Orb.net vs URnetwork
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orb.net
This free platform continuously measures your internet connection's responsiveness, reliability, and speed. It provides easy-to-understand scores and detailed technical information for users who want to understand their true internet experience.
- Measures internet responsiveness
- Measures internet reliability
- Measures internet speed
- Continuous lightweight tests
- Easy-to-understand scores
- Technical details for advanced users
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Orb shows your true internet experience and is a free platform that runs without disrupting your connection or device. It measures Responsiveness, Reliability, and Speed using lightweight, continuous tests, and provides easy-to-understand scores as well as the technical details for nerds.
URnetwork
Experience a privacy-focused decentralized network that enhances security and performance. Enjoy multiple, rotating IP addresses and seamless upgrades to modern encrypted protocols for built-in anonymity. The 100% open-source design ensures transparency and no logging.
- Multiple, rotating IP addresses
- Upgraded to modern encrypted protocols
- Built-in anonymity via multi-hop network
- 100% open source and reproducible
- No logs or spies
- Solana wallet integration
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Privacy-First Decentralized Network All of the privacy and all of the fun. Join a decentralized VPN that advances the state of the art of privacy, availability, security, and performance. With URnetwork you get: - Multiple IPs at once. When you connect, every dot represents a unique IP. The IPs continually change and traffic is distributed amongst IPs for best performance. - No more insecure protocols. Older insecure protocols are disabled and seamlessly upgraded to modern encrypted protocols. - Built-in anonymity. Hard guarantees of anonymity using a large decentralized multi-hop network. - 100% open source and reproducible. See the exact code on the client and server. No logs, no spies. URnetwork uses VPNService to route your device traffic to provider devices. Traffic is encrypted using an open-source, web-standards protocol. Additionally traffic is anonymized using the URnetwork protocol. URnetwork links an external Solana wallet. We do not have custody of your wallet or facilitate swaps within the app. Terms of Use: https://ur.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://ur.io/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orb.net at none against URnetwork's 4. URnetwork's advantage is ratings volume (290 vs 35) and review sentiment (75% vs 64%). 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. URnetwork sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Orb.net asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Orb.net against 4.6 for URnetwork. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: URnetwork has 290 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Orb.net's written reviews are positive against 75% of URnetwork's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orb.net | URnetwork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (35 ratings) | 4.6 (290 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35 | 290 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Orb Forge Inc. | BringYour, Inc. |
Customer experience
Orb.net
URnetwork
Bugs and requests
Orb.net
Reported bugs
2 issues- Console opens on desktop every time
- Slow performance
Requested features
3 requests- Apple TV app
- PlayStation app
- Background mode
URnetwork
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Orb.net
No in-app purchases
URnetwork
- URnetwork Supporter$4.991 Month
- URnetwork Supporter14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- URnetwork Supporter (Yearly)$39.991 Year
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- URnetwork Supporter (Yearly)14 Days trial$39.991 Year
