Comparison

Ondeo vs cool

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

Head to head
About

Ondeo

Features
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Map your Wi-Fi coverage room by room with your iPhone or iPad. Walk through a room and capture points with the camera and motion sensors. Ondeo measures signal, download and upload speed, latency, jitter, and packet loss, then turns the readings into an indicative heatmap. Scan a space, compare stronger and weaker areas, and export the result when ready. Ondeo uses the Wi-Fi network already selected in iOS. It does not pair with, configure, or control a router or proprietary hardware. No account or accessory is required. Results depend on the device, environment, movement, and network conditions. Terms of Use: https://lxucan.com/projects/ondeo/terms.html

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cool

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cool-radar turns the radios already inside your iPhone into a radar for the devices around you — with no extra hardware, and without inventing a single number. WHAT YOU SEE Nearby Bluetooth LE devices appear as contacts with an estimated distance, a bearing once there is enough geometry to support one, and a ranked guess at what each device actually is. The Wi-Fi card shows the link your phone is really on: type, interface, local address and subnet, the default gateway and the gateway's manufacturer. Where both ends have UWB hardware, distance stops being an estimate and becomes a measurement. HONEST BY DESIGN Every value carries a badge. "Measured" is a hardware reading. "Inferred" is a value the math derived. Distances read "≈ 4.5 m" because radio ranging is an estimate, not a ruler. When there is not enough geometry for a direction, the app draws a ring of possible positions and a question mark instead of a convincing-looking arrow. And when iOS simply does not expose something — neighbouring Wi-Fi networks, raw spectrum, Wi-Fi CSI — the app says so instead of filling the gap with fiction. THE MATH INSIDE • Log-distance path-loss inversion, with a per-device exponent that recalibrates itself from the geometry you walk • Kalman filtering with motion-gated noise, so a device that is standing still stops drifting on screen • Robust multilateration with Huber weights, so a single reflection off a wall cannot drag a position across the room • A naive-Bayes hypothesis engine that ranks device types from the broadcast name, company ID, advertised GATT services, transmit power, address policy and advertising cadence — and shows you the evidence behind every guess • Behaviour analytics over the signal time series: advertising interval, jitter, trend and periodicity • Radio tomography that maps excess path loss into an attenuation picture of the space FEATURES • Top-down radar with range rings, pinch to zoom, double tap to reset • Device list with search and type filters • Device card with signal history, ranked hypotheses and the evidence for each • Unwanted-tracker heuristics based on public advertising patterns • CSV export of a session • Full Russian and English, switchable inside the app PRIVACY All sensing and all math run on your iPhone. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifier. One optional setting — off until you turn it on — may send a 24-bit manufacturer prefix to a public vendor database to name your router. Nothing else ever leaves the device. Use cool-radar only on networks and devices you are entitled to inspect. It does not decrypt Find My identities, does not enumerate neighbouring Wi-Fi networks, and provides no covert tracking of people. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. Bluetooth works on every iPhone. UWB distance needs U1/U2 hardware on both devices. Room geometry needs a LiDAR model. Anything unavailable on your hardware is shown as unavailable rather than simulated.

Screenshots

Ondeo4 screens
cool4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: cool at none against Ondeo's 1. cool also leads on 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. Ondeo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. cool asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Ondeo versus cool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOndeocool
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperEloi CarreletZheniy Shacc

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ondeo

One-time1
  • Ondeo Premium$9.99
None

cool

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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