Open-source networking software
2154 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged networking, ranked by how closely networking is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
2154 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| drwhut/tabletop-club Tabletop Club is a free, open-source multiplayer game for playing tabletop games like chess, cards, and board games in a physics-based 3D e… | 82 | 1463 | active |
| qq362946/Fantasy Fantasy is a zero-reflection, high-performance C# game server framework designed for large-scale multiplayer online games, built on an ECS … | 97 | 1461 | active |
| Internet-Architecture-and-Security/PacketScope PacketScope is an open-source, eBPF-based protocol stack analysis and debugging tool for server-side network observability and defense. It … | 71 | 1458 | active |
| pritunl/pritunl-client Pritunl Client is a free, open-source cross-platform OpenVPN and WireGuard client with both graphical and command-line interfaces. It suppo… | 96 | 1457 | active |
| wez/govee2mqtt A Rust-based bridge that connects Govee smart lights and devices to Home Assistant via the MQTT integration. It uses LAN control, Govee's u… | 62 | 1457 | active |
| COVESA/vsomeip vSomeIP is a C++ implementation of the SOME/IP (Scalable service-Oriented MiddlewarE over IP) protocol, built by BMW and maintained under C… | 96 | 1454 | active |
| AndroRAT AndroRAT is an Android remote administration tool (RAT) with a Java-based Android client APK and a Python server, communicating over socket… | 32 | 5206 | maintenance |
| Kianmhz/GooseRelayVPN A Go-based SOCKS5 VPN client that tunnels raw TCP traffic through Google Apps Script web apps to a user-controlled VPS exit server. Traffic… | 64 | 1429 | active |
| itsreyi/BlockSuite Block-Suite is a modular JavaFX desktop application for authorized Minecraft server security assessments. It deploys a transparent MITM pro… | 80 | 1402 | active |
| libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system Libbitcoin System is a cross-platform C++ toolkit library for building Bitcoin applications, serving as the base library of the broader lib… | 68 | 1396 | active |
| eclipse-milo/milo Eclipse Milo is an open-source Java implementation of the OPC UA (IEC 62541) protocol, providing a high-performance communication stack plu… | 99 | 1390 | active |
| wait4x/wait4x Wait4X is a lightweight, zero-dependency CLI tool (also importable as a Go package) that waits for ports or services like TCP, HTTP, DNS, R… | 97 | 1383 | active |
| pixeltris/YgoMaster An offline version of Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel for PC that runs alongside the Steam game, allowing deck building, pack opening, solo content, … | 94 | 1368 | active |
| yuanyuanxiang/SimpleRemoter SimpleRemoter (YAMA) is a C++ remote control suite derived from the Gh0st RAT codebase, providing remote desktop, file transfer, terminal, … | 56 | 1367 | active |
| openconnect/openconnect-gui A graphical VPN client built on the OpenConnect library, supporting Cisco AnyConnect-compatible VPNs. It is a Qt5-based desktop application… | 10 | 1353 | active |
| Phoenix Eclair is a Scala implementation of a Lightning Network node for Bitcoin, following the BOLT specifications. It provides a JSON HTTP API fo… | 93 | 1347 | active |
| monosans/proxy-scraper-checker A fast async Rust CLI tool that scrapes HTTP, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 proxies from arbitrary text, HTML, or JSON sources, verifies each proxy by… | 100 | 1344 | active |
| cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare The official Terraform provider plugin for Cloudflare, letting users manage Cloudflare resources (zones, DNS records, load balancers, WAF r… | 98 | 1344 | active |
| GlassHaven/Haven Haven is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) remote access and mobile workspace app for Android written in Kotlin. It combines SSH/Mosh terminal… | 79 | 1339 | active |
| x364e3ab6/DudeSuite DudeSuite is a lightweight, integrated web penetration testing toolkit distributed as a desktop application for Windows and macOS. It bundl… | 79 | 1335 | active |
| Nicholas3388/LuaNode LuaNode is a Lua SDK/firmware for ESP32, ESP32-C2/C3/C6, ESP8266, and STM32L4 microcontrollers, built on ESP-IDF and ESP8266_RTOS_SDK. It l… | 32 | 1334 | active |
| swow/swow Swow is a coroutine-based concurrent I/O engine for PHP, implemented as a C extension with most functionality exposed through PHP code. It … | 66 | 1330 | active |
| tg123/sshpiper sshpiper is a reverse proxy for SSH that routes incoming SSH/SCP connections to upstream servers, with pluggable authentication mapping and… | 91 | 1329 | active |
| copperspice/copperspice CopperSpice is a set of cross-platform C++ libraries (Core, Gui, Network, Multimedia, SQL, OpenGL, Vulkan, WebKit, XML, and more) derived f… | 73 | 1329 | active |
