Comparison

Fife Council vs WLAN Pros Toolbox

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

Head to head
About

Fife Council

Features
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Use the Fife Council app to have some of our most frequently used online services right at your fingertips. Check which bin goes out tomorrow on our bin calendar. Tell us about problems with your bins, report road faults, or let us know about that streetlight that is out. You can also easily access a history of the things you’ve reported to us.

About

WLAN Pros Toolbox

This app provides over 120 tools for Wi-Fi and network professionals, including calculators for RF math and live diagnostics for network analysis. It also offers quick reference tables and educational resources for field use.

Highlights
  • RF and signal math calculators
  • Live network diagnostics
  • Quick reference tables
  • Network CLI commands
  • Wi-Fi specific information
  • Connection troubleshooting helper
Features
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WLAN Pros Toolbox gives Wi-Fi pros, IT help desks, instructors and students 260+ network tools, plus a Wireless Classroom of lessons and simulators. Free. No account. No ads. No data collected. Built by Keith Parsons, CWNE #3, and Wireless LAN Professionals. Everything is grouped so you find the tool you need fast: live network tests, calculators, reference tables and the Wireless Classroom. The Wireless Classroom - 30 Guided Lessons in plain language, where the pictures do most of the teaching: Find My, Starlink, Wi-Fi Calling, Travel Routers, Captive Portals, Mesh and Extenders, One Talker per Channel, Is Your Router Too Old?, and more. - 50 interactive simulators: Wi-Fi Through a Wall, Multipath, Rate vs Range, Modulation, Polarization, OFDMA vs MU-MIMO, MIMO and Beamforming, Airtime Fairness, Multi-Link Operation (Wi-Fi 7), Roaming Walk, DFS and Radar, 802.1X and EAP. - Presenter mode for the projector, one step at a time. - A Teacher's Guide and a Field Manual for instructors. Is It Your Wi-Fi or Your Internet? Test My Connection helps answer the question everyone asks, in plain language. Start here when someone hands you a slow connection. Networking Tools Ping, traceroute, DNS, WHOIS, BGP/ASN, MAC vendor lookup, IP geolocation, port scan, HTTP and SSL/TLS inspectors, NTP, Wake-on-LAN. Calculators Free space path loss, Fresnel zone, link budget, EIRP, dBm and watts, rain fade, noise floor, antenna downtilt, capacity planner, SSID airtime, throughput, PoE budget, IP subnets, GPS. Quick Reference 103 tables in 13 topics: channels, 802.11 standards, MCS index, security and authentication, reason codes, cabling and connectors, ports, and a Wireless Glossary of 123 plain-language terms in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German. Reference tables and calculators work offline. Live tests need a network connection. iOS limits what apps can read about Wi-Fi, so on iPhone and iPad some live Wi-Fi details come from an optional companion Apple Shortcut. Free for the community. Also on Android, Windows, Mac, the web and WLAN Pi: toolbox.wlanpros.com

Screenshots

Fife Council4 screens
WLAN Pros Toolbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Fife Council at 15.5 against WLAN Pros Toolbox's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Fife Council versus WLAN Pros Toolbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFife CouncilWLAN Pros Toolbox
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFife CouncilKeith Parsons

In-app purchases

None

Fife Council

No in-app purchases

None

WLAN Pros Toolbox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fife Council free?
Fife Council is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WLAN Pros Toolbox free?
WLAN Pros Toolbox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fife Council or WLAN Pros Toolbox have ads?
Neither Fife Council nor WLAN Pros Toolbox shows ads.

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