Port Authority vs Watt
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.
Watt
Watt is an open source Android component management application. It uses pm command to disable or enable components, requires root permissions. Features: * Disable or enable components(receivers/services/activities) easily * Block a broadcast so that no app can receive it to wake itself * Block the bad Keep-Alive services of some apps without errors * No data collection * Efficient and simple interface Why not IFW? In version 2.0, Watt has completely abandoned disabling components through the Intent Firewall, because ifw will cause android10+ devices to keep restarting. In view of this poor performance, Watt 2.0 uses pm commands to refactor the entire application.
| Feature | Port Authority | Watt |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| 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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