Comparison

DiceKeys vs Network Hamster

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

Head to head
About

DiceKeys

This app enables users to scan their unique DiceKey, a physical key for generating strong passwords. It also facilitates the creation of secure backups and the generation of new passwords based on your DiceKey.

Highlights
  • Scan DiceKeys
  • Create backups
  • Generate passwords
  • Secure password management
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The DiceKeys app allows you to scan your DiceKey, create backups, and generate passwords.

About

Network Hamster

Diagnose internet issues with a real-time visual indicator and detailed diagnostics. Understand your network's performance, identify bottlenecks like bufferbloat, and generate shareable reports to prove problems to your ISP.

Highlights
  • One-tap network diagnosis
  • Bufferbloat grading and fixes
  • Live ping, jitter, packet loss monitoring
  • Speed test with history
  • Router vs. internet fault isolation
  • Advanced tools like MTR and Ping Lab
  • Shareable diagnostic reports
Features
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Your internet is acting up. Is it your Wi-Fi? Your router? Your ISP? Network Hamster tells you — in plain English. A helmeted hamster pedals a bicycle in real time, matched to your actual latency. Fast connection, fast pedaling. Congested network, and he grinds to a crawl. It's the most honest status indicator you'll ever install. Behind the mascot is a genuinely serious diagnostic toolkit. ONE-TAP DIAGNOSIS Tap Diagnose and get eight checks in under a minute: interface, captive portal, your router versus the internet, NAT topology, DNS, web response time, and latency under load. Then a verdict in words you can act on — "Local network is healthy, high latency is upstream. Your router is not the problem." BUFFERBLOAT GRADING The reason your video calls stutter when someone downloads something. Network Hamster measures how much your latency balloons under load and grades it A+ through F, then tells you exactly how to fix it. FIND OUT WHERE YOU STAND • Live ping, jitter, packet loss, and p95 latency across six rotating servers • Speed test with download, upload, and bufferbloat, plus saved history • Router vs. internet isolation — know instantly whose fault it is • CGNAT, double NAT, and symmetric NAT detection • DNS benchmarking against Cloudflare, Google, and Quad9 ADVANCED TOOLS • Monitor Mode — ping every second for hours, graph the whole session, get alerted the moment your connection drops, and export CSV • MTR traceroute with per-hop whois, reverse DNS, and a map of where your packets actually travel • Ping Lab — test with different packet sizes to expose MTU and queueing problems • Buffer Probe — detects undersized modem buffers that quietly cost you the bandwidth you pay for • Wireless Health — tells you whether jitter is born on your Wi-Fi or upstream • Wi-Fi Guard — catches repeated forced disconnects • Inbound Watch — spots unusual traffic arriving at your device • Cellular coverage mapping and DNS record lookup PROVE IT TO YOUR ISP Every diagnosis exports as a shareable report: latency per server, packet loss, traceroute, bufferbloat grade, and a timestamped event log. Stop arguing from memory. Paste the evidence. BUILT HONESTLY Some things iOS simply does not allow — Wi-Fi signal strength, raw packet capture, cell tower identity. Network Hamster never fakes them. Where a limit exists, the app says so and does the most useful thing that is actually possible. No account. No tracking. No data collection. Just a hamster who is very concerned about your ping.

Screenshots

DiceKeys4 screens
Network Hamster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Network Hamster at 5.0 against DiceKeys's 4.6. Network Hamster also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). DiceKeys's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Network Hamster holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DiceKeys has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DiceKeys ships an update every 2 weeks, Network Hamster every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
DiceKeys versus Network Hamster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiceKeysNetwork Hamster
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiceKeys, LLCHarborViewIT, LLC

Customer experience

DiceKeys

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative20.0%

Network Hamster

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

DiceKeys

No in-app purchases

None

Network Hamster

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DiceKeys free?
DiceKeys is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Network Hamster free?
Network Hamster is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DiceKeys or Network Hamster?
Network Hamster is rated higher. DiceKeys averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Network Hamster averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DiceKeys or Network Hamster have ads?
Neither DiceKeys nor Network Hamster shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DiceKeys or Network Hamster?
DiceKeys ships an update every 2 weeks, and Network Hamster every 3 days. Most recently, DiceKeys was updated on October 3, 2026 and Network Hamster on September 26, 2026.

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