Network Ping vs SilenceMonitor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Network Ping
This tool helps diagnose and maintain local network issues. It provides a clear visual overview of device status across an entire subnet, indicating if devices are online, experiencing problems, or offline. It also includes utilities for telnet access, port scanning, and network path tracing.
- Ping single IP address
- Ping entire subnet
- Port scanner
- Traceroute
- Telnet console
- Netbios lookup
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Network Ping is a software test tool for maintaining and debugging network problems on a local area network (LAN). Get an easy view for a full subnet on a single screen. Look at the screen to the left displaying the status for devices 192.168.2.0 - 192.168.2.255. Green and the device is working, yellow, there is a problem, and red, the device is not any longer on the LAN. Before buying try our free Lite version FEATURES - Ping a single IP address - Ping a subnet to give an overview for 253 IP addresses - Port scanner - Traceroute, to determine the route taken by packets across an IP network - Netbios lookup - List BLE devices
SilenceMonitor
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Understand when silence is on your audio stream by listening to the last seconds before it happened. Experience tells us that by hearing it, the cause can often be determined. In any case, you are aware that something broke and are able to act! Silence monitor features: • Listen to 10 second recording before a break happened to find out what it caused • Adjust sensitivity level and length of silence detection • Implement with any analog audio signal to monitor 24/7 • Auto-detects network connection issues Be aware that to monitor your stream you need the Barix SilenceMonitor. It reliably checks the stream, the network connection and plays a failover playlist. If you are interested, find more details here: https://www.barix.com/silencemonitor/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SilenceMonitor at Free against Network Ping's $3.99. SilenceMonitor also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Network Ping's advantage is chart position (#169 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
SilenceMonitor is free to download; Network Ping costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Network Ping ships an update every 12 months, SilenceMonitor every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Network Ping | SilenceMonitor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #169 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MochaSoft | Barix AG |
In-app purchases
Network Ping
No in-app purchases
SilenceMonitor
No in-app purchases
