# HE.NET Network Tools — user reviews > 99 indexed App Store user reviews of HE.NET Network Tools by Hurricane Electric, LLC, rated 4.00/5 from 70 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/henet-network-tools/id858241710/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/henet-network-tools/id858241710.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 45 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of HE.NET Network Tools? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎯 Comprehensive network diagnostic tools in one app - 💰 Completely free with no ads or paywalls - 🔒 Privacy-friendly and no data collection - ⚡ Lightweight and efficient performance - 🛠️ Advanced features like SSL cert chain analysis - 📱 Works seamlessly on iPhone and iPad - 🌐 Excellent IPv6 support - ⏱️ Useful for quick network troubleshooting on-the-go - 🔧 iperf tool for bandwidth testing - 📊 DNS lookup and query capabilities - 🎨 Clean, no-nonsense interface - 🚀 Responsive developer with quick bug fixes **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes on Interface Information tool - 🐛 Dark mode text readability issues - 🐛 iperf3 tool unreliable and buggy - 🐛 DNS resolver doesn't show NXDOMAIN responses - 🐛 App crashes when scrolling tool menu - ⚠️ Limited Vision Pro support - ⚠️ Inconsistent performance across iOS versions - ⚠️ iperf UDP test limited to 1mbps default - ⚠️ Poor Apple Watch integration **Commonly reported bugs** - Interface Information crashes app immediately - iperf3 fails with 'operation not permitted' error - iperf2 crashes on iOS 8+ - DNS lookups not responding after updates - iperf3 only runs for 1 second despite longer duration settings - iperf3 fails to start intermittently - App crashes when selecting tools from menu - Crashes on iOS 11 and later versions - Neighbor Discovery crashes on iPhone 6 - Dark mode text hard to read on iPhone - App crashes on iPad for multiple functions - Ping and basic tools crash on iOS 11+ **Most requested features** - Vision Pro compatibility and controls - SRV record lookup in DNS tool - IPv6 subnet calculator - WOL (Wake-on-LAN) magic packet support - MTR (My Traceroute) tool - Telnet command for port testing - Stop/pause button for running tests - Multiple iperf test execution - Configurable iperf parameters and bandwidth limits - LAN device scanning capability - Dark mode text color options - Apple Watch app with full functionality ## Newest reviews (15 of 99) ### 4/5 — Decent overall app; no Vision Pro option *2025-11-17* 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! ### 4/5 — Very Handy! *2024-09-18, version 1.7.4* 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. ### 3/5 — Partial iOS support *2024-05-14, version 1.7.4* App “mostly” works on iOS; “interface information” crashes the app immediately. It has been like this for over two years now. “Great” (not quite!) ### 3/5 — Dark Mode Text Hard to Read *2023-12-04, version 1.7.4* 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. ### 3/5 — Liking What I See - Using for iPerf *2023-06-26, version 1.7.3* 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. ### 3/5 — DNS lookups broken *2022-06-26, version 1.7.0* The latest update appears to have broken DNS lookups - nothing happens when you press Go. All other tools seem OK. ### 3/5 — Great app but the iperf tool doesn’t work *2021-11-12, version 1.6.6* I like your app, it is a nicely balanced set of network tools. Unfortunately, the iperf3 tool does not work very well. Often it does not start after I hit go. Sometimes it only runs 1 second although I configured 10 s or 30 s. Could you look into that, please? ### 5/5 — Absolute essential *2021-03-25, version 1.6.6* Has every diagnostic tool you’d ever need on the go. 