Comparison

Computer Wake Up vs KN Network Toolkit

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

Head to head
About

Computer Wake Up

Remotely wake and sleep your computers and servers using Wake-on-LAN and Sleep-on-LAN magic packets. Customize your devices with names, icons, and notes, and access them quickly from widgets, Siri, or your Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Wake and sleep computers remotely
  • Supports Wake-on-LAN and Sleep-on-LAN
  • Save multiple computers and servers
  • Customize device profiles
  • Home Screen widgets and Siri integration
  • Apple Watch app
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Computer Wake Up! This app gives you a fast, calm way to wake and sleep your computers from across your Apple devices. Save multiple computers, servers, NAS boxes, and Macs Send Wake-on-LAN and Sleep-on-LAN magic packets from Watch, iPhone, and iPad Customize each computer with names, icons, colors, notes, ports, and addresses Wake computers from Home Screen widgets, Control Center, Siri, Shortcuts, and Apple Watch Use the Mac menu bar companion to scan your network, import discovered computers, edit saved devices, reorder them, and sync them through iCloud Keep saved computers in sync across iPhone, widgets, Watch, and Mac companion Schedule wake reminders and trigger wake actions from notifications Enjoy a focused, card-based interface built for quick everyday use Thank you for trying the first version of Computer Wake Up! I built it to make waking my own machines less fiddly, and I hope it earns a useful little spot in your setup too.

About

KN Network Toolkit

Features
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KN Network Toolkit puts the network tools you reach for into one app. Find every device on your Wi-Fi, check that a computer answers, open a terminal or a shared folder, and look into DNS, certificates and your internet speed. Free, with no ads and no account. NETWORK SCAN • Scans your Wi-Fi network and lists every device that answers, with its name and the services it offers (web, SSH, shared folders, remote desktop, printing and more) • A guess of what each device is, from the ports it has open • Remembers devices from earlier scans, so you see which ones are silent this time • Tap a service to open it: a web page, a terminal, or the shared folders of that computer TOOLS • Ping (TCP or ICMP) with minimum, average, maximum and loss • Traceroute: the routers between you and a host • Port scan: which ports of a computer are open • DNS lookup against Cloudflare, Google, Quad9 or your own server • Whois / IP info: where an address is and who owns it • Monitor: watch computers and services and get a notification when one goes down • HTTP client: status, timing and headers, with copy as curl • SSL/TLS certificate check: validity, names, chain and fingerprint • Wi-Fi info: your address, mask, router, DNS and network name • Speed test: latency, download and upload, on the internet or against your own server • Subnet calculator: mask, range, hosts, divide into smaller networks, works offline • Wake-on-LAN: wake a computer with one tap • Telnet and raw TCP terminal, for routers, switches and testing a service by hand SSH • A full terminal with Esc, Ctrl, Tab and arrow keys • Sign in with a password or an SSH key you create in the app • Passwords and keys are kept in the Keychain and protected by Face ID • Warns you if a server's identity changes SHARED FOLDERS (SMB) • Browse the shared folders of Windows, Mac and Linux computers and NAS drives like in the Files app • Videos and music play straight from the computer, with no waiting for a download • Text files open in the app, pictures and documents open with Quick Look • SMB 2 and 3 with signing and encryption PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account, no advertising and no analytics. What you scan and save stays on your device. Only the tools that need the internet, such as Whois, Speed test and DNS lookup, contact the services they are made for, when you use them. Telnet, plain TCP and plain http:// are not encrypted. Use SSH and https whenever you can.

Screenshots

Computer Wake Up4 screens
KN Network Toolkit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Computer Wake Up at 4 against KN Network Toolkit's 2. KN Network Toolkit's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Computer Wake Up versus KN Network Toolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterComputer Wake UpKN Network Toolkit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCory BorgThomas Ntais

In-app purchases

None

Computer Wake Up

No in-app purchases

None

KN Network Toolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Computer Wake Up free?
Computer Wake Up is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is KN Network Toolkit free?
KN Network Toolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Computer Wake Up or KN Network Toolkit have ads?
Neither Computer Wake Up nor KN Network Toolkit shows ads.

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