Comparison

Ping by IPinfo vs Cert Recon

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

Head to head
About

Ping by IPinfo

Monitor network performance by pinging any host from your chosen interface, including Wi-Fi, Cellular, VPN, or Ethernet. Get real-time results, detailed statistics like latency and packet loss, and a visual latency chart for instant quality assessment.

Highlights
  • Ping from Wi-Fi, Cellular, VPN, Ethernet
  • Real-time ping results
  • Detailed statistics (latency, jitter, packet loss)
  • Color-coded latency chart
  • Quick access to common targets
  • Session history
Features
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Ping any host from the network interface you choose: Wi-Fi, Cellular, VPN, or Ethernet. See exactly how each connection performs with real-time results and detailed statistics. LIVE PING Watch round-trip times update as they happen. INTERFACE SELECTION Pin your ping to a specific network interface. Wi-Fi, Cellular, VPN, and yes, even Ethernet. (Grab an adapter and see for yourself.) See the IP address, ISP, and location for each available connection before you start. DETAILED STATISTICS View min, median, p95, and max latency alongside jitter, packet loss, and reply counts. A color-coded latency chart gives you an instant visual read on connection quality. QUICK PICKS & HISTORY One-tap access to common targets like Cloudflare DNS and your gateway. Every session is saved so you can review past results. Powered by IPinfo, the trusted source for IP address data.

About

Cert Recon

Features
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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

Ping by IPinfo4 screens
Cert Recon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Cert Recon at 3 against Ping by IPinfo'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 · 8 level
Ping by IPinfo versus Cert Recon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPing by IPinfoCert Recon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIDB LLCBrian Reed

In-app purchases

None

Ping by IPinfo

No in-app purchases

None

Cert Recon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ping by IPinfo free?
Ping by IPinfo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cert Recon free?
Cert Recon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ping by IPinfo or Cert Recon have ads?
Neither Ping by IPinfo nor Cert Recon shows ads.

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