👍 ### 4/5 — Works as expected *2021-01-14, version 1.6.6* Thanks for this free tool! ### 5/5 — First class *2020-01-19, version 1.6.6* Indispensable utility. Works really well. They responded quickly and fixed a bug I reported. ### 5/5 — Really useful *2019-11-21, version 1.6.6* No ads. Sophisticated tools. Is awesome ### 3/5 — Okay when it works *2019-09-13, version 1.6.6* Iperf3 is very buggy. Crashes a lot. Missing some iperf options (duration -t would be nice). ### 5/5 — This is truly wonderful! *2019-07-18, version 1.6.6* All kinds of great tools available on my iPad and iPhone. Wow! Suggestion: An mtr tool would be really useful too. ### 5/5 — Best Network App I’ve seen for iOS *2018-12-30, version 1.6.4* All other apps I’ve tried lack in functionally and are buggy to the point of unusable. This app has a lot more than I expected from an iOS app. iPerf and DNS are my faves, but the best part is that it is free? More global ISPs should follow HE in developing apps like this for iOS, as not all network/system engineers run Android. ### 5/5 — Awesome tool *2017-12-15, version 1.6.1* A very useful network tool for iOS. A go-to app for me on my iPhone and iPad Pro. The addition of the routing table made it even more useful. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — CrApple Strikes Again *2023-01-17, version 1.7.2* With every update fixing their brainfart iOS code, they keep breaking things. Muppets ### 1/5 — Crash on Interface information *2022-10-20, version 1.7.1* Program permanently crashes when I chose "Interface information" for Xr iOS 15.7 ### 1/5 — Couldn’t make it work on Apple Watch *2020-10-27, version 1.6.6* Documentation on how to make it work with Apple Watch doesn’t exist. The user is left stranded with some TOTP password generation ### 1/5 — Use to work *2018-09-28, version 1.6.4* Did this stop working for everyone or just me? ### 1/5 — Instant crash on many tools *2017-12-05, version 1.6.0* Ping and many other basic tools result in instant crashing. I was hoping the update that came out today fixed this bug that came with iOS 11...but nope. Crashes immediately. ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2017-04-09, version 1.5.0* I just wanted iPerf. This app is awful. Don't waste your time. ### 1/5 — Crashes while scrolling. FAIL! *2016-09-21, version 1.4.4* After downloading the latest update this app now crashes when I scroll the list of tools on the left side. Don't they test their software before pushing out updates? Total FAIL! ### 1/5 — Keeps crashing!!! *2016-02-21, version 1.4.1* This app crashes when selecting from the tools menu. ### 1/5 — Crashes every time I try to use it on iPad. *2015-02-09, version 1.3.1* every function I tried made the app crash. ### 2/5 — Fix the iperf3 UDP test *2019-06-15, version 1.6.5* The iperf3 UDP test is useless because this app only tries to use a max of 1mbps of bandwidth. If the dev will check the iperf documentation, the bandwidth used in the udp test is a selectable parameter. You have to be able to increase the bandwidth used to the maximum supported by your network in order to properly test. This app defaults to using 1mbps, and that cannot be changed, so it's useless. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-04-03, version 1.7.4* Has advanced features not common in similar tools, like SSL cert chain analysis ### 5/5 — Jamie *2025-12-09, version 1.7.4* 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. ### 5/5 — Light weighted and effective *2025-05-24, version 1.7.4* The way all app’s should have been. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2025-03-17, version 1.7.4* It is so rare to find a no-nonsense, ad-free, privacy friendly app on the iOS App Store. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — App was so good we bought 10G transit *2024-01-19, version 1.7.4* Why not ### 5/5 — A must have app for IT and network admins *2022-09-15, version 1.7.1* Use it all the time for troubleshooting mobile VPNs or anything really. So useful. ### 5/5 — Awesome Tool *2022-07-30, version 1.7.1* I use this app all the time for diagnosing network issues. Very useful. It now even has dark mode :) ### 5/5 — Excellent *2022-06-05* Has advanced features not common in similar tools, like SSL cert chain analysis ### 5/5 — Great tool if you do networking *2022-02-06, version 1.6.6* Apple’s iOS is very limited when it comes to network diagnostic, and this app solved it and you can do some trouble shooting locally. Has tools like your ping and traceroute, iperf, ssl/tls handshake. ### 5/5 — Useful *2021-10-02, version 1.6.6* I’ve been using this app for years and find it very useful. It would be even better if they can add the capability to send WOL magic packets. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-02.*