ProbePad vs APPICON kit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
ProbePad
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ProbePad is the API client Postman never built for iPhone and iPad ā native, private, and fast enough to ship a production fix from the couch. New in v1.6: ProbePad watches your endpoints while you sleep ā background health checks with failure alerts, status widgets on your Home and Lock Screen, Spotlight search, and one-tap cancellation. ENDPOINT MONITORING (PRO) ⢠Mark any saved request as watched and ProbePad runs it in the background ⢠A notification when a watched endpoint starts failing, with the request name and the status it returned ⢠A cooldown per endpoint, so a flapping service does not alert you over and over ⢠iOS decides when background work is granted. ProbePad tells you when the last check happened, never when the next one will ⢠If Background App Refresh is off, the app says so plainly WIDGETS ā HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN ⢠Last Request ā your most recent run, with its status and when it ran ⢠Request Status ā a saved request's last status and response time. Also a Lock Screen circular widget ⢠Endpoint Monitor (PRO) ā a watched endpoint's last result, and when it was checked ⢠A widget sees a summary only: request name, host, status, timing. Never a header, a body or a token SPOTLIGHT, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS ⢠Request names and hosts are searchable from the Home Screen ā tap a result to open it ⢠Indexing is a switch in Settings, and secrets and environment values are never indexed ⢠"Run Saved Request" and "Send HTTP Request" App Intents for Siri, the Shortcuts app and Focus automations ⢠The Shortcuts result carries the request, the status and the timing CANCEL A RUNNING REQUEST ⢠One tap stops an in-flight request and tears the connection down ⢠The cancelled attempt is written to history, not lost ON CALL, INSIDE THE RESPONSE ⢠Find in the response body, with a live match count and wrapping next/previous ā even on truncated bodies ⢠Copy a single header value without selecting text ⢠Replay a returned Set-Cookie as a request header, in one tap ⢠History rows are tagged with the environment they ran against, and a cross-environment diff warns you first BUILD & EXECUTE ⢠GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE with full header, query and body control ⢠Multipart/form-data with file upload ⢠JSON, raw and form-encoded bodies ⢠Per-request timeout (1ā300 s) ORGANIZE ⢠Collections ā group related requests, colour-coded (free) ⢠Environments and variables ā switch between dev, staging and production (PRO) ⢠Secrets Vault ā API keys in the iOS Keychain, Face ID or Touch ID (PRO) INSPECT ⢠Syntax-highlighted JSON tree ⢠Response history with side-by-side diff (free) ⢠Status, headers, timing and byte count AUTHENTICATION ⢠Bearer token, Basic, API key (header or query) ⢠OAuth 2.0 authorization code with PKCE, and client credentials (PRO) ⢠Automatic token refresh, Keychain storage ⢠Provider presets: Google, GitHub, Azure AD, Auth0 ⢠JWT inspection GRAPHQL & WEBSOCKET (PRO) ⢠GraphQL editor with schema introspection, variables and named operations ⢠ws:// and wss:// sessions with text and binary frames, a full transcript and auto-reconnect IMPORT ⢠cURL ā paste a command and get a request. Free, and staying free ⢠Postman v2.1 collections, OpenAPI 3.0 and Swagger 2.0 (PRO) PROBEPAD PRO Lifetime is a one-time purchase (US$19.99). Yearly is US$9.99 per year after a seven-day free trial and renews automatically until you cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Prices for your region are shown in the app. Bought ProbePad before v1.6? You keep PRO forever, at no charge, including everything in this release ā nothing to buy, nothing to do. PRIVACY-FIRST ⢠All your data stays on your device ⢠No analytics, no third-party SDKs, no advertising identifier, no telemetry ⢠PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy declares everything the app touches ⢠Secrets live in the iOS Keychain, never in plain text Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
APPICON kit
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AppAsset is the fastest way to go from a single screenshot or app icon to every size Apple requires ā no Mac needed. Stop wasting time manually resizing images in Photoshop or hunting for the right pixel dimensions. AppAsset knows every required size by heart and does the work in seconds, right on your iPhone or iPad. SCREENSHOTS ā EVERY SIZE, EVERY DEVICE ⢠iPhone 15 Pro Max 6.7" (1290Ć2796) ⢠iPhone 11 Pro Max 6.5" (1242Ć2688) ⢠iPhone 8 Plus 5.5" (1242Ć2208) ⢠iPhone SE 4.7" & 4.0" (750Ć1334 / 640Ć1136) ⢠iPad Pro 12.9", 11", 10.5" and iPad 9.7" APP ICONS ā ALL 12 XCODE SIZES From 20Ć20 notification icons all the way to the 1024Ć1024 App Store master ā AppAsset generates every required size in one tap. THREE SMART RESIZE MODES ⢠Crop ā center-crops to fill the frame perfectly ⢠Fit ā letterboxes to preserve every pixel ⢠Stretch ā fills the frame edge-to-edge BUILT FOR APPLE DEVELOPERS ⢠Import up to 10 screenshots at once ⢠Preview icon corner radius before you export ⢠Export a ready-to-upload folder instantly ⢠Interactive checklist walks you through Archive ā Submit ⢠Works entirely on-device ā your images never leave your phone APPASSET PRO (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) Unlock all 9 screenshot sizes, all 12 icon sizes, and batch export ā pay once, use forever. No subscription. No hidden fees. AppAsset is an independent app made for developers, by a developer. If it saves you even one hour, it has paid for itself.
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Verdict
ProbePad and APPICON kit are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ProbePad sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and APPICON kit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | ProbePad | APPICON kit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 ā better | 17.6 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olof Petterson | NICHOLAS ERWIN HEITKAMP |
In-app purchases
ProbePad
- ProbePad PRO Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- ProbePad PRO$5.99
- ProbePad PRO Lifetime (Launch)$9.99
- ProbePad PRO Lifetime$19.99
APPICON kit
- AppAsset Pro$4.99









