iCurlHTTP vs Web Toolbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iCurlHTTP
Test web server responses with cURL-like functionality on your iPhone or iPad. Simulate various browsers and inspect raw HTTP headers and HTML. Analyze network performance with detailed timing information.
- Simulate browser user-agents
- Inspect raw HTTP headers and HTML
- Support for GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, TRACE requests
- SSL support with certificate info
- History of tested URLs
- Detailed HTTP timing analysis
- HTTP/2 and IPv4/IPv6 support
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HTTP Web Server Response Diagnostic Tool - Curl for iPhone and iPad iCurlHTTP is a simple, easy to use app that allows you to run MacOS/Linux-like cURL tests against URLs. It can simulate different web browsers (user-agents) to retrieve the raw HTTP headers and HTML response from web servers. ** GET, HEAD & POST Requests (GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS and TRACE on iPad) ** SSL Support - https requests with basic certificate and handshake information ** Keeps a history of URLs tested with HEADER and POST data and provides them in a dropdown for easy repeated testing ** Simulates curl, iPhone, iPad, Safari, IE, Chrome and custom user-agent browsers ** Simple single-view interface with realtime result screen. ** iPhone and iPad support ** Verbose and Basic Detail ** HTTP Timing Details (Name Lookup, TCP Connect, SSL Handshake, First Byte and Total) ** Set custom User-Agent, Host Headers, Timeouts, HTTP Authentication, SSL Mode and POST Data ** Share Feature to send output to Clipboard, Printer and Email ** HTTP/2 Support ** IPv4 and IPv6 DNS Resolution with Option for Manual Address Resolution (via HOST:PORT:ADDRESS)
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iCurlHTTP at none against Web Toolbox's 2. iCurlHTTP also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). Web Toolbox's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 7 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Web Toolbox sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. iCurlHTTP asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for iCurlHTTP against 4.3 for Web Toolbox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of iCurlHTTP's written reviews are positive against 83% of Web Toolbox's.
iCurlHTTP ships an update every 7 months, Web Toolbox every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iCurlHTTP | Web Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (30 ratings) — better | 4.3 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.4% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jason Cox | Fausto Ristagno |
Customer experience
iCurlHTTP
Web Toolbox
In-app purchases
iCurlHTTP
No in-app purchases
Web Toolbox
- Pro Lifetime (Only PRO users)Free
- Pro Lifetime$2.99
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