WavRouter vs CTRONICS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WavRouter
Easily manage and monitor your home network from anywhere. Control connected devices, adjust Wi-Fi settings, and enhance security with parental controls. Keep your router performing optimally with firmware updates.
- Device management and monitoring
- Speed limiting and bandwidth control
- Network setup and configuration
- Parental controls
- Remote management
- Firmware upgrades
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WavRouter APP helps manage your network in more effective way anywhere anytime after just a few setups. Devices Managemen and Monitoring: Users can view all devices currently connected to the Router, including detailed information such as Device Name, IP Address, Mac Address, Duration of Connection and so on. Device Speed Limiting and Control: Users can set limit on the upload and download speeds for individual devices, allocate network bandwidth reasonably to ensure some important devices or application can get sufficient bandwidth, and also pause or block the Internet connection for some specific devices. Network Setup Using WavRouter App, users can change the Wi-Fi Name(SSID), Password, Security Type and other wireless network settings. Security Protection Parental Control: It allows parents to set the Internet access hours for the devices from their children through WavRouter App, restrict access to specific websites or applications, so that effectively manage children's online time and content, and create a more healthy online environment for them. Remote Management After remotely loging in to Router in home via APP, whenever and wherever, users are able to manage or set the Routers including viewing Device Connection Status, changing Network Parameters and so on. Firmware Upgrade WavRouter APP allows users to ceasily heck and download the latest firmware version for the Router, upgrading the firmware in time to achieve better performance, more functions and stronger security, so that the Router keeps the best performance all the time. Models Supported by WavRouter APP: WL-WN592AX6 Giant Stream6 - AX6000 AI Mesh Router WL-WN530BE1-A Skyline Stream 4-Wi-Fi 7 BE3600 Dual Band Mesh Router WL-WN586X3-B MIGHTY EX1 Pro-WiFi6 AX3000 Dual Band Mesh Router WL-WN100X3NRB QuantumWave 5G- AX3000 5G Router WL-WN586X3-A MIGHTY EX1-WiFi 6 AX3000 Dual Band Gigabit Mesh Router WL-WN587X3-A MIGHTY EX2 WL-WN536AX6 MIGHTY LX2-AX6000 WL-WN531AX3 LUX DX7-AX3000 WiFi 6 Mesh Router WL-WN536AX3 WL-WN531AX2 LUX DX4-AC1800 Wi-Fi 6 Router WL-WN551X3 CUBE PRO-AX3000 Mesh Router WL-WN531MX1 QUANTUM D4X-AX3000 Dual Band Router WL-WN536MX3 AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 Dual Band Router Local Management will be Provided for Those Models are not Supported More Detailed Information in https://www.wavlink.com.
CTRONICS
Stream live video from your camera and capture still images directly from the feed. Remotely control your camera's functions for a seamless viewing and recording experience.
- Watch online video
- Catch photos on video
- Control the camera
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1.watch the on line video 2.catch the photo on video 3.control the camera
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CTRONICS at 2.6 against WavRouter's 1.5. CTRONICS also leads on review sentiment (37% vs 7%) and ratings volume (60 vs 15). 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.
CTRONICS holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 60 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of WavRouter's written reviews are positive against 37% of CTRONICS's.
