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WiFi Explorer is an easy-to-use but powerful Wi-Fi scanner that lets you discover, monitor, and troubleshoot wireless networks. It offers a collection of views and filter controls that let you visualize and analyze the Wi-Fi environment quickly and effectively. You can use WiFi Explorer to help design and validate wireless networks, identify channel conflicts and overlapping channels, low signal quality, and other issues that may affect your home, office, or enterprise wireless network’s connectivity or performance.

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Key features

  • Graphical visualization of the Wi-Fi environment
  • Works with 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be wireless networks
  • Supports 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz frequency bands, and 20, 40, 80, 160, and 320 MHz channels
  • Signal quality estimations based on signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
  • Conversion from dBm to percentage (%) units for easier analysis and optimization
  • Dissection of information elements for advanced troubleshooting
  • Access point name discovery (if advertised)
  • Selectable and sortable columns
  • Customizable colors for easily tracking particular networks
  • Editable column for labels or annotations
  • Save results for later review and analysis, and export to CSV
  • Full-screen mode
The bands and channels visible in WiFi Explorer depend on the Mac’s Wi-Fi hardware, the regulatory domain, and the scan source.

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System requirements

  • macOS 13.5 (Ventura) or later
  • Built-in Wi-Fi adapter

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Release notes

For a list of changes in each version, see the WiFi Explorer release notes.

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See also