Orb.net vs NTP Inspector
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.
NTP Inspector
This utility app allows you to query NTP servers on the internet and view detailed information from their responses. It helps troubleshoot server issues by providing protocol version, stratum, reference time, and leap second status directly from your device.
- Query NTP servers
- View protocol version
- Check server stratum
- Report reference time
- Detect leap seconds
- Troubleshoot network issues
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NTP Inspector is an application that allows you to check servers running the NTP protocol over the Internet and report some basic information. It sends an NTP packet from your device to the server and reports backs almost everything included in the response, like the protocol version, mode, the server Stratum, its precision, reference time, as well as whether there is a leap second today or not. With this app you can troubleshoot NTP servers from anywhere, as seen from your device, and not a remote server, with complete privacy. The app was created when I received an alert for one of my NTP pool servers while outside and without laptop access, with no other option to query it to see what's wrong.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NTP Inspector at 100% against Orb.net's 62%. NTP Inspector also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Orb.net's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 2) and device support (4 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.
NTP Inspector holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orb.net has 35 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Orb.net's written reviews are positive against 100% of NTP Inspector's.
Orb.net ships an update every 2 weeks, NTP Inspector monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and July 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orb.net | NTP Inspector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Orb Forge Inc. | Antonios Chariton |
Customer experience
Orb.net
NTP Inspector
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
NTP Inspector
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Orb.net
No in-app purchases
NTP Inspector
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Orb.net free?
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