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App Throttler

Test your app on bad networks, without root or a server

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App Throttler is an open-source Android app that makes the network misbehave for the apps you pick, while the rest of the phone stays untouched. Set download, upload, latency, jitter and packet loss, or load a preset from 2G to Satellite, and tweak them live. Watch every connection, block hosts in one tap, and exportpcap for Wireshark. Scriptable via adb. Runs as a local VPN, and doesn't require your device to be rooted.

PH · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views

Niche: mobile app testing and distribution platforms · 87 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub
  • Tech

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Could you build this?

Partial The UI and presets are vibe-codeable, but shaping traffic for selected apps requires an Android VpnService that intercepts packets. Doing this correctly needs a user-space network stack, which is more demanding than typical app code.

What it would actually take: Build an Android app using VpnService to route only selected apps' traffic through a local tun interface. Implement delay, jitter, bandwidth limits, and loss in a packet-processing loop, which requires handling raw IP/TCP/UDP packets. The hard parts are correct TCP handling and performance without root, so it calls for Android networking and low-level packet expertise.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 317 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #41 of 318 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.

  • PingPeek · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • FreeCine APK · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • App Limit Monitor–Screen Time · ph · 2026-10-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • AppDNS · github · 2026-10-10 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • DoomSaver · ph · 2026-10-10 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Preon VPN · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Clean-Your-Mobile · github · 2026-11-06 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • App Break · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42

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