Inspect vs HTTPS4All
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inspect
This app allows you to examine the TLS certificate chain of any website directly on your iPhone or iPad. It provides detailed information on trust status, protocols, and security signals, with the ability to export certificates. It also offers a Safari extension and action extension for seamless integration.
- Inspect live TLS certificate chains
- Review trust status and protocol
- Export DER certificates
- Safari extension for in-browser inspection
- Action extension for sharing data
- Home Screen widget for Live Monitor status
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Inspect lets you inspect a site's TLS certificate chain on iPhone and iPad. Paste a host name or HTTPS URL, review trust state, protocol, certificate chain, and security signals, then export any certificate in the chain. Features: - Inspect live TLS certificate chains - Review trust status, protocol, validity, SANs, key usage, fingerprints, and extensions - Surface risky signals like expired certificates, weak algorithms, broken chain linkage, and possible interception products - Browse every certificate in the presented chain - Export DER certificates for sharing or debugging - Inspect the current page in Safari with the Safari extension - Inspect shared URLs and page data from other apps with the action extension - Check Live Monitor status from the Home Screen widget
HTTPS4All
Browse the internet securely by automatically redirecting to the secure HTTPS version of websites. It utilizes an extensive database to ensure your online connections are protected.
- Automatic HTTPS redirection
- Extensive secure site database
- Enhanced online security
- Derived from EFF's HTTPS Everywhere
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Browse securely online with HTTPS4All. This app has an extensive database of sites that support secure connections, and will automatically redirect you to the secure version when you access those sites. The database is derived from the HTTPS Everywhere project from the EFF.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Inspect at 4.6 against HTTPS4All's 4.3. Inspect also leads on ratings volume (134 vs 26). HTTPS4All's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Inspect holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inspect has 134 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 87% and 88% positive.
| Parameter | Inspect | HTTPS4All |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (134 ratings) — better | 4.3 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.2% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 134 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tao Xu | Bouke van der Bijl |
Customer experience
Inspect
HTTPS4All
Bugs and requests
Inspect
Reported bugs
4 issues- App does not work with iOS 16
- MITM icon is greyed out even though switch is active
- Bad certificate shown for YouTube/YouTubekids.com
- Tutorial is incomplete, doesn't explain editing
Requested features
6 requests- More features
- Add feature to select items and look at the console
- Add dark mode
- Improve design of details table
- Wrap contents of SHA and MD5 fingerprints
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- Add feature requests submission method
HTTPS4All
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Inspect
No in-app purchases
HTTPS4All
No in-app purchases
