Beacon Scout vs Network Scanner Toolkit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beacon Scout
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Search and find your missplaced BLE or Bluetooth devices with this simple scanner app. Simply scan for devices in the environment and select the oine you want to locate. It will then show signal strength and the direction you are facing in a "Radar screen look" allowing you to see where the signal ius strongest. Usually when the signal gets stronger, you get closer to the device until its directly infront of you. You never had this issue? You put your wireless in-ear headphones somewhere and can't remember where. They are even connected to your phone, but playing music would not work because those modern erapühones only play while ion your ear. Also they would not be very loud... At this point, this app is very usefull. Just select the device and follow the signal. You can even mark a device as favourite so you can find it faster when it happens again. Otherwise the devices you connected to will be persistently stored in a list. Long press on a device in the list to get some additional information about it. All this functionality without the need to be online, without payment or hidden fees, without registration and without advertisement.
Network Scanner Toolkit
This app helps you discover all devices connected to your WiFi network, providing details like name, IP, and MAC address. It offers a suite of network diagnostic tools, including subnet calculators, port scanners, and DNS lookups, all within a user-friendly interface designed for larger screens.
- Device discovery (name, IP, MAC, manufacturer)
- Network diagnostic tools (subnet, port scan, traceroute)
- DNS lookup and Whois
- Bonjour and Network Info
- Optimized for iPad and iPhone Duo
- History of scans and tests
- Find Cameras and MAC Explorer (Pro)
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See every device on your WiFi. Free — no ads, no subscription. Now on iPad and built for iPhone Duo. Network Scanner Toolkit finds everything on your network in seconds: name, IP, MAC address and manufacturer (iOS 27+) — even devices that hide from ping. Devices tell you what they are: Apple TV, HomePod, Chromecast, printers, HomeKit and Matter gear, Sonos, Fire TV, Windows PCs, NAS boxes and more. Capability tags show which are pingable, run a web interface, speak Bonjour, UPnP or Matter, or are your gateway. Filter by Web UI, SSH, file shares, printers, TVs, smart home or cameras. Tap a device to ping it, open its admin page, connect over SSH, VNC or SMB, rename or favorite it. New devices are flagged automatically. Made for big screens. On iPad and the iPhone Duo the scanner becomes three columns — past scans, device list and full details side by side — and the tools spread into two panes. Stand the Duo up like a laptop and every tool splits across the hinge: graph, map or results on top, controls below. Fold, unfold or rotate and nothing is lost. A full network toolbox — free: • LAN Scanner — fast sweep with naming over Bonjour, NetBIOS, WS-Discovery and SNMP; models and manufacturers, custom names & icons, new-device badges, filters, quick-connect. Scans Wi-Fi, Personal Hotspot or wired, and keeps going after you leave the app (iOS 26+). • Subnet Tools — IPv4 and IPv6. Type any address with a prefix, netmask or wildcard and get the whole answer on one card: network, broadcast, host range, counts, type with its RFC, binary with host bits highlighted. Then explore: child subnets on a visual map, VLSM planner, overlap checker, supernet, membership test, range-to-CIDR, config lines, IPv6 forms, netmask table. Siri Shortcut included. • Port Scanner — presets, custom ranges, or all 65,535 ports • Traceroute — every hop geolocated on a live map with latency charts • Ping — live graph, configurable payload size and interval • DNS Lookup — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS, SOA, PTR, SRV, HTTPS & SVCB records, custom resolvers, DNSSEC check • Whois — modern RDAP lookups for domains, IPs and AS numbers, with classic WHOIS referral chasing as the fallback • Bonjour Monitor — watch services appear and disappear live • Network Info — IP, router, DNS, IPv6, data usage, SSID, and a Router card that names your router, shows its WAN address and tells you whether you're Direct, behind Double NAT or on Carrier-grade NAT, in plain English • History — every scan and test saved automatically; reopen scans as fully interactive device lists Toolkit Pro — one purchase, yours forever: • Find Cameras — sweep for security cameras using RTSP, ONVIF, camera web interfaces hree-tier confidence ratings. Know what's watching on any WiFi you join. • MAC Explorer — paste any MAC in any format and see its vendor, IEEE registry block, address bits, reserved uses, every notation and the IPv6 address it implies. Name devices yourself and search the registry by maker. • Speed Test — live download and upload graphs in Mbps and MB/s, your latency idle vs. under load with a bufferbloat grade from A+ to F, and your ISP • Security Audit — find exposed or insecure services on every device and ports your rrnet, with a fix for each finding and an A–F grade • Bluetooth Scanner — see nearby Bluetooth LE devices with signal strength, maker and type; locate one with the hot/cold Find meter or the radar view • Wake-on-LAN — wake your PC or NAS from the couch • Export & share — CSV and PDF reports of any scan or test; Whois and DNS results as text, JSON or CSV • Themes — Phosphor, Amber, Synthwave and more Private by design. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Whether you're a network engineer, a tinkerer, or just want to know what that mystery device is doing... Download free. Upgrade once if you want the Pro tools.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beacon Scout at none against Network Scanner Toolkit's 1. Beacon Scout also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Network Scanner Toolkit's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). 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
Both are free to download. Network Scanner Toolkit sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Beacon Scout asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beacon Scout ships an update every 3 months, Network Scanner Toolkit every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Beacon Scout | Network Scanner Toolkit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Next Level Order Engineering UG (haftungsbeschrankt) | Sawhorn LLC |
In-app purchases
Beacon Scout
No in-app purchases
Network Scanner Toolkit
- Toolkit Pro$1.99
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