OpenRoaming vs WLAN Pros Toolbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OpenRoaming
This app enables free, seamless, and secure Wi-Fi access using your Google or Apple ID. Once activated, your device automatically connects to supported Wi-Fi networks globally without further action.
- Free Wi-Fi access
- Seamless connection
- Secure Wi-Fi
- Google/Apple ID login
- Automatic network attachment
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The OpenRoaming App configures your device with Free, Seamless and Secure Wi-Fi using your Google or Apple ID. This service can be leveraged in many Wi-Fi networks around the world. After activating the service on your device through the app, there is nothing more for you to do, your device will automatically attach to Wi-Fi where supported. Support: openroaming-app@external.cisco.com
WLAN Pros Toolbox
This app provides over 120 tools for Wi-Fi and network professionals, including calculators for RF math and live diagnostics for network analysis. It also offers quick reference tables and educational resources for field use.
- RF and signal math calculators
- Live network diagnostics
- Quick reference tables
- Network CLI commands
- Wi-Fi specific information
- Connection troubleshooting helper
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WLAN Pros Toolbox gives Wi-Fi pros, IT help desks, instructors and students 260+ network tools, plus a Wireless Classroom of lessons and simulators. Free. No account. No ads. No data collected. Built by Keith Parsons, CWNE #3, and Wireless LAN Professionals. Everything is grouped so you find the tool you need fast: live network tests, calculators, reference tables and the Wireless Classroom. The Wireless Classroom - 30 Guided Lessons in plain language, where the pictures do most of the teaching: Find My, Starlink, Wi-Fi Calling, Travel Routers, Captive Portals, Mesh and Extenders, One Talker per Channel, Is Your Router Too Old?, and more. - 50 interactive simulators: Wi-Fi Through a Wall, Multipath, Rate vs Range, Modulation, Polarization, OFDMA vs MU-MIMO, MIMO and Beamforming, Airtime Fairness, Multi-Link Operation (Wi-Fi 7), Roaming Walk, DFS and Radar, 802.1X and EAP. - Presenter mode for the projector, one step at a time. - A Teacher's Guide and a Field Manual for instructors. Is It Your Wi-Fi or Your Internet? Test My Connection helps answer the question everyone asks, in plain language. Start here when someone hands you a slow connection. Networking Tools Ping, traceroute, DNS, WHOIS, BGP/ASN, MAC vendor lookup, IP geolocation, port scan, HTTP and SSL/TLS inspectors, NTP, Wake-on-LAN. Calculators Free space path loss, Fresnel zone, link budget, EIRP, dBm and watts, rain fade, noise floor, antenna downtilt, capacity planner, SSID airtime, throughput, PoE budget, IP subnets, GPS. Quick Reference 103 tables in 13 topics: channels, 802.11 standards, MCS index, security and authentication, reason codes, cabling and connectors, ports, and a Wireless Glossary of 123 plain-language terms in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German. Reference tables and calculators work offline. Live tests need a network connection. iOS limits what apps can read about Wi-Fi, so on iPhone and iPad some live Wi-Fi details come from an optional companion Apple Shortcut. Free for the community. Also on Android, Windows, Mac, the web and WLAN Pi: toolbox.wlanpros.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WLAN Pros Toolbox at 5.0 against OpenRoaming's 3.0. WLAN Pros Toolbox also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 27 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
WLAN Pros Toolbox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of OpenRoaming's written reviews are positive against 100% of WLAN Pros Toolbox's.
OpenRoaming ships an update every 27 months, WLAN Pros Toolbox every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OpenRoaming | WLAN Pros Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cisco | Keith Parsons |
Customer experience
OpenRoaming
WLAN Pros Toolbox
In-app purchases
OpenRoaming
No in-app purchases
WLAN Pros Toolbox
No in-app purchases
