CloudCheck Home vs Orb.net
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CloudCheck Home
Easily manage and optimize your home Wi-Fi network. Control user access, set usage rules, and test internet speeds from your router and devices.
- Manage home Wi-Fi network
- Optimize Wi-Fi environment
- Share network access
- Control individual user usage
- Create family member profiles
- Assign devices to profiles
- Set access rules and time limits
- Test downstream and upstream speeds
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CloudCheck Home App enables you to easily manage your home WiFi Network. With CloudCheck Home app, end-users can manage and optimize their Wi-Fi network environment. They can share access to their network and control the usage of individual users. Admin user can easily create profiles for family members and assign devices that belong to a member to that profile. Each profile can have separate access rules and time of day usage within that profile. In addition, the app contains the ability to test downstream and upstream broadband speeds. It has ability to test speed from router to internet, router to devices and from device to internet.
Orb.net
This free platform continuously measures your internet connection's responsiveness, reliability, and speed. It provides easy-to-understand scores and detailed technical information for users who want to understand their true internet experience.
- Measures internet responsiveness
- Measures internet reliability
- Measures internet speed
- Continuous lightweight tests
- Easy-to-understand scores
- Technical details for advanced users
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Orb shows your true internet experience and is a free platform that runs without disrupting your connection or device. It measures Responsiveness, Reliability, and Speed using lightweight, continuous tests, and provides easy-to-understand scores as well as the technical details for nerds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Orb.net at 62% against CloudCheck Home's 0%. Orb.net also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (35 vs 2). CloudCheck Home's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Orb.net holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orb.net has 35 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of CloudCheck Home's written reviews are positive against 62% of Orb.net's.
CloudCheck Home ships an update every 5 weeks, Orb.net every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudCheck Home | Orb.net |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (35 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 61.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Axon Networks Inc. | Orb Forge Inc. |
Customer experience
CloudCheck Home
Orb.net
Bugs and requests
CloudCheck Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Orb.net
Reported bugs
2 issues- Console opens on desktop every time
- Slow performance
Requested features
3 requests- Apple TV app
- PlayStation app
- Background mode
In-app purchases
CloudCheck Home
No in-app purchases
Orb.net
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CloudCheck Home free?
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