Comparison

Pirate Watch 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

Pirate Watch

Features
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Pirate Watch is the companion app for PirateEye thermal vision systems developed by PLTech. Connect wirelessly via Bluetooth Low Energy to your Coco device and take full control of your system, including the thermal imaging camera: - Adjust sharpness, contrast, brightness and zoom - Switch between thermal palettes in real time - Control video window position and size - Save and recall favorite configurations - Monitor Bluetooth connection status Designed for professionals working with PLTech embedded vision hardware. All communication stays local via Bluetooth — no data is sent to any server.

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

WLAN Pros Toolbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

Pirate Watch and WLAN Pros Toolbox 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
Pirate Watch versus WLAN Pros Toolbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPirate WatchWLAN 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, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPLTechKeith Parsons

In-app purchases

None

Pirate Watch

No in-app purchases

None

WLAN Pros Toolbox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pirate Watch free?
Pirate Watch 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 Pirate Watch or WLAN Pros Toolbox have ads?
Neither Pirate Watch nor WLAN Pros Toolbox shows ads.

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