Comparison

Fry WiFi vs PingInsight

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

Head to head
About

Fry WiFi

Features
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Fry WiFi helps you understand why a connection feels slow, unstable, or just wrong. Instead of showing only a speed number, it checks the parts of the path your iPhone or iPad can measure and turns them into a clear diagnosis. Use it when a video call breaks up, a game starts lagging, streaming buffers, or public Wi-Fi opens a login page instead of the site you wanted. WHAT FRY WIFI CHECKS • Router and gateway: local latency, jitter, and packet loss. • DNS: whether website lookups are slowing browsing down. • Internet path: whether the wider connection looks healthy. • Speed: adaptive download and upload tests from small probes up to larger runs on fast networks. • Captive portals: warnings when Wi-Fi appears to intercept web traffic. WHY IT'S USEFUL • Quality tiles for Browsing, Streaming, and Cloud Gaming. • Plain-language status, details, and next steps. • Issue history so repeated problems are easier to spot. • Public IPv4 display with one-tap copy. • Shareable Wi-Fi status card for messages, support chats, or social posts. • Optional diagnostics export when you need the raw report. PRIVACY Fry WiFi has no tracking and no third-party analytics SDKs. Measurements are stored locally for app features. Location permission is used only to read the current Wi-Fi network name when iOS allows it; your location is not stored or shared. iOS NOTE iOS does not expose Wi-Fi signal strength, channel, BSSID, or interference data to regular App Store apps. Fry WiFi for iPhone and iPad focuses on what iOS can measure: router reachability, DNS, internet path quality, captive portals, and throughput. Sampling runs while the app is open. Stop guessing. Share a clear connection diagnosis from your iPhone or iPad.

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PingInsight

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Slow Wi-Fi, lag in games, choppy video calls? PingInsight is more than a speed test — it finds which part of the network is at fault and whose responsibility it is, then tells you in plain words what to do next. FULL DIAGNOSIS IN ONE TAP One button checks your connection, stability, route and speed (including latency under load). In about a minute you get a clear verdict: is there a problem, where is it, and what should you do. FIVE QUESTIONS, ANSWERED • What connection you're on: Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G or Ethernet, detected live (Wi-Fi name shown with location permission) • How fast it is: download and upload, plus latency under load with an A–F bufferbloat grade • How stable it is: latency, jitter and packet loss, translated into expected video and voice call quality; switches to TCP automatically when a network blocks ping • Where it breaks: hop-by-hop traceroute labeling each hop as your local network, your carrier, the international backbone or a cloud service • Whose fault it is: recognizes the local carriers of the country you're in and estimates which segment is to blame HEALTH SUMMARY & HISTORY A one-tap check turns connection quality into a 0–100 health score and grade, and keeps your history and score trend. PRO (one-time purchase, unlocked forever) • Continuous MTR: probes every hop in parallel each round and tracks long-term per-hop loss and latency, for a responsibility verdict far more reliable than a single test • Multi-target monitoring: ping your router, public DNS and the services you use at the same time to tell whether the problem is your home network, your carrier or the server on the other end • Trends & time-of-day analysis: long-term latency, jitter, loss and speed trends, the worst times of your week, and a comparison of your home Wi-Fi, office Wi-Fi and cellular • Export a responsibility report (PDF): verdict, advice and per-hop details, ready to file with your ISP • Export a diagnosis report (PDF): the full diagnosis — verdict, speed, stability and route — in one document • Export a multi-target report (PDF): your router and every target side by side, showing where the problem is • Export health history as CSV: opens straight in Excel, with local times, grades and remarks The screen stays on while monitoring. Switch to another app and come back, and monitoring resumes automatically, with paused periods marked in results and reports. PRIVACY No ads, no tracking, no ad or analytics SDKs. Path analysis sends only public IPs to ipinfo.io to look up network ownership; private IPs are classified on-device, and your health history stays on your device. Available in 17 languages, switchable inside the app. Works on iPhone and iPad. Note: Cellular details such as signal strength, band and SA/NSA aren't available to third-party apps on iOS, and iOS doesn't allow continuous measurement in the background.

Screenshots

Fry WiFi3 screens
PingInsight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fry WiFi at none against PingInsight's 1. PingInsight's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. PingInsight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fry WiFi asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Fry WiFi versus PingInsight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFry WiFiPingInsight
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperViacheslav GordeevLiChuan Lin

In-app purchases

None

Fry WiFi

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PingInsight

One-time1
  • Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Fry WiFi free?
Fry WiFi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PingInsight free?
PingInsight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fry WiFi or PingInsight have ads?
Neither Fry WiFi nor PingInsight shows ads.

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