Instant Guard vs LabL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Instant Guard
This app provides a secure VPN connection, allowing you to browse anonymously and protect your financial information on public Wi-Fi. It enables remote access to your home ASUS router, ensuring your privacy and security wherever you go.
- One-click VPN connection
- Secured and encrypted connectivity
- Anonymous browsing
- Change IP address and location
- Remote ASUS router access
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Instant Guard is basing on VPN feature of ASUS Router and only available for manager now. Use the Instant Guard app when you connect to public Wi-Fi and just as you are using safety network at home - ensuring your personal privacy remains safe and financial information protected. Instant Guard allows you easily access to your ASUS router at home while you are away and keeps 100% anonymous while you browser bank, shop and chat with Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection. In the future, this feature will improve to allow to share VPN connection permissions to your friends or family members. Key Feature : 1.One-Click Operation 2.Secured and encrypted connectivity 3.Surf Anonymously 4.Change your IP Address and Location *The ASUS routers sold in the CN region do not support Instant Guard. Instant Guard app supports the following ASUS router. RT-BE96U RT-AXE7800 RT-AX92U RT-AX89X RT-AX88U_Pro RT-AX88U RT-AX86U_PRO RT-AX86U RT-AX86S RT-AX82U_V2 RT-AX82U RT-AX68U RT-AX59U RT-AX58U_V2 RT-AX58U RT-AX57_Go RT-AX57 RT-AX56U RT-AX55 RT-AX5400 RT-AX54 RT-AX53U RT-AX52 RT-AC88U RT-AC86U RT-AC3100 RT-AC5300 GS-AX3000 GS-AX5400 GT6 GT-AC2900 GT-AC5300 GT-AX11000 GT-AX11000_PRO GT-AX6000 GT-AXE11000 GT-AXE16000 TUF-AX3000 TUF-AX3000_V2 TUF-AX4200 TUF-AX5400 TUF-AX6000 ZenWiFi CT8 ZenWiFi XD4 ZenWiFi XD5 ZenWiFi XD6 ZenWiFi XP4 ZenWiFi XT9 ZenWiFi AX (XT8) ZenWiFi AX Hybrid (XC5) ZenWiFi ET8 ZenWiFi Pro ET12 ZenWiFi Pro XT12
LabL
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Stop building shipping labels by hand in a page-layout app. Labels lets you place up to four shipping labels on a single A4 sheet, right on your iPhone, and print them or export a ready-to-print PDF. Thin dashed cut lines divide the sheet into four, so you can snip the labels apart with scissors when they come out of the printer. HOW IT WORKS The app shows an A4 sheet split into four A6 fields. Tap a field to activate it and fill it in — you only print as many labels as you need. Each label is a standard mail layout: your return address, top-left, crossed out with a large X (as is customary for a sender), and the recipient bottom-right. When you're done, print via the system dialog or export a PDF straight to the Files app. WHAT YOU GET Four labels on one A4 sheet, with dashed cut lines to trim them apart Add up to 11 A4 sheets, scroll through them, and print or export them in one PDF — or just the pages you pick A single sender address, set once in Settings, crossed out on every label automatically A recipient field per label — type it or paste a preformatted address Choose from 11 fonts, and fine-tune the sender and recipient text sizes Place a finished PDF label instead of typing — move it, pinch to scale, and rotate it in 90° steps to fit any size Print with AirPrint, or export a pixel-perfect A4 PDF to Files True what-you-see-is-what-you-get: the on-screen preview is exactly what prints PLACE YOUR OWN LABELS Already have a carrier's label or a design as a PDF? Drop it straight into any field with "Place label", then move, scale, and rotate it until it sits right. Mix typed labels and placed PDFs on the same sheet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No data collection. No internet connection. Everything you enter stays on your device. WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who ships regularly and prints their own address labels Online sellers shipping orders from marketplaces like Etsy, eBay or Vinted Small shops, makers and home offices that would rather tap four fields than open a layout app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Instant Guard at Free against LabL's $0.99. Instant Guard also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). LabL's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On 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
Instant Guard is free to download; LabL costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Instant Guard ships an update every 2 months, LabL every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Instant Guard | LabL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (61 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 39.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ASUS | Christian Haemmerle |
Bugs and requests
Instant Guard
Reported bugs
31 issues- Auto connection still conflicts
- Cannot connect after current iOS update
- Cellular data severely affected
- Auto protect feature comes on when on cellular network
- IP Address did not change
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- App has stopped working
- No longer works
- Breaks internet connection completely
- Useless - Won't connect
- Stuck at finding router
- Not a VPN as IP address does not change
- Auto protect feature ignores settings
- Share feature simply doesn't work
- iOS 17 still not working
- Stopped working after updating
- Not working with iOS 16.5.1
- No luck on Mac Studio
- Won't connect
- iOS 16.5 incompatible
- Disconnects every hour or so
- Can't share connection
- Connection drops
- Super buggy app
- Terrible app with terrible support
- Worked before, now stopped
- No ability to share connection
- Router not detected
- No Internet connection
- Kills internet connection
- Slower upload compared to OpenVPN
- Router crashed multiple times when connected to WiFi
Requested features
11 requests- Add split tunnelling
- Automatic connection when leaving home network
- Ability to automatically connect/disconnect based on WiFi network
- Shortcuts widget for one-touch control
- Automation capabilities
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- Family sharing option
- Set time for VPN disconnection or make disconnection longer
- Improve auto connect function on iOS
- Fix auto protect feature on cellular
- More information on app and web admin page
- Add option to turn VPN on/off automatically
LabL
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Instant Guard
No in-app purchases
LabL
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Instant Guard free?
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