NFCGate for Android

NFCGate

NFCGate

version 2.6.1

NFC relay application for Android

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Scan Date: May 27, 2026 Software Version: 2.6.1
Status: ✅ Trusted & Safe to install This app is signed by NFCGate with trusted and verified digital signature and it will updated existing NFCGate installations Certificate fingerprint: 0d76671defcb60637c257c042ba14be533e57649 Issuer: C=DE, ST=Hesse, L=Darmstadt, O=TU Darmstadt, OU=SEEMOO How we verify APK files security

NFCGate Surveillance app for Android description

NFCGate is an Android application meant to capture, analyze, or modify NFC traffic. It can be used as a researching tool to reverse engineer protocols or assess the security of protocols against traffic modifications.

Notice: This application was developed for security research purposes by students of the Secure Mobile Networking Lab at TU Darmstadt. Please do not use this application for malicious purposes.


Features:

  • On-device capture: Captures NFC traffic sent and received by other applications running on the device.
  • Relay: Relays NFC traffic between two devices. One device operates as a "reader" reading an NFC tag, the other device emulates an NFC tag using the Host Card Emulation (HCE).
  • Replay: Replays previously captured NFC traffic in either "reader" or "tag" mode.
  • Clone: Clones the initial tag information (e.g. ID).
  • pcapng export of captured NFC traffic, readable by Wireshark.

Requirements for specific modes:

  • NFC support
  • Android 4.4+ (API level 19+)
  • Xposed: On-device capture, relay tag mode, replay tag mode, clone mode.
  • ARMv8-A, ARMv7: Relay tag mode, replay tag mode, clone mode.
  • HCE: Relay tag mode, replay tag mode, clone mode.

Compatibility:

NFCGate provides an in-app status check. For further notes on compatibility see the compatibility document.

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Old Versions

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2.6.0 APK

May 18, 2026

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2.5.0 APK

June 14, 2025

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2.4.4 APK

December 10, 2024