PingKit vs NetReach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PingKit
Diagnose and monitor your network performance with a suite of professional tools. Identify internet speed issues, track website uptime, and gain insights into your network's health. Offers AI-powered explanations for complex network problems.
- WiFi speed testing
- Network diagnostics
- Uptime monitoring
- AI-powered explanations
- Device discovery
- Port scanning
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Is it your Wi-Fi, or is it your ISP? PingKit Guardian finds out, with a 1-week free trial. It tests your iPhone, your network, your router and the internet beyond it, then tells you in plain words where the problem is and what to do about it. While you are away, Guardian keeps watch: 10 sites or TCP ports checked every 5 minutes, with an alert when one goes down or recovers. The tools are free: 19 professional-grade network tools, no subscription needed. Devices on your network are found automatically and named from what they announce. Ask "Why is my internet slow?" and get a real answer instead of a number. GUARDIAN ($2.99/mo): • Where the problem is: your device, your network, your router, your ISP, or beyond • Fix It walkthrough: an ordered checklist for your exact router • Uptime Watch: 10 sites or TCP ports, checked every 5 minutes • Cert Monitor: 5 domains, with expiry alerts • Session Watch: game regions, two-hour sessions, lag under load, and where the lag is • Router mode: every port your router forwards from the internet • Cameras on your network, and whether each answers from the internet • Wake from anywhere through your Mac, with a Control Center button per device • Watch Mode, trends per network, and what changed since your last checkup • Monitoring through the companion Mac Agent while your Mac is awake: a morning briefing, alerts for the devices you choose, and a scan or speed test from anywhere • 90 days of history from your Mac • Apple Private Cloud Compute: answers questions too large for the model on your iPhone to hold on its own • Private iCloud sync between the Mac Agent and your iPhone GUARDIAN PLUS ($9.99/mo): • Cert Monitor: 50 domains • Alerts by email, with a Monday summary, or to a webhook • Sleep, restart and shut down your Macs and Linux machines • Four- and eight-hour gaming sessions, and your history as a spreadsheet • Several Macs • Scheduled reports and the signed ISO 27001 Compliance PDF • Everything in Guardian 19 FREE TOOLS: Smart Diagnostics, Speed Test, Ping, Visual Traceroute, MTR, Connection Monitor, Port Scanner, Bonjour Browser, Security Scan, Device Discovery, My Network, DNS Lookup, Whois, IP Geolocation, SSL Inspector, HTTP Analyzer, Subnet Calculator, Wake-on-LAN, Network Interfaces. AI THAT EXPLAINS YOUR NETWORK: Answers are written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence where your iPhone and language allow, or with Guardian by Apple Private Cloud Compute. AI explanations and the assistant are free without a subscription: answers written on your iPhone are unlimited, and PingKit's own service gives you 15 a week, up to 5 a day. MONITOR TAB: Live connection, Uptime Watch, Cert Monitor, Mac Agent, scheduled speed tests and reports. Cert Monitor and Uptime Watch each include one permanently free slot. NEW IN 3.4: • Share Traceroute, Session Watch and Security Scan results as an image, without your Wi-Fi name or public IP address. • Traceroute explains the route in plain words. • History tells apart two networks that share a router address, and you can rename a network. • Devices recognizes many more kinds of device, from robot vacuums to solar inverters. • IPv6 across the tools. SIRI & SHORTCUTS: Speed test, "How's My Wi-Fi?", a gaming check, wake your computer, ping, port scan and DNS lookup, straight from Siri, Spotlight and Shortcuts. NOW IN 27 LANGUAGES. PRIVACY FIRST: All 19 diagnostic tools run on your device. No accounts, no tracking, no advertising. The Mac Agent syncs through your personal iCloud. When an answer needs PingKit's own service, PingKit asks first, and you can withdraw that permission at any time. PingKit Guardian: $2.99/mo or $24.99/yr. Guardian Plus: $9.99/mo or $79.99/yr. 1-week free trial on every plan. Cancel anytime. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pingkit.app/privacy-policy.html Terms of Service: https://pingkit.app/terms-of-service.html
NetReach
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Professional network diagnostics for iPhone and iPad. NetReach gives you the tools to understand exactly what's happening between your device and any server — with millisecond precision. PROBE - HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP probes with full timing breakdown: DNS, Connect, TLS, TTFB, Total - Up to 10 parallel connections per test - Save probe configurations and rerun with one tap TRACE - Hop-by-hop traceroute with ICMP and TCP modes - MTR mode: multi-cycle traceroute with Loss%, Avg, Best, Worst, StDev per hop - Detects ICMP rate-limiting vs real packet loss PING & DNS - ICMP ping with packet loss and jitter stats - Multi-resolver DNS comparison (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, system) - DNS deep inspection with interception detection TLS INSPECTOR - Full certificate chain: leaf, intermediates, root - Expiry countdown, key algorithm, SHA-256 fingerprint - Tap any certificate for full details. Export as PEM. MONITOR - Network Quality Score (0–100) from real probe data - Wi-Fi ↔ Cellular transitions with SSID, BSSID, IP, GPS - Wi-Fi roaming detection between access points - Push notification delivery latency measurement WI-FI vs CELLULAR - Simultaneous comparison on both network paths - Statistical breakdown: Min, Avg, P90, Max per timing phase BUILT-IN SERVERS - TCP and UDP echo servers for LAN latency testing - HTTP status endpoint with live device metrics EXPORT - CSV export of all probe results and events - Diagnostics ZIP with structured logs - Share from any tab ENTERPRISE - Deploy via MDM (Jamf, Intune, Mosyle, SimpleMDM) - Stream telemetry to Datadog, Splunk, Grafana via OTLP or Splunk HEC - Automated probe suites with SLO monitoring - TLS certificate expiry alerts across your fleet - Privacy controls: exclude GPS, SSID, BSSID per policy - Event-level filtering: choose exactly which telemetry to send PRIVACY - No account required - No tracking, analytics, or ads - Consumer data never leaves the device unless you export it - Enterprise telemetry flows directly to your platform — we never see it Built for network engineers, security teams, IT administrators, and anyone who wants real answers instead of "try restarting your router."
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PingKit at every 3 days against NetReach's fortnightly. 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
Both are free to download. PingKit sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and NetReach sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PingKit ships an update every 3 days, NetReach fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PingKit | NetReach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PAUL SNYMAN | Loon Labs Ltd |
In-app purchases
PingKit
- PingKit Guardian7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- PingKit Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- PingKit Guardian Plus7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- PingKit Guardian7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- PingKit Guardian Plus7 Days trial$79.991 Year
NetReach
- NetReach Pro$19.99









