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fTool Home Network Probe Pro

Which device is 192.168.1.23? fTool Home Network Probe Pro finds the devices on your LAN and brings what they report together in one place: the device name, IP and MAC addresses, manufacturer, model and the services each one offers. Instead of the bare list of addresses your router gives you, you get names and makers you can recognize. The whole probe runs from your PC and reports to nobody.

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The Devices on Your Network screen listing thirty-one devices found, with a row of ticked discovery protocol chips above cards tinted by category for a TV, a printer, a router, a NAS and several smart home devices

Why fTool Home Network Probe Pro

Find Out What Is Actually on Your Network

A ping sweep finds the machines that answer pings. An ARP table lists whatever your PC happened to talk to recently. Neither knows that 192.168.11.14 is the speaker in the kitchen. Devices announce themselves, but each family does it in its own dialect, and a scan that only speaks one of them comes back half empty.

Fifteen Ways of Asking

mDNS, UPnP, WS-Discovery, ECHONET Lite, ARP, ICMP, SNMP, NetBIOS, DHCP monitoring, common TCP port checks and the vendor protocols behind LIFX, Yeelight, DIAL, TP-Link and Tuya all run in the same probe, and answers that belong to the same device are merged into one entry.

Names, Not Just Numbers

Each device arrives with the name it broadcasts, its manufacturer and, whenever the device reports them, its model name and model number, so the list reads as a TV, a NAS, a printer and a water heater rather than a column of addresses you have to identify by elimination.

The Services Behind Each One

Open a device and you see what it is offering: the services it announces, the common TCP ports it has open and the properties each discovery method collected. It is the difference between knowing a host is up and knowing it is running a Chromecast endpoint on port 8009.

When It Helps

Questions It Answers

Reach a Printer or NAS

Find the IP address of a printer or NAS so you can open its settings page in your browser.

Name an Unfamiliar Address

Work out which device is behind an IP address you do not recognize, from the name, maker and model it reports.

See What a Device Exposes

Check which services a smart-home device, TV or media player offers on your network, and on which ports.

Take Stock of Your Network

Keep an overview of how many devices are on your network and what each of them is.

What You Can Do

One Probe, Everything That Answers

Start It and Watch It Fill Up

Press Start Probe and the device count climbs while the protocols work through the network. A row of chips shows which method has finished and which is still running, so a slow answer looks like a slow answer rather than a hang. Stop the probe whenever you have seen enough.

One Card per Device, Not per Answer

The same television can answer over mDNS, UPnP and ARP with three different names. Results that belong to the same device are merged, so you get one card carrying the best name available, the IP address, the MAC address and how many services were found.

Tell Device Types Apart at a Glance

Printers, NAS, routers, TVs, PCs and smart-home devices are marked with subtle category colors and matching icons: teal for smart home, purple for media and audio, blue for computers and peripherals, and gray when the type cannot be told. Each card also names its category, so you never have to rely on color alone, in the light and dark themes alike.

Look Inside a Device

Select a device to open its details: the primary IP, the MAC address and its vendor, the manufacturer, model name and model number where the device reports them, and every address it holds, IPv4 and IPv6 alike. Below that, each discovered service is listed with its port and the properties each discovery method collected, down to the individual TXT keys. What you see depends on what each device reports.

Speaks Smart Home, Too

Beyond the standard protocols, the probe talks to the ones consumer hardware actually uses: ECHONET Lite for Japanese appliances, DIAL for Chromecast and smart TVs, and the LAN protocols behind LIFX, Yeelight, TP-Link Kasa and Tapo, and Tuya devices. Gear that stays invisible to a generic scanner shows up here.

Choose What Runs

Every protocol has its own switch, with one control to turn them all on or off, and your choice is kept for the next probe. Run everything when you are taking stock of the network, or narrow it to mDNS when you are chasing one AirPlay device. Checking TCP ports is the one method that knocks on doors rather than listening, so switch it off on networks where that is not welcome.

Keep a Long List Readable

Sort the list by IP address or by device name, in either direction, or keep the order in which devices were found. Switch between light, dark and system appearance so a probe you run in a server room at night does not blind you. Thirty devices is a normal home, and the layout is built for that rather than for a lab of four.

