Software Alternatives & Reviews

inSSIDer VS Aircrack-ng

Compare inSSIDer VS Aircrack-ng and see what are their differences

inSSIDer logo inSSIDer

inSSIDer Essential makes it easy to maintain small business WiFi.

Aircrack-ng logo Aircrack-ng

Aircrack-ng is an 802.
  • inSSIDer Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-25
  • Aircrack-ng Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-15

inSSIDer videos

Product Review! - inSSIDer for Home From MetaGeek

More videos:

  • Review - Wireless Net Scanner w/ inSSIDer - Review
  • Demo - inSSIDer 4 WiFi Scanner: A MetaGeek Demo

Aircrack-ng videos

Hak5 - Deauthorizing Wireless Clients with Aircrack-ng, the four-way-handshake and WEP vs WPA cracking

More videos:

  • Review - Test Monitor Mode and Injection on Wireless Card - WiFi Hacking with Aircrack-ng Suite
  • Review - WPA/WPA2 Hacking With Aircrack-ng on Kali/Parrot Linux #CyberAstra #Aircrack-ng

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to inSSIDer and Aircrack-ng)
Monitoring Tools
56 56%
44% 44
Log Management
67 67%
33% 33
Development
100 100%
0% 0
Network & Admin
49 49%
51% 51

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Aircrack-ng seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

inSSIDer mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of inSSIDer yet. Tracking of inSSIDer recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Aircrack-ng mentions (1)

  • checking if my network interface card makes it avaible for me to access monitor mode
    On aircrack-ng.org they say most of Intel wireless adapters do the job.when I type iwconfig in Kali's terminal I got info about lo, ethernet (eth0) and not about wlan0, altough I am not sure if this is not caused by the fact that I use it on VMware. Source: about 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing inSSIDer and Aircrack-ng, you can also consider the following products

NetSpot - NetSpot is a free app for wireless site surveys, Wi-Fi analysis, and troubleshooting

Wifite - To attack multiple WEP, WPA, and WPS encrypted networks in a row.

Vistumbler - Vistumbler is a wireless network scanner for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Features:

Wireless Network Watcher - scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network.

Kismet - Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system.

WifiInfoView - Scans wireless networks in your area and displays extensive information, including: SSID, MAC Address, PHY Type (802.11g or 802.11n), RSSI, Signal Quality, Frequency, Channel Number, and more...