Comparison

NetMonitor vs Airclone

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

Head to head
About

NetMonitor

This app offers a comprehensive suite of 10 professional network diagnostic tools that run entirely on your device. It allows users to scan networks, discover devices, trace routes, and test speeds without any cloud reliance, ads, or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • 10 professional network tools
  • On-device operation, no cloud
  • Device discovery with multi-phase engine
  • Visual network topology map
  • Ping, Traceroute, Speed Test, DNS Lookup
  • Background scanning and widgets
  • Network event timeline
Features
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10 professional network tools. Zero cloud. Zero ads. Zero subscriptions. Everything runs locally on your Mac. NetMonitor is a complete network monitoring and diagnostics toolkit built for macOS. Scan your network, discover every connected device, trace routes across the globe, and diagnose issues in seconds — all without creating an account or sending a single byte off your machine. WHO IT'S FOR • Network admins — Monitor infrastructure and catch rogue devices • Developers — Debug connectivity, inspect DNS, scan ports • Homelab enthusiasts — Map your entire network and track every device NETWORK DASHBOARD See your entire network at a glance. A live health score grades your connection quality in real time, combining latency, packet loss, and DNS responsiveness into a single number. Monitor gateway reachability, public IP, ISP details, and live connection events — all in one view. DEVICE DISCOVERY Find devices other apps miss. NetMonitor's multi-phase scanning engine uses ARP, Bonjour, TCP probes, and reverse DNS to build a complete picture of your network. See IP and MAC addresses, vendor names, open ports, running services, and connection history for every device. 10 BUILT-IN DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS • Ping — ICMP with TCP fallback, live latency graphs, and packet statistics • Traceroute — Hop-by-hop path analysis with timing • GeoTrace — Visual traceroute plotted on a world map • World Ping — Test reachability from 20+ global nodes simultaneously • Port Scanner — TCP scanning with preset and custom port ranges • DNS Lookup — Query A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, and CNAME records • Speed Test — Download and upload throughput with peak speed and jitter tracking • WiFi Heatmap — Walk-around signal survey with floorplan overlay • WHOIS — Domain registration and ownership lookup • Bonjour Browser — Discover mDNS services on your network WIFI HEATMAPPING Import a floorplan or use freeform mode, then walk around to map signal strength across your space. Identify dead zones and optimize access point placement with real data instead of guesswork. GEOTRACE See the physical path your traffic takes. GeoTrace plots each hop on a satellite map so you can visualize routing across cities, countries, and continents. IPHONE COMPANION Connect to NetMonitor on your iPhone over your local network via Bonjour. Synchronize devices, run remote diagnostics, and monitor your network from either platform. No cloud relay — communication stays on your LAN. TIMELINE & EVENT HISTORY Every scan, device change, and network event is logged. Scroll back through your network history to spot patterns, track when devices appeared or disappeared, and review past diagnostics. No data ever leaves your device. No analytics. No tracking. Just tools that work.

About

Airclone

Features
Currently charting
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Airclone is a modern, easy-to-use file manager for the clouds you already use. It is built on rclone, the open-source engine that can move and sync files across 70+ storage services — Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, SFTP, WebDAV and many more. Airclone gives it a clean, fast interface on your iPhone and iPad, so you can manage all of your storage from one app without ever touching a command line. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Browse every cloud like a folder. All of your remotes sit side by side, with familiar rows, previews and long-press actions. • Move and copy between clouds directly. Send a file from one cloud to another — the transfer runs as a background job you can watch or cancel, and you can pause the queue so nothing new starts. • Sync and back up folders. Mirror, copy, move or two-way sync, with a dry-run preview that shows exactly what will change before anything happens. • See your photos and videos. Image and video thumbnails load right in the app for any remote. • Stay in control. Nothing is overwritten silently — every collision asks first: skip, replace, or keep both. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Airclone runs entirely on your device. There are no accounts to create, no tracking and no telemetry. Your files and your cloud credentials never pass through our servers, because we do not have any. BUILT ON RCLONE The rclone engine is built into the app, so there is nothing else to install and no command line to learn. Airclone is an independent companion to rclone and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the rclone project. ABOUT FILES ON THIS DEVICE iOS does not let an app browse your whole device, so Airclone's local side is its own folder — the one the Files app shows under "On My iPhone" as Airclone. Anything you copy down from a cloud lands there, and anything you put there from Files is ready to upload. Mounting a cloud as a drive, and creating or extracting archives, are not available on iOS.

Screenshots

NetMonitor4 screens
Airclone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Airclone at every 3 days against NetMonitor's every 2 weeks. Airclone also leads on price ($1.49 vs $4.99) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

NetMonitor costs $4.99 and Airclone $1.49 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NetMonitor ships an update every 2 weeks, Airclone every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
NetMonitor versus Airclone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNetMonitorAirclone
Price$4.99$1.49 — better
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank—#198 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn CraneGigaion, LLC

In-app purchases

None

NetMonitor

No in-app purchases

None

Airclone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NetMonitor free?
NetMonitor costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Airclone free?
Airclone costs $1.49, with no in-app purchases.
Do NetMonitor or Airclone have ads?
Neither NetMonitor nor Airclone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NetMonitor or Airclone?
NetMonitor ships an update every 2 weeks, and Airclone every 3 days. Most recently, NetMonitor was updated on October 1, 2026 and Airclone on October 1, 2026.

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