WavRouter ships an update every 5 weeks, CTRONICS every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WavRouter | CTRONICS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (15 ratings) | 2.6 (60 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.7% of reviews | 36.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 60 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wavlink Technology Ltd | SHENZHEN C-TRONICS CO., LIMITED |
Customer experience
WavRouter
CTRONICS
User reviews
WavRouter
From 15 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Worked fine for me
- 👍 Improved my network
- 👍 Simple tool but helpful
- 👍 Setup worked seamlessly
- 👍 Easy to connect after setup
Room to improve
- 🐛 App does not work
- 🐛 Very long setup process
- 🐛 Support services ignored emails
- 🐛 Can't get verification code
- 🐛 Can't connect to app support
CTRONICS
From 60 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works well with cameras
- 👍 Great motion capture
- 👍 Easy setup for some
- 👍 Good camera quality
- 👍 Added joystick movement
Room to improve
- 🐛 Video inversion issues
- 🐛 Playback problems
- 🐛 Authentication issues
- 🐛 Connection difficulties
- 🐛 Poor customer support
Bugs and requests
WavRouter
Reported bugs
219 issues- 🐛 App does not work
- 🐛 Very long setup process
- 🐛 Support services ignored emails
- 🐛 Can't get verification code
- 🐛 Can't connect to app support
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- 🐛 Product does not work
- 🐛 Can't be set up
- 🐛 App not at all
- 🐛 Logged me out, password didn't work
- 🐛 Verification code not valid
- 🐛 Soooooo bad
- 🐛 Worst to setup
- 🐛 App is a joke
- 🐛 App only works at beginning
- 🐛 Will not reconnect
- 🐛 Needs some work
- 🐛 Impossible to login
- 🐛 Nothing seems to work
- 🐛 Trying to register fails
- 🐛 No router found
- 🐛 Useless junk
- 🐛 App is terrible
- 🐛 Would not recognize password
- 🐛 Will not recognize WiFi password
- 🐛 Not worth the effort
- 🐛 Made another internet that doesn't work
- 🐛 No longer works
- 🐛 No details saved
- 🐛 Bind router function doesn't work
- 🐛 Nothing happens when searching
- 🐛 'No device found' message
- 🐛 Will not connect
- 🐛 No support
- 🐛 Opens iPad settings
- 🐛 Never finds and connects
- 🐛 Brand new device issue
- 🐛 Email and chat unavailable
- 🐛 App Store link bounces to website
- 🐛 No support for older models
- 🐛 Have to buy new hardware
- 🐛 Buggy, unusable
- 🐛 Worst App award nominee
- 🐛 Worst app ever created
- 🐛 Failed to send signup
- 🐛 Error on connect/password
- 🐛 App won't open
- 🐛 Crashes on iPhone SE
- 🐛 Still doesn't work in 2024
- 🐛 Hasn't been updated
- 🐛 Nothing works
- 🐛 Go around in a circle
- 🐛 Will not open
- 🐛 Loads then does nothing
- 🐛 White screen
- 🐛 Terrible Product
- 🐛 Outdoor mesh switch not compatible
- 🐛 Dropping connection
- 🐛 Wired connection not working
- 🐛 Replacement system issues
- 🐛 App is worse software ever written
- 🐛 App nearly useless
- 🐛 Can't see extender status abroad
- 🐛 Speed test from abroad incorrect
- 🐛 No good information remotely
- 🐛 Defeats remote app purpose
- 🐛 Worse product and software EVER
- 🐛 Trash
- 🐛 Don't waste your money
- 🐛 Fake App
- 🐛 Doesn't work with repeater
- 🐛 Bug on home page
- 🐛 Doesn't work at all
- 🐛 Won't pick up devices
- 🐛 Takes to settings
- 🐛 Y'all should be beaten
- 🐛 Doesn't work anymore
- 🐛 Devices connected have internet issues
- 🐛 App won't work
- 🐛 No device connects
- 🐛 Doesn't pick up device
- 🐛 New account creation doesn't work
- 🐛 App fully broken
- 🐛 Unusable
- 🐛 Looks Neat but complete rubbish
- 🐛 Major flaws and bugs
- 🐛 Completely worthless
- 🐛 Haven't been able to connect
- 🐛 Scanning QR code error
- 🐛 Tapping Connect button jumps to permissions
- 🐛 Junk
- 🐛 Does not allow setup
- 🐛 Could not link to device
- 🐛 Cannot do anything
- 🐛 Amazon should not have listed
- 🐛 Cheat customers
- 🐛 Never works
- 🐛 Complete waste of time
- 🐛 Helps in no way
