IP Checker vs Cert Recon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IP Checker
This network utility provides instant access to your public IP addresses (IPv4/IPv6), VPN detection status, and internet service provider details. It offers insights into your connection, including latency and approximate location, with the ability to save history and share diagnostic reports.
- Check public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
- View ISP, organization, and AS number
- Detect VPN connection status
- View latency and IPv6 support
- Approximate IP-based location on map
- Save connection history
- Share network diagnostic reports
Read full descriptionHide full description
See the network information you need in one tap. IP Checker is a simple network utility that displays your public IP addresses, VPN detection status, internet service provider and other useful connection details. Key features • Check your public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses • View your ISP, organization, AS number and hostname • Check whether a VPN connection is detected • View latency, IPv6 support and MTU • See an approximate IP-based location on a map • Save connection history on your device and review changes • Copy or share a clear network diagnostic report Open the app whenever you need a quick view of your current connection. VPN detection and location results are estimates based on available network information and may not always be accurate.
Cert Recon
Read full descriptionHide full description
Cert Recon reads the TLS certificate chain a server presents and explains it in plain language: who issued it, when it expires, which names it covers, and whether this device trusts it. It also answers a question most computers cannot. Your phone holds two independent paths to the internet at once. Cert Recon asks the same host over Wi-Fi and over cellular and compares the answers, because a network that intercepts TLS has to re-sign the connection with its own certificate authority. The cellular path shows you what the certificate should have been. Hotel, airport, conference and corporate guest networks do this routinely. On a device with one path, it still catches the common case: a certificate that this device trusts yet carries no Certificate Transparency timestamps is being vouched for by an authority installed on the device rather than a public one. That is how a filtering proxy works, and Cert Recon names the authority doing it. WHAT YOU GET • The full chain, leaf to root, exactly as the server presented it • Every field: subject, issuer, validity, key type and size, signature algorithm, serial, SANs with their types, key usage, extended key usage, basic constraints, certificate policies, OCSP and CRL URLs, CT timestamps • SHA-256, SHA-1 and public-key (SPKI) fingerprints • Trust evaluated against this device's store, with the reason it failed rather than a red cross • Expiry countdown, weak-key and weak-signature flags, hostname mismatch and self-signed detection • Interception check: Wi-Fi against cellular, issuer sanity, transparency timestamps, captive-portal awareness • Pin a host's key and be told if it changes • History of what you have inspected, one tap to run again • Export the chain as PEM or the finding as a text report • Configurable port and SNI • iPhone and iPad, dark-first PRIVACY Nothing leaves your device. No account, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party frameworks. Hostnames you inspect are not transmitted anywhere. Pinned hosts and history stay on the device. Cert Recon is a certificate inspector: it completes the TLS handshake, reads the certificate, and closes. It sends no request body and no HTTP to the host you name. FREE No in-app purchases, no subscription, no gated features. Part of the 404 Tools Recon suite; hand any host straight to the other Recon apps you have installed.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Cert Recon at 3 against IP Checker's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | IP Checker | Cert Recon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kota Miura | Brian Reed |
In-app purchases
IP Checker
No in-app purchases
Cert Recon
No in-app purchases









