NetCrunch Tools: Because Sometimes You Just Need a Sharp Knife, Not the Whole Swiss Army Full-blown network monitoring systems are great — until all you really want is to ping a dozen hosts, scan a few ports, and check what’s open where. Spinning up a NOC dashboard for that? Overkill.

NetCrunch Tools is the kind of utility suite that feels built for those in-between moments. Not quite a monitoring platform, not just a port scanner — it’s a tidy collection of single-purpose tools that just work.

Advanced IP Scanner: A Familiar Tool That Still Gets the Job Done Sometimes it’s not about dashboards, agents, or SNMP traps. Sometimes you just need a fast answer to a simple question: who’s online?

Advanced IP Scanner doesn’t pretend to be anything more than that. It scans the local network fast, lists what’s alive, and gives you the essentials — hostname, MAC, IP, vendor, open ports — and it does it all in under a minute.

It’s been around for years, and for good reason. No clutter, no noise

LANState Free: When You’d Rather See Your Network Than Guess at It Most IP scanners will show you what’s online — a flat list of addresses, maybe a few ports. But that’s about it. If you want to see your network — literally, on a map — LANState Free is one of the few tools that actually delivers.

It’s not just a scanner. It’s a basic visual network monitor that lets you build real-time diagrams of your LAN. Think ping monitoring with a side of network cartography.

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Angry IP Scanner: Small, Fast, and Always Ready to Scan Not every tool has to be enterprise-grade. Sometimes, what’s needed is a scanner that just runs — no install, no login, no overhead. That’s exactly what Angry IP Scanner brings to the table.

It’s tiny, open-source, and ridiculously fast. Launch it, enter an IP range, and within seconds, you know what’s alive — with ping times, open ports, hostnames, and MAC addresses (when possible). That’s it. No surprises, no bloat.

And because it runs