Comparison

BrookFirewall vs Kodura Network Tools

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BrookFirewall

Easily block specific websites and service domains to enhance your privacy and control data usage. This utility offers a simple setup with instant effects, requiring no jailbreak for immediate protection.

Highlights
  • Block specific websites
  • Block service domains
  • Simple setup
  • Instant effect
  • No jailbreak required
  • Protect privacy
  • Control data usage
Features
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A professional network proxy and traffic debugging tool designed for advanced users and developers. 【Key Features】 • Multi-Protocol Support: support for modern protocols including VLESS, VMess, and Trojan. • Custom Domain Routing: Manually configure flexible routing rules (Domain, IP-CIDR, GeoIP) to precisely manage and direct your traffic. • Secure DNS Resolution: Supports custom DNS and DoH (DNS over HTTPS) to prevent DNS poisoning and safeguard privacy. • MITM Traffic Inspection & Scripting (Beta): Inspect encrypted HTTPS traffic with MITM analysis and custom scripts for API testing, URL rewriting, and debugging.

About

Kodura Network Tools

Features
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Basic network troubleshooting, all in one place. Ping, traceroute, DNS lookups, port checks and path MTU discovery — the five things you reach for when something is wrong, without five separate apps and five separate subscriptions. NO ADS. NOTHING TO BUY. No banners, no upgrade prompts, no account, no subscription. Every tool is there the moment you open it. ONE TARGET, EVERY TOOL Type a host once and it carries across all five. A real diagnosis moves between them — ping gets nothing back, so you trace the path; the trace stops at hop nine, so you check whether DNS gave you the right address; then you see whether the port is even open. Retyping the hostname at every step is the friction that sends people back to a laptop. RESULTS THAT EXPLAIN THEMSELVES Most tools hand you a column of numbers and leave the interpretation to you. This one tells you what it means: • A hop showing * is usually a router configured not to reply, not a break in the path. If later hops answered, your traffic went straight through. • A host that ignores ping may be perfectly healthy. Plenty of servers and firewalls drop ICMP deliberately, so silence is not proof of anything. • Jitter is judged against the latency it varies around. Thirty milliseconds of variation is fine on a satellite link and terrible on a local one. • A port that refuses a connection is telling you something. A port that stays silent is what a firewall looks like — and those are different problems. PING Loss, round-trip time, and jitter, with the distribution drawn so you can see the shape of the variation rather than reading it out of a list. TRACEROUTE Every hop with its round-trip times and reverse DNS name, and a clear statement of where the path actually ended — as opposed to where a router simply declined to introduce itself. DNS LOOKUP A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, SOA and PTR, against a resolver you choose — Cloudflare, Google, Quad9 or OpenDNS — rather than whichever one your device happens to be using. Asking two resolvers the same question and getting different answers is often the whole diagnosis. "No such name" and "the server failed" are reported as the different problems they are. PORT CHECK Common services by name, or any ports you type. Refused and silent are reported separately, and anything open that usually should not be — databases, remote desktop, SMB — is called out. PATH MTU The largest packet that survives the whole path, found by probing with the don't-fragment bit set. Worth knowing because an MTU mismatch produces the strangest fault in networking: small requests work and large ones hang. SSH connects then freezes on long output, a page loads but one image never finishes, a tunnelled connection is fine until somebody sends an attachment. It looks like an application problem, and the application is fine. Built by Kodura for network engineers, sysadmins and anyone who has been handed a laptop and asked why the internet is slow.

Screenshots

BrookFirewall1 screens
Kodura Network Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BrookFirewall at 16.0 against Kodura Network Tools's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BrookFirewall versus Kodura Network Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrookFirewallKodura Network Tools
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrook Design, LLCKodura LLC

In-app purchases

None

BrookFirewall

No in-app purchases

None

Kodura Network Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BrookFirewall free?
BrookFirewall is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kodura Network Tools free?
Kodura Network Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BrookFirewall or Kodura Network Tools have ads?
Neither BrookFirewall nor Kodura Network Tools shows ads.

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