Ping Master vs Network Hamster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ping Master
Monitor server latency and health with this network diagnostic tool. Track historical ping data, visualize network stability with interactive graphs, and receive instant alerts for server downtime.
- Real-time server monitoring
- Historical ping data visualization
- Customizable refresh rates
- Background down alerts
- Dark mode UI
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App Name: Ping Master: Network Monitor Subtitle: Track Server Latency & Health Promotional Text: Keep your servers online. Monitor latency, track historical ping data, and get instant down alerts. Description: Ping Master is the ultimate network diagnostic tool for developers, gamers, and IT professionals. Easily monitor the status, latency, and uptime of your favorite servers, websites, or IP addresses right from your device. Designed with a sleek, modern interface, Ping Master visually represents your network stability, helping you identify latency spikes and packet loss instantly. Key Features: • Real-Time Monitoring: Add multiple domains or IP addresses and track their live response times. • Advanced Analytics: Visualize your server’s performance over time with beautiful, interactive latency graphs. • Customizable Refresh Rates: Choose how often the app sends ICMP ping requests (from seconds to minutes) to save battery or get instantaneous data. • Background Alerts (Coming/Active): Get notified if a critical server drops connection. • Modern Dark Mode UI: A gorgeous, battery-friendly dark theme optimized for all iPhone sizes. Whether you're making sure your gaming server isn't lagging, or monitoring your production web services, Ping Master gives you the insights you need.
Network Hamster
Diagnose internet issues with a real-time visual indicator and detailed diagnostics. Understand your network's performance, identify bottlenecks like bufferbloat, and generate shareable reports to prove problems to your ISP.
- One-tap network diagnosis
- Bufferbloat grading and fixes
- Live ping, jitter, packet loss monitoring
- Speed test with history
- Router vs. internet fault isolation
- Advanced tools like MTR and Ping Lab
- Shareable diagnostic reports
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Your internet is acting up. Is it your Wi-Fi? Your router? Your ISP? Network Hamster tells you — in plain English. A helmeted hamster pedals a bicycle in real time, matched to your actual latency. Fast connection, fast pedaling. Congested network, and he grinds to a crawl. It's the most honest status indicator you'll ever install. Behind the mascot is a genuinely serious diagnostic toolkit. ONE-TAP DIAGNOSIS Tap Diagnose and get eight checks in under a minute: interface, captive portal, your router versus the internet, NAT topology, DNS, web response time, and latency under load. Then a verdict in words you can act on — "Local network is healthy, high latency is upstream. Your router is not the problem." BUFFERBLOAT GRADING The reason your video calls stutter when someone downloads something. Network Hamster measures how much your latency balloons under load and grades it A+ through F, then tells you exactly how to fix it. FIND OUT WHERE YOU STAND • Live ping, jitter, packet loss, and p95 latency across six rotating servers • Speed test with download, upload, and bufferbloat, plus saved history • Router vs. internet isolation — know instantly whose fault it is • CGNAT, double NAT, and symmetric NAT detection • DNS benchmarking against Cloudflare, Google, and Quad9 ADVANCED TOOLS • Monitor Mode — ping every second for hours, graph the whole session, get alerted the moment your connection drops, and export CSV • MTR traceroute with per-hop whois, reverse DNS, and a map of where your packets actually travel • Ping Lab — test with different packet sizes to expose MTU and queueing problems • Buffer Probe — detects undersized modem buffers that quietly cost you the bandwidth you pay for • Wireless Health — tells you whether jitter is born on your Wi-Fi or upstream • Wi-Fi Guard — catches repeated forced disconnects • Inbound Watch — spots unusual traffic arriving at your device • Cellular coverage mapping and DNS record lookup PROVE IT TO YOUR ISP Every diagnosis exports as a shareable report: latency per server, packet loss, traceroute, bufferbloat grade, and a timestamped event log. Stop arguing from memory. Paste the evidence. BUILT HONESTLY Some things iOS simply does not allow — Wi-Fi signal strength, raw packet capture, cell tower identity. Network Hamster never fakes them. Where a limit exists, the app says so and does the most useful thing that is actually possible. No account. No tracking. No data collection. Just a hamster who is very concerned about your ping.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Network Hamster at 5.0 against Ping Master's 3.0. Network Hamster also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Ping Master's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Network Hamster holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Ping Master | Network Hamster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ali Alwaeli | HarborViewIT, LLC |
In-app purchases
Ping Master
No in-app purchases
Network Hamster
No in-app purchases
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