Comparison

IT Tools vs Web Toolbox

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

Head to head
About

IT Tools

This app offers a comprehensive suite of network analysis and diagnostic tools for users of all levels. It helps discover devices on your network, troubleshoot connectivity issues with ping and traceroute, and perform detailed DNS lookups. Visualize network paths and gain insights into your network's performance.

Highlights
  • High-speed WiFi network device discovery
  • Continuous traceroute with path visualization
  • Extensive DNS lookup capabilities
  • Configurable ping tool with real-time graphing
  • Whois lookup for host and IP details
  • Real-time routing table statistics
Features
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Network scanner and diagnostic utilities for users of all skill levels. Discover devices on your network, detect various types of problems and more! Includes high speed WiFi network device discovery, able to find devices on your local network other tools miss. Standard network diagnostic tools such as ping, traceroute, DNS lookup, and whois are also provided. WiFi Network Scanner Discover all the machines running on your network. • Supports IPv6 scanning via broadcast addresses • All Bonjour/mDNS services, including all extra data stored in the TXT record. • All UPnP devices, including sub-devices and services. • Discover devices using NetBIOS. This helps a lot on networks with many Windows machines. Continuous Traceroute Provides details of the network hops to the destination host. Optimized to determine the network path extremely quickly, often in less then 5 seconds. Once the path is determined, it proceeds to continuously ping each hop to provide additional statistics and alternate paths, similar to tools like PathPing and MTR. • Visualize traceroute geolocation data on the map • Configurable start and max TTL, interval and payload size • Choose which interface to use • Lists all hostnames that respond to each hop • View the AS Numbers associated with each hop DNS • Detects when an IP address is entered, and looks up the reverse PTR record • Use the current system DNS server, or supply your own • Choose from 50 supported DNS record types, including A, AAAA, CNAME, LOC, MX, NS, SRV, TXT • Request DNSSEC records • Optionally query using EDNS, including the NSID option. • View LOC and GPOS records on a map • Force DNS lookup over TCP to diagnose DNS server issues • View the full DNS response, with headers and the question, answer, authority and additional sections • Lookup internationalized domain names (IDN) Ping • Configurable TTL, Payload size, and interval • Choose which interface to use • Optionally keep the screen from going to sleep for very long ping sessions • Optional audible sound on errors or when responses arrive • Ping results can be graphed in real time to easily see response time spikes Whois • Lookup details about hosts, IP addresses, and more • Auto detects the whois server based on the query, or use a custom server Routing table • Route statistics updated in real time • Very useful for diagnosing WiFi and VPN configuration issues Interface • All network interfaces on your device • Network statistics updated in real time • Current WiFi and WWAN IP Address • WiFi SSID and BSSID

About

Web Toolbox

Monitor your websites and web servers with automated checks for responses and content. Configure various checks like HTTP status codes, headers, and content using CSS selectors or custom JavaScript. Includes DNS, GeoIP, and Whois tools for comprehensive web analysis.

Highlights
  • Automated HTTP status code checks
  • HTTP header content verification
  • CSS selector-based content checks
  • Custom JavaScript execution for checks
  • DNS client for server queries
  • GeoIP lookup for IP address location
  • Tabular Whois client for domain info
Features
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Web Toolbox will help you keep an eye on your sites and web servers. With a few simple steps you can set up automated checks on the responses and content of your web pages. You will be able to run them individually or in batches whenever you want directly from your iPhone and iPad without any subscription. You will be able to configure different types of automated checks: - HTTP Status Code: Indicate the expected HTTP status code, if the code obtained is different the check will fail. - HTTP Header: You will be able to indicate the name of an HTTP header whose content you want to check, you will be able to do an exact check or search for a string within the value. - Content: You will be able to search for an HTML element within the page by indicating its CSS selector and check its content. - Custom JavaScript: Finally you will be able to run a JavaScript script within the page and check its result. You will also be able to decide whether to run the checks on the simple textual response of your web page, or to render the page in a real web browser. To help you identify issues on your websites, Web Toolbox includes several tools: - DNS: A DNS client that will allow you to query DNS servers in your local or remote network with the most popular preconfigured ones (Google DNS, OpenDNS, Cloudflare) - GeoIP: This tool will allow you visually to pinpoint the geographic location of any IP address, as well as obtain other information about the address such as the ISP - Whois: A completely revised Whois client to allow you to access domain name information more easily. In addition to the classic text response, for most Whois servers, you will have access to a tabular mode that will make the domain data more readable and usable.

Screenshots

IT Tools4 screens
Web Toolbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Web Toolbox at Free against IT Tools's $5.99. Web Toolbox also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). IT Tools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, ratings volume 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

Web Toolbox is free to download; IT Tools costs $5.99 up front. Web Toolbox sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. IT Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for IT Tools against 4.3 for Web Toolbox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of IT Tools's written reviews are positive against 83% of Web Toolbox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IT Tools ships an update every 4 months, Web Toolbox every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
IT Tools versus Web Toolbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIT ToolsWeb Toolbox
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (18 ratings)4.3 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews93.2% of reviews — better83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better12
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKEVIN KOLTZAUFausto Ristagno

Customer experience

IT Tools

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews132 reviews
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.5%

Web Toolbox

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Bugs and requests

IT Tools

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App crashes when performing .us domain WHOIS lookups
  • Network scan function error (recently fixed)
  • Traceroute map feature not functional
  • Network scan misses some connected devices
  • App force closes semi-frequently
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  • Incomplete VoiceOver support for results
  • VPN network interface not selectable in network scan
  • Local network scan returns error messages

Requested features

12 requests
  • Dark mode support
  • WiFi channel analyzer
  • Port scanning capability
  • Wake-on-LAN functionality
  • Subnet ping for Class C networks
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  • Host/IP address caching in dropdown menus
  • Ping graph or sparkline visualization
  • Process isolation and termination
  • VPN network scanning support
  • Custom name server selection in DNS tool
  • Improved VoiceOver accessibility support
  • Map display for traceroute results

Web Toolbox

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

IT Tools

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Web Toolbox

One-time2
  • Pro Lifetime (Only PRO users)Free
  • Pro Lifetime$2.99

Questions

Is IT Tools free?
IT Tools costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Web Toolbox free?
Web Toolbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, IT Tools or Web Toolbox?
IT Tools and Web Toolbox are both rated 4.3 out of 5 on the App Store, from 18 and 12 ratings respectively.
Do IT Tools or Web Toolbox have ads?
Web Toolbox shows ads; IT Tools does not.
Which is updated more often, IT Tools or Web Toolbox?
IT Tools ships an update every 4 months, and Web Toolbox every 4 weeks. Most recently, IT Tools was updated on October 10, 2026 and Web Toolbox on September 30, 2026.

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