Comparison

Domain Inspector vs Cert Recon

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

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Domain Inspector

Features
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Domain Inspector is a powerful tool for analyzing domain information with a single tap. It provides detailed insights into DNS records, TLS certificates, HTTP response data, and WHOIS information, helping developers, security researchers, and website owners understand the full technical profile of any domain. Key Features - DNS lookup (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME and more) - TLS certificate inspection (issuer, validity, fingerprint, SAN, public key info) - HTTP response analysis (status, headers, content type, size) - WHOIS data extraction - Clean, fast, and minimal interface - Designed for developers, IT engineers, and security professionals Perfect for - Checking domain configuration - Investigating website security - Debugging DNS or SSL issues - Monitoring server responses - Learning how websites work internally Domain Inspector helps you quickly understand any website\'s technical structure, making it an essential tool for anyone working with the web.

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Cert Recon

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Cert Recon reads the TLS certificate chain a server presents and explains it in plain language: who issued it, when it expires, which names it covers, and whether this device trusts it. It also answers a question most computers cannot. Your phone holds two independent paths to the internet at once. Cert Recon asks the same host over Wi-Fi and over cellular and compares the answers, because a network that intercepts TLS has to re-sign the connection with its own certificate authority. The cellular path shows you what the certificate should have been. Hotel, airport, conference and corporate guest networks do this routinely. On a device with one path, it still catches the common case: a certificate that this device trusts yet carries no Certificate Transparency timestamps is being vouched for by an authority installed on the device rather than a public one. That is how a filtering proxy works, and Cert Recon names the authority doing it. WHAT YOU GET • The full chain, leaf to root, exactly as the server presented it • Every field: subject, issuer, validity, key type and size, signature algorithm, serial, SANs with their types, key usage, extended key usage, basic constraints, certificate policies, OCSP and CRL URLs, CT timestamps • SHA-256, SHA-1 and public-key (SPKI) fingerprints • Trust evaluated against this device's store, with the reason it failed rather than a red cross • Expiry countdown, weak-key and weak-signature flags, hostname mismatch and self-signed detection • Interception check: Wi-Fi against cellular, issuer sanity, transparency timestamps, captive-portal awareness • Pin a host's key and be told if it changes • History of what you have inspected, one tap to run again • Export the chain as PEM or the finding as a text report • Configurable port and SNI • iPhone and iPad, dark-first PRIVACY Nothing leaves your device. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party frameworks. Hostnames you inspect are not transmitted anywhere. Pinned hosts and history stay on the device. Cert Recon is a certificate inspector: it completes the TLS handshake, reads the certificate, and closes. It sends no request body and no HTTP to the host you name. FREE No in-app purchases, no subscription, no gated features. Part of the 404 Tools Recon suite; hand any host straight to the other Recon apps you have installed.

Screenshots

Domain Inspector4 screens
Cert Recon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cert Recon at none against Domain Inspector's 1. Domain Inspector's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Domain Inspector sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cert Recon asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Domain Inspector versus Cert Recon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDomain InspectorCert Recon
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerakira ohmachiBrian Reed

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Domain Inspector

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Cert Recon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Domain Inspector free?
Domain Inspector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cert Recon free?
Cert Recon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Domain Inspector or Cert Recon have ads?
Neither Domain Inspector nor Cert Recon shows ads.

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