- 🐛 Not working with iOS 15
- 🐛 App no longer opens
- 🐛 Frequently disconnects
- 🐛 Not able to reconnect via website
- 🐛 Totally useless
- 🐛 Don't bother
- 🐛 Garbage
- 🐛 Please delete this app
- 🐛 Shame forced to give 1 star
- 🐛 AC1200 connection issues
- 🐛 Takes to settings
- 🐛 App doesn't respond
- 🐛 Upgraded app circling
- 🐛 Asking for QR code not present
- 🐛 Can't make them talk
- 🐛 Product seems unusable
- 🐛 Constantly shows not connected
- 🐛 Can't get into app
- 🐛 Only connect device screen
- 🐛 Waste of money
- 🐛 Don't work
- 🐛 Waste of time
- 🐛 Wasting money and time
- 🐛 Nothing helpful
- 🐛 Piece of CRAP
- 🐛 Does not accept password for 5g
- 🐛 Installation is a nightmare
- 🐛 Constantly lose connection
- 🐛 Not user friendly
- 🐛 Some work needed
- 🐛 UI thrown together
- 🐛 Not possible to connect via another AP
- 🐛 Revert to web browser
- 🐛 App does not work
- 🐛 Need to connect to AP's network
- 🐛 Busted app
- 🐛 Absolutely rubbish
- 🐛 Router is worse
- 🐛 Don't waste your time
- 🐛 Not Working
- 🐛 Does not see password or internet
- 🐛 Unable to log in
- 🐛 Wish they'd test contents
- 🐛 Stay away
- 🐛 Crape
- 🐛 Heap of rubbish
- 🐛 Don't touch anything from this company
- 🐛 Can't actually set it up
- 🐛 Doesn't get past setup screen
- 🐛 Showing not connected to wifi
- 🐛 Deleted app, use webpage
- 🐛 Worst interface app
- 🐛 Half of links wouldn't work
- 🐛 Won't connect if SSID changed
- 🐛 Can't enter settings on web browser
- 🐛 Worst access point
- 🐛 Can't deliver claimed speeds
- 🐛 Lucky to get 60meg
- 🐛 Pile of junk
- 🐛 Returning it soon
- 🐛 App doesn't work
- 🐛 Waste of time
- 🐛 Don't change SSID
- 🐛 Only works with default SSID
- 🐛 App will not interface
- 🐛 Think chocolate fire guard
- 🐛 Awful and useless
- 🐛 Won't recognize connection
- 🐛 Completely useless
- 🐛 Worse than nothing
- 🐛 Cannot see extender
- 🐛 Not working past WiFi stage
- 🐛 App completely useless
- 🐛 Never got it to work
- 🐛 Should have zero stars
- 🐛 Extender installation problem
- 🐛 Lose connection constantly
- 🐛 Does not recognize network
- 🐛 Setup through browser alternative
- 🐛 Does not work with extender
- 🐛 Unable to recognize connection
- 🐛 Garbage app
- 🐛 Keeps crashing
- 🐛 App failed to work
- 🐛 No funciona
- 🐛 No sirve para nada
- 🐛 Full of bugs
- 🐛 Disappointing
- 🐛 App just hangs
- 🐛 Won't let you continue
- 🐛 Very frustrating
- 🐛 App flawed
- 🐛 Constant circle of connect/reopen
- 🐛 No good
- 🐛 Won't connect app to WiFi
- 🐛 Poor
- 🐛 Doesn't load on iPhone
- 🐛 Forget it
- 🐛 Crashing on IOS
- 🐛 Fix it or delete app
- 🐛 Won't Open
- 🐛 Flashed on and off
- 🐛 Couldn't get it to work
- 🐛 Needs much work
- 🐛 Fix app
- 🐛 Does not let you log on
- 🐛 Takes you right out
- 🐛 Can't do setup
- 🐛 App does not work with extender
- 🐛 Can't log on as new user
- 🐛 App doesn't allow setup
- 🐛 Connection to modem fails
- 🐛 Crash on open when connected
- 🐛 Not working
- 🐛 Doesn't accept Wavlink WiFi connection
- 🐛 App won’t go past connect to WiFi page
- 🐛 Stops and won't allow further
- 🐛 Nothing happens
- 🐛 Don't like the update
- 🐛 Hate the new update
- 🐛 No longer access extender
Requested features
14 requests- 💡 Dark mode option
- 💡 Advanced analytics dashboard
- 💡 Fix bug on home page
- 💡 Support for older models
- 💡 Allow SSID changes
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- 💡 Improve UI design
- 💡 Remote status for extenders
- 💡 Accurate remote speed test
- 💡 Better remote information
- 💡 Fix QR code issues
- 💡 Support for repeaters
- 💡 Allow login as new user
- 💡 Fix app permissions issues
- 💡 Downgrade to old version
CTRONICS
Reported bugs
67 issues- Video seems to be inverted
- Turning iPad does the opposite in landscape
- App in portrait but wrong way round
- Video is landscape but upside down in portrait
- None of the 8 cameras show video in playback
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- Downloaded videos still don't play
