Fetch! URL vs Semaphor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fetch! URL
Capture URLs from documents, magazines, and papers by taking a photo. The app automatically detects and extracts web addresses, making it easy to access online content directly from physical media.
- Photo-based URL detection
- Extracts URLs from documents
- Works on magazines and papers
- Supports URLs starting with http://
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This application easily detects URL by taking a photo on any documents, magazines and papers. important Notice -No Shade -Take a photo on the flat place -Take a photo from directly above -Faster if you trim unnecessary part of photo -Available only starts with http://
Semaphor
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Semaphor answers simple question: Are my websites online and running? Stop finding out your site is down from a customer email. PERFECT FOR - Business owners wanting to know if their store is online - Agencies and freelancers watching client websites - Indie makers watching their own sites and landing pages - Developers watching endpoints and APIs FRESH WIDGETS Semaphor has beautiful widgets so you can see your status anywhere on your screen. Pick your refresh interval and turn on notifications so you never miss alert. THE APP IS YOUR DASHBOARD Add and organize your sites, see them all on one board, and tap any site for its response time, its recent checks and the latest HTTP result. Tap refresh to re-check every site at once. TELLS YOU WHEN IT BREAKS Turn on down alerts and Semaphor notifies you when a site goes red. Quiet hours hold alerts back overnight, and you can mute one site while you are busy fixing it. SSL CERTIFICATES BEFORE THEY EXPIRE See how many days are left on a site's SSL certificate and who issued it, and get a warning 14 days and 3 days before it expires. UPTIME HISTORY Uptime over 7 and 30 days, total downtime, the longest outage and the average response time, per site and across all of them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up. Semaphor contacts the websites you add and nothing else, and it stores your list and results on your device. No analytics, no tracking, no data collected about you. Ever. UPGRADE IF YOU NEED MORE Full version contains: Unlimited sites, down alerts, quiet hours, every check interval, website history, every widget size including Lock Screen. REQUIREMENTS - iPhone and iPad - iOS 17 or later - Free to download, no account required
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Fetch! URL at every 3 weeks against Semaphor's every 2 months. Fetch! URL also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Fetch! URL ships an update every 3 weeks, Semaphor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fetch! URL | Semaphor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 14.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyoya Yamaguchi | BEGRIP, s.r.o. |
In-app purchases
Fetch! URL
No in-app purchases
Semaphor
No in-app purchases
