# PocketProbe

> PocketProbe (iPhone/iPad app by Bridge Technologies Co AS.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocketprobe/id597408279 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Bridge Technologies Co AS](https://appshunter.io/developer/597404450)
- Category: Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 10.0 · 30 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2013-03-04
- Data updated: 2026-05-19
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pocketprobe/id597408279/reviews.md

## What is PocketProbe?

The PocketProbe enables confidend validation and analysis of http adaptive bit-rate streams as HLS, HDS and SmothStream in your pocket. 

The application can validate 25 ABR streams in round robin, analyze and alarm on manifest consistency, playback media in the various profile bit-rates and graphically display the actual chunk download patterns and bit-rates. 

The PocketProbe enables objective analysis of real network performance of streaming media in a very simple to use, easy to understand application.

The FULL version contain the ability to validate HDS and SmothStream in addition to HLS manifest files, store 25 streams with all profiles and import and export the streamlist including sharing the stramlist with others.

- Fully automatic, input url of stream and the PocketProbe finds all related profiles and validates consistency
- Displays profile programmed and actual bps
- Validates chunk size against download time
- Alarms on manifest oversizing
- Alarms on sequence age disparity and non updates of sequence for live streams
- Graphic display of chunk behavior
- Share the streamlist and import streamlists

Since the PocketProbe uses the exact same metric as in the hardware probes, the PocketProbe can be used by service engineers and operational staff to test real world behaviors post-cloud with various operators. Accurate status of bit-rates used and profile changes is displayed in real time giving instant understanding of provider delivery capability. Together with hardware probes used pre-cloud, the post-cloud location of the PocketProbe enables excellent correlative understanding of CDN and provider abilities.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Upgrade To Full Version | $169.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.006 — 2018-03-15

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

Fixed startup screen.

### 2.004 — 2018-03-15

Fixes to adding and editing channels, in-app purchasing and more. Added purchase restoring.

### 2 — 2018-03-02

Full rewrite of the app using latest technology. Now it is a single version with an inn-app purchase to add full functionality.

### 1.3 — 2013-11-08

Added iOS7 support
Fixed "Empty reply from server" issues for HLS

### 1.2 — 2013-09-18

Added support for verification of MPEG-DASH streams
Chunks in VoD streams will now be downloaded and verified sequentially
General bugfixes

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