Comparison

HomeNetworkTesting vs Blip Stats

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

Head to head
About

HomeNetworkTesting

Features
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Test your network speed instantly and diagnose problems in one tap. Get clear, professional analysis to optimize your home network for smoother browsing, streaming, and gaming.

About

Blip Stats

Monitor your Mac's system performance with this lightweight utility. It provides detailed insights into CPU, memory, network, disk, GPU, battery, and thermal data directly from your menu bar. Offers built-in speed tests and traceroute functionality.

Highlights
  • Real-time CPU, memory, and network monitoring
  • Detailed disk and GPU utilization
  • Battery health and thermal data
  • Top processes by CPU and memory usage
  • Built-in drive speed tests and traceroute
  • Shortcuts app integration for automation
Features
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Blip puts honest device stats, a real benchmark, and serious network tools on your iPhone and iPad — the same featherlight philosophy as Blip for Mac — free, in one app. Overview — live cards for CPU, memory, storage, battery, thermal state, and network. Tap any card for full details: memory breakdown, load averages, core counts, boot-derived uptime, local IPs with tap-to-copy, tap-to-reveal public IP, VPN and radio awareness. Honest suggestions appear only when a real signal fires. Blip Bench — CPU, memory, GPU, and Neural Engine throughput in Blip's fixed reference units, comparable across every device running Blip. The full profile adds a sustained phase that measures thermal throttling, with results animating in leg by leg. Speed — test against the public OpenSpeedTest service or your own self-hosted server. Download and upload draw as separate curves, latency is measured idle and under load (bufferbloat), and every result is graded per activity: browsing, HD and 4K streaming, video calls, cloud gaming, big uploads. Network — ping and traceroute with per-hop latency, timeout detection, and an offline GeoIP map of the route. The location database is downloaded once and lookups never leave your device. Storage — sequential disk speed tests on internal storage or any volume you can reach in Files, caching disabled and flush included. Widgets — bench score, storage, and last speed test on your Home Screen, each stamped with its age. Shortcuts — run benchmarks and speed tests or capture a full stats snapshot from Automations. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Everything Blip shows is what iOS honestly exposes to a well-behaved app.

Screenshots

HomeNetworkTesting4 screens
Blip Stats4 screens

Verdict

The call

HomeNetworkTesting and Blip Stats are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
HomeNetworkTesting versus Blip Stats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeNetworkTestingBlip Stats
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperAchim BauerBlaine Miller

In-app purchases

None

HomeNetworkTesting

No in-app purchases

None

Blip Stats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HomeNetworkTesting free?
HomeNetworkTesting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blip Stats free?
Blip Stats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HomeNetworkTesting or Blip Stats have ads?
Neither HomeNetworkTesting nor Blip Stats shows ads.

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