# Looking for simple tools for scanning LAN devices on PC or Mac

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 16, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-simple-tools-for-scanning-lan-devices-on-pc-or-mac/529232 "2010-02-16T18:53:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-simple-tools-for-scanning-lan-devices-on-pc-or-mac/529232/1 "2010-02-16T18:53:48Z")

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So I have been using this nifty tool on my iPhone called [Snap](http://iphone.iusethis.com/app/snap). Now I’m looking for similar tools for Mac and for PC. Do you know of any?

(I Googled but perhaps I didn’t use the right terms and nothing obvious jumped at me.)

Snap looks at your wireless network and lists all devices it finds. For example, it found seven devices when I ran it:  
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[li]the main home router[/li][li]a secondary router that has a separate network[/li][li]my Mac[/li][li]our media center PC[/li][li]a NAS device[/li][li]a print server[/li][li]my work PC[/li][/ul]And if I tap on any one of them the tool lets me know IP, manufacturer, “pingable”, and MAC address. I can then scan for services.  
For example on the NAS I see many: FTP, SMB, Telnet, NetBIOS, HTTP, Line-printer, and HTTPS.

Any nice clean tight apps for either Mac or PC that will do this with a minimal of fuss?  
I’m not looking for Ethereal/Wireshark kinds of things, more of a simple tool to show exactly what my iPhone does.

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**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-simple-tools-for-scanning-lan-devices-on-pc-or-mac/529232/2 "2010-02-16T20:11:45Z")

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Try [nmap](http://nmap.org/).