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simplewall is an open-source Windows application that provides a user-friendly firewall control interface powered by Windows Filtering Platform (WFP), enabling users to block or allow outgoing and incoming network connections without diving into complex OS settings or command-line tools. The app presents a clean, intuitive UI where users can define rules based on process names, IP addresses, ports, and protocols, making it possible to restrict apps from accessing the internet or control specific traffic flows with fine granularity. Because simplewall leverages WFP directly, it operates at a low level in the network stack, ensuring reliable enforcement of rules system-wide while remaining lightweight. It also includes optional modes like blocking all inbound or outbound traffic except what’s explicitly allowed, and supports temporary rule application, logging, and diagnostic views to help users understand what traffic is being blocked or permitted.

A free, fully open-source application firewall for macOS 10.13 High Sierra and later. Allows real-time monitoring of network connections being made by applications, and blocking/allowing of these per app by user. Supports use of hostname lists (Energized Blu etc) to block known tracker and advertising domains for all apps. Also allows blocking of all network connections for specified apps, blocking of all connections except for specified whitelisted connections, use of pre-configured lists...

This is extremely handy for Android Phones, as now most third-party Apps from mobile market is now close-sourced and it's hard to promise its security, but some of this functions may be tempting, so we have to install it and give it permissions what it want at installation stage, and then it may do something we don't like in the background, now with Lavender we can at least prevent from accessing network if we don't trust it.

TuxGuardian is an application-based firewall with a graphical interface. It's main task is to control and forbid transmission & reception of data by unauthorized applications; it can be thought as the Linux equivalent to apps such as ZoneAlarm and Kerio