Leave a Review Speedtest by Ookla
My Go-To App to test and diagnose my internet connection and speed issues
I’ve been using this app for Years now, and I just want to start by saying that I do NOT EVER write reviews for apps, so the fact that I’m taking time out of my day to write this one just shows how amazing I believe this app is and always Has been. If I ever feel like either my home WiFi speed or my cellular data speed is messed up and is not working in the correct way that it should be working at, I open this app and it Quickly runs a test that tells me Multiple data points associated with my current connection. It also offers a video stream test that can (also extremely quickly) let you know what quality your internet connection can stream video at at the moment. There’s a Ton of other features, and I haven’t ever paid a Dime for any of them. One more feature I’ll mention is a Free VPN that gives you a couple Gigabytes worth of private network security per month, and it works Very well. If you want more than that amount of use, you just have to upgrade to a paid monthly subscription, which I believe is pretty cheap, especially for what you get for the cost!!
THANKS OOKLA!! You are an amazing company and I absolutely love and support this product with all of my heart and soul.Show lessECKorey
Random fact: my phone connects faster after testing with this app.
OK, this is gonna sound crazy, but when my cellular Internet starts moving slowly, I open Speedtest and check the Internet. (Ready for the crazy part?) Somehow my Internet ALWAYS get stronger immediately after running a speed test. I have no idea why this is. Maybe the test or prompts my phone to find a better signal? Who knows. But this hack has worked for me all over the world. Colombia, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Austria, USA, Argentina, Hungary. Using this app to test your speed CLEARLY does something that actually improves speeds, but I don’t know how or why. Anyhow I wanted to share this tip/trick with everyone else. I love this app for this reason alone.Show lesstjiffy
App needs better ways of finding closer alternative testing servers
It’s good but I’d like to see a way for using alternative testing sources that would allow for favorite sources. Today using the so called best source my ping rate was rather higher than normal. I retested using a major university in my state and my overall score was much higher. I’d also recommend you add the ability to search for alternative sources using a city, state search. I’ve got a couple of sources very very close to me but the app often has me connecting to servers in a major city 110+ miles away. Say I had a server only 2 miles away from Columbus, Georgia. The app was conducting me too servers 50+ miles away, or 100+ miles away in places like Montgomery, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia.Show lessJohn Goodin
Worldwide known accurate networking info!
Most used for a reason. I find it seems to be dependable. Only reason it isn’t 5 stars is because 1) I get nervous about giving out Hundos. B: it seems to sometimes knock your connection off; at least to where ipv6(which is only a minor part of the whole internet, I believe, but it’s all going towards there) cuts off in weird ways; one being that the site and desktop version won’t connect, and you may have to reset your router/General setup if you wanna be sure. I’ve seen tests that, while I Can’t pick which “internet” it’s testing; but I can see on the results; which seem to match regardless, though. Highly recommended by me and millions of others. We are legion. lolShow lessMajin {B0bby}
Put it quick; like Ookla’s Speedtest:
This app seems to work pretty flawlessly, 95% of the time or more. Gives me reliable results when I double check with other programs I have installed on my desktop or MacBook Pro.,
I also like that you can choose between different test servers whenever you want, and then not only that but login and save your results under our profile so that you can log them in case you need to report them as evidence of slow down or a problem to your Internet provider like I just did have to do last week :-/ .
Overall; the graphic user interface is pretty intuitive and clean. My only problem would be the couple ads that seem to be placed in not good areas of the app. Maybe there’s a way to pay a dollar or two and get rid of those completely?
Otherwise : reliable, doesn’t put tracking devices and cookies into your Internet (as far as I’ve tested so far?) (some apps do and MANY VPNs do this so PLEASE watch out for all those “free vpn” apps. They are mostly very bad for your device, and privacy!!)
Finally, Speedtest works efficiently. Shows at a glance info, then can go further into your results if you wish for more advanced users.