| Upterm Upterm is an open-source CLI tool for instantly sharing terminal sessions over secure SSH tunnels to the public internet. It supports remot… | 100 | 1325 | active |
| sardanioss/httpcloak httpcloak is a Go HTTP client library that reproduces browser-identical TLS, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 fingerprints (JA3/JA4, Akamai, header order… | 58 | 1319 | active |
| nccgroup/singularity Singularity of Origin is a DNS rebinding attack framework that includes a DNS server, a web server, a management UI, and sample attack payl… | 70 | 1318 | active |
| BlueOS Kernel BlueOS kernel is an operating system kernel written in Rust by Vivo, emphasizing security, lightweight design, and generality. It is POSIX-… | 63 | 1310 | active |
| liamcottle/reticulum-meshchat Reticulum MeshChat is an Electron-based mesh network communications app built on the Reticulum Network Stack. It lets users exchange encryp… | 86 | 1303 | active |
| kubernetes/ingress-gce GLBC is the Google Cloud (GCE) L7 load balancer controller for Kubernetes, managing external load balancers configured through the Kubernet… | 68 | 1302 | active |
| mirror-engine/the-mirror The Mirror is an open-source, all-in-one multiplayer game development platform whose V1 (Mirror Classic) is built on Godot, combining a net… | 31 | 1301 | active |
| RRQM/TouchSocket TouchSocket is a high-performance .NET networking library covering TCP, UDP, SSL, named pipes, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT, Modbus, and RPC in a … | 66 | 1279 | active |
| scottlerch/HostsFileEditor A Windows desktop application for editing and managing the hosts file as a sortable, filterable table with undo/redo, presets/archives, and… | 88 | 1259 | active |
| tzmax/V2RayXS V2RayXS is a native macOS GUI client for Xray-core, a maintained fork of the archived V2RayX project. It supports VLESS and XTLS protocols,… | 82 | 1258 | active |
| Jacalz/rymdport Rymdport is a cross-platform GUI application for securely sharing files, folders, and text between devices using end-to-end encryption. It … | 56 | 1257 | active |
| chenxuuu/llcom LLCOM is a powerful Windows serial port debugging tool with embedded Lua scripting for automating data processing and device communication.… | 76 | 1254 | active |
| KaisenAmin/c_std A pure C17 library that reimplements a large slice of the C++ Standard Library (containers, algorithms, smart pointers) plus Python-style u… | 72 | 1252 | active |
| mavlink/mavros MAVROS is a MAVLink-to-ROS 2 gateway that exposes flight controller data (PX4, ArduPilot) as standard ROS 2 topics, services, and parameter… | 99 | 1246 | active |
| Decodo Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) is a commercial rotating proxy network and web scraping platform offering 125M+ residential, mobile, ISP, and … | 65 | 1246 | active |
| ps2dev/ps2sdk PS2SDK is an open-source software development kit providing libraries for homebrew application development on Sony's PlayStation 2. It unif… | 76 | 1244 | active |
| brainfucksec/kalitorify kalitorify is a shell script for Kali Linux that uses iptables rules to create a transparent proxy through the Tor network, redirecting all… | 32 | 1244 | active |
| jitsi/jitsi Jitsi Desktop is a free open-source audio/video calling and instant messaging client written in Java, supporting SIP, XMPP/Jabber, IRC, and… | 66 | 4347 | maintenance |
| alibaba/PhotonLibOS PhotonLibOS is a high-performance C++ library providing a stackful coroutine runtime with a symmetric scheduler and non-blocking IO engines… | 92 | 1230 | active |
| plabayo/rama Rama is a modular service framework for Rust for building network clients, servers, proxies, and traffic inspection tools from composable s… | 84 | 1218 | active |
| hivemq/hivemq-community-edition HiveMQ Community Edition is a Java-based open-source MQTT broker fully supporting MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5, serving as the foundation of the Hiv… | 88 | 1214 | active |
| lcm-proj/lcm LCM (Lightweight Communications and Marshalling) is a set of libraries and tools for low-latency, high-bandwidth publish/subscribe message … | 86 | 1211 | stable |
| tractordev/apptron Apptron is a local-first development platform that runs a full Alpine Linux environment with a VSCode-based editor entirely in the browser … | 81 | 1211 | active |
| runZeroInc/sshamble SSHamble is a Go-based research and scanning tool for probing SSH server implementations. It enumerates SSH capabilities and tests for auth… | 68 | 1208 | active |
| beetlex-io/BeetleX BeetleX is a high-performance .NET socket communication library supporting TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, MQTT, RPC, and Redis protocols… | 23 | 1200 | active |
