LanTool is ideally suited for environments that require some sort of network management and administration. For instance Corporate/Home networks, cybercafes and so on.

Local area networks are difficult and stressful to manage. Especially in organizations that have practically non-existent IT support. LanTool can help with such tasks, and because it runs as a system service, it is available even before a user logs in.

It supports features like, remotely shutting down, restarting or locking a machine, logging off users or getting a snapshot of currently active computers on the network.

Furthermore, useful information is available such as username of person logged on to a particular machine, idle time, MAC address, IP addresses, system uptime, processes running, etc.

LanTool lets you transfer files on the network and it is a huge improvement over the standard means provided by the operating system. LanTool's file transfer* is more reliable for example with the resume and throttle features, more flexible in allowing broadcasting of a file to all the computers on the network, the ability to set the way the network bandwidth is to be used during transfers with LanTool's traffic modeling* feature.

A useful troubleshooting facility is the ability to test the quality of a network connection.

* These features are either currently in development or have not been fully tested.