WiFi Security vs Egress Recon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WiFi Security
Scan public Wi-Fi networks for security threats like hackers and unauthorized devices. Protect your personal data, passwords, and banking information with detailed security analysis and real-time alerts.
- Free full security scans
- Detect Man-in-the-Middle attacks
- Network device discovery
- SSL & DNS validation
- One-tap network analysis
- Real-time security alerts
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Is your Wi-Fi safe? Get a professional security scan in seconds. Every time you connect to public Wi-Fi at a café, hotel, or airport, your personal data is at risk. Hackers use "Man-in-the-Middle" (MITM) attacks to quietly intercept your traffic, steal passwords, and access your bank accounts. WiFi Security & Privacy is your digital shield. Start scanning for threats immediately with FREE full-detail security scans. No trial signup, no accounts, and no hidden tracking. WHY CHOOSE WIFI SECURITY? • FREE Full Security Scans: Instantly reveal if your network is safe or compromised with complete detail. • Detect Hackers (MITM): Identify sophisticated "Man-in-the-Middle" attacks used by cybercriminals to spy on your data. • Network Device Discovery: See every device connected to your Wi-Fi and spot unauthorized intruders. • SSL & DNS Validation: Ensure your connection isn't being redirected to malicious or fake websites. • Privacy-First Design: We never collect your data. No accounts, no tracking, and no logs—ever. KEY FEATURES: • One-Tap Scan: Professional-grade network analysis in a single tap. • Real-Time Alerts: Get notified immediately if your security status changes. • Lightweight & Fast: Optimized to run in seconds without draining your battery. • Glassmorphic UI: A modern, beautiful interface designed for ease of use. PROTECT YOUR SENSITIVE DATA: Your passwords, banking details, and personal messages deserve the highest level of protection. Don’t leave your privacy to luck—verify your connection with the most trusted WiFi scanner. WiFi Security & Privacy — Because your data belongs to you. Terms of Use (EULA) This app uses the Apple Standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Egress Recon
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Egress Recon at none against WiFi Security's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. WiFi Security sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Egress Recon asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | WiFi Security | Egress Recon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ivan Yordanov | Brian Reed |
In-app purchases
WiFi Security
- WiFi Security&Privacy Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- WiFi Security&Privacy Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Egress Recon
No in-app purchases
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