Port Authority vs Privacy Indicators
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Port Authority
A handy systems and security-focused tool, Port Authority is a very fast port scanner. Port Authority also allows you to quickly discover hosts on your network and will display useful network information about your device and other hosts.One of the fastest port scanners with host discovery on the market! Host discovery is typically performed in 3 seconds. If the device you’re scanning drops packets, it takes less than 10 seconds to scan 1000 ports. If the device you’re scanning rejects packets, it takes about ~30 seconds seconds to scan all 65,535 ports!Port Authority has no ads and will never have ads. It requires extremely limited permissions since it only needs to interact with your network. The internals are designed to take advantage of today’s modern phones with multiple cores to ensure you can scan your network as fast as possible.
Privacy Indicators
Privacy Indicator will bring the above Recording Indicators feature of iOS 14 to Android (With more extra features and Customizations). It notifies you every time an app or a service uses your device’s camera or microphone. Get Notified every time any third-party app is accessing your Camera. Get Notified every time any app is accessing your Microphone. You can customize indicator color and its position Option to enable Haptic feedback when indicators appear You can turn off any individual features in required More to come. Note that for ''Privacy Indicator'' to work, you will need to enable its service from the Accessibility Settings. The Service then keeps running in the background and automatically starts even if you restart the mobile.
| Feature | Port Authority | Privacy Indicators |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | MIT |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | Password ManagerProductivity | Password ManagerProductivity |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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