bedrooms by moving the router downstairs to an outside wall rather than where it was which was an inside wall near the house centre which was rather counter intuitive as the distance was increased until I worked out it also meant that the line of sight of wifi signal was going through less brick work due to the reduced angle.
Had people complaining that their wifi was rubbish. I was able to show them there was conflict with other nearby access points. I would say that conflicting wifi Access Points would be the major reason for poor connection speeds, and this certainly finds conflicts. Routers are meant to find a clear channel but rarely do this welll, so just get the app and have a look at what other networks are around.
Had people complaining that their wifi was rubbish. I was able to show them there was conflict with other nearby access points. I would say that conflicting wifi Access Points would be the major reason for poor connection speeds, and this certainly finds conflicts. Routers are meant to find a clear channel but rarely do this welll, so just get the app and have a look at what other networks are around.
I've been using this app for years and it never lets you down when trying to sort WiFi issues around the home and office. Easily see which WiFi networks are around you and likely to be interferring with your signal. Essential when you're setting up a new router or WiFi extenders to make sure everything is working smoothly.Part of the essentials for every Mac users.
I've been using this app for years and it never lets you down when trying to sort WiFi issues around the home and office. Easily see which WiFi networks are around you and likely to be interferring with your signal. Essential when you're setting up a new router or WiFi extenders to make sure everything is working smoothly.Part of the essentials for every Mac users.
Want to see why your wifi is slow, conflicting with your neighbours wifi or low signal strength. This is a great utility to see in real time your wifi signal strength, quality, channel usage and determine if your conflicting with other wifi. I have used this app for years and always found it useful to see what is going on and how I can configure or better position my wifi access points for the best coverage.
Want to see why your wifi is slow, conflicting with your neighbours wifi or low signal strength. This is a great utility to see in real time your wifi signal strength, quality, channel usage and determine if your conflicting with other wifi. I have used this app for years and always found it useful to see what is going on and how I can configure or better position my wifi access points for the best coverage.
• Fixes parsing of the Regulatory Info field to be compliant with IEEE 802.11-2024.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.6.7 12 Jun
• Adds support for the Telecom Infra Project AP Name element.
• Adds support for the Wi-Fi Alliance Capabilities element.
• Fixes an issue where the AP name may not be displayed for nontransmitted networks.
• Fixes a crash that may occur when accessing the vendor database.
• Improves vendor name resolution.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.6.6 22 Apr
• Adds support for detecting networks using WPA3-Personal Compatibility Mode.
• Improves vendor name resolution for Hewlett Packard Enterprise access points, including HPE Aruba Networking and Mist Systems.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.6.5 20 Mar
• Adds support for the Aruba AP Health vendor-specific element.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.6.4 10 Feb
• Adds support for Alta and Meter AP names.
• Renames the column "Device Name" to "AP Name."
• Improves vendor name resolution.
• Improves AP name detection for nontransmitted networks.
• Migrates the vendor database update endpoint from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2.
• Other fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.6.3 13 Jan
• Fixes a crash that can occur when updating the list of scan results.
• Other fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.6.2 12/12/2025
• Adds support for Ubiquiti AP names.
• Fixes an issue that can interrupt annotation edits during scanning.
• Fixes multiple issues when processing nontransmitted networks.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.6.1 17/10/2025
• Fixes decoding of the Multi-Link element.
• Fixes issues with parsing and displaying supported ciphers.
• Uses "Enhanced Open" and "OWE" appropriately, aligning with the Wi-Fi Alliance OWE specification.
• Improves parsing of AKM types to determine security mode correctly.
• Improves vendor name resolution.
• Improves UI to follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for macOS Tahoe.
• Drops support for macOS Monterey (12) or earlier.
• Other fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.6 09/10/2025
• Fixes a crash that may occur on older versions of macOS.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.5.6 12/07/2025
• Updates decoders for full compliance with the latest IEEE 802.11 standards and Wi-Fi Alliance specifications.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.5.5 27/06/2025
• Fixes an issue when filtering scan results by BSSID.
• Updates information element decoders to be compliant with IEEE 802.11-2024.
• Addresses security updates regarding on-device receipt validation.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.5.4 06/01/2025
• Fixes detection of WPA3 Enterprise mode in some instances.
