Comparison

IP Checker vs Egress Recon

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Egress Recon

Features
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You are on a guest Wi-Fi you did not choose. Something will not connect and nobody can tell you why. Egress Recon answers that from your phone, in under a second. WHICH PORTS GET OUT Sixteen common outbound ports, tried against real public services. You get more than "open" or "closed": • Refused and timed out are different answers. One means something on the network actively rejected the connection; the other means it was dropped silently. • Intercepted is its own finding. The connection succeeded, but the thing that replied was not the service you asked for — a portal, a proxy, or a middlebox re-signing TLS. WHAT NAT YOU ARE BEHIND Your public address, and whether your NAT gives you a reusable mapping or a symmetric one — the reason a video call falls back to a relay. Carrier-grade NAT is reported with its confidence and the evidence behind it, never as a bare label. IPv6 and NAT64 state, and whether you can reach your own public address from inside. WHAT IT DOES TO DNS Whether plain DNS gets out. Whether the network's resolver agrees with a public one. Whether it invents answers for names that cannot exist. And whether DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS still work when plain DNS does not — each tested with a real query, not just a connection. WI-FI VERSUS CELLULAR The most useful thing a network tool can tell you is "this Wi-Fi blocks it, and your cellular connection does not." Egress Recon runs the same tests over both and shows the difference — attributing it correctly in both directions, because blaming the café for something your carrier blocks helps nobody. BEHIND A CAPTIVE PORTAL It tells you the portal is there, shows the URL it is pushing you to, and labels the results "before you sign in." Sign in, run again, and it shows you exactly what changed. IT SHOWS ITS WORK Every verdict comes with what was actually observed: the banner the server sent, the certificate it presented and who issued it, the exact response that came back. You can check the reasoning instead of trusting a colored label. Where something cannot be determined, it says so and why. Two ports in the standard set have no public server to test against, so they stay untested rather than showing a red cell that means nothing. Share any run as text, a web page, a PDF, or JSON. Saved runs are grouped by network. PRIVACY • No analytics, no telemetry, no accounts, no ads, no third-party SDKs. • It never scans your network. Every probe goes to a public internet service — never your router, never your other devices. That is why it never asks for local network permission. • It does not read your Wi-Fi name. That needs location permission, which it never requests. • Saved runs stay on your device. A report leaves only when you share it. Egress Recon for Mac and for iPhone and iPad are both free apps on one App Store record. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17.

Screenshots

IP Checker4 screens
Egress Recon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Egress 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

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
IP Checker versus Egress Recon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIP CheckerEgress Recon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKota MiuraBrian Reed

In-app purchases

None

IP Checker

No in-app purchases

None

Egress Recon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IP Checker free?
IP Checker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Egress Recon free?
Egress Recon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IP Checker or Egress Recon have ads?
Neither IP Checker nor Egress Recon shows ads.

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