Comparison

Smart Home Playground Analyzer vs NetMaster

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

Head to head
About

Smart Home Playground Analyzer

Discover and visualize all devices connected to your home Wi-Fi network. This privacy-focused tool uses on-device AI to identify gadgets, services, and protocols, making your smart home ecosystem visible and manageable.

Highlights
  • Deep network scanning
  • Intelligent device identification
  • Service and protocol interrogation
  • Interactive visual network diagram
  • Universal Apple native app
  • 100% private, zero data harvesting
Features
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"Scan your Wi-Fi and every device comes back with a real name instead of an IP address. Tap any one to see what it's actually running. Nothing you find ever leaves your device. It usually starts with a router page full of numbers and one smart plug that has stopped answering. Working out which line is which shouldn't take an evening. Smart Home Playground Analyzer does it in seconds, and then goes a good deal further. WHAT IT DOES Deep network scan — sweep your local network and find everything on it. Smart home gear, speakers, TVs, wearables, laptops, and the two or three things you forgot you owned. Names, not numbers — on-device AI recognizes the hardware on your Wi-Fi and gives it a name you'll actually recognize. Device Inspector — tap any device for the full picture. Who made it, what services it's got open, which protocols and ports it's using, and how it reaches your network. Smart Home Inspector Report — a readable summary of your whole network, from media capabilities through to Matter fabric analysis. Reads in 13 languages. Protocol tagging — the app asks each device what it speaks and labels it: Matter, Thread, AirPlay, Cast, mDNS, Bonjour. Built natively for iPhone, iPad and Mac in Swift. Scan from the couch, dig into the details at your desk. CONTROL, AND WHAT THAT MEANS HERE Two specific things, and it's worth being straight about the limits up front. Cast playback — play, pause, skip and change volume on your Cast-enabled speakers and displays. On iPhone and iPad, a Live Activity keeps the controls on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while something's playing. On Mac, they appear in Control Center's Now Playing and on your media keys while the app is open. That's the whole of it. This isn't a universal remote. It won't talk to your TV over infrared, and it doesn't do Roku, Fire TV or a cable box. If that's what you need, there are excellent apps out there that do it. IT FITS INTO YOUR DEVICE PROPERLY Spotlight — the devices you discover get indexed locally, so you can search a device name from the Home Screen and land straight on it. Siri and Shortcuts — App Intents let you run a scan, check what's online, or control playback by voice or inside your own automations. WHO THIS IS FOR The person whose smart plug dropped off the network and can't work out why. The IT professional who'd rather audit an unfamiliar network in five minutes than an afternoon. And anyone who's simply curious about what's going on in their own house. ABOUT PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No server anywhere. Every scan and every bit of AI identification happens on the device in your hands, and the results stay there. Your home network is nobody's business but yours, and the app is built to keep it that way. Take control of your smart home with a tool made by the curious, for the curious. Something broken or missing? Get in touch — every message gets read."

About

NetMaster

Features
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NetMaster-X is a professional network intelligence suite for engineers, IT admins, and power users who need real diagnostics — Measure latency, map your internet path, survey Wi‑Fi coverage, inspect TLS and HTTP traffic, and run security-focused checks from a single premium dark cyber workspace. CORE NETWORKING • Ping Utility — TCP-based latency, jitter, and loss charts (built for iOS where raw ICMP is unavailable) • Traceroute — hop-by-hop path timing with clear logs • DNS Toolkit — multi-record lookups and DNSSEC-aware workflows • WHOIS Lookup — domain and IP registration intel • Port Scanner — fast and deep scans with service hints and banner capture • Speed Test — download, upload, and jitter snapshots • Subnet Calculator — IPv4 & IPv6 CIDR math • IP Tools — public IP, local interfaces, and MAC vendor lookup WI‑FI & RF • Wi‑Fi Analyzer — current network signal and channel context • Wi‑Fi Site Survey — calibrated floor-plan heatmap with walk mode, wall/obstacle attenuation, distance measure, AP pins, and −67/−70 dBm coverage metrics • RF Interference — educational channel-overlap visualization • Bluetooth Scanner — BLE discovery and RSSI CYBER & ANALYSIS • Protocol Analyzer — paste hex/xxd/Wireshark dumps; parse TLS ClientHello (SNI, ALPN, ciphers, JA3), HTTP, DNS, MQTT • HTTP Capture — session recorder with redirect hops and HAR export • HTTP Client Suite — methods, headers, body, and cURL export • Certificate Inspector — chain and expiry visibility • Vulnerability Scanner — TLS + HTTP header checks • Device Security Audit — jailbreak, VPN/DNS leak style checks • ASN Intelligence & BGP Monitoring — ownership and routing signals • Threat Intelligence — IP/ASN reputation lookups DEVELOPER TOOLS • Socket Tester, MQTT Tester, WebSocket Tester • Remote Diagnostics helpers REPORTING & CLOUD • Internet Path Map — Device → LAN → Gateway → ISP → Internet → Destination with live TCP probes • Timeline View and Report Generator (Markdown/HTML) • Cloud sync and team workspace hooks DESIGNED FOR REAL WORK • Premium metrics • On-device diagnostics first — your probes stay practical and transparent about iOS platform limits • Results you can save and export NetMaster X — diagnose faster, understand more.

Screenshots

Smart Home Playground Analyzer4 screens
NetMaster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Smart Home Playground Analyzer at none against NetMaster's shown. NetMaster's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Smart Home Playground Analyzer versus NetMaster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart Home Playground AnalyzerNetMaster
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperARSHAM HATAMBEIKIAbdulrazaq Alonazi

In-app purchases

None

Smart Home Playground Analyzer

No in-app purchases

None

NetMaster

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Home Playground Analyzer free?
Smart Home Playground Analyzer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NetMaster free?
NetMaster is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smart Home Playground Analyzer or NetMaster have ads?
NetMaster shows ads; Smart Home Playground Analyzer does not.

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