| constverum/ProxyBroker ProxyBroker is an asynchronous Python tool that finds public HTTP(S) and SOCKS4/5 proxies from ~50 sources and concurrently checks their ty… | 32 | 4169 | maintenance |
| NoahGameFrame NoahGameFrame (NF) is a fast, scalable, distributed game server engine and plugin framework written in C++, featuring an actor model, netwo… | 23 | 4158 | maintenance |
| BitShares BitShares Core is the node software and command-line wallet for the BitShares blockchain, a decentralized exchange (DEX) platform. It provi… | 85 | 1184 | active |
| dropbox/goebpf A Go library for loading, attaching, and interacting with eBPF programs, maps, and perf events on Linux. It supports XDP, socket filters, k… | 69 | 1172 | active |
| TheThingsNetwork/lorawan-stack The Things Stack is an open source LoRaWAN network server written in Go, providing network, application, and join server components plus an… | 91 | 1163 | active |
| zrepl/zrepl zrepl is a one-stop ZFS backup and replication tool written in Go. It handles periodic snapshotting, incremental replication over TCP/TLS/S… | 65 | 1161 | active |
| metartc/metaRTC MetaRTC is a pure C WebRTC SDK designed for embedded, IoT, and robotics devices, implementing a complete WebRTC protocol stack (ICE, DTLS/S… | 72 | 1158 | active |
| fanpei91/torsniff torsniff is a Go CLI tool that sniffs torrent metadata from the BitTorrent network by participating in the DHT and connecting to peers to d… | 10 | 4009 | maintenance |
| tholian-network/stealth Stealth is a secure, privacy-focused web browser, scraper, and proxy built in JavaScript that emphasizes automation, bandwidth efficiency, … | 32 | 1149 | active |
| ngtcp2/nghttp3 nghttp3 is a C implementation of HTTP/3 (RFC 9114) over QUIC and QPACK (RFC 9204). It is QUIC-transport-agnostic and supports extensions li… | 89 | 1146 | active |
| zmap/zdns ZDNS is a high-speed DNS resolver library and CLI tool written in Go for performing large-scale DNS measurements and lookups. It includes i… | 92 | 1145 | active |
| samba-team/samba Samba is the standard open-source Windows interoperability suite for Linux and Unix, implementing the SMB/CIFS protocol for file and print … | 75 | 1145 | stable |
| denoland/fastwebsockets fastwebsockets is a fast, minimal RFC6455 WebSocket implementation in Rust, usable as a raw frame parser or as a full client/server with op… | 70 | 1135 | active |
| genotrance/px Px is an HTTP/HTTPS proxy server that automatically handles NTLM and Kerberos proxy authentication, typically in corporate environments, us… | 84 | 1131 | active |
| caozhiyi/CppNet CppNet is a cross-platform, multithreaded C++11 network library implementing the proactor pattern for asynchronous TCP I/O. It uses epoll, … | 32 | 1131 | active |
| AlchemillaHQ/Sylve Sylve is an open-source web-based management platform for FreeBSD that unifies Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, ZFS storage, networki… | 86 | 1124 | active |
| Windscribe VPN The open-source (GPL-2.0) desktop VPN client for the Windscribe service, built in C++ for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It supports multiple V… | 92 | 1108 | active |
| Qihoo360/evpp evpp is a modern C++11 network library built on libevent for developing high-performance, nonblocking, multi-threaded TCP, UDP, and HTTP se… | 23 | 3775 | maintenance |
| andrew-d/static-binaries A collection of common *nix tools (nmap, tcpdump, strace, socat, python, etc.) prebuilt as statically-linked binaries, with the Dockerfiles… | 32 | 3769 | maintenance |
| MPush MPush is an open-source real-time message push system written in Java on Netty, with a modular server, SDKs for Android, iOS, Java, and Jav… | 23 | 3767 | maintenance |
| x-tools-author/x-tools xTools is an open-source, cross-platform Qt-based debugging tool-set for serial port, HID, BLE, UDP, TCP, WebSocket, Modbus, CAN Bus, MQTT,… | 84 | 1090 | active |
| particle-iot/device-os The open-source Device OS firmware for Particle IoT devices, providing the operating system, hardware abstraction layer, cloud communicatio… | 89 | 1078 | active |
| Fahrj/reverse-ssh A statically-linked SSH server written in Go with reverse connection functionality, designed for remote access during CTFs, HackTheBox chal… | 61 | 1067 | active |
| apify/proxy-chain A programmable HTTP/HTTPS proxy server library for Node.js, similar to Squid, with support for SSL/TLS, SOCKS4/5, authentication, upstream … | 93 | 1044 | active |
| Beeper iMessage Bridge A Go CLI tool (bbctl) for running self-hosted Matrix bridges against the Beeper Matrix server without hosting a full homeserver. It manages… | 10 | 1041 | active |
| pingooio/pingoo Pingoo is a self-hosted load balancer, API gateway, and reverse proxy written in Rust, positioned as an open-source alternative to Cloudfla… | 55 | 1035 | active |
