LocalSites vs Web Toolbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LocalSites
Discover and access websites hosted on your local network. This utility helps you quickly find configuration pages for devices like printers and IoT gadgets, opening them directly in your browser.
- Discover local network websites
- Uses Bonjour (DNS-SD) protocol
- Open URLs in Safari
- Access device configuration pages
- Open source on GitHub
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This app shows all websites in the local network which advertise themselves using the "bonjour" (DNS-SD) protocol. Clicking on an entry passes the URL to Safari for displaying the website. Note that the only purpose of this app is to quickly access configuration websites for example of local printers or IoT gadgets. The app does not list services other than http, and is not meant to be a full featured network services browser (there are already good apps for that). The app is in the AppStore for your convenience and as a way to support its development a bit, but it is open sourced on github, so you're welcome to get it from there and also to contribute enhancements!
Web Toolbox
Monitor your websites and web servers with automated checks for responses and content. Configure various checks like HTTP status codes, headers, and content using CSS selectors or custom JavaScript. Includes DNS, GeoIP, and Whois tools for comprehensive web analysis.
- Automated HTTP status code checks
- HTTP header content verification
- CSS selector-based content checks
- Custom JavaScript execution for checks
- DNS client for server queries
- GeoIP lookup for IP address location
- Tabular Whois client for domain info
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Web Toolbox will help you keep an eye on your sites and web servers. With a few simple steps you can set up automated checks on the responses and content of your web pages. You will be able to run them individually or in batches whenever you want directly from your iPhone and iPad without any subscription. You will be able to configure different types of automated checks: - HTTP Status Code: Indicate the expected HTTP status code, if the code obtained is different the check will fail. - HTTP Header: You will be able to indicate the name of an HTTP header whose content you want to check, you will be able to do an exact check or search for a string within the value. - Content: You will be able to search for an HTML element within the page by indicating its CSS selector and check its content. - Custom JavaScript: Finally you will be able to run a JavaScript script within the page and check its result. You will also be able to decide whether to run the checks on the simple textual response of your web page, or to render the page in a real web browser. To help you identify issues on your websites, Web Toolbox includes several tools: - DNS: A DNS client that will allow you to query DNS servers in your local or remote network with the most popular preconfigured ones (Google DNS, OpenDNS, Cloudflare) - GeoIP: This tool will allow you visually to pinpoint the geographic location of any IP address, as well as obtain other information about the address such as the ISP - Whois: A completely revised Whois client to allow you to access domain name information more easily. In addition to the classic text response, for most Whois servers, you will have access to a tabular mode that will make the domain data more readable and usable.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Web Toolbox at 4.3 against LocalSites's 1.0. Web Toolbox also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 23 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). LocalSites's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Web Toolbox sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. LocalSites asks for nothing beyond the download.
Web Toolbox holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Web Toolbox has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
LocalSites ships an update every 23 months, Web Toolbox every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LocalSites | Web Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.3 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lukas Zeller | Fausto Ristagno |
Customer experience
LocalSites
Web Toolbox
In-app purchases
LocalSites
No in-app purchases
Web Toolbox
- Pro Lifetime (Only PRO users)Free
- Pro Lifetime$2.99








