HINT Control vs CellularPath
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HINT Control
Manage your T-Mobile Home Internet gateway with advanced features. Control WiFi settings, view statistics, and more. This app is not affiliated with T-Mobile.
- Advanced statistics
- WiFi radio control
- SSID management
- Band steering
- Gateway access
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HINT Control is a cross-platform app for accessing and managing your T-Mobile Home Internet gateway, with some extra features compared to the official app. Features include advanced statistics, WiFi radio control, SSID management, and band steering, with more to come as more is discovered about the gateways. HINT Control currently supports the Arcadyan KVD21, the Arcadyan TMOG4AR, the Sagemcom Fast 5688W, the Sercomm TMOG4SE, and the Noka 5G21. The Askey LTE gateway is not supported at this time. This app is NOT affiliated with T-Mobile. HINT Control is open source and also available for other platforms. Check out the downloads and source code at https://github.com/zacharee/ArcadyanKVD21Control/.
CellularPath
This app allows users to remotely control and optimize self-optimizing cellular antenna rotators. It enables scanning for multiple carrier signal strengths, saving data, and re-optimizing antennas for the strongest cellular signal.
- Remote antenna rotator control
- 360-degree signal scan
- Automatic antenna pointing
- Multiple location management
- Multi-user support
- Simultaneous multi-carrier signal scanning
- Data saving and re-optimization
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Our company Cellular Path design and engineer self-optimizing cellular antenna rotators. Using either SISO or MIMO directional cellular antennas, our rotators complete a 360 degree scan and automatically point antennas with 100% accuracy towards the strongest cellular signal. Once implemented the antennas can then be optimized remotely via our free ios App. Use our app to create multiple locations, add multiple users and as many devices in the field as you operate. You can simultaneously scan for multiple carrier signal strength at each location, save the data and return at any stage to re-optimize your antenna to ensure the strongest cellular signal being provided to your cellular router or signal booster.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CellularPath at 5.0 against HINT Control's 4.2. CellularPath also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%). HINT Control's advantage is ratings volume (111 vs 2). 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.
CellularPath holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HINT Control has 111 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of HINT Control's written reviews are positive against 100% of CellularPath's.
HINT Control ships an update every 2 weeks, CellularPath fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HINT Control | CellularPath |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (111 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 111 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Wander | Cellular Path INC. |
Customer experience
HINT Control
CellularPath
Bugs and requests
HINT Control
Reported bugs
18 issues- UI bug hides settings on SSID management page
- Cannot disable 5ghz wifi after warning
- Disabling 5ghz radio breaks gateway functionality
- Latest update crashes repeatedly
- Not compatible with newly released G5AR T-Mobile gateway
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- Invalid JSON error when trying to log in
- Latest update crashes over and over
- G4AR not showing LTE stats
- Cannot paste password or use password manager to login
- Keyboard will not reduce on login screen (iPhone 11 Pro)
- App doesn't work with VoiceOver
- Unauthorized Error at Login
- Doesn’t work - Unauthorized error
- Doesn’t work - unauthorized access error
- Changed channel, now cannot connect on other devices, requires factory reset
- Latest update breaks Sagemcom gateway, won't pass login screen
- Cannot pick channel 36 for 5ghz, always goes to channel 40
- No G4AR support
Requested features
14 requests- Add automatic reboot schedule (daily, weekly, monthly)
- Trigger reboot on connection loss
- Add Beacon Interval control
- Add more Transmit Power control (e.g., 8mW on 5GHz, 21mW on 2.4GHz)
- Advanced control with number input for transmit power
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- Restore transmit power slider
- Add temperature of gateway
- Allow users to name unknown devices
- Clarify named devices further
- Add port forwarding controls
- Add DMZ controls
- Support for G4AR gateway
- Adjust APN settings
- Web app version
CellularPath
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HINT Control
No in-app purchases
CellularPath
No in-app purchases
