Comparison

Best NetTools vs Tongs

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

Head to head
About

Best NetTools

This utility app provides a suite of network tools for information searching, traceroute, ping, WHOIS, and DNS lookups. It's designed for network operators, website owners, and programmers seeking a fast and convenient assistant.

Highlights
  • Network information searching
  • Traceroute
  • Ping
  • WHOIS lookup
  • DNS dig
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Best NetTools is a toolkit that have many network utilities. Includes network information searching, traceroute, ping, whois, dig and other services. It is the popular used toolkit for network operators, websit owners, programmers and so on. It's a fast, simple, convenient assistant. Free users have a limit number of queries, please contact us for commercial license.

About

Tongs

Features
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Tongs is a network debugging toolkit for developers, QA engineers, and technical users who need to inspect and troubleshoot traffic directly on iPhone or iPad. With Tongs, you can start a local capture session, inspect HTTP and HTTPS requests, review headers and response details, filter traffic by domain or status, replay requests, export HAR data, and build rule-based debugging workflows. Key Features: • Local HTTP/HTTPS traffic capture • Packet Tunnel based on-device debugging • Optional HTTPS inspection with user-installed CA certificate • Request history and session review • Request detail viewer with headers, body preview, timing, and status • Request replay for API debugging • HAR export and manual report delivery • Hosts, block, rewrite, and map rules • Domain bypass and external proxy forwarding • HTTP/2 capture support • Picture in Picture capture monitor • Remote device rule synchronization by QR code • Local privacy cleanup for capture history and sessions Tongs is designed for debugging traffic on the user’s own device and authorized test environments. It does not provide public VPN servers, anonymous browsing, location spoofing, or geo-restriction bypass services.

Screenshots

Best NetTools4 screens
Tongs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Best NetTools at none against Tongs's shown. On price, in-app purchases, 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

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
Best NetTools versus Tongs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest NetToolsTongs
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB43 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBeijing Tiantexin Technology Co., Ltd.VZ TECH SOLUTIONS, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Best NetTools

No in-app purchases

None

Tongs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Best NetTools free?
Best NetTools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tongs free?
Tongs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Best NetTools or Tongs have ads?
Tongs shows ads; Best NetTools does not.

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