Comparison

Updtz vs Network Tools

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

Head to head
About

Updtz

Features
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Updtz — 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 — 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 — just like a digital notice board on your phone. Why Updtz? Most update channels today come with baggage — 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 — Follow any board instantly with a QR code or ID. Zero friction. Push Notifications — Get notified the moment a board is updated. Never miss an update. Offline Access — Updates are stored locally on your device, so you can read them anytime, anywhere. No Login Required — Completely anonymous. No account, no sign-up, no personal data needed. Total Privacy — We don't track you. We don't sell your data. Viewers stay anonymous. Zero Noise — No chats, no comments, no distractions. Just the updates you care about.

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 — ICMP latency and packet loss, with a live chart • Traceroute — the hop-by-hop path, each router named • LAN scan — every device on your subnet, named and identified: routers, NAS boxes, printers, Macs, phones • Port scan — TCP connect scan with banners and service names, from a handful of ports to all 65535 • DNS — 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 — status, redirect chain, the DNS/connect/TLS/TTFB split, security headers • TLS — the full certificate chain, expiry, SANs, cipher suite, and whether the system trusts it • WHOIS — the referral chain followed to the registrar that actually holds the record • Wi-Fi — link quality graded against local thresholds, and a walking survey that compares rooms • Speed test — download, upload, latency and jitter, against Cloudflare or a URL you name • iperf3 — throughput against your own iperf3 server, up or down, multi-stream • IP calculator — CIDR maths, masks, host ranges, binary, and subnet division including VLSM • MAC lookup — 39,000 vendor prefixes, bundled and fully offline • Wake on LAN — the magic packet, sent to every address that might reach a sleeping machine • Network interfaces — addresses, subnets, flags and live throughput • Telnet — a raw TCP terminal for switches, PDUs and console servers • SSH — 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 — 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 — 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 — send a file up or pull one down, straight to the Files app • ssh-copy-id — put your public key in a server's authorized_keys without a second terminal • Keys — 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 — the commands you always type, one tap above the keyboard • A proper terminal — a real VT/xterm emulator, so vim and htop work, with esc, ctrl, alt, arrows and F-keys on a row of their own

Screenshots

Updtz4 screens
Network Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Updtz versus Network Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUpdtzNetwork Tools
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTeam Moplet Private LimitedPavel Khorenian

In-app purchases

None

Updtz

No in-app purchases

None

Network Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Updtz free?
Updtz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Network Tools free?
Network Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Updtz or Network Tools have ads?
Neither Updtz nor Network Tools shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Updtz or Network Tools?
Updtz ships an update every 5 weeks, and Network Tools every 3 weeks. Most recently, Updtz was updated on October 12, 2026 and Network Tools on October 2, 2026.

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