HE.NET Network Tools Reviews: Is It Legit?

HE.NET Network Tools
HE.NET Network Tools
Hurricane Electric, LLC

Customer Experience

Positive experience75.9% of reviews
Neutral12.0% of reviews
Negative experience12.0% of reviews

~ Based on 133 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about HE.NET Network Tools

Is HE.NET Network Tools Safe?

HE.NET Network Tools appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for HE.NET Network Tools is 77/100.

This assessment is based on 72 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.0/5.

Safety Analysis

72.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
21.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 70 App Store ratings for HE.NET Network Tools.

Is HE.NET Network Tools Legit?

HE.NET Network Tools appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for HE.NET Network Tools is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Does not work

Every time I tried to run a DNS test it just said some error message, which didn’t make any sense because the phone is connected internally to a closed network and to an internal DNS. I downloaded a different networking tool set and it works just fine… bad app find something different

Excellent

Has advanced features not common in similar tools, like SSL cert chain analysis

Jamie

I have to agree with the majority on this, it’s a good application. You get a lot for free. I have a similar app, same results. You get two to four queries a day and that’s it.

Decent overall app; no Vision Pro option

Hurricane Electric electric's free DNS and IPv6 Tunnelbroker services are great and this app is no exception. Provides fundamental network clients without an overly fancy interface -- gets the job done. Needs to be enabled to allow download to the Vision Pro. I don't care about any special Vision Pro controls and would be perfectly happy with the stock iPadOS interface on the Vision Pro. Please enable!
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Light weighted and effective

The way all app’s should have been.

Great Network Tools

No problem so far, it runs as expected with no bug(s).

Fantastic

It is so rare to find a no-nonsense, ad-free, privacy friendly app on the iOS App Store. Highly recommended.

Very Handy!

Incredibly handy app to have installed when debugging network connectivity issues.

My only complaint is that the DNS resolver won’t show NXDOMAIN, so it can be difficult to validate domain blocking.

Great app, very useful

I have used this app forever to do network-related diagnostics. One of the most useful features imho was the interface information, through which I diagnose what my carrier is up to in their network config. Unfortunately as of late one of my SIMs has been crashing the app when I select interface information. That SIM has an interesting property of being configured with IPv6 only, and triggers 464XLAT for IPv4 connectivity (192.0.0.x). I wonder what could be the issue...
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Partial iOS support

App “mostly” works on iOS; “interface information” crashes the app immediately. It has been like this for over two years now. “Great” (not quite!)

App was so good we bought 10G transit

Why not

Dark Mode Text Hard to Read

On iPhone while using dark mode, the default background and text color is hard to read the text. Please make two text color, one for dark mode other one for non dark mode.

DNS tool broken

IOS 17.0.3, iPad Pro. DNS lookup cause app frozen. Please fix it.

Liking What I See - Using for iPerf

Pulled this app down to use iPerf. Liking what I see and hope you will grow this with feedback like your app description says! :)

For iPerf, I wanted to run several tests. At first I could only get one every time I pressed ENTER. I tried adding iPerf parameters after the server name, but that just gave a connection error. Then, after removing those, I got 10 or so tests. I think adding a space after the server is doing that?

Feedback - support the iPerf command parameters?

Feedback - make it more clear how to run multiple tests?

I too had the app crash like the other review said - I thought it was when I clicked on the envelope - but that now is working. Hope the crash report made it to you.

So, all in all, this looks like a cool utility Second blossom into something incredibly useful.
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punycode

please add punycode for dns.

powerful, useful 👍

Great tools

CrApple Strikes Again

With every update fixing their brainfart iOS code, they keep breaking things.

Muppets

Crash on Interface information

Program permanently crashes when I chose "Interface information" for Xr iOS 15.7

A must have app for IT and network admins

Use it all the time for troubleshooting mobile VPNs or anything really. So useful.

Great, but crashes

The app is great, but it crashes any time I tap on Interface Information. On iPhone 8 Plus. Any fixes?