Thanks!Show lessJDplaysdrums
Ookla Makes the Best Speedtest App Available
Wow, has this app come a long way. Just realized the last time I left a review I was begging for an iPad version, and I can’t even think of what year that was because I’ve used the iPad app for so long. The app is so well designed and never ever has it crashed on me. There’s so many servers to test from, but you can also choose a favorite to default to for testing. I’ve been able to use this app for more than claiming bragging rights about the network speeds I get on 5G and my Home WiFi. It’s just so reliable and truly useful. On trips I can quickly get a read on whether a backup of my photos is going to take forever and I should just wait to get to the airport, find the best spot to install my security cameras, oh and there’s quite a bit of free VPN usage included. It’s impossible to overstate how useful this Speedtest app is. There’s even a dark mode that I have just kept on and really the team behind this app is really thoughtful for bothering to carry support for nuance features like that. There’s even a way to skip the almost non-existent ads by paying, which I haven’t done but I appreciate the option.Show lessBrowskiez
Speed Testing is Good, Map-Noir is Poor
The speed testing has been great and maybe this app should stick to what it is good at because…
Using the Map feature to do a simple speed comparison between carriers for a location is largely useless and frustrating.
You cannot find a location using the Map, it identifies where you are and that’s it. It advertises the ability to find signal information where you plan to go on vacation… good luck and happy scrolling! You end up having to use Apple Maps to find things around your target location and then scroll around on the blacked-out hard to read SpeedTest map to try and find same. I spent roughly 30 minutes trying to find a street location in Pacifica CA in SpeedTest and could not. (Like driving at midnight with dark sunglasses on.)
Maps is also useless for carrier comparison. You have to switch back and forth to identify blotchy colors on a “map-noir” to try and figure out best carrier by guessing.
By contrast (actually high contrast) OpenSignal provides a search, an easily readable map that’s not all sun-glasses-at-night map-noir, and will give you numeric comparison for the carriers.
SpeedTest, stick to what you are good at, your name sake. Either fix the map or flush it because right now it stinks.Show lessNuké
Loved this app but latest Speedtest update when signing into my account I removed all my Speedtests
I’ve loved this app over the past few years and I saw the latest Speedtest app update and I thought that it would be a great idea to update and sign in to my account to sync all of my speedtests but nooo that was a horrible idea. Once updating the app, and signing in, all of my Speedtest were gone, over two years worth of speedtests taken on Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T and Wi-Fi, but for some reason all my video tests are still there. I really need your help to re-add all my speed tests back to the app, it would mean a lot if you could reply to this, I loved Speedtest so much but now I feel like it’s a little pointless if all of my speed tests are now gone. Maybe I should’ve created a new account? Your account creation process has been confusing and buggy so maybe it’s just a glitch? Hopefully the next app update might fix this issue, I can’t be the only one having this issue, there should also be an option to sync your speed tests with iCloud like Shazam and allow us to import our CSV files that we exported prior to our tests disappearing.Show lessChris Gilluly
Developer Response
Sorry for the trouble! This issue should now be fixed in the most recent update, 5.0.2. Sorry again, and thanks for using Speedtest!Useful in a surprising way
After years of observation we find that after weather effects bargain ISPs are about as good as any other and involve less billing hassles. Relevant to SpeedTest is that I think when whomever is our current ISP, from time to time service is throttled for one reason or another. When I notice this I bring up SpeedTest on my phone — and I think that the Current ISP is watching for this. I notice that the throttling of our bandwidth *often* is removed. I use SpeedTest as a lever to *effect* the behavior of the Current ISP!Show lessPhil Boyd Studge
Really helpful
This is the first time I will ever make a review because this app was actually really useful. Best part about it is even being in the app it doesn’t make the download or uploads speed slower just being open it’s extremely accurate aswell. I haven’t had any issues with it yet either. I highly suggest Ookla for any speed tests as it can work even if your internet is slow as heck otherwise a very good choice in getting really accurate speeds. Definitely my first choiceShow lessThecrazydonut111
