Comparison

BoxWatch vs deepdig.dev

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

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About

BoxWatch

Features
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Your servers do not wait for you to open a laptop. BoxWatch puts real time server monitoring in your pocket, so you always know what is happening, and you find out the moment it changes. Connect your BoxWatch account and watch every server, check, and status page from your iPhone or iPad. Glance at health in a second, get a push the instant something breaks, and clear the alert without ever sitting down. When you want an always on view, stand an iPad on your desk and let it run as a live wall display. WHY BOXWATCH - See everything fast. Status, CPU, memory, and disk for every server, color coded, with last seen and uptime, all on one screen. - Know first. Push alerts reach your phone the second a server goes down or a threshold trips. Tap the notification and you are looking right at the problem. - Act from anywhere. Acknowledge alerts one at a time or all at once, straight from your pocket. - Go deeper. Open any server for live metrics, trend charts, and the processes you are watching. - Cover the gaps. Cron heartbeats and uptime checks tell you when a job did not run or a site stopped responding. - Share the truth. View your public status pages and any active incidents. - Put it on the wall. Full screen display mode turns an iPad on a desk into a live dashboard that never sleeps. Ideal for a team room or a home lab. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO RUN THINGS Developers, sysadmins, indie hackers, and small teams who want a clear, honest view of their infrastructure without a heavyweight, overpriced dashboard. If you have ever paid for a monitoring tool that does ten times more than you need and costs many times more than it should, BoxWatch is the antidote. OPEN BY DESIGN BoxWatch is built on a real public API, so your data stays yours. Sign in by pasting a full scope API key from your account. No lock in, no mystery. TRY IT WITHOUT SIGNING UP Not ready to connect an account? Tap Try the demo and explore the entire app with realistic sample data: servers, alerts, checks, status pages, and the display mode. See how it feels before you commit. FREE TO START BoxWatch is free to use with your BoxWatch account. Manage your plan and billing on the web whenever you need more. There is nothing to buy inside the app. Stop wondering whether your servers are okay. Download BoxWatch and know. This is a companion app for your BoxWatch account.

About

deepdig.dev

Features
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deepdig is a free toolbox of network diagnostics built for sysadmins, DevOps engineers and hosting operators — the checks you run every day, faster and more detailed, with no account and no ads. Enter a domain, IP or paste raw data. Checks run in parallel on our servers and results stream in live, each finding graded by severity with a plain-English explanation of why it matters. TOOLS • DNS diagnostics — records, delegation and glue consistency, full DNSSEC chain validation from the root, propagation across 18 public resolvers, and a hop-by-hop recursion trace • SSL/TLS — certificate chain, expiry, hostname match, trust, protocol versions, HSTS • WHOIS — registrar, dates, EPP status codes for domains; RIR allocation, ASN and abuse contacts for IPs • Mail tester — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, BIMI, MX reachability and STARTTLS • Email header analyzer — paste a raw email, get the Received chain as a timed hop-by-hop trace with SPF/DKIM/DMARC verdicts • DNSBL / blacklists — check IPs and domains against major blocklists, Spamhaus included • HTTP headers — security headers, redirect chain, cookie flags, server fingerprint • HTTP/3 — ALPN negotiation, Alt-Svc advertisement and CDN detection • IP info — ASN, announced prefix, rDNS, country and hosting classification • Certificate Transparency log search • Subnet/CIDR calculator and a password generator WATCHES — GET NOTIFIED WHEN THINGS CHANGE Put a domain or IP on watch and deepdig re-checks it for you. You get a push notification only when something actually changes: a certificate crossing 14, 7 or 1 day to expiry (and a recovery notice when it renews), a new blacklist listing or a delisting, or a changed DNS record set. No noise, no daily digests — alerts only on real transitions. BUILT THE WAY YOU'D WANT IT • Results stream in as each check completes — no spinners • Every run is saved as a shareable permalink snapshot • History and side-by-side comparison for any target • Share a URL or domain from any app to open the right tool prefilled • Dark mode that follows your system • No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Free. deepdig is the mobile companion to deepdig.dev — same engine, same results, in your pocket.

Screenshots

BoxWatch4 screens
deepdig.dev4 screens

Verdict

The call

BoxWatch and deepdig.dev are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BoxWatch versus deepdig.dev: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoxWatchdeepdig.dev
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB7 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJoseph MorganelliSOFTPLEXITY S.R.L.

In-app purchases

None

BoxWatch

No in-app purchases

None

deepdig.dev

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BoxWatch free?
BoxWatch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is deepdig.dev free?
deepdig.dev is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BoxWatch or deepdig.dev have ads?
Neither BoxWatch nor deepdig.dev shows ads.

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