| controlpaths/hackbat Hackbat is an open-source handheld pen-testing device built around the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, featuring a sub-1 GHz RF transc… | 25 | 1005 | active |
| piotrnar/gocoin Gocoin is a full Bitcoin solution written in Go, consisting of a high-performance P2P full node client and a separate offline cold-storage … | 74 | 998 | active |
| mgeeky/RedWarden RedWarden is a Python HTTP/HTTPS reverse proxy designed as a Cobalt Strike C2 redirector that filters inbound traffic. It inspects requests… | 10 | 994 | active |
| gwen001/pentest-tools A collection of small custom security scripts in Bash, Python, and PHP for penetration testing and bug bounty quick tasks, covering DNS enu… | 67 | 3342 | maintenance |
| ChatSecure ChatSecure is a free and open source encrypted chat client for iOS that supports OTR and OMEMO end-to-end encryption over XMPP, with option… | 23 | 3150 | maintenance |
| Overv/outrun Outrun is a Python CLI tool that executes a local command using the CPU power of another Linux machine over SSH, without requiring the comm… | 32 | 3136 | maintenance |
| NYAN-x-CAT/AsyncRAT-C-Sharp AsyncRAT is an open-source Remote Access Tool (RAT) written in C# that lets an operator remotely monitor and control Windows client machine… | 23 | 3028 | maintenance |
| christophetd/CloudFlair CloudFlair is a Python CLI tool that finds the origin servers of websites protected by Cloudflare or CloudFront by searching Censys interne… | 37 | 2978 | maintenance |
| OpenShell NVIDIA OpenShell is an open-source runtime for executing autonomous AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Copilot CLI) inside sandboxed … | 79 | 16462 | experimental |
| antirez/dump1090 Dump1090 is a Mode S (ADS-B) message decoder for RTL-SDR USB radio receivers, written in C. It decodes aircraft transponder signals, displa… | 59 | 2949 | maintenance |
| AbrahamCaiJin/CommonUtilLibrary A collection of general-purpose Java utility classes for rapid Android development, covering areas like bank card validation, SharedPrefere… | 45 | 2828 | maintenance |
| ShadowsocksR-Live/shadowsocksr-native A lightweight ShadowsocksR (SSRoT) proxy client and server written in pure C, adding TLS-based obfuscation to evade deep packet inspection … | 49 | 2769 | maintenance |
| SFTtech/openage openage is a free, open-source clone of the Genie Engine that powers Age of Empires I/II and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, built with … | 66 | 14462 | experimental |
| mit-pdos/biscuit Biscuit is a research operating system kernel written in Go for x86-64 CPUs, implementing a monolithic POSIX-subset kernel with garbage col… | 32 | 2577 | maintenance |
| chrisk44/Hijacker Hijacker is an Android GUI wrapper for wireless penetration testing tools including Aircrack-ng, Airodump-ng, MDK3, and Reaver. It lets use… | 10 | 2572 | maintenance |
| vuvuzela/vuvuzela Vuvuzela is a metadata-private messaging system written in Go that hides who is talking to whom, even against nation-state adversaries, usi… | 32 | 2487 | maintenance |
| lorien/grab Grab is a Python web scraping framework providing HTTP request handling, proxy/cookie support, and XPath-based HTML parsing, plus a Spider … | 48 | 2463 | maintenance |
| monlor/MIXBOX-ARCHIVE MIXBOX is a shell-script-based toolbox for Xiaomi routers that provides quick configuration and management of plugins like Shadowsocks, frp… | 10 | 2382 | maintenance |
| QuipNetwork/quip-miner A Python mining stack for the Quip Network Substrate chain that coordinates CPU (simulated annealing), GPU (CUDA/Metal/Modal), and QPU (D-W… | 61 | 11592 | experimental |
| thestr4ng3r/chiaki Chiaki is a free and open-source client for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 Remote Play streaming. It runs on Linux, BSDs, Android, macOS, … | 10 | 2221 | maintenance |
| kisence-mian/MyUnityFrameWork A pluggable Unity game development framework written in C# covering resource loading, config/data loading, UI management, audio, logging, a… | 32 | 2191 | maintenance |
| hexway/apple_bleee A collection of experimental Python PoC scripts for sniffing and injecting Apple Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and AWDL (AirDrop) traffic. It … | 23 | 2185 | maintenance |
| apple/cups Apple CUPS is the standards-based open source printing system shipped with macOS and iOS, built on the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). It… | 10 | 2167 | maintenance |
| yyyar/gobetween gobetween is a modern, minimalistic L4 load balancer and reverse proxy written in Go, distributed as a single binary. It supports TCP, TLS … | 36 | 1988 | maintenance |
| jaykali/hackerpro HackerPro is an all-in-one penetration testing tool collection for Linux and Android (Termux) that bundles popular security tools like Nmap… | 32 | 1879 | maintenance |