Telcoaio vs Chapar SSH
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Telcoaio
This network utility app provides a suite of on-device tools for diagnosing and debugging network connections. It offers features like ping, traceroute, port scanning, and Wi-Fi information, all designed for engineers and IT professionals.
- On-device network tools
- Ping and Traceroute
- Port scanner with banner grabbing
- Wi-Fi and device information
- Local subnet scanner
- Global ping from multiple cities
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A native iOS network engineering toolbox built for engineers, ISP operators, and anyone who needs to debug a connection on the spot. Native diagnostics run directly on your device. Online features, including Global Ping, speed tests, DNS and registration lookups, contact the relevant services. No account or sign-up required. NATIVE TOOLS · Ping — continuous ICMP echo with min / avg / max RTT, loss %, jitter · Ping Sweep — scan IPv4 subnets from /24 to /32, with three pings per address and up to 10 addresses checked at once · Traceroute — hop-by-hop path with per-probe RTT · MTR — continuous Traceroute with per-hop packet loss and latency · Port Scanner — concurrent TCP connect scan with banner grabbing and service identification · Service Monitor — save HTTP, HTTPS and TCP endpoints; check status and latency together with optional foreground auto-refresh · Reverse DNS — IPv4 / IPv6 PTR lookups · Speed Test — download, upload, and latency via Cloudflare's public speed endpoint · Global Ping — pings the target from 10 fixed cities around the world (San Jose · Ashburn · Shanghai · Mumbai · Frankfurt · Singapore · São Paulo · Lagos · London · Sydney) with 10 packets each. Powered by globalping.io DNS & NAMING · DNS Lookup — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, TXT, SOA, PTR, CAA, SRV records over DoH or a custom UDP resolver · DNS Benchmark — find the fastest resolver for you (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, AliDNS, 114DNS) · WHOIS / RDAP — domain, IP and ASN registration records WEB & ADDRESSING · Subnet Calculator — IPv4 and IPv6 CIDR math, fully offline · TLS Certificate — chain, expiry, SANs, TLS version and cipher for any host:port · HTTP Request — status, headers, redirect chain and a DNS/connect/TLS/TTFB timing waterfall · IPv6 Diagnostics — dual-stack reachability and NAT64/DNS64 detection INFO TAB · Current Wi-Fi name (SSID) and BSSID, subject to iOS permissions and availability · Local IPv4 / IPv6, netmask · External IP, ASN, ISP, country · Full interface listing with addresses (en0, awdl0, pdp_ip0, etc.) · Device, OS, screen, memory, storage LAN TAB · Local subnet scanner — concurrent ICMP probe with reverse-DNS labels · Bonjour service browser — HTTP, SSH, SMB, AirPlay, Chromecast, AirDrop, HomeKit, printers, and more · Wake on LAN — send magic packets to saved devices EXTRAS · Visual traceroute — plot the route on a map with per-hop geolocation · Export — share ping, traceroute, MTR, port-scan and LAN-scan results as text · Home-screen widget — your public IP and connection type at a glance · Siri & Shortcuts — Ping a host and get latency and packet loss results ADDITIONAL ONLINE TOOLS · ping.pe — global ping web tool, in-app browser · telcoaio.com — subnet calculator, DNS lookup, ASN converter, BGP visualizer, RPKI / IRR checks, route filter generator, and more DESIGN · Dark-only theme aligned with telcoaio.com · English (U.S.), Simplified and Traditional Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish (Spain) and Spanish (Mexico) · SF Mono throughout — designed to feel like a terminal · Tool inputs and outputs are not sent to analytics; online features contact their respective services iPhone and iPad. Requires iOS 17 or later. Made by the team behind telcoaio.com.
Chapar SSH
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THE TERMINAL Full xterm emulation, so vim, htop, colours and mouse reporting all behave. Five themes, three monospace fonts, pinch to resize. A key bar gives you Ctrl, Esc, Tab, arrows and one-tap ^C, ^D and ^Z — the keys a phone keyboard doesn't have. On iPad, Command shortcuts switch session, close, reconnect and clear. STAYS CONNECTED The part mobile SSH usually gets wrong. A keepalive the shell never sees stops carrier NAT dropping an idle session. Auto-reconnect retries only the drops you didn't cause. Close the app and reopen a host and the previous transcript is still there, marked as history, one tap from reconnecting. A tmux toggle survives iOS suspending the app entirely. COMMAND BLOCKS Add one line to your shell config — standard OSC 133, the same marks iTerm2 and VS Code use — and scrollback becomes a list of commands, each with its own output, exit status and duration. Copy, share or re-run one without selecting text on a phone screen. Record a session and export it as an asciicast that plays in asciinema. FILES AND TUNNELS SFTP browsing, viewing, editing, upload and download. Local port forwards, reverse forwards and a SOCKS5 proxy. All on the same authenticated connection as your shell, not a second login. NETWORK TOOLKIT A live latency graph with min, avg, max, p50, p95, p99, jitter and loss — and the specific reason behind every drop. Compare two targets on one graph to tell a bad link from a bad server. Port scanner that names the software behind each open port. Subnet sweep. TLS inspector showing the full certificate chain, expiry and SANs. DNS lookup speaking real RFC 1035 wire format. HTTP health with a DNS, connect, TLS and time-to-first-byte breakdown. SNMPv2c for gear that has no SSH. An IPv4 and IPv6 subnet calculator. Wake-on-LAN. Plus nmap and tcpdump driven on one of your own hosts, with the results parsed and rendered natively. FLEET AND AUTOMATION Run one command across many hosts and see which ones disagree with the rest. Runbooks with ordered steps that halt on failure. Snippets with placeholders that prompt for values. Shortcuts and Siri. A Home Screen widget. Live Activities for long runs. Scheduled checks that notify you only when something actually changes. ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE Explain what a command changes before you run it. Summarise hundreds of log lines into a few. Diagnose a failed command. Search your history by meaning rather than by matching words. Redact keys and tokens before you export anything. All of it runs on the device — server output never leaves your phone, and there is no AI service behind any of it. NOT BREAKING PRODUCTION Hosts you mark as production get a red header and a PROD badge, so you always know where you are. Commands that delete, format, stop services or rewrite history ask first — in the terminal, in fleet runs and in runbooks. Shortcuts refuse them outright. KEYS AND TRUST Host key pinning with SHA256 fingerprints that match ssh-keygen -lf, and a loud warning if a pinned key ever changes. Secure Enclave keys that cannot be exported, backed up or read — not even by this app. Ed25519 generation, OpenSSH key import, CA-signed SSH certificates, and keyboard-interactive two-factor for the bastions that require it. Optional Face ID lock. YOUR DATA Passwords and private keys live in the Keychain marked device-only: no iCloud, no backups, no access while the phone is locked. Optional iCloud sync covers hosts, snippets and history through your own account — never secrets, by construction. Per-host notes can be end-to-end encrypted with a key only your iCloud Keychain holds. Import your existing ~/.ssh/config and known_hosts in one step. Settings, then About, then Included features lists everything Chapar does — including the handful of things that aren't built yet. If it's listed as working, it works.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chapar SSH at none against Telcoaio's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Telcoaio ships an update every 3 weeks, Chapar SSH monthly. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Telcoaio | Chapar SSH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dongjie Zhang | Hessam Zahedi |
In-app purchases
Telcoaio
No in-app purchases
Chapar SSH
No in-app purchases