No Administrator Rights, No Account

The app runs as an ordinary user on Windows 10 and 11. Ping and ARP sweeps go through Windows' own network functions, so there is no elevation prompt to approve, no capture driver to install and no separate account to create before your first probe.

Reading the Results

What a Probe Brings Back

On Every Device Card

Name — the friendly name the device broadcasts. When nothing announces one, the IP address takes its place.

Category — a color, an icon and a label: Smart home, Media & audio, Computers & peripherals, or Unclassified when the type cannot be told.

Manufacturer — resolved from the MAC address, which is often the first clue to what an unnamed device is.

IP and MAC address — the address to connect to and the hardware address that identifies it across a reboot.

Service count — how much this device is willing to tell you, and how much detail waits inside.

Inside Device Details

Network — the primary IP, the MAC address and its vendor, and every address the device holds.

Manufacturer and model — the device manufacturer, model name and model number, whenever the device reports them.

Services — each service by name, such as _googlecast._tcp.local., with the port it listens on.

Records — the keys and values a service publishes, from model identifiers to firmware versions and setup paths.

Both address families — IPv4 and IPv6 are listed side by side, which matters when only one of them is answering.

Local by Design

A Map of Your Network Stays in Your House

A complete inventory of what is on your network is exactly the kind of thing that should never be uploaded anywhere. fTool Home Network Probe Pro talks to your own network and to nothing beyond it.

No cloud uploads, no account registration and no tracking
Probing stays inside your own network. Results, addresses and service records never leave this PC
MAC vendors are resolved from a database inside the app, so no lookup is sent anywhere
The probe reads what devices publish. It does not log in to them, change them or store credentials
No administrator privileges needed on Windows 10 and 11
Light, dark or system appearance, with the interface available in 9 languages

Discovery Protocols

Zero-configuration discovery mDNS / DNS-SDUPnP / SSDPWS-DiscoveryDIAL

Network-level sweeps ARP ScanICMP Ping SweepDHCP SnoopingNetBIOS (NBNS)SNMPTCP Port Scan

Smart home protocols ECHONET LiteLIFX LANYeelight LANTP-Link Kasa / TapoTuya Local

Per device IPv4 and IPv6Host nameMAC vendorModel and model numberService recordsOpen TCP ports

A network probe can only report what the devices on it are willing to say, and some of them say very little. Please read these points before you buy.

Good to Know

Your PC and the devices you want to find must be on the same local network. Devices on a guest Wi-Fi network, a separate VLAN or the other side of a router will not appear.
Some devices answer nothing but an ARP request. They still show up, with an address and a manufacturer rather than a name and services.
Multicast discovery depends on your network passing multicast traffic. Wi-Fi access points with client isolation, and some mesh setups, will quietly swallow it.
VPNs, firewalls and a device's own settings can also hide some devices, or some of the details they would otherwise report.
Use the app only on networks you own, manage or have permission to inspect. The TCP port checks connect to each device directly, and you can switch them off in Settings.
An internet connection is needed for purchases and may be needed to verify your license. Probing does not require one.

Pricing

Try Everything for 7 Days

Install the free trial from the Microsoft Store and use every feature for 7 days. If it saves you time, buy the full version once and keep it. No subscription, no tiers.

One-Time

fTool Home Network Probe Pro

The complete app, bought once and owned for good

One-Time / No Subscription

7-day trial with every feature included
Fifteen discovery protocols running in a single probe
Results merged into one card per device, not one per answer
Category colors and icons for printers, NAS, routers, TVs, PCs and smart-home devices
Manufacturer, model name and model number whenever a device reports them
Device details with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, services, open ports and records
ECHONET Lite, DIAL, LIFX, Yeelight, TP-Link Kasa and Tapo, and Tuya discovery
Choose which protocols run, follow each one's progress and stop at any time
No administrator rights or account needed, 9 UI languages, light and dark appearance, free updates

The trial is installed from the same Store page as the full version. When the 7 days end, discovery pauses and the app's lock screen lets you buy the full version and carry on, with your protocol and appearance settings kept. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

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