Inspect vs SSL Certificates
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inspect
Examine the TLS certificate chain of any website directly on your iPhone or iPad. Understand trust status, protocols, and security signals. Export certificates for further analysis or sharing.
- Inspect live TLS certificate chains
- Review trust status and security signals
- Browse and export certificates
- Safari extension for current page inspection
- Action extension for shared URLs
- Home Screen widget for Live Monitor
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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
SSL Certificates
Monitor the expiration dates of your SSL certificates with this straightforward utility. Receive timely notifications to ensure your domain security remains uninterrupted. Keep track of your certificate validity effortlessly.
- Track SSL certificate validity
- Receive expiration notifications
- Simple and convenient interface
- Domain security monitoring
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A simple and convenient application for tracking the validity of an SSL certificate and notifying about its expiration.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Inspect at 83% against SSL Certificates's 0%. Inspect also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (126 vs 2). SSL Certificates's advantage is iOS requirement (12.3 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inspect has 126 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Inspect's written reviews are positive against 0% of SSL Certificates's.
Inspect ships an update every 3 weeks, SSL Certificates every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on September 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Inspect | SSL Certificates |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (126 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 126 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tao Xu | IVAYLO TILEV |
Customer experience
Inspect
SSL Certificates
In-app purchases
Inspect
No in-app purchases
SSL Certificates
No in-app purchases
