Comparison

IP Scanner & Service Watcher vs mikr.app

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

Head to head
About

IP Scanner & Service Watcher

Features
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IP Scanner & Service Watcher is a field toolkit for IT support engineers, network administrators, CCTV/camera technicians, and home lab users. Diagnose the network you are connected to, discover LAN devices, check open ports, inspect TLS certificates, resolve DNS, run ping/traceroute, and watch important services from your phone. KEY FEATURES - LAN discovery: scan the current subnet or a custom CIDR/IP range and review device IP, MAC, vendor, online/offline state, and open-port status. - Port scanning: use focused profiles for IT, servers, network devices, and CCTV systems, or enter custom ports and ranges. - Multi-instance tasks: run ping, LAN port checks, WAN checks, traceroute, and loop scans side by side, then jump back to each live task from the running-task badge. - WAN visibility: detect public IPv4/IPv6 and check public port reachability through an external probe. - Network tools: Ping, DNS Lookup, Traceroute, Website Check, Site Alive, Endpoint Health, Content Match, SSL/TLS Check, Domain Expiry, Subnet Calculator, Wake-on-LAN, and MAC vendor lookup. - Service Watchers: convert supported tool runs into recurring checks with healthy/failing/recovered states, thresholds, cooldowns, history, and optional notifications. - Clear diagnostics: TLS, HTTP, DNS, TCP, IPv6, and OS-level limitations are reported clearly so field work does not stop at a vague network error. The app is designed for networks and systems you own or are authorized to test. It is not a nearby Wi-Fi/SSID scanner, Wi-Fi analyzer, wardriving tool, VPN, proxy, or broad internet scanner. No account is required for the core scanning tools.

About

mikr.app

Features
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mikr.app is the iPhone client for MikroTik Manager, the self-hosted server you run on your own infrastructure to monitor RouterOS devices. It connects only to your server and shows what that server knows, live. FLEET - One line that says whether everything is answering, then only what is not - Issues across the fleet, worst first: devices down, metrics over your server's thresholds, PoE budget, RouterOS and firmware behind - Sites, backup coverage, and the device flooding the log DEVICE - CPU, memory, temperature, PoE and power, with history - The ports drawn as they sit on the box, with live traffic per port - Clients on the network, by DHCP lease and by wireless registration - VLANs, and which ports carry each one - WireGuard and IPsec tunnels, neighbours and the device's log - A banner when a published RouterOS advisory applies to the device ACTIONS (operator accounts and above) - Test the connection, check for updates, back up the config now - Upgrade RouterOS or firmware, reboot, run a saved command template - Upgrade Jobs: cancel a queue, remove or unschedule a planned upgrade - Every action goes through your server, which checks the account's role and logs it. Viewer accounts see none of them SECURITY AND ACTIVITY - Advisories affecting your devices, worst first, and devices behind on patches - The server's activity log: who did what, with failed actions on their own SIGN-IN - The same username, password and second factor as your server's web UI - Tokens kept in the iPhone Keychain, optionally behind Face ID - Several servers, switchable - Self-signed certificates accepted once, by fingerprint, then pinned Requires a MikroTik Manager server. No server yet? Open the demo from the sign-in screen: a sample fleet built into the app, with no connection to anything. MikroTik and RouterOS are trademarks of SIA Mikrotikls. This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by MikroTik.

Screenshots

IP Scanner & Service Watcher4 screens
mikr.app4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: mikr.app at every 4 weeks against IP Scanner & Service Watcher's every 2 months. IP Scanner & Service Watcher's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

IP Scanner & Service Watcher ships an update every 2 months, mikr.app every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
IP Scanner & Service Watcher versus mikr.app: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIP Scanner & Service Watchermikr.app
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHung Cao VuIhor Hreskiv

In-app purchases

None

IP Scanner & Service Watcher

No in-app purchases

None

mikr.app

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IP Scanner & Service Watcher free?
IP Scanner & Service Watcher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is mikr.app free?
mikr.app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IP Scanner & Service Watcher or mikr.app have ads?
Neither IP Scanner & Service Watcher nor mikr.app shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IP Scanner & Service Watcher or mikr.app?
IP Scanner & Service Watcher ships an update every 2 months, and mikr.app every 4 weeks. Most recently, IP Scanner & Service Watcher was updated on October 31, 2026 and mikr.app on October 31, 2026.

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