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DeviceShelf is a local-first network scanner published by Christof Müller, designed to find and identify every device on a local area network, reporting each device's vendor, type, operating system, and open ports. Falling into the network monitoring and security category, it suits use cases such as home and small-office network auditing, inventory management, and continuous oversight of connected devices. Because it runs entirely on the user's own machine, no information about the network leaves it unless that option is explicitly enabled, making it appropriate for privacy-conscious environments. On Windows, Npcap is required and is not bundled: the x64 build links wpcap.dll at load time, so the application will not start without it, and it must be installed from https://npcap.com/#download beforehand. The interactive installer displays this notice, but `winget install` runs silently and skips the prompt, so command-line users should install Npcap first. Beyond basic discovery, DeviceShelf provides a per-device security report covering TLS, SSH, SMB, and HTTP checks, presence monitoring that alerts the user when an unknown device joins the network or a known one drops off, per-device bandwidth statistics, and a topology map. AI-assisted device identification is available as an optional feature that uses the customer's own API key, with no key bundled or required. For round-the-clock operation, a headless server edition supports 24/7 monitoring and can be deployed as a Docker image, a .deb installation, or a Windows service, and it is included in the same one-time licence rather than sold separately. The software is offered under a one-time licence model rather than a subscription. The current version is 1.9.6, and it is the only version listed, so there is no multi-version history to consider when choosing a release.
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