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4.3 avg rating
8 free apps
Updated September 2026
tpPLC
tpPLC
TP-Link Systems Inc.

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Top Alternatives to tpPLC

Network Analyzer Pro: IP Tools#1

Network Analyzer Pro: IP Tools by Techet

WiFi scanner & internet speed
Editor's Choice
🔧 Utilities
4.8😊(9.1K ratings)
$3.99
#13in Utilities
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Diagnose network issues with a comprehensive suite of tools. Scan your Wi-Fi and LAN for connected devices, test internet speed, and perform advanced diagnostics like ping, traceroute, and port scanning. Get detailed network information and troubleshoot connectivity problems effectively.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Excellent - super useful!
  • 🚀 Excellent & indispensable
  • 🚀 Just Essential
  • 🚀 Does what I need
  • 🚀 Extremely informative
  • 🚀 Great Network Analyzer
  • 🚀 Best network analyzer app on iOS
  • 🚀 Great tool
  • 🚀 Works as advertised
  • 🚀 Awesome useful tool, wish for more
  • 🚀 Must have tool
  • 🚀 Quality app
  • 🚀 Analyzer
  • 🚀 Accurate
  • 🚀 Informative
  • 🚀 Awesome help with networking
  • 🚀 Outstanding Networking App
  • 🚀 Excellent tool, helped diagnose my network and domain server
  • 🚀 Makes Life Easy
  • 🚀 Indispensable Network Tool
  • 🚀 Excellent app
  • 🚀 Brilliant
  • 🚀 Excellent utility
  • 🚀 Excellent program
  • 🚀 Great app with all key features + UDP support!
  • 🚀 Straight forward solid network scan tool
  • 🚀 Works consistently well and better than others
  • 🚀 Excellent Tool
  • 🚀 Awesome tool
  • 🚀 Nice work has all the tools to do the job
  • 🚀 Handy tool
  • 🚀 Love it!
  • 🚀 Great Product with Great Interface
  • 🚀 Worth the cash
  • 🚀 Great
  • 🚀 Fantastic App
  • 🚀 Very good app
  • 🚀 Good tool
  • 🚀 Awesome!
  • 🚀 Good app

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Took away MAC address
  • 🔋 Hobby
  • 💡 Needs to have signal strength in dBm, WIFI heatmap and ability to scan for noise floor
  • 🐛 Incompleted
3.5😐(23 ratings)
Free
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Manage your GL.iNet router remotely, from basic setup and security to advanced mesh networking and VPN configuration. Monitor your network's performance in real-time and control router functions like WiFi, firmware updates, and LED lights.

What We Love

  • 👍 Remote router management
  • 👍 Dark mode available
  • 👍 Controls multiple routers
  • 👍 Works well for basic setup
  • 👍 Easy initial setup
  • 👍 Solid app for GL-Inet routers
  • 👍 Fast and easy configuration
  • 👍 Links devices to cloud
  • 👍 Remote administration enabled
  • 👍 Good UI and functionality
  • 👍 Manages Slate router
  • 👍 Does the job
  • 👍 Works well with AXT1800
  • 👍 Nice app
  • 👍 Dark theme appreciated
  • 👍 Manages Slate ATX1800 locally
  • 👍 Great router and decent app
  • 👍 Nice controller app
  • 👍 Refined and capable app

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Frequent 429 errors
  • 🐛 Buggy GUI
  • 🐛 Confusing settings
  • 🐛 Cannot sign back in
  • 🐛 App behaves like first-time setup after sign-out
  • 🐛 Needs improvement for adding environments
  • 🐛 No instructions provided
  • 🐛 App won't find router
  • 🐛 Router keeps dropping WiFi
  • 🐛 App appears useless after web UI config
  • 🐛 Unintuitive interface
  • 🐛 Difficult to find settings
  • 🐛 Never worked
  • 🐛 VPN menu missing in Chinese language
  • 🐛 Collects user data and reports to China
  • 🐛 Horrible software, poor error codes
  • 🐛 Often doesn't work
  • 🐛 Router keeps disconnecting
  • 🐛 No admin web access
  • 🐛 Cannot see router
  • 🐛 Eventually stopped working
  • 🐛 White screen on app open
  • 🐛 Limited administrative access
  • 🐛 Couldn't set up router
  • 🐛 Missing important travel feature (captive portals)
  • 🐛 App missing most admin console features
  • 🐛 Became useless recently
  • 🐛 Last update made app useless
  • 🐛 Cannot log in with PIA VPN
  • 🐛 HTTPS error with Surfshark
  • 🐛 Firmware upgrade error
  • 🐛 Wireguard configuration error
  • 🐛 Cannot sign into North VPN
  • 🐛 Non-standard app UI
  • 🐛 Accessibility issues
  • 🐛 Old app was better for local management
  • 🐛 New app useless for traveling router
  • 🐛 App can never connect to devices
  • 🐛 Rubbish app
  • 🐛 Won't reliably repeat iPad hotspot
  • 🐛 App does not help connect router
  • 🐛 Option to manage local device is gone
  • 🐛 Can't login locally
  • 🐛 App does not list VPN servers
  • 🐛 Forced upgrade issues
  • 🐛 App not showing tethering activity
  • 🐛 Demands location access
  • 🐛 Cannot add preconfigured router
  • 🐛 Forced upgrade bricks router
  • 🐛 Router refuses encrypted connections
  • 🐛 App has trust issues with password syncing
  • 🐛 Not designed for iPad, no landscape
  • 🐛 Garbage from totalitarians
  • 🐛 Will not allow adding a network
  • 🐛 App doesn't find router within seconds
  • 🐛 Old app used for Beryl due to firmware bugs
NetSpot WiFi Analyzer#3

NetSpot WiFi Analyzer by Etwok Inc

WiFi Heat Map & Speed Test
Worth Considering
🔧 Utilities
3.7😞(337 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Analyze and troubleshoot wireless networks with interactive heatmaps and speed tests. Discover connected devices and test network latency. Visualize WiFi coverage and identify areas needing improvement.

What We Love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Helped identify Wi-Fi issues
  • 💡 Useful for mapping Wi-Fi coverage
  • 🚀 Speedy and accurate

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Limited functionality on iOS
  • 🔒 Requires expensive hardware to unlock full features
  • 🔒 Misleading about hardware requirements
  • 🐛 Inaccurate speed test results
  • 🐛 Confusing to set up and use

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