• Fixes an issue where some WPA2 (802.1X) networks were incorrectly identified as WPA2/WPA3 (802.1X).
• Fixes the display of Emoji ZWJ sequences in SSIDs.
• Fixes parsing of nontransmitted BSSID profiles fragmented across two or more Multiple BSSID elements.
• Fixes an issue where the length of the Element ID Extension List of the Non-Inheritance element extension could be incorrect.
• Improves performance when parsing Multiple BSSID elements.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.5.3 25/09/2024
• Adds support for Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE P802.11be/D6.0) networks.
• Adds support for the Management MIC information element.
• Adds vendor-specific support for Sundray APs.
• Fixes decoding of the transmit power field in the TPC Report element.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.5.2 23/05/2024
• Adds support for Huawei AP names.
• Improves error handling when parsing malformed information elements.
• Fixes incorrect wide channel and visualization of Wi-Fi 7 networks using 320 MHz channels.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.5.1 18/01/2024
• Adds support for the Multi-Link (107) element.
• Fixes the decoding of the Transmit Power Envelope element.
• Fixes an issue where some WPA/WPA2 networks were being identified as WPA2 only.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
3.5 05/09/2023
• Fixes a crash that may occur when decoding certain Aruba-specific information elements.
• Fixes filtering by security mode.
• Improves vendor name resolution.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.4.4 21/07/2023
• Adds support for Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE P802.11be/D3.1) networks.
• Adds support for Alta Labs access points.
• Adds support for Aruba's LCI vendor-specific IE.
• Fixes the Reduced Neighbor Report IE decoder to display all Neighbor AP Information fields.
• Fixes visualization of 5 GHz networks using 160 MHz channels in the UNII-3 and UNII-4 bands.
• Fixes refreshing of charts to match the refresh rate of scans.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.4.3 07/06/2023
• Fixes incorrect security mode for networks using FT SAE.
• Improves vendor name detection heuristics.
• Improves support for 6 GHz networks.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.4.2 07/04/2023
• Adds support for scanning and displaying 6 GHz networks on Macs with Wi-Fi 6E.
• Adds support for Extreme Networks AP name in Nokia vendor-specific IE.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a couple of minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website, or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.4.1 26/01/2023
• Adds support for AP name for Arista and Alcatel-Lucent access points.
• Improves the Spectrum view by highlighting the primary channel of the selected network.
• Improves vendor name resolution for HP and Ubiquiti access points.
• Fixes incorrect calculation of channel width for 802.11n networks.
• Fixes a memory leak that may occur when parsing certain malformed information elements.
• Drops support for macOS High Sierra 10.13.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a couple of minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website, or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.4 27/10/2022
• Fixes an issue that causes annotations not to be saved.
• Fixes incorrect mode and advertised amendments for networks in files saved using older versions of WiFi Explorer.
• Adds WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) column back (this time for sure).
• Improves parsing of the Country information element.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a couple of minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website, or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.3.6 31/05/2022
• Changes to maintain a single vendor database that can be shared by other apps, including WiFi Signal.
• Improves vendor name resolution for Meraki APs.
• Improves the Quick Look plugin for .wifiexplorer files.
• Improves detection of FT Adaptive mode when using WPA3.
• Fixes an issue when refreshing after updating the vendor database.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a couple of minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website, or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.3.5 19/04/2022
• Adds ability to define 0% and 100% dBm values when displaying signal strength as %.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a couple of minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website, or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.3.4 14/03/2022
• Brings back the WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) column, which we removed by mistake in a previous update.
• Fixes the display of invalid UTF8-encoded SSIDs.
• Improves the filtering of networks by BSSID.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a couple of minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website, or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.3.3 14/01/2022
• Improves handling of network names that contain non-printable characters.
• Other fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a couple of minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website, or @wifiexplorer on Twitter, and send us a message so we can resolve it.
3.3.2 10/11/2021
• Fixes parsing of the Regulatory Info field to be compliant with IEEE 802.11-2024.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
If you find WiFi Explorer useful and have a few minutes, please share your thoughts by leaving a review in the Mac App Store. It will make a huge difference to us!
Found a problem or have a concern? Please visit the WiFi Explorer Support website or @wifiexplorer on X and message us so we can resolve it.
more Version 3.6.7 12 Jun
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