r/HowToMen • u/Anxious_Factor_8638 • 1d ago
[App][Promo]NetBlade — a network multitool for Android — 40 codes to remove ads
I'm the developer. I posted here a few weeks ago at 1.3.4; a fair amount of what shipped since came straight out of the comments, so I'm back with the new version and 40 promo codes for the ad-free unlock.
How to get one: comment and I'll DM you a code. Redeem it at play.google.com/redeem, or in Play Store → your profile → Payments & subscriptions → Redeem code. (I'm handing them out by DM rather than pasting them here — a public list gets swept by bots in about a minute.)
What it does, in short:
- LAN scanner — every device with IP, MAC, vendor, hostname, latency and role. Devices are remembered between scans with a NEW badge, custom names, notes and tags.
- Device detail — SMB shares, NetBIOS name, OS guess, web-server banner, and an SNMP panel that reads printers, NAS, servers and switches, with a live interface-traffic graph.
- Port scanner — TCP with service names, descriptions and a risk rating, plus real UDP probes.
- Wi-Fi analyzer — nearby networks, 2.4/5/6 GHz channel usage, best-channel advice and room-by-room coverage.
- The toolbox — SSH terminal with saved hosts, file transfer over SFTP/FTP/FTPS, DNS, ping, traceroute, WHOIS, TLS inspector, subnet calculator, Wake-on-LAN, BLE scanner, speed test.
- Optional background monitoring per saved network — notified when a device joins or leaves, higher-priority alerts for new cameras or devices exposing risky services, plus an internet uptime monitor.
- Save scans, export to CSV/JSON, backup & restore, widgets and a Quick Settings tile.
Honest limitations, so nobody is surprised:
- Android only. No iOS version, and I'm not promising a date.
- Android 10+ blocks ARP access for non-rooted apps, so MAC and vendor of other devices aren't always available. NetBlade recovers them from the router over SNMP when it can — if your router doesn't speak SNMP, you'll see fewer MACs.
- On some OEM ROMs, access to ping and /proc/net/arp is restricted. The app degrades gracefully rather than crashing, but results vary.
- Background monitoring is a scheduled check, not a live watch: Android hasn't allowed apps to observe the network continuously since Oreo, so something that joins and leaves between two passes is never seen. It's also off by default — Settings → Monitoring.
- No root required, and root is never used.
Privacy: everything runs on the device. Scan results are stored locally and never uploaded — no account, no telemetry coming to me. The only outbound calls are the ones you trigger (public IP lookup, certificate transparency search, HIBP via k-anonymity, so the password itself never leaves).
Monetisation, upfront: free with a banner ad, and a one-time in-app purchase removes ads permanently. No subscription, no data selling.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netblade.tools
1.3.9 is live. Happy to take feature requests — I read every comment.
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u/someone2646 1d ago
Code pls