Comparison

Knil vs Egress Recon

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Knil

This developer tool helps test Universal Links for iOS applications. It fetches and parses AASA files, lists all Universal Links, and allows for one-tap testing. It also provides links to other validation tools.

Highlights
  • Fetch and parse AASA file
  • List and test Universal Links
  • Customizable test links
  • Links to validation tools
  • Open source iOS project
Features
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Knil is a developer tool for Universal Link testing. - Open source iOS project written in Swift 5 - Fetch and parse apple-app-site-association(AASA) file - App Store links and metadata - List all Universal Links. One tap to test! - Customizable test links - Link to other validation tools - Free without ads - No third-party tracking or analytics See more on GitHub https://github.com/ethanhuang13/knil

About

Egress Recon

Features
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You are on a guest Wi-Fi you did not choose. Something will not connect and nobody can tell you why. Egress Recon answers that from your phone, in under a second. WHICH PORTS GET OUT Sixteen common outbound ports, tried against real public services. You get more than "open" or "closed": • Refused and timed out are different answers. One means something on the network actively rejected the connection; the other means it was dropped silently. • Intercepted is its own finding. The connection succeeded, but the thing that replied was not the service you asked for — a portal, a proxy, or a middlebox re-signing TLS. WHAT NAT YOU ARE BEHIND Your public address, and whether your NAT gives you a reusable mapping or a symmetric one — the reason a video call falls back to a relay. Carrier-grade NAT is reported with its confidence and the evidence behind it, never as a bare label. IPv6 and NAT64 state, and whether you can reach your own public address from inside. WHAT IT DOES TO DNS Whether plain DNS gets out. Whether the network's resolver agrees with a public one. Whether it invents answers for names that cannot exist. And whether DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS still work when plain DNS does not — each tested with a real query, not just a connection. WI-FI VERSUS CELLULAR The most useful thing a network tool can tell you is "this Wi-Fi blocks it, and your cellular connection does not." Egress Recon runs the same tests over both and shows the difference — attributing it correctly in both directions, because blaming the café for something your carrier blocks helps nobody. BEHIND A CAPTIVE PORTAL It tells you the portal is there, shows the URL it is pushing you to, and labels the results "before you sign in." Sign in, run again, and it shows you exactly what changed. IT SHOWS ITS WORK Every verdict comes with what was actually observed: the banner the server sent, the certificate it presented and who issued it, the exact response that came back. You can check the reasoning instead of trusting a colored label. Where something cannot be determined, it says so and why. Two ports in the standard set have no public server to test against, so they stay untested rather than showing a red cell that means nothing. Share any run as text, a web page, a PDF, or JSON. Saved runs are grouped by network. PRIVACY • No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts, no ads, no third-party SDKs. • It never scans your network. Every probe goes to a public internet service — never your router, never your other devices. That is why it never asks for local network permission. • It does not read your Wi-Fi name. That needs location permission, which it never requests. • Saved runs stay on your device. A report leaves only when you share it. Egress Recon for Mac and for iPhone and iPad are both free apps on one App Store record. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17.

Screenshots

Knil4 screens
Egress Recon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Knil at 9.0 against Egress Recon's 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Knil versus Egress Recon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKnilEgress Recon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElaborappBrian Reed

In-app purchases

None

Knil

No in-app purchases

None

Egress Recon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Knil free?
Knil is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Egress Recon free?
Egress Recon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Knil or Egress Recon have ads?
Neither Knil nor Egress Recon shows ads.

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