Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free vs Tailscale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free
Measure your mobile network performance with detailed speed tests for download, upload, and latency across 3G, 4G/LTE, 5G, and WiFi. Analyze video streaming quality and compare network coverage in your area to find the best provider.
- Download, upload, and latency speed tests
- Video streaming quality analysis
- Network coverage comparison
- Signal strength and ping tests
- Historical test logs
- Connectivity maps
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Opensignal is a fully-featured mobile connectivity and network signal speed test tool. Speed test, including download, upload and latency - for 3G, 4G/LTE, 5G and WiFi Find the best network provider in your area. Compare coverage on Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. Video streaming test - check streaming experience for Netflix, YouTube and others Compare what you’re paying for to what you’re actually getting by measuring connection quality on an Apple map with a database of signal and speed test results Completely free and no adverts. Our mission is to create an open-source map of connectivity so that everyone in the world can enjoy the best mobile connection available Features - Test tab with speed test and video streaming quality to analyze mobile video performance with results for time spent buffering, loading and playback - Signal dashboard and ping test - for testing latency response - Connectivity map to show locations of 3G and 4G/LTE tests - Network stats with average speeds for download, upload and latency and network strength on major providers - Historical log of your WiFi and 3G, 4G/LTE and 5G speed tests to check connectivity over time Opensignal Speed Tests Opensignal speed tests measure your real experience of mobile connectivity and signal. The speed test runs a 10 sec download test, 10 sec upload test and ping test to determine the speed you will likely experience. The speed test runs on common internet CDN servers. The result is calculated with the middle range of samples. Check if you're getting the network quality you're paying for from your mobile network or internet provider. Use our coverage maps to compare networks and data speed in your area. Opensignal works with WiFi mobile broadband internet. Video Speed Tests Slow video load time? Video buffering? More time waiting than watching? A good average network speed isn’t enough for a great video experience. Opensignal’s video test gives you the full picture of your network experience. Opensignal video tests show you exactly what to expect with HD and SD videos. Watch a 15 sec video snippet to test and log load time, buffering, and playback issues in real-time. Monitor how video quality changes with time and location. Review video test results in History to see if your network experience has changed over time. Coverage Map Opensignal’s coverage maps show signal strength down to street level using speed test and signal data from local users. With network stats on local network operators, you can check speeds ahead of a trip, find out if you will get a signal in remote areas, check your signal against others in the area to see if you’re getting the best service, arrange the best local SIM and check the signal strength when travelling. Improving Network Connectivity We provide an independent source of truth in mobile network experience: A data source that shows how users experience mobile network speeds, gaming, video and voice services worldwide. To do this, we collect data on the signal strength, network, location and other device sensors. You can stop this at any time in the settings. We share this data with network operators globally and others in the industry to drive better connectivity for all. Do Not Sell My Info: https://www.opensignal.com/ccpa
Tailscale
Securely connect devices, users, and workloads with a mesh VPN built on WireGuard. It brings identity to network access, enabling Zero Trust principles across diverse environments. Modernize your network for homelabs, businesses, and cloud infrastructure.
- Secure mesh networking
- Identity-based access control
- Zero Trust security
- WireGuard-based VPN
- Homelab and business VPN
- Cloud and workload connectivity
- Hardware-agnostic overlay network
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Securely connect people, workloads, and even AI agents to anything on the internet with Tailscale, the secure connectivity platform built on WireGuard®. Tailscale brings identity to the network layer so you can control access based on users, groups, tags, and devices instead of IP addresses, applying Zero Trust principles end-to-end across every environment. Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources. Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform. Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale. Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture. Tailscale integrates with 100+ technologies and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of platforms — including Apple’s macOS, iOS, and tvOS — so you can securely connect from wherever you work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free at free against Tailscale's freemium. Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free also leads on ratings volume (18K vs 728). Tailscale's advantage is review sentiment (59% vs 38%) and chart position (#78 vs unranked). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free against 4.4 for Tailscale. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free has 18K ratings behind it against 728, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 38% of Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free's written reviews are positive against 59% of Tailscale's.
Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free ships an update every 3 weeks, Tailscale fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free | Tailscale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (18K ratings) — better | 4.4 (728 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.8% of reviews | 59.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18K — better | 728 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | — | #78 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Opensignal Inc. | Tailscale Inc. |
Customer experience
Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free
Tailscale
User reviews
Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free
From 18K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Reset Stats
- 🚀 Useful practical tool
- 🚀 Simple, clean interface
- 🚀 Features and Navigate
- 🚀 Works well
Room to improve
- 🐛 What he** have they done?
- 🐛 Open signal tower loc not working
- 🐛 Tower location option
- 🐛 Directional Arrow not working
- 🐛 Can no longer point towers
Tailscale
From 728 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to set up and use
- 🔒 Secure remote access
- 👍 Convenient for accessing home network
- 👍 Seamless connectivity between devices
- 🚀 Powerful networking features
Room to improve
- 🔋 Significant battery drain
- 🐛 Connectivity issues and bugs
- 🐛 Unreliable performance
- 🐛 Broken functionality after updates
Bugs and requests
Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free
Reported bugs
20 issues- History is all screwed up, dates don't make sense
- Open signal tower loc not working
- Tower location option not working
- Directional Arrow not working
- Can no longer point towers
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- No cell tower located
- Broken in latest release, no tower data
- Still can't find cell tower, even in city
- Celltower location does not work for iPhone devices
- No cell tower info
- Compass Directional Arrow not working
- Odd results with tower location
- Tower locator doesn't work
- Shows 5G as 4G
- Doesn't monitor drops
- Strange issue with no towers showing
- Doesn't actually identify cell towers
- Upload test consistently fails
- Crashes
- Refreshing carriers not working
Requested features
9 requests- Reset Stats
- Tower location option
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Cell tower compass
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- Distance to tower
- Ability to test 1080p and 4K video
- Show all nearby towers on map
- Ability to change carrier filter
Tailscale
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to connect or authenticate
- Exit node feature not working as expected
- Inconsistent behavior when switching networks
- App getting stuck in a loading state
Requested features
5 requests- On-demand VPN connection
- Ability to switch between multiple accounts
- More granular control over exit nodes
- Integration with other networking tools
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
Opensignal Speed Test Ad Free
No in-app purchases
Tailscale
No in-app purchases
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