Updtz vs Network Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Updtz
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Updtz ā Updates, Privately. Stay informed without the clutter. Updtz is a clean, private notice board viewer that lets you follow updates from your favourite shops, businesses, clubs, and communities ā no account needed, no group chats, no noise. How it works Scan a QR code or enter a board ID shared by a publisher. That's it. You'll instantly start receiving their updates ā just like a digital notice board on your phone. Why Updtz? Most update channels today come with baggage ā group chats that never stop, apps that demand sign-ups, or businesses that ask for your phone number. Updtz cuts all of that out. Key Features Scan & Follow ā Follow any board instantly with a QR code or ID. Zero friction. Push Notifications ā Get notified the moment a board is updated. Never miss an update. Offline Access ā Updates are stored locally on your device, so you can read them anytime, anywhere. No Login Required ā Completely anonymous. No account, no sign-up, no personal data needed. Total Privacy ā We don't track you. We don't sell your data. Viewers stay anonymous. Zero Noise ā No chats, no comments, no distractions. Just the updates you care about.
Network Tools
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A network engineer's toolkit that runs entirely on your iPhone. Seventeen tools, no account, no server of ours, and nothing about you collected. THE TOOLS ⢠Ping ā ICMP latency and packet loss, with a live chart ⢠Traceroute ā the hop-by-hop path, each router named ⢠LAN scan ā every device on your subnet, named and identified: routers, NAS boxes, printers, Macs, phones ⢠Port scan ā TCP connect scan with banners and service names, from a handful of ports to all 65535 ⢠DNS ā your own wire-format resolver: every record type at once, any public resolver you choose, DNS-over-HTTPS, reverse lookups, and a comparison mode that queries five resolvers and flags the one that disagrees ⢠HTTP check ā status, redirect chain, the DNS/connect/TLS/TTFB split, security headers ⢠TLS ā the full certificate chain, expiry, SANs, cipher suite, and whether the system trusts it ⢠WHOIS ā the referral chain followed to the registrar that actually holds the record ⢠Wi-Fi ā link quality graded against local thresholds, and a walking survey that compares rooms ⢠Speed test ā download, upload, latency and jitter, against Cloudflare or a URL you name ⢠iperf3 ā throughput against your own iperf3 server, up or down, multi-stream ⢠IP calculator ā CIDR maths, masks, host ranges, binary, and subnet division including VLSM ⢠MAC lookup ā 39,000 vendor prefixes, bundled and fully offline ⢠Wake on LAN ā the magic packet, sent to every address that might reach a sleeping machine ⢠Network interfaces ā addresses, subnets, flags and live throughput ⢠Telnet ā a raw TCP terminal for switches, PDUs and console servers ⢠SSH ā see below A REAL SSH CLIENT Not a wrapper. The protocol is implemented in Swift, and it does the things you actually need from a phone: ⢠Jump hosts ā reach a machine behind one bastion or several, each hop with its own account, its own credential and its own host key to confirm ⢠Port forwarding ā bind a local port to a service on the far side, then open it in a browser inside the app: a router's web interface, a database, a dashboard listening only on the server's loopback ⢠scp ā send a file up or pull one down, straight to the Files app ⢠ssh-copy-id ā put your public key in a server's authorized_keys without a second terminal ⢠Keys ā generate ed25519 on the device, or import ed25519, ECDSA and RSA in OpenSSH or PEM form, protected or not. Private keys live in the Keychain and can be exported under a passphrase when you need them elsewhere ⢠Snippets ā the commands you always type, one tap above the keyboard ⢠A proper terminal ā a real VT/xterm emulator, so vim and htop work, with esc, ctrl, alt, arrows and F-keys on a row of their own
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Updtz at 15.0 against Network Tools's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Updtz ships an update every 5 weeks, Network Tools every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Updtz | Network Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Team Moplet Private Limited | Pavel Khorenian |
In-app purchases
Updtz
No in-app purchases
Network Tools
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Is Network Tools free?
Do Updtz or Network Tools have ads?
Which is updated more often, Updtz or Network Tools?
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