Comparison

NetScanner vs Dos View

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

Head to head
About

NetScanner

This tool allows developers to inspect HTTP and HTTPS traffic directly on their iPhone. It captures requests and responses in real-time, aids in debugging, and offers built-in utilities for analysis and testing.

Highlights
  • Real-time traffic inspection
  • HTTPS setup and debugging
  • Request analysis and editing
  • Rewrite rules for local debugging
  • Session history and HAR export
  • Built-in developer utilities
Features
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NetScanner is a native iPhone network debugging tool built for developers, testers, security researchers, and advanced users who need to inspect HTTP and HTTPS traffic directly on device. It is designed to make mobile traffic inspection faster, clearer, and more practical for day-to-day debugging work. With NetScanner, you can capture requests and responses in real time, review key request details, manage HTTPS certificate setup, and keep your debugging workflow on the device. The app focuses on practical inspection and troubleshooting, while also providing utilities that help speed up API testing and request analysis. 1. Real-time traffic inspection Capture HTTP and HTTPS traffic on iPhone and review requests, responses, status codes, timing, headers, body content, and other key details in one place. 2. HTTPS setup and debugging workflow Follow guided certificate setup steps, inspect request and response data more clearly, and use the app as a daily debugging companion for interface analysis and issue investigation. 3. Request analysis and editing Review request content in detail, replay requests, edit parameters, and quickly verify API behavior during testing and troubleshooting. 4. Rewrite rules and local debugging Apply rewrite rules for request or response debugging, adjust traffic behavior, and support more flexible development and verification scenarios. 5. Session history and HAR export Keep captured sessions organized, review previous traffic records, and export HAR files when you need to share or archive debugging results. 6. Built-in developer utilities Use integrated tools such as JSON formatting, URL encode/decode, Base64 encode/decode, regex testing, hash generation, and timestamp conversion without leaving the app. Captured traffic and debugging data stay on device unless you explicitly choose to export or share them. - Terms of Service:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy Policy:https://my.feishu.cn/wiki/WoLPwKrZEiXEb3kCutlcgpw9nff

About

Dos View

Features
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Dos View shows what is really inside a file. Open anything — a document, a photo, an app bundle, a log, a disk image — and read it byte by byte, in the look of a classic DOS text-mode viewer. THREE VIEWS • HEX — offsets, bytes and their characters side by side • BIN — every byte as eight bits • TXT — the file as text, with line wrap and record formatting dosview guesses the right view and code page from the file's first bytes, and you can switch with one tap. 20 CODE PAGES CP437, CP850, CP852, CP866, CP1250, CP1251, CP1252, ISO-8859-1, -2, -5 and -15, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, MacRoman, MacCyrillic, UTF-8, UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE. Old DOS texts with box-drawing frames and Cyrillic finally look right. SEARCH AND NAVIGATION • Find text, or bytes with an x: pattern — x:89 ?? 4E 47, where ?? matches any byte • Go to any offset, in hex or decimal • Format: split the data into records by a separator and see its bytes marked • Highlight of matches, the byte under the cursor always shown below FILES OF ANY SIZE The viewer core is written in Rust and reads only what is on screen, so a file of many gigabytes opens at once and scrolls to its end without waiting. MADE FOR TOUCH Drag to scroll, pinch to zoom, drag the offset column to narrow it, drag the text column to set the bytes per line, tap a byte to put the cursor on it, hold for the code page list. Everything you set is remembered. With a hardware keyboard you get the classic keys: F7 Find, F8 next match, F5 Go to and more. OPEN FROM ANYWHERE Open from Files, or pick a photo or video from the gallery. Or send a file to dosview from any app with "Open in…" and the share sheet — even plain text or a link, to see its UTF-8 bytes. ACCESSIBLE High-contrast palette, support for VoiceOver, Bold Text, Reduce Motion and larger text. Available in 46 languages. PRIVATE No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no network. Your files never leave the device.

Screenshots

NetScanner4 screens
Dos View4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dos View at none against NetScanner's 2. Dos View also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence and ads 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. NetScanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Dos View asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
NetScanner versus Dos View: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNetScannerDos View
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer艳 罗Mike Nedosekin

In-app purchases

2 purchases

NetScanner

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Pro$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$39.99
None

Dos View

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NetScanner free?
NetScanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dos View free?
Dos View is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NetScanner or Dos View have ads?
Neither NetScanner nor Dos View shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NetScanner or Dos View?
NetScanner ships an update monthly, and Dos View monthly. Most recently, NetScanner was updated on November 9, 2026 and Dos View on November 11, 2026.

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