- App no longer works with modern authentication
- Device have many faults
- Motion sense all over the place
- Highlight an area & it motion senses the whole screen
- Smart humanoid detection doesn't work
- Notifications don't work
- App not talking to the cameras
- Won't let me erase SD card data
- Video stays vertical when mirroring iPhone to TV
- App doesn't actually turn horizontal
- App works well if you have set it up correctly
- Since iOS 15 update, no more notifications
- Cannot connect, stopped working
- Stuck loading
- View is sideways on Macbook or iPad
- Video stays vertical and doesn’t change to horizontal
- App doesn’t actually turn horizontal
- Network anomalies after connecting to live camera
- Only watch few hours back video
- More than 6 hours old videos do not play or download
- Camera stopped responding
- Camera simply does not wake up
- Camera doesn’t connect to WIFI anymore
- Notifications stopped working after upgrade to IOS 15.2.1
- CCTV system has stopped working after uploading version 15.0.2
- System will load but no CCTV coverage
- Night video doesn’t work
- Alarm recording time is shorter
- Human recognition sensing records in blocks of 14 seconds
- Email settings not an option for all camera models
- Very difficult to connect
- Unable to share to another device or person
- First device did not work anymore after connecting to second device
- Camera was easy to configure alongside the app
- Can't watch none of the video captured on my motion detector online
- Simply will not connect from the app to the camera
- Keep having to reset both cameras and go through setup again every day or so
- App needs some changes
- App takes forever to receive any feedback
- App is too slow and frequently freezing
- Constant notification sounds
- Constant False notifications with no screen message
- Disable CTRONICS app stops false notifications
- Camera keeps dropping out about every 4-6 hrs
- After 1 week can't connect at all
- App was good but after the last update it takes more than twice as long to get the cameras online
- Camera seems to have a bad connection to router
- Sometimes it takes a time to load
- The app no longer sends notifications
- Barely works anymore
- App can’t find the camera
- After 13.5 update I have no push notifications
- Alarm and motion sensor notification doesn’t work
- Has to be very close to the modem, otherwise won’t connect
- New version has cam stuck in auto pan
- No control
- Application lente et bug souvent
- Always needing to be reset
- App doesn’t work anymore
- Crashing on iPhone 10 X
- Will not load on the iPhone 10X
Requested features
27 requests- Provide a video on YouTube for internet connection
- Add a feature to select all videos at once
- Improve video quality settings
- Allow longer recording times for motion triggers
- Add ability to set alarm off from live view
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- Provide a version for Apple Watch
- Make email settings available for all camera models
- Add custom alarm sound for iPhone
- Add arrows for continuous camera turning
- Improve motion detection accuracy
- Add smart humanoid detection improvements
- Allow for 24/7 recording
- Improve notification system
- Add ability to erase SD card data
- Fix video orientation issues on AirPlay
- Fix video orientation issues on Mac/iPad
- Allow users to download older videos
- Enable camera to change Wi-Fi without reset
- Allow sharing to another device or person
- Improve app speed and responsiveness
- Add option to select all videos for deletion
- Provide a DVD or website for setup instructions
- Add more seconds to motion alarm recordings
- Allow faster loading of cameras
- Add a button to set alarm off from live view
- Add a feature to download camera after deleting it
- Allow watching recorded videos at sped-up speeds
In-app purchases
WavRouter
No in-app purchases
CTRONICS
No in-app purchases
