Comparison

Darwin Security vs Network Tools

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

Head to head
About

Darwin Security

This digital security guard screens unknown callers, detects AI or scam voices, and identifies scam texts, emails, and social DMs. It offers a safe sandbox for suspicious links and checks for AI-generated media, protecting the whole family with a private, encrypted subscription.

Highlights
  • Screens unknown callers
  • Detects AI/scam voices
  • Identifies scam texts/emails/DMs
  • Safe link sandbox
  • AI-generated media detection
  • Family protection subscription
Features
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You cannot pick up every call your mom gets or read every DM your kid opens. Darwin can. Someone is finally watching out for the people you love. Darwin is your family's digital security guard. - Screen unknown callers before the phone rings - Receive a warning when the voice on the line is AI or sounds like a scam - Catch scam texts, emails and social DMs - Ask Darwin for a quick second opinion - Open suspicious looking links in a safe sandbox - Check whether a photo or video is AI generated - Protect the entire family with one subscription - Keep your data private. Darwin only reads what you connect and all your data is completely encrypted

About

Network Tools

Features
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A network engineer's toolkit that runs entirely on your iPhone. Seventeen tools, no account, no server of ours, and nothing about you collected. THE TOOLS • Ping — ICMP latency and packet loss, with a live chart • Traceroute — the hop-by-hop path, each router named • LAN scan — every device on your subnet, named and identified: routers, NAS boxes, printers, Macs, phones • Port scan — TCP connect scan with banners and service names, from a handful of ports to all 65535 • DNS — your own wire-format resolver: every record type at once, any public resolver you choose, DNS-over-HTTPS, reverse lookups, and a comparison mode that queries five resolvers and flags the one that disagrees • HTTP check — status, redirect chain, the DNS/connect/TLS/TTFB split, security headers • TLS — the full certificate chain, expiry, SANs, cipher suite, and whether the system trusts it • WHOIS — the referral chain followed to the registrar that actually holds the record • Wi-Fi — link quality graded against local thresholds, and a walking survey that compares rooms • Speed test — download, upload, latency and jitter, against Cloudflare or a URL you name • iperf3 — throughput against your own iperf3 server, up or down, multi-stream • IP calculator — CIDR maths, masks, host ranges, binary, and subnet division including VLSM • MAC lookup — 39,000 vendor prefixes, bundled and fully offline • Wake on LAN — the magic packet, sent to every address that might reach a sleeping machine • Network interfaces — addresses, subnets, flags and live throughput • Telnet — a raw TCP terminal for switches, PDUs and console servers • SSH — see below A REAL SSH CLIENT Not a wrapper. The protocol is implemented in Swift, and it does the things you actually need from a phone: • Jump hosts — reach a machine behind one bastion or several, each hop with its own account, its own credential and its own host key to confirm • Port forwarding — bind a local port to a service on the far side, then open it in a browser inside the app: a router's web interface, a database, a dashboard listening only on the server's loopback • scp — send a file up or pull one down, straight to the Files app • ssh-copy-id — put your public key in a server's authorized_keys without a second terminal • Keys — generate ed25519 on the device, or import ed25519, ECDSA and RSA in OpenSSH or PEM form, protected or not. Private keys live in the Keychain and can be exported under a passphrase when you need them elsewhere • Snippets — the commands you always type, one tap above the keyboard • A proper terminal — a real VT/xterm emulator, so vim and htop work, with esc, ctrl, alt, arrows and F-keys on a row of their own

Screenshots

Darwin Security4 screens
Network Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Network Tools at none against Darwin Security's shown. Darwin Security's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Darwin Security ships an update every 2 days, Network Tools every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 2, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Darwin Security versus Network Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDarwin SecurityNetwork Tools
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDarwin Labs Inc.Pavel Khorenian

In-app purchases

None

Darwin Security

No in-app purchases

None

Network Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Darwin Security free?
Darwin Security is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Network Tools free?
Network Tools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Darwin Security or Network Tools have ads?
Darwin Security shows ads; Network Tools does not.
Which is updated more often, Darwin Security or Network Tools?
Darwin Security ships an update every 2 days, and Network Tools every 3 weeks. Most recently, Darwin Security was updated on October 2, 2026 and Network Tools on October 2, 2026.

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