Umetrix Data vs alladin Nettest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Umetrix Data
Measure mobile data network performance with speed tests and track your results online. Compare your data against other users and get accurate readings without ads interfering.
- Accurate mobile data network performance measurement
- Speed tests (HTTP, PING, Web Browsing)
- Track and map test history online
- Compare results with other users
- Simple and elegant user interface
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Wireless experts around the world use Datum for the most accurate and reliable measure of mobile data network performance. Now you can too. The simple and elegant user interface allows you to perform quick and convenient speed tests, track and map your test history online, and compare your results against the cumulative experience of all users. Unlike other speed tests, Datum’s method for measuring data performance delivers more accurate results, especially because it’s not downloading ads to your device! Tests performed include: HTTP FTP UDP PING Web Browsing
alladin Nettest
This app provides objective and transparent internet speed and quality testing. It analyzes over 150 parameters, including speed, QoS, and QoE, and supports drive tests. Results are compliant with EU and German standards.
- Tests 150+ parameters (speed, QoS, QoE)
- Objective, secure, and transparent results
- Compliant with BEREC, ETSI/ITU-T, and TK-TVO standards
- Supports drive tests with optional hardware integration
- Open-source and open-data based
- Heat map visualization of network performance
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The alladin Nettest (https://alladin.at) is an independent, crowd-sourced, open-source and open-data based solution. • Generates and processes all results objectively, securely and transparently • Tests 150+ parameters: speed, QoS & QoE • Enables drive tests. Optional hardware-integration • 100% compliant to BEREC (EU), ETSI/ITU-T standards and to TK-TVO (DE). Our solution is more than the solution of choice among our customers: universities and international research projects increasingly use our published code as a basis and benchmark for research in the field of data transmission quality. Transparency and expertise are the template on which we base our work and development. Further qualities of the alladin Nettest are: Accurate Our measurement algorithm was developed by our network experts together with government technology specialists from mobile and fixed network communications. The measurement hypotheses were iteratively falsified and/or finally verified in the laboratory under simulated network conditions. This generally formulated method of measurement is equally reliable in testing variable, slow wireless connections and stable broadband connections. It maps the typical usage behaviour of an end user in terms of monitoring period, packet size, number of threads etc. Comprehensive Our Nettest evaluates all the currently available Internet usage scenarios as a whole in one piece of software. This includes the usual measurements such as signal, bandwidth, latency or packet loss, but focuses particularly on parameters regarding network neutrality and quality of service. It measures how the end user experiences the quality of his personal Internet usage. A good signal is no guarantee of high speed. High speed is no guarantee of constant video transmission - and consequently no guarantee of user satisfaction either. QoE can only be described quantitatively by means of extensive QoS measurements. Mapped By default we use Google Maps with reduced colour spectrum as a basic map. Semi-transparent layers (Google Layers) are placed on top of them to show the points and the heat map. The heat map depicts available services such as e.g. download speed by means of two dimensions: colour and transparency. The colour defines the range of values. The transparency aggregates the number of measurements at a particular map point. The significance of the monitored service is presented and evaluated by this means. By selecting the zoom level and filter, a new heat map is generated using the PostGIS/PostgreSQL database. Our caching system guarantees prompt delivery of the map tiles. Open In our opinion, the most important aspect of a measurement tool is the credibility of the results. This is why we opted for open source as the most direct and most transparent type of documentation. This is the only way the functioning of the method of measurement can be verified comprehensibly and objectively. We also publish all the measurement results as open data - respecting protection of privacy, of course. Reliable The reliability of (aggregated) statistical evaluations depends primarily on the quality of each individual measurement result. Our quality control is fully automated and is achieved by comparison of parts of a measurement and cross-comparison with different measurements. The testing system is designed to be adaptive, i.e. once identified; irregularities are automatically identified if they occur subsequently. Measurements identified as anomalies are not censored, of course. Significant Uploading and downloading are measured, as are all the relevant parameters for monitoring network quality, such as latency, packet variance, jitter, packet loss etc. Furthermore, our Nettest processes all the important meta-information which describes the context of a measurement. Only by this means can measurement results be tested and validated thoroughly for significance and reliability.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: alladin Nettest at 5.0 against Umetrix Data's 4.0. alladin Nettest also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.6). Umetrix Data's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). 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.
alladin Nettest holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Umetrix Data has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Umetrix Data's written reviews are positive against 100% of alladin Nettest's.
Umetrix Data ships an update every 5 months, alladin Nettest every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Umetrix Data | alladin Nettest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spirent Communications, Inc. | alladin-IT GmbH |
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Umetrix Data
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In-app purchases
Umetrix Data
No in-app purchases
alladin Nettest
No in-app purchases
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