Comparison

UDevice vs Thinger.io

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

Head to head
About

UDevice

This app offers a comprehensive suite of developer and testing tools. It includes network utilities like HTTP(s) capture and DNS parsing, alongside system information and file management capabilities. Ideal for development, testing, and device management.

Highlights
  • HTTP(s) Capture/Rewrite
  • SSH and Terminal access
  • Python3 interpreter
  • Cookie editing
  • Network utilities (Ping, DNS, Traceroute, Port Scan)
  • File manager
  • Device fingerprinting and system info
Features
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Make device debugging, network diagnostics, and security research more efficient. The app includes a rich set of professional tools covering network packet capture, request rewriting, SSH, local terminal, Python 3, file management, cookie editing, log analysis, JSON formatting, regular expressions, Ping, DNS lookup, Traceroute, port scanning, LAN scanning, and more. You can also view real-time device status and key system information, including CPU, system, network, memory, display, browser environment, and other device data, helping you quickly understand the current state of your device. Whether for development debugging, testing and troubleshooting, security research, or daily device management, everything can be done in one app.

About

Thinger.io

Features
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The official Thinger.io application to handle all your IoT workflow directly from your phone. Thinger.io is a cloud IoT Platform that provides every needed tool to prototype, scale and manage connected products in a very simple way. Our goal is to democratize the use of IoT making it accessible to the whole world, and streamlining the development of big IoT projects. - Free IoT platform: Thinger.io provides a lifetime freemium account with only few limitations to start learning and prototyping when your product becomes ready to scale, you can deploy a Premium Server with full capacities within minutes. - Simple but Powerful: Just a couple code lines to connect a device and start retrieving data or controlling its functionalities with our web-based Console, able to connect and manage thousands of devices in a simple way. - Hardware agnostic: Any device from any manufacturer can be easily integrated with Thinger.io's infrastructure. - Extremely scalable & efficient infrastructure: thanks to our unique communication paradigm, in which the IoT server subscribes device resources to retrieve data only when it is necessary, a single Thinger.io instance is able to manage thousands of IoT devices with low computational load, bandwidth and latencies. - Open-Source: most of the platform modules, libraries and APP source code are available in our Github repository to be downloaded and modified with MIT license.

Screenshots

UDevice4 screens
Thinger.io4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Thinger.io at Free against UDevice's $4.99. Thinger.io also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). UDevice's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months) and chart position (#64 vs unranked). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Thinger.io is free to download; UDevice costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UDevice ships an update every 3 weeks, Thinger.io every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
UDevice versus Thinger.io: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUDeviceThinger.io
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (36 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings36 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#64 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGansu Zhenxian Network Technology Co., Ltd.Internet of Thinger

In-app purchases

None

UDevice

No in-app purchases

None

Thinger.io

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UDevice free?
UDevice costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thinger.io free?
Thinger.io is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do UDevice or Thinger.io have ads?
Neither UDevice nor Thinger.io shows ads.
Which is updated more often, UDevice or Thinger.io?
UDevice ships an update every 3 weeks, and Thinger.io every 9 months. Most recently, UDevice was updated on October 10, 2026 and Thinger.io on October 